Never before seen a fella that far from anything and still alive. Figure I needed to drag you aboard just to see if your luck would wear off on me.
Hank pulled a body out of the black, but the man’s still breathing. And the two grow to know each other as they travel to Io.
- Ekrem is voiced by Kale Brown
- Hank is voiced by Scott Paladin
- Merryl is voiced by Kate Bullen
- Remy is voiced by Quill Turner
- Morris is voiced by Zach Jaquays
- The episode's title comes from the song “No Man's Land” by Eric Bogle.
- The other two big influences on the story were the movies Silverado (1985) and Second Hand Lions (2003).
- The names of the two prominent ships in the episode come from two folk songs: “The Unfortunate Rake” and “St. James' Infirmary Blues”.
- “Operation: Cowpoke” is an amalgam of two weird World War II moments. The first is “Operation: Cowboy”, where Patton sent a small group of mechanized infantry into Czechoslovakia to capture some prized horses that had been taken there as part of a Nazi program to breed "Pure Aryan horses". The second was the Battle of Castle Itter, where the Germans had held a lot of valuable civilian prisoners during the war. In both of these instances, Allied troops ended up fighting with German Army soldiers against Waffen-SS troops.
- The "Lars Ilton" of real life was Jean Borotra, a French Tennis champion who was at Itter and apparently jumped a wall under live fire to go get reinforcements at one point.
- Beat the Drum Slowly was originally meant to be a Season 2 episode, but it wasn't quite ready then.