gun and not the jaw. He proclaims that his father was "[his] best buddy" as he begins to play the shooting game. Closing narration Cast Jack Klugman as Max Phillips Connie Gilchrist as Mrs. Feeny Robert Diamond as Pvt. Pip Billy Mumy: Young Pip Uncredited (in order of appearance) Ross Elliott: doctor in Vietnam Gerald Gordon: lieutenant in Vietnam Russell Horton: George Reynold S. John Launer: Mr. Moran Kreg Martin: Mr. Moran's enforcer Stuart Nisbet: surgeon in Vietnam Jack Klugman appeared in four episodes of the original series. In addition to this episode, he starred in "Death Ship", broadcast seven months earlier, in February, "A Game of Pool" (October 1961), and "A Passage for Trumpet" (May 1960). In addition to this episode, Billy Mumy appeared in two other episodes of the original series: 1961's "It's a Good Life" (November) and "Long Distance Call" (March). He also appeared (credited as Bill Mumy) in the "It's a Good Life" segment of Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), and the second Twilight Zone revival episode "It's Still a Good Life" in 2003. Among the six uncredited cast members with speaking roles, three appeared in other episodes. Ross Elliott did receive billing in the earlier Jack Klugman episode "Death Ship" although, same as in this episode, he had no scenes with Klugman. Russell Horton was also credited in third season's "The Changing of the Guard" (June 1962), playing one of the students. S. John Launer was in three season one episodes, receiving credit in "The Purple Testament" (February 1960), but remaining uncredited in "Third from the Sun" (January 1960), in which only his voice was heard. His earliest episode, in which he likewise received no credit, was "And When the Sky Was Opened" (December 1959). Episode notes The script is essentially a reworked version of the A-plot of “Next of Kin”, a one-hour script Serling wrote for Kraft Television Theatre and which aired on 8 April 1953. "In Praise of Pip" removes two other intertwined stories that were part of "Next of Kin", but the first two acts are otherwise almost identical down to the character names, the only change being that Max's son is named Tommy in "Next Of Kin", not Pip. (And the war, of course, is in Korea, not Vietnam.) Act III, with Max encountering young Pip in the amusement park, is unique to this telling of the story. "In Praise of