 Serlings original script featured two characters who did not appear  in the finished episode, a police officer and a refrigerator  repairman. These roles are significant not only because Serling  wrote them, but because he went so far as to cast them before he cut  them from the script (Ned Glass (qv) was slated to be the  repairman and John McLiam (qv) the police officer). Why they were  cut probably traces back to Twilight Zones budget problems, which  had been growing significantly since James T. Aubrey, Jr. became  chief executive of CBS in the shows second season. Similar problems  occurred during the shooting of "The Self