Mr. Howell (Jim Backus) says, "It's the only way to fly." This was the slogan of Western Airlines, spoken by its mascot ''Wally Bird"-voiced by Backus-in commercials going back to the 1950s. Backus also says this line in the movie It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World (1963).
The Dodge City dream sequences were shot on the standing sets used for Gunsmoke (1955) which was also filmed at the CBS Studio Center.
First of many episodes to have many dream sequences in the series.
The dream sequence uses music from "Gunsmoke".
The use of the Gunsmoke sets and music for the dream sequence is rather ironic, considering Gilligan's Island would later be cancelled in favor of Gunsmoke