Originally, the time machine was a refrigerator, but Zemeckis and Spielberg were afraid kids might "try this at home" and get trapped inside refrigerators, so they scrapped the idea.

In his 1986 State of the Union address, Reagan said: "Never has there been a more exciting time to be alive, a time of rousing wonder and heroic achievement. As they said in the film Back to the Future, 'Where we're going, we don't need roads.'"

The Pinheads are portrayed by Michael J. Fox (guitar), Paul Hanson (bass guitar, who was Fox's guitar coach for the movie and actually played Michael's guitar solo in this scene), Lee Brownfield and Robert DeLapp.

Billy Zane portrays "Match", the only one of Biff's three sidekicks without a single line in the entire movie.