According to the introductory comments by Robert Conrad on the DVD set, the stark look of this episode (shot mostly on a dark soundstage with spotlights illuminating the action and highly stylized sets for the bench and jury box) was the vision of director Irving J. Moore.
The marionettes in this episode were the work of puppeteer Bob Baker, who also plied his craft in the earlier Robert Conrad series Girl on a String (1960).
The bailiff puppet in the children's puppet show was voiced by comedian Alan Sues of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967) fame.
John Hoyt (Justice Chayne) appeared in "Attack of the Puppet People" (1958).
A hard to follow joke is that Artemis initially calls the waitress "Wilbur, ole pal." He's pretending to be so drunk that he can't distinguish man from woman. Later on, the waitress now knows he's faking it and when asked by Gordon, "What did you say you name was?", she jokingly responds "Wilbur."