The Twilight Zone: Season 1, Episode Twenty “Elegy”

Original Air Date: February 19, 1960
Writer: Charles Beaumont
Director: Douglas Heyes

“And while there are men, there can be no peace…”

Based on Charles Beaumont’s 1953 short story of the same name, this was the second of nine episodes directed by Douglas Heyes for The Twilight Zone. It stars Jeff Morrow, Kevin Hagen, Don Dubbins, and British/South African actor Cecil Kellaway –a two time Academy Award nominee for Best Supporting Actor in The Luck of the Irish and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. In “Elegy,” many years in the future, three astronauts make an emergency landing on a remote asteroid only to discover a horrifying secret about the asteroid’s true purpose.

“The time is the day after tomorrow. The place: a far corner of the universe. A cast of characters: three men lost amongst the stars. Three men sharing the common urgency of all men lost. They’re looking for home. And in a moment, they’ll find home; not a home that is a place to be seen, but a strange unexplainable experience to be felt.”
-Rod Serling

Three astronauts: Carl Meyers, James Webber, and Peter Kirby are lost in space inside a damaged spacecraft. A meteor shower knocked out their navigation equipment six months prior in September 2185. In search of a place to repair, they are forced to land on an asteroid over 655 million miles from earth. But when they arrive, they notice that it strangely has a breathable atmosphere and appears much like earth did hundreds of years ago, but it cannot be earth because it has two suns. Here, they find towns and farmlands with statuesque people and animals stopped as if frozen in time. They gaze upon things like a mayoral inauguration, a pageant scene, a clock with no hands, a honeymoon suite, a poker game, and so on. One of the astronauts suggests perhaps the people are, in fact, moving but just significantly slowed down. Have they landed on earth? Is time suddenly frozen? Or is this all a mere optical illusion?

The trio of astronauts split up and each goes slightly mad, until one strange little man finally reveals himself: Jeremy Wickwire (played by Cecil Kellaway). The astronauts explain to Mr. Wickwire that they are out of fuel and stopped here to gather themselves. Wickwire asks the men about earth at which point we learn that an “atomic war” took place in 1985 and much of the earth was destroyed. Wickwire then reveals the truth about this unusual asteroid: that it is actually a cemetery, an extension of a mortuary service on earth called “Happy Glades” wherein wealthy people were offered the chance to achieve their dreams in death, forever frozen in time. Everyone on the asteroid is dead and embalmed, forever living out their “dearest wish” in life (the rest of the people are “human imitations” to serve the greater purpose). Happy Glades promises eternal peace. Mr. Wickwire explains a bit about himself as well. He is nothing more than a “scientific device” activated only when needed –and he has not been activated in over 200 years.

Mr. Wickwire proposes a toast to these three travelers, however in reality the German wine (Liebfraumilch) he offers contains “eternifying fluid” which quickly kills humans. There is no antidote and the astronauts begin to slowly die. Just before their deaths, Mr. Wickwire asks what their greatest wish might be, to which they respond they would wish to be on their ship returning home. At the end of this episode, we see the three astronauts embalmed and frozen on their ship for all of eternity as Wickwire ominously dusts off their bodies with the backdrop of whimsical music playing. It is a horrifying conclusion to a disturbing episode.

“Kirby, Webber, and Meyers, three men lost. They shared a common wish—a simple one, really. They wanted to be aboard their ship headed for home. And fate—a laughing fate—a practical jokester with a smile stretched across the stars, saw to it that they got their wish with just one reservation: the wish came true, but only in the Twilight Zone.”
-Rod Serling

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My Thoughts on “Elegy”

Charles Beaumont’s “Elegy” offers viewers a grim reminder of mankind’s ability to destroy itself in atomic war. We watch as George Santayana’s observation -“only the dead have seen the end of war”- is played out in a crude and shocking interstellar cemetery. The uncannily preserved world on this asteroid would otherwise serve as a quiet refuge from the world, where dreams of human peace might be achieved only in death, but instead it is more like a horrifyingly inhuman theme park.

