In 1969, during the acceptance speech for her third consecutive Emmy for Mission: Impossible, Barbara Bain announced that she was leaving the series. She did so because her husband, Martin Landau, also left the series at the same time over a pay dispute.
Landau had never had more than one-year contracts, however, and was free to leave at the end of that series' third season. Bