The Little People (The Twilight Zone) Zone" historian Marc Zicree, series producer Buck Houghton discussed that the final scene in which the giant astronauts appear and stand towering behind the mountains in the foreground. He explained that this was an optically composited matte shot which combined new footage of the two actors playing the 'giants' with stock location footage of the real mountains around Death Valley, which had originally been filmed two years earlier for the Season 1 episode "I Shot an Arrow into the Air". Like many other installments of "Twilight Zone" episodes, this episode used several props and costumes originally created for MGM's "Forbidden
The Twilight Zone Stories" (1980). In 1995, DAW Books published the anthology books "Journeys to the Twilight Zone" (16 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling's "Suggestion"), "Return to the Twilight Zone" (18 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling's "The Sole Survivor"), and "Adventures in the Twilight Zone" (24 stories edited by Carol Serling including Rod Serling's "Lindemann's Catch"). In September 2009, Tor Books published "", to mark the 50th anniversary of the series. It contains stories by 20 authors such as R. L. Stine and Timothy Zahn, and an introduction by Carol Serling. Western Publishing published a "Twilight Zone"