The launched rocket is a Mercury Atlas.
This episode takes place in June 1987, in November 1987, from December 31, 1987 to January 1, 1988, on April 19, 1988, on May 1, 1988 and in 2027.
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.'
Sandra Horn was born in 1961.
The scoring was a mix of stock music from uncredited composers Jerry Goldsmith, Fred Steiner, and Van Cleave, plus uncredited main theme by Marius Constant.