When the title and date are shown "The Leap Home, November 25, 1969" the farm in the background is from Field of Dreams (1989) - the lights & baseball diamond are visible.
This is the first episode that the prologue is changed and the same prologue script is used for the remainder of the series
This is the first of two episodes in which Scott Bakula plays his character Sam Beckett's father, John Beckett, the second being Season 5's Promised Land - December 22, 1971 (1992).
David Newson, who plays Sam's brother Tom, later portrays Scott Bakula's brother on another show. He is Bakula's character Terry's brother on the 2009 series, Men of a Certain Age.
Adam Logan (credited as Adam Affonso) reprises his role as the teenage Sam Beckett from Genesis: Part 2 - September 13, 1956 (1989).