This is the only dramatic role John Wayne performed in a TV series using his 'John Wayne' moniker. Two other dramatic series employed his talents, but he chose to bill himself as Michael Morris in The Colter Craven Story (1960) and as Marion Morrison, his birth name, in Flashing Spikes (1962)
John Ford not only directed John Wayne here, but was also the director for Mr. Wayne's only other performances in a dramatic role on a TV series: The Colter Craven Story (1960) and Flashing Spikes (1962).
The newspaper where John Wayne works is set in the fictional town of Emeryville, Pennsylvania. However, there is a real city named Emeryville in California. It is in the San Francisco East Bay, located between Oakland and Berkeley.
All the characters in this story are fictional, but the character played by Ward Bond is strongly suggestive of the real "Shoeless" Joe Jackson.