ABC originally broadcast this episode in black and white.
Filmed in color despite its intention for televised broadcast in an era when virtually all television was black and white. This foresight to "future proof" the footage allowed it to be edited for theatrical exhibition and re-aired for decades afterwards.
While the initial trio of Davy Crockett installments was more-or-less a fairly straightforward attempt at a biopic of the real life Davy Crockett, this adventure was invented whole-cloth by the Disney studio. Walt Disney is reported to have wanted a more comedic take on the frontiersman for this adventure, and one that served as more of an upstanding role model for children.
Mike Fink offers Davy and George a "discounted" rate for their trip down the river to sell their furs of $1000. Adjusted for inflation, that would be roughly $24,000 in modern money. Depending on the type of fur pelts they were selling, each pelt would bring in between $0.35 and $1.25, meaning they'd need to sell between 800 and 2,857 pelts just to break even on that leg of the trip. Since they were carrying their furs by hand, there's no way they would have been hauling enough furs to make the trip worthwhile at that price.
Kenneth Tobey portrays Mike Fink's right hand man, Jocko. Tobey appeared in the previous Davy Crockett installment as real life folk hero Jim Bowie.