Adjusted for inflation, the $10,000 price Barry Craft believes he can get for the tiger would equal approximately $94,000 in the year 2022.
The name of Clyde Beatty, to which Barry Craft jokingly likens his partner Major Fielding, was a big game hunter and animal trainer in the first half of the 20th century.
While Barry Craft repeatedly suggests that capturing Dr. Kimble would be analogous to the historic capture and slaying of John Dillinger in 1934 outside the Biograph Theater in Chicaco, Ill., a distinction both Dr. Kimble and Mr. Dillinger share is that they are both originally from the state of Indiana.
In Ed Robertson's book, "The Fugitive Recaptured," it is said that this is one of the few episodes whose initial script was sent in by a fan. The show frequently had fans, sending in by mail, suggestions and scripts, but almost all were never used. In this instance, the fan was flown out to the set and participated with the show's writers in rewrites for this episode.
This is the first of three appearances Laurence Naismith makes in the series, each time playing a different character, the other two appearances occurring in Not with a Whimper (1966) and The Shattered Silence (1967).