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 Seattle Friday 1 May 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7); it first aired in Philadelphia Wednesday 21 October 1959 on WCAU (Channel 10).