The Twilight Zone The Mighty Casey (1959–1964) watch online HD

Paul Douglas, who had drinking habits, was originally cast to play McGarry but onstage began to look red and read raspingly, and it wasn't until his coronary-related death days after the episode was completed that it was realized he had been suffering poor health rather than reaction to drink. Because the episode was supposed to be a comedy, Rod Serling was reluctant to let it be broadcast with Douglas' impending death essentially captured on film. When CBS refused to pay for the episode to be re-shot, Serling personally underwrote the $27,000 it cost to have Jack Warden brought in to replace Douglas and to have some scenes re-done with Warden in place of Douglas.

Serling's ending narration was more prophetic than he probably ever could have imagined. He says that, "There's a rumor... that a manager named McGarry took them to the West Coast and wound up with several pennants and a couple of world championships. This team had a pitching staff that made history." The Brooklyn Dodgers had already moved to Los Angeles the year before by team owner Walter O'Malley, but in the following season Sandy Koufax emerged as a future Hall of Famer, winning 130 games over the next 6 seasons with an ERA of 2.25. His teammate Don Drysdale won 111 games with an ERA of 2.92. The Dodgers won three pennants in those six years and two World Series.

Based on one of Rod Serling's plays from before "The Twilight Zone" was created.

Filmed at Wrigley Field in Los Angeles, home of the minor league Los Angeles Angels. Wrigley Field was a frequent location for baseball movies and programs, including "Home Run Derby" in 1960. Note the ivy on the outfield walls, similar to its namesake stadium in Chicago.

When Casey returns to the locker room with a heart teammates surrounded him welcoming him back including uncredited Dom Deluise.

The Zephyrs' uniforms have a National League 75th anniversary patch on the left sleeve, which would place the setting of the story in 1951.

The title is based upon "Casey at the Bat", a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Lawrence Thayer and later popularized by vaudeville renditions.

In the second scene in the hospital (with the Commissioner reading the rule book) there is an oil can on the headboard of Casey's bed. No reason is given for this to be present. No character even mentions it. An obvious nod to the Tin Man in The Wizard of Oz, also built without a heart.

The play lists the Brooklyn Dodgers playing in Tebbets Field, rather than the real Ebbets Field.

The first officially recorded game of baseball took place in Hoboken, New Jersey in 1846 between the Knickerbocker Club and New York Nine at Elysian Fields.

Mouth McGarry (Jack Warden) mentions "DiMaggio" and "Durocher". These are two major league baseball legends: Leo Durocher played from 1925-45, including as a player/manager from 1939-45. He was a manager for several different teams from 1945-73. Joe DiMaggio played his entire career, 1939-51, with the New York Yankees. He served in the US Army Air Force from 1943-45 during World War II. Dimaggio's 56 game hitting streak in 1941 is a record that still stands (2018 season completed)

This is the second Twilight Zone story pairing Jack Warden with a "human" robot, the first being "The Lonely."