This was the first of four episodes bearing the writing credit W. Hermanos. Hermanos is Spanish for "brothers", hence W. Hermanos is a pseudonym for Warner Bros. These and many other episodes were shot during a writers' strike, forcing the studio to reuse old scripts with only the slightest changes. The antecedent for this episode is probably Conspiracy of Silence (1959), which also involved Spencer posing as a college student to investigate a mysterious campus death.