Cecil Kellaway steals the show in this episode as the maddeningly cold and inhumane robot Jeremy Wickwire. There is just enough whimsy in his character to make his sudden turn to murderous robot all the more eerie. One can only imagine how long his character has been haunting the ghostly emptiness of space, surrounded by this creepy taxidermy museum of dead humans.

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Credits

• Director: Douglas Heyes
  • Douglas Heyes (1919-1993) was a longtime television director and writer. His career began with various 1950s kids programs like The Adventures of Rin Tin Tin and Circus Boy, as well as shows like Naked City and Maverick. He directed a total of nine episodes of The Twilight Zone (“And When The Sky Was Opened,” “Elegy,” “The Chaser,” “The After Hours,” “Nervous Man in a Four Dollar Room,” “The Howling Man,” “Dust,” “Eye of the Beholder,” and “The Invaders“). He and his wife Joanna Heyes had one child together, Doug Heyes, Jr. Douglas Heyes died in Beverly Hills in 1993 due to congestive heart failure.
• Written by: Charles Beaumont
• Music: Nathan Van Cleave
• Director of Photography: George T. Clemens
• Production Manager: Ralph W. Nelson
• Art Directors: George W. Davis and William Ferrari
• Film Editor: Joseph Gluck
• Assistant Director: Edward Denault
• Set Decorations: Henry Grace and Budd S. Friend
• Sound: Franklin Milton and Jean Valentino
• Casting Director: Mildred Gusse
• Starring:
  • Cecil Kellaway…..Jeremy Wickwire
    • Cecil Kellaway (1890-1973) was a South African-British character actor from Cape Town, South Africa who was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor twice: for The Luck of the Irish (1948) and Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967). He appeared in many films from the Golden Age of Hollywood, like Gunga Din (1939), Wuthering Heights (1939), and The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946). He turned down the role of Santa Clause in the film Miracle on 34th Street (1947) and he appeared in a small handful of television roles on shows like Perry Mason, Rawhide, Bewitched and others. He appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “Passage on the Lady Anne“). Both of his Twilight Zone episodes were written by Charles Beaumont. He and his wife had two children. He died in Hollywood in 1973 of arteriosclerosis.
    • Cecil Kellaway was paid $2,000 for this role.
  • Jeff Morrow…..Kurt Meyers
    • Leslie Irving “Jeff” Morrow (1907-1993) was born in Brooklyn and was educated at the Pratt Institute. After serving in the U.S. Army during World War II, he performed on Broadway and in radio programs during the 1940s, landing the title role in the Dick Tracy radio series. He appeared in shows like The Rifleman, Daniel Boone, Bonanza, Wagon Train, Perry Mason and others. His last television role was in 1986 on The Twilight Zone reboot series (the episode was “A Day in Beaumont”). Morrow was one of the rare actors who appeared in both the original Twilight Zone series as well as The Twilight Zone reboot series. He was married twice and had one child. He died in December 1993 in Canoga Park, California.
    • Jeff Morrow was paid $1,750 for this role.
  • Don Dubbins…..Peter Kirby
    • Don Dubbins (1928-1991) was a Brooklyn-born film, stage and television actor. He served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1946-1948. He made uncredited appearances in the films From Here to Eternity (1953) and The Caine Mutiny (1954), among other films. Dubbins’s profile rose when James Cagney took a shine to him and gave him two co-starring roles in his films These Wilder Years (1956) and Tribute to a Bad Man (1956). On television, he appeared in shows like Gunsmoke, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, The Rifleman, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Peyton Place, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea and others. His last performance was as Willie Loman in Death of A Salesman at the Warehouse Theatre in Greenville, South Carolina, just a few months before his death in 1991. He was married twice and had one child. He died of cancer in 1991 in Greenville, South Carolina at the age of 63.
  • Kevin Hagen…..Captain James Webber
