One of over 700 Paramount productions, filmed between 1929-49, that were sold to MCA/Universal in 1958 for television distribution, and have been owned and controlled by Universal ever since. Its earliest documented telecast took place in Omaha Wednesday 4 March 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); it first aired in Chicago 8 November 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), and in St. Louis 2 January 1960 on KMOX (Channel 4).