The character of Albert Michelson is famed for his 1887 "Michelson-Morley Experiment" carried out at Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, Ohio, where he and fellow physicist Edward Morley obtained evidence establishing the constancy of the speed of light.
The exterior of the school house used in this episode "Looking to the Stars" was located on the backlot of Paramount Studios, (in an area now known as The Tank) it is the Historic Lasky-DeMille Barn in which the first feature length motion picture in 1913 "The Squaw Man" was shot. Moved from it's original location on Selma Avenue and Vine Street by film Pioneer Jesse L. Lasky; it was used in many Paramount western films and television episodes. Mr. Booth Colman who guest stars as "Henry P. Quince" was a close friend of Jesse L. Lasky Jr.