Moon base crew is temporarily immobilized by a sudden increase of G-force, just like what happens to the crew of the spaceships from the Mario Bava film.
Martin Landau's character is introduced while he is being served by a hostess, echoing the famous scene from the Kubrick film in an almost frame-by-frame fashion; Lunar base scientists suffering health issues while working on the Moon surface; several stylistic similarities throughout the episode.