This episode contains a rare sarcastic comment from Edith. The Bunkers came home early from church due to Archie disliking the Reverend Felcher's modernistic religious speech, or as Edith put it - "Mr. Religion here wasn't seeing eye-to-eye with the sermon".
The first pilot was produced at ABC in New York. The second pilot was produced at ABC TV Hollywood (Prospect & Talmadge lot) with a set designed by Edward Stephenson. The third pilot was produced at the CBS TV Hollywood (Beverly & Fairfax) Studio with a set designed by Bob Lee and Don Roberts. After this third pilot was picked up by CBS, Don Roberts became the Production Designer-Art Director for the full series run. Warren Schaffer was the prop master for the series, as well. Robert Tyler Lee was the CBS TV (Hollywood) Art Department Executive Director, usually assigning designers to the CBS shows produced at the studio. Jane Saye was in charge of the CBS graphics Department providing show graphics, credit crawls, and graphics required by all the CBS shows.
Season 1 was recorded at CBS Television City Hollywood, California in Studio 31 from December 1970 to March 1971.
In this episode only, Gloria declares herself as an atheist.
Recording date: December 15, 1970. Production code: #0101.