The furniture warehouse is on Bessolo Avenue. George Bessolo was the real name of George Reeves, who played Clark Kent / Superman in Superman and the Mole-Men (1951) and Adventures of Superman (1952).
Supervising producer and writer Bryce Zabel gave Clark his own birthday, May 17, as the date his parents found him in the Kansas cornfield.
When Clark uses his x-ray vision to see inside Mr. Thompson's briefcase, the top file reads "Voronezh, USSR 1989." In September of 1989, this city in Russia was the site of an alleged UFO sighting.
Trask asks Lois if Superman is the advance guard of an alien invasion. He also wonders whether Superman has any telepathic powers. In the 1933 short story "The Reign of the Superman" written by Jerry Siegel and illustrated by Joe Shuster, before it was decided to make Superman a physically powerful hero, Superman was a villain with special telepathic powers.
This is the first episode of the series in which Lois says "Help, Superman!".