Philip Ober plays a diplomat in this episode; he became one in real life after he retired from acting.
This episode premiered 26 April 1958. Actor Don Gardner ("Bob Schroeder") died in an auto accident 21 September 1958 at age 26.
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Philip Ober, who plays Ralph Davis, and Josephine Hutchinson, who plays Leona Walsh, were both in North by Northwest (1959), shot the same year; he playing the real Lester Townsend (a U.S. diplomat, as he is here), and she playing the phony Mrs. Townsend.
Burger had called Della as a witness in at least one previous episode, but this is the first time the judge recognized that attorney-client privilege extends to the attorney's employees.