As Raymond Livingston and a United States Mint inspector converse, a CBS television announcement is heard: "We will now return to our regular programming" and the theme of The Twilight Zone (1959) is played. Night Call (1964) was scheduled to air on November 22, 1963 but, due to the assassination of US President John F. Kennedy, it was rescheduled for February 7, 1964.
Richard Matheson's story for the "Button, Button" was later adapted as a film, The Box (2009), starring Cameron Diaz and James Marsden.
In his introduction to "New Stories from the Twilight Zone", the series' executive story consultant Alan Brennert described both "Button, Button" and the Monsters!/A Small Talent for War/A Matter of Minutes (1986) segment "Monsters!" as "good scripts mauled by bad directors, bad production, bad acting, or all three." He later said that the series screwed up Richard Matheson's script for "Button, Button" due to "network interference, dreadful acting, direction that turned the point of the story 180 degrees around from what was intended."
The original short story "Button, Button" by Richard Matheson differs somewhat from the TV script, especially the climactic ending, which did not have the usual supernatural ending commonly found in The Twilight Zone (1985). Matheson did not care for the changes in his story, which is why he he had his name replaced with the pseudonym Logan Swanson.
Joe Fitzgerald's first name is the same as JFK's father Joseph P. Kennedy and his last name is the same as his maternal grandfather, John "Honey Fitz" Fitzgerald.