    • Kevin Hagen (1928-2005) was the the son of professional ballroom dancers but his father abandoned the family when Kevin Hagen was young. He attended Oregon State University before enlisting in the U.S. Navy after World War II, serving in San Diego, California. He also worked for the U.S. State Department in Germany, earning a degree in international relations from the University of Southern California, before turning to an acting career. He was best known for his role as Dr. Hiram Baker on NBC’s Little House on the Prairie. He also appeared in shows like Have Gun – Will Travel, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Perry Mason, The Rifleman, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Mission: Impossible, The Virginian, and Lost In Space among others. He appeared in two episodes of The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “You Drive“). He was married four times and had one son. He was a single parent to his son for a couple decades (his son, Christopher Hagen, later became a Special Education teacher and high school baseball coach in Bakersfield, California). Kevin Hagen died in Grants Pass, Oregon in 2005 of esophageal cancer.
• Extras (this episode features numerous silent background roles, many of whom were extras from the film Around The World In Eighty Days (1956). They were each paid $22.05):
  • Walter Bacon…..Beauty Contest Guest (uncredited)
    • Walter Bacon (1891-1973) was born in Brooklyn. He was a longtime Hollywood extra who appeared in numerous television shows like Gunsmoke, The Monkees, The Lucy Show, The Andy Griffith Show, The Wild Wild West, Batman, Bonanza, The Virginian, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, and others. He made an uncredited appearance as an onlooker in the classic Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever.” He also appeared in many classic films My Fair Lady (1964), Mary Poppins (1964), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), The Music Man (1962), Advise & Consent (1962), Pyscho (1960), and 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954). He and his wife had two children. He died in Hollywood in 1973 of a heart attack.
  • Frank Baker…..Hotel Guest (uncredited)
    • Frank Baker (1892-1980) was born in Melbourne, Australia. He appeared in his first film in Australia in 1912 before relocating to Hollywood where he began a career acting in silent films. He moved from Australia to Hollywood in 1923. He met director Frank Ford through a colleague in England and the two formed a close friendship with Baker appearing in every Frank Ford film and later also in John Ford’s films as stuntman. When Baker became too old to work as stuntman he still continued as an extra on these films. Throughout his lengthy career, he appeared in four Best Picture Academy Award winners: How Green Was My Valley (1941), Mrs. Miniver (1942), Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and My Fair Lady (1964). He made small appearances in many films like Stagecoach (1939), Drums Along The Mowhawk (1939), Sabateur (1942), Gaslight (1946), East of Eden (1952), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), North By Northwest (1959), Judgment At Nuremberg (1961), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), Mary Poppins (1964), The Graduate (1967), Hello Dolly! (1969), and many others. He was also an extra in television shows like Perry Mason, The Untouchables, The Rifleman, Laramie, Have Gun – Will Travel, Wagon Train, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, I Spy, The Monkees, Mission: Impossible, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Columbo, The Jimmy Stewart Show, and others. He made two uncredited Twilight Zone appearances (“Elegy” and “Passage on the Lady Anne“). He died in 1980 in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles.
  • George Boyce…..(uncredited)
    • George Boyce (1899-1977) was a Hollywood extra who appeared in television shows like Mission: Impossible, The Brady Bunch, The Lucy Show, Get Smart, The Wild Wild West, The Addams Family, Wagon Train, The Andy Griffith Show, Dennis the Menace, and others. He also made minor appearances in films like Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), To Catch A Thief (1955), Guys and Dolls (1955), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), Hello Dolly! (1969), and many others. He made two uncredited appearances in The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “The Trouble With Templeton“).
  • Barbara Chrysler…..Beauty Contestant (uncredited)
    • I found minimal information on Barbara Chrysler. According to IMDB, this uncredited appearance in The Twilight Zone was one of two acting roles she ever had. She also had a stunt role in Blazing Saddles (1974). Apparently, she died in 2019.
  • Alphonso DuBois…..Violinist (uncredited)
