Beulah Bondi and Ellen Corby worked together almost 40 years prior to this episode in Frank Capra's classic, It's a Wonderful Life. Ms. Bondi played Ma Bailey and Ms. Corby played a customer of the Bailey Building and Loan.
Reflecting actual historical events, Martha Corinne's family would have been one of 500 mountain families forcibly displaced during the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway and Shenandoah National Park in the early 1930s.
In an interview with the Archive of American Television, Richard Thomas, revealed that Will Geer, who had been blacklisted for several years, was enraged by the casting of Beulah Bondi. Bondi had been close to Adolphe Menjou, who had testified for the House Un-American Activities Committee.
Beulah Bondi. who made a career of playing roles similar to the one in "The Conflict", was 85 years old. She would repeat her role in
The Walton's "The Pony Cart" which was her final role in a career that started in 1931 in Elmer Rice's prestigious movie "Street Scene".
At the beginning the family discusses the construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway, which places this episode at around September 1935.