The bulk of this short film consists of recycled footage from V.D. (1961); these scenes are depicted as flashbacks narrated by the original character Monk, who is now a doctor. The footage used in "Summer of '63" includes scenes and clips that had been omitted from the 1964 "Damaged Goods" theatrical release, including the "last one to Palm Desert buys the beer!" scene and a brief shot of Monk looking back at the police car chasing him.
Michael Bell played Monk Monahan, filmed in two different decades: the younger version of the character from the V.D. (1961) footage, and the 1970s version of the character as a doctor.
This is one of several films that can be traced back to Eugene Brieux's play Les Avariés (translation: "The Damaged") and Upton Sinclair's novelization of that play entitled "Damaged Goods." Some of the common plot elements among these films are a protagonist who is engaged to be married and who contracts a venereal disease from a prostitute shortly before his wedding (often during a night of debauchery urged on by his work colleagues or his closest friends), the protagonist confiding in his best friend about the disease and then discussing it with a physician, attempts to medically treat the disease, a sexual affair between the protagonist and his best friend's wife or girlfriend, and the impacts of all of this on the protagonist's engagement and marriage. This 1972 film entirely skips the second half of the original story and changes it to an abrupt, happy ending.