The setting for this episode is said to be 30 miles from the geographic center of the United States in the (fictional) town of Grady Kansas, population 5,312. The actual geographic center of the United States is near the small town of Lebanon, Kansas (population around 550 in 1967) , located about 12 miles south of the Nebraska -Kansas border.
William Bramley plays a police constable. He previously famously played police officer Krupke in West Side Story.