Written by Phil Klemmer and Cathy Belben and directed by Harry Winer, the episode premiered on UPN on October 26, 2005.

The series depicts the adventures of Veronica Mars (Kristen Bell) as she deals with life as a high school student while moonlighting as a private detective.

In this episode, Veronica helps Jackie Cook (Tessa Thompson) deal with her purported credit card fraud.

Meanwhile, the Sheriff's race heats up, and Wallace (Percy Daggs III) faces the complicated aftermath of learning that Nathan Woods (Cress Williams) is actually his father.

Directly after the previous episode, Wallace angrily confronts Alicia (Erica Gimpel) about Nathan being his father.

Veronica matches the credit card items with a girl named Cora (Dana Davis) and invites her to pick out homecoming dresses together to find out more.

Veronica, listening through the audio device, finds out that Sheriff Lamb blackmails Jackie's father, the baseball player Terence Cook.

"Blast from the Past" also marks the last episode for several months for series regulars Percy Daggs III (who plays Wallace Fennel) and Tessa Thompson (who portrays Jackie Cook).

[5] As a joke, the character of Jackie can be seen TiVoing the TV series Cupid, a show that was created by Veronica Mars creator Rob Thomas.

In addition, another show on Jackie's TiVo list is Sunset and Vaughn, a fictional TV series within Cupid.

Club wrote a mixed review, saying that "This, dear readers is easily the single most melodramatic episode of the series so far.