    • Alphonso DuBois (1900-1980) was born in Mexico. Throughout his Hollywood career, he made uncredited appearances in films like To Have and Have Not (1944), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Blazing Saddles (1974), Young Frankenstein (1974), and others. He was an extra in television shows like Gunsmoke, Laredo, The Virginian, and others. He made two uncredited appearances in The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “Dust“). He died in 1980 in Los Angeles, California.
  • Joseph Glick…..Rally Spectator (uncredited)
    • Joseph Glick (1905-1978) was an extra in films like M (1951), A Star Is Born (1954), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Some Like It Hot (1959), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), and others. He appeared in episodes of Batman, Gunsmoke, The Monkees, Bonanza, Have Gun – Will Travel, and others. He made uncredited appearances in two Twilight Zone episodes (“Elegy” and “The Big Tall Wish“). He also was an extra in the classic episode of Star Trek “The City on the Edge of Forever.” He died in Woodland Hills, Los Angeles in 1978.
  • Chester Hayes…..Ice Cream Man (uncredited)
    • Chester Hayes (1913-2000) was born in Spring Valley, Illinois. He was a former professional wrestler and Hollywood stuntman from the 1940s. He was an extra in a variety of Hollywood films like Around the World in 80 Days (1956) and he appeared in television shows like Have Gun – Will Travel, The Rifleman, Laramie, Wagon Train, Rawhide, Daniel Boone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I Dream of Jeannie, Batman, I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Get Smart, The Wild Wild West, The Odd Couple, and others. He made an uncredited appearance in the Star Trek episode “Bread and Circuses.” He died in Hollywood in 2000, apparently due to a house fire.
  • Jimmie Horan…..(uncredited)
    • James W. “Jimmie” Horan (1907-1967) was an extra in movies like All The King’s Men (1949), Limelight (1952), The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), Vertigo (1958), My Fair Lady (1964), The Music Man (1962), The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), and others as well as television shows like Daniel Boone, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Batman, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, Perry Mason, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and others. He made four uncredited appearances in The Twilight Zone (“Elegy,” “Deaths-Head Revisited,” “Cavender Is Coming,” “The Old Man in the Cave“). He died in Hollywood in 1967 of cancer.
  • June McCall…..Beauty Contestant (uncredited)
    • Billie June Palinkas, or “June McCall” (1934-1990) was a 1950s model and pin-up girl. She had 17 minor credits primarily from 1951-1960. She reportedly had tumultuous relationships with men in Hollywood, she dated Charlie Chaplin and Jackie Coogan, was married three times, and had one son. She died of cirrhosis of the liver in 1990 at the age of 55 in Los Angeles, California.
  • William Meader…..(uncredited)
    • William Meader (1904-1979) was a stand-in for Fredric March and was an extra in films like Sunset Boulevard (1950), The Greatest Show on Earth (1952), The War of the Worlds (1953), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), The Apartment (1960), Ocean’s Eleven (1960), Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961), Advise & Consent (1962), The Sound of Music (1965), an many others. He appeared in many television shows like Perry Mason, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Rawhide, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, Bonanza, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Get Smart, The Wild Wild West, Batman, My Three Sons, and others. He appeared in the Star Trek episode “Court Martial” and two uncredited appearances in The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “He’s Alive“). He died in Palm Springs in 1979.
  • Spec O’Donnell…..Poker Player (uncredited)
    • Walter Davis “Spec” O’Donnell (1911-1986) got his nickname “Spec” because of the many freckles he had on his body. He was an extra in many movies and television shows like Gunsmoke, Bonanza, The Andy Griffith Show, The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and many others. He died in Woodland Hills, California in 1986.
  • Charles Perry…..Rally Spectator (uncredited)
    • Charles Perry (1900-1967) was born in New York. He had uncredited roles in All The King’s Men (1949), Advise & Consent (1962), The Manchurian Candidate (1962), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), and shows like Have Gun – Will Travel, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train, Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, Bonanza, and others. He died in Los Angeles in 1967 due to heart disease.
