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 telecasts took place in Boston Wednesday 25 September 1958 on WBZ (Channel 4) and in Omaha Tuesday 11 November 1958 on KETV (Channel 7); in Seattle it first aired 15 May 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), in Los Angeles 17 September 1959 on KNXT (Channel 2), in Grand Rapids 23 September 1959 on WOOD (Channel 8), in Chicago 17 November 1959 on WBBM (Channel 2), and in Salt Lake City 17 October 1960 on KUTV (Channel 2).