In "The Twilight Zone Companion" (1983), Marc Scott Zicree described this episode as "It Came from Outer Space (1953) meets The Wild One (1953)."
In an interview with the Archive of American Television in 2003, the writer Earl Hamner Jr. admitted that he thought that this episode was bad and that he was not as proud of it as most of the other episodes of The Twilight Zone (1959) that he wrote.
The motorcycles used are 1964 Harley Davidson panheads.
The street is the same as the one in the season one episode "The Monsters are Due on Maple Street".
The supposed ham radio antenna array on the "black leather jacket" men's house is simply a grouping of standard UHF television antennas.