 Frank Silvera was borrowed from NBCs "The High Chaparral," where he  played the patriarch of the Montoya ranching family, to appear in  this episode, which was filmed before "Chaparral" started work on  its abbreviated fourth season. Silvera died in a household accident  just after returning from Hawaii, and this episode was postponed  until after Christmas (Silveras character in The High Chaparral,  Don Sebastian Montoya, was not mentioned in the series until a  two