Olivia de Havilland would serve as 'Jury President' for the 18th Cannes Film Festival in May 1965, the first woman ever to do so (this episode was prerecorded in March).
Vicar Stanton Tate, the first contestant, was a specially qualified wildland firefighter, who is inserted at the site of the fire by parachute. Tate was trained by the 'The McCall smokejumper program', at their base on the Idaho shores of Payette Lake. He would be on duty from early spring through late fall (this episode was prerecorded in March).