The show was supposed to be color from the beginning, but sponsor Procter & Gamble, who regularly sponsored NBC's Sunday night half hour programs between The Magical World of Disney (1954) and Bonanza (1959) insists that the show would be in black and white. It gradually went to color by its second and final season.
Larry Cohen said he created series as an allegory about the blacklisting of ordinary people in the days of Senator Joseph McCarthy. He claimed he was fired from the series at the insistence of its right-wing star, Chuck Connors, when he made the mistake of telling him this.
In a commentary for The Innocent (1967) on The Invaders (1967) DVD, creator Larry Cohen says that "Branded" did not have a pilot episode. He says that it was put on the air because of the pitch for the show and because it would star Chuck Connors.
Spoofed in Mad Magazine as "BrandXed".
Despite his impressive physique, and despite the popularity of "beefcake" in TV westerns, Chuck Connors shed his shirt in only four episodes.
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