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First of all, I watched Neela through this entire episode, then when I went to see who played her, I was shocked to learn it was Marian Seldes, who also played Hazel in The Rifleman's episode "The Vision". In that episode, she also played Mark's mother in a dream. It's AMAZING what they can do with makeup!

I wonder if Walter F. O'Malley was a friend of Chuck's, and that'w why he appeared in this episode. This is the only acting job he was ever credited for. His IMDb page states that he was the owner of the Brooklyn/Los Angeles Dodgers Baseball Team, so it's very possible.

Also, there were several actors who only acted in a hand-full of shows/movies. I think three of them acted three times, and one of them five times. That's interesting to have so many rare ones.

The DVD's that were released are cut episodes, and it's clear that this episode was indeed cut. Parts of scenes are missing, and it's choppy. Also, I didn't see all the characters that were listed. Where did the twins play, for instance? I didn't see them.

Chuck Connors was drafted by the Dodgers in 1940, but chose to play pro basketball for the Boston Celtics. He switched to baseball and went to the Dodgers. He only played one major league game with Brooklyn, in 1949. But he was well known to O'Malley from the close knit Dodger family at Vero Beach, the spring training site. Connors was traded to the Cubs and played 66 games in 1951. He switched to acting, but kept his ties with the Dodgers, especially after the team moved to Los Angeles in 1958. Connors invited O'Malley to appear on the show and O'Malley accepted. It's his only acting part other than a few talk show appearances. Connors repaid O'Malley the next year by serving as an intermediary in the sometimes angry contract talks between O'Malley and his dynamic pitching duo, Sandy Koufax and Don Drysdale.