The full-size crashed spaceship used in the second segment, "The Long Rain" is actually the spaceship used in Il pianeta delle scimmie (1968), L'altra faccia del pianeta delle scimmie (1970) and Fuga dal pianeta delle scimmie (1971).
When Jack Smight contacted Ray Bradbury about buying the rights to "The Illustrated Man", Bradbury informed him he would sell it if Smight hired Burt Lancaster, Paul Newman or Rod Steiger for the lead role.
Make-up director Gordon Bau and a team of eight assistants spent ten hours applying the temporary tattoos to Rod Steiger's torso, plus another full day tattooing his hands, legs and lower body.
According to the Guinness Book of World Records, this film has the record for longest time applying make-up each day, at 20 hours.
Kirk Douglas was keen to play the lead role. He had also previously owned the rights to Ray Bradbury's "Something Wicked This Way Comes" and "The Martian Chronicles".