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 initial television broadcast took place in Omaha Sunday 4 January 1959 on KETV (Channel 7), followed by Denver 22 May 1959 on KBTV (Channel 9), and by Phoenix 2 August 1959 on KVAR (Channel 12); in Detroit, it was first telecast in two parts, Thursday-Friday 12-13 November 1959 on WJBK (Channel 2), it first aired in Milwaukee 18 November 1959 on WITI (Channel 6), in Seattle 30 November 1959 on KIRO (Channel 7), in Toledo 23 January 1960 on WTOL (Channel 11), and in Minneapolis 27 April 1960 on WTCN (Channel 11).