The short story "Influencing the Hell Out of Time and Teresa Golowitz" by Parke Godwin was previously published in the January 1982 issue of "The Twilight Zone Magazine".
"Time and Teresa Golowitz" was originally produced as a full 30 minutes, but had to be cut to 24 minutes when CBS changed the order to half-hour shows. Then CBS ended up running two half-hour shows back-to-back to fill an hour.
One of the few times where none of the segments have a narration at either the beginning or the end - atypical for any "Twilight Zone" show.
"Time and Teresa Golowitz" takes place in 1987 and October 1948.
Martin Balsam (Professor Donald Knowles) previously played Danny Weiss in The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine (1959) and Martin Lombard Senescu in The New Exhibit (1963).