  • Joe Ploski…..Beauty Contest Guest (uncredited)
    • Joe Ploski (1904-1993) was an extra in numerous films like Stars and Stripes Forever (1953), Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), Guys and Dolls (1955), Around the World in 80 Days (1956), To Kill A Mockingbird (1962), Hello Dolly! (1969), and many others as well as television shows like Adventures of Superman, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Wagon Train, Have Gun – Will Travel, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., Daniel Boone, Perry Mason, The Monkees, My Three Sons, Get Smart, Bonanza, Mission: Impossible, and an episode of The Lieutenant (which was created by Star Trek founder Gene Roddenberry). He died in Los Angeles in 1993.
  • Paul Power…..Farmer (uncredited)
    • Luther Raymond Vestergard, or “Paul Power” (1902-1968) was born in in Chicago, Illinois. He attended USC and later Harvard University to study law, but after apparently running out of money he took up an acting career in Hollywood. His career extended from the days of silent films through the golden age of movies and television. He appeared in films like To Catch A Thief (1955), The Apartment (1960), Advise & Consent (1962), How The West Was Won (1962), Marnie (1964), and many others, as well as television shows like Alfred Hitchcock Presents, Adventures of Superman, I Love Lucy, Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, Have Gun – Will Travel, Perry Mason, The Dick Van Dyke Show, Bewitched, My Three Sons, Batman, Get Smart, Bonanza, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, Green Acres, and others. He made an uncredited appearance in the Star Trek episode “Errand of Mercy” and two uncredited appearances in The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “A Kind of Stopwatch“). His largest role was in the Christian film Oil Town U.S.A. (1953) where he worked with his friend Billy Graham. Luther was married twice and divorced twice with no record of having any children. He was also a lay minister serving at different times as assistant pastor and interim pastor for Saint Matthews Lutheran Church. He died in North Hollywood in 1968.
  • Luke Saucier…..Townsman (uncredited)
    • Luke Saucier was an alligator wrestler and movie studio reptile handler. I was unable to find much information on him, but apparently he had a brief career as a stunt double and an extra from 1956-1966 (with only 4 acting credits listed on his IMDB page). He made two uncredited appearances on The Twilight Zone (“Elegy” and “Mirror Image“).
    • Luke Saucier was the only extra used for more than one day of work on this episode.
  • Jack Stoney…..Mayor Finch (uncredited)
    • Jack Stoney (1897-1978) was born in Chester, Pennsylvania. He had numerous uncredited appearances in films throughout the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, some of which included Rear Window (1954), 20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954), and Around the World in 80 Days (1956), and he appeared in television shows like Perry Mason, Gunsmoke, The Rifleman, Have Gun – Will Travel, Bonanza and many others.
  • Walton Walker…..(uncredited)
    • I was unable to find much information on Walton Walker but apparently he had a brief career as an extra in Hollywood (he has 23 credits listed on his IMDB page).
  • Sally Yarnell…..Waitress (uncredited)
    • Sally Yarnell (1915-1995) was a mostly uncredited performer who was romantically linked to Brad Dexter, John Howard, and Mickey Rooney. She appeared in Wagon Train, The Untouchables, Have Gun – Will Travel, Rawhide, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., I Spy, Mission: Impossible, Bonanza, Gunsmoke, The Lieutenant (a show created by Star Trek founder Gene Roddenberry) and others. She made an uncredited appearance in an episode of Star Trek (“Requiem for Methuselah“) and in four episodes of The Twilight Zone (“Elegy,” “Showdown With Rance McGrew,” “To Serve Man,” and “Cavender Is Coming“). She died in Denver, Colorado in 1995.
  • In Martin Grams Jr.’s Twilight Zone guidebook, he lists several more extras not listed on IMDB (Bonnie Barlow, Shelby Benson, Jack Bonigul, Walter Clinton, Robert Dayo, Doris Edwards, David Greene, Paul Gustine, Carol Holleck, Paul Kruger, Jack Lee, Paul Louis, Charles Lunard, Jack Mattis, Patilu Palmer, Jerry Schumacher, Stephen Soldi, Martin Strader, Dennis Sullivan, George Tatar

