In this episode, the 26th shown but actually the pilot, the usual settings in Dodge are not the same as the ones we knew for 20 years. Matt's Marshal's office has the following noticeable differences; the side wall has a window instead of a door. The desk is a high roll-top instead of flat (and against the cell wall instead of angled towards the front door), there is no potbelly stove, the safe is against the front wall instead of the side wall and the outer door and outside front of the office are also different.Miss Kitty's Long Branch Saloon is a totally different building inside and out. The Dodge House is also a different building.
This is the original pilot episode filmed for "Gunsmoke".
The opening lines, set out under Memorable Quotes, contain one line used almost verbatim in the opening of the radio version of the series. In the TV version, Matt says, "It's a chancy job; makes a man watchful and a little lonely." In the radio version, the last line spoken by Dillon (actor William Conrad) is: "It's a chancy job, and it makes a man watchful and a little lonely."
Matt uses a Colt SAA with a 4.75 inch barrel. This is the only time Matt uses a pistol with a 4.75 inch length barrel. He uses a pistol with a 7.5 inch barrel in every episode of "Gunsmoke" except this one.