One of over 700 Paramount Productions, filmed between 1929 and 1949, which 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 8 January 1959 on KETV (Channel 7); in Chicago it was first aired 7 May 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), in Asheville 10 June 1959 on WLOS (Channel 13), in Milwaukee 7 September 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Detroit 8 December 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), in San Francisco 22 December 1959 on KPIX (Channel 5), and in Toledo 2 February 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11).