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The Twilight Zone Trivia:

• “Elegy” is based on Charles Beaumont’s short story of the same name, published in the February 1953 issue of Imagination magazine.
• In the original short story, the caretaker is named Mr. Greypoole and the astronauts have escaped the “Last War” on earth with the detonation of the X-Bomb. But Greypoole leads them back to their ship and slips them the “Eternifier” wine so they will be frozen on their ship forever.
• Charles Beaumont’s original short story called for a motionless car-race, but director Douglas Heyes decided to replace it with a beauty pageant, much to the chagrin of Charles Beaumont (though many fans regard the pageant as one of the most memorable parts of the episode).
• In this episode, Captain James Webber, Professor Kurt Meyers, and Peter Kirby say they left earth in September 2185. And Happy Glades would have been established in 1973. One of the astronauts mentions that tractors were once used on earth before the “total war.”
• Keen observers have pointed out that a distance of 655 million miles away from earth would actually place the asteroid within our solar system, likely in between the orbits of Jupiter and Saturn.
• When they first arrive, the astronauts note that the atmosphere on the asteroid is 20.95 parts oxygen, 78.09 nitrogen (or conditions nearly identical to earth).
• Inside the spaceship, the “equipment” was originally constructed for the film Forbidden Planet and was reused for this episode. It shows up in a number of other Twilight Zone episodes. The sound effects heard inside the spaceship will be used again six years later as some of the sounds on the bridge of the starship USS Enterprise in the original Star Trek television series. They were previously heard in the final scene of “Third from the Sun.”
• The stairwell set featuring the frozen mayoral inauguration with the mayor addressing the crowd was used in the previous episodes “The Sixteen-Millimeter Shrine” as part of Barbara Trenton’s home, as well as in “The Purple Testament” as the lobby of an Army hospital. It would be used again as a hallway of a college campus in “Long Live Walter Jameson.”
• The hotel in this episode is called “The Royal Crest.”
• The poker player is holding a hand with four aces and a joker card.
• The spacesuits worn by the astronauts are the same ones worn by the crew in the film Destination Moon (1950).
• For director Douglas Heyes’s next “still life” episode (“The After Hours“), he would use mannequins instead of real actors.
• The character “Jeremy Wickwire” is named after Charles Wickwire, a once-prominent magnate from Cortland, New York whose company once sold one-fourth of all the wire in the U.S. The character name is yet another Rod Serling reference to his old stomping grounds around New York. The Wickwire mansion, “The 1890 House,” still stands today in Cortland, New York as a museum and it is allegedly haunted.
• Mr. Wickwire explains that there are many sections to this cemetery: the Roman, Egyptian, Wild West, and so on, but the 1950s America section is the most popular because it is when amenities were most abundant, and it serves as a memory of when peace on earth was still possible.
• The uncredited silent parts are played by: Sally Yarnell, Walter Bacon, Frank Baker, Bonnie Barlow, Shelby Benson, Jack Bonigul, George Boyce, Barbara Chrysler, Walter Clinton, Robert Dayo, Alfonso Dubois, Doris Edwards, Joseph Glick, David Greene, Paul Gustine, Carol Holleck, Chester Hayes (a former professional wrestler and Hollywood stuntman from the 1940s), James W. Horan, Paul Kruger, Jack Lee, Paul Louis, Charles Lunard, Jack Mattis, June McCall, William Meada, Walter O’Donnell, Patilu Palmer, Luke Saucier (an alligator and reptile handler who also appeared in “Mirror Image“), Jerry Schumacher, Stephen Soldi, Jack Stoney, Martin Strader, Dennis Sullivan, George Tatar, and Walter Walker.
• For filming this episode, director Douglas Heyes requested that the cameras pan slowly and for the trio of main actors to be continuously moving so as to offset the appearance of any movements by the frozen extras who are supposed to be deceased.
• The “St. Louis Street” scene in this episode was filmed on MGM Lot 3 (named for the film Meet Me in St. Louis).

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