After airing this episode, with its nearly all-black cast being revolutionary for American television, The Twilight Zone (1959) was awarded the 1961 Unity Award for Outstanding Contributions to Better Race Relations.
Ivan Dixon would go on to portray Sergeant Kinchloe on the popular WWII P.O.W. series Hogan's Heroes (1965). In 1997, Kim Hamilton married Werner Klemperer, who played Colonel Klink on Hogan's Heroes.
Ivan Dixon and Steven Perry would act together again in the 1961 motion picture, A Raisin in the Sun (1961).
Ivan Dixon worked with Walter Burke again in a first-season episode of the series Hogan's Heroes (1965) called The Safecracker Suite (1966). Dixon was a regular on the series, while Burke made a guest appearance.