This might be my favorite episode of the entire series because, as a kid, it took me inside the Hollywood Sausage Factory.
The massive soundstages where magic is made. The enormous banks of lights and cameras along the overhead walkways. The ladders, platforms, acoustic wall-padding, and hardware that go into creating every episode.
Of course, this episode, 70+ years later, recalls the current scandal enveloping Alec Baldwin and the armorer on the set of the upcoming movie "Rust", with a fatal live bullet somehow ending up in a prop gun.
I'm amused at this episode, where a studio star's trailer is so important, immediately following "Wonder Woman" on the Heroes and Icons network, co-starring Lyle Waggoner. After leaving the acting biz Waggoner founded Star Waggons, Hollywood's go-to source for luxury trailers for studio sets and film locations.
There are some continuing peculiarities here carrying over from several other first-season episodes:
--- dialogue coach Steve Carr as another vital character yet again denied a cast credit
--- that familiar brick wall, concrete steps and landing, and bizarre piping, perhaps from a soundstage's loading dock or the studio's parking garage
--- yet another shot of prominent plumbing as the studio's security guard passes a soundstage with its huge standpipe
--- the every-episode stock shot of the Daily Planet exterior --- the Clem Wilson Bouilding on Wilshire @ LaBrea --- with that badly-tattered flag flying horizontally in the wind.
There's a quick scene of Superman carrying the unconscious Luigi Donelli up a few outdoor steps to "Stage 13" --- might that be the door and landing we so often saw that first season, both earlier in this episode when Kent and Henderson are entrapped by the driver, from the inside and most prominently in "No Holds Barred"?
There's also a continuity gaffe as Superman crashes through Luigi Donelli's penthouse window, shattering glass. Just a second later there's NO glass at al, in the window frame.
All in all, a sensational, thrilling --- and educational --- episode.