Trivia

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 others that he wrote.

The street is the same as the one in The Monsters Are Due on Maple Street (1960).

The motorcycles used are 1964 Harley Davidson panheads.

All exteriors were shot in Universal's back lot. As the bikers enter town at the beginning of the episode, they drive right past the town square made famous in Back to the Future (1985).