Bret reveals his birthday is May 11th, which is also the birthday of the writer of this story, Leo Townsend.
In the beginning, the dog in the "Red Dog Saloon" is the mixed-breed who later played the title roll in Bonanza's "Any Friend of Walter's" and "Walter and the Outlaws."
Luis Delgado plays an uncredited poker player. He also pops up briefly as Jake, a man being shaved by the town barber. Uncredited, of course.
Same basic premise as a Rockford Files episode with Rob Reiner. A con man chooses Rockford's name randomly from the phone book and frames him. In this episode a ConMan chooses Maverick's name because of the amount of letters in it.