Bruce Dern who plays the posse member Charley and Diane Ladd who plays the diner waitress Stella were married to each other at the time.
William Conrad was the narrator for all 120 episodes of The Fugitive (1963). Nine years later, in 1973, playing the part of Frank Cannon (also for 120 episodes) on his series Cannon (1971), he did an episode by the same title Come Watch Me Die (1973).
This is the first of three appearances John Harmon makes in the series, each time playing a different character. The other two appearances occur in Tug of War (1964) and Death Is the Door Prize (1966).