The Long Morrow

Actress Mariette Hartley was a teenager when she first met Serling. "I was head of the drama club at Staples High School in Westport, Connecticut," recalled Hartley. "Around the mid-1950s, I saw the 'Playhouse 90' episode 'Requiem for a Heavyweight,' written by a man called Rod Serling. I was very courageous and gutsy in those days and called him to see if he would speak to our class. He actually answered the phone and said, 'I'd be delighted.' I can still see him sitting in the teacher's desk, with his pipe, at the front of the classroom talking to us. He was so handsome I thought my heart would jump out of my skin! We asked questions and I remember his charm and capacity to include all of us in the discussion." Years later, after she began working in Hollywood, Hartley met Serling again. "His limousine pulled up as I was walking out the studio," she said. "He remembered coming to my class. I told him I was looking for work and within a couple of months he gave me the wonderful gift of working in 'The Long Morrow' episode.'

Dr. Bixler says that Jupiter is volcanic. It is actually a gas giant with no solid surface for a volcano. Even at the time this was filmed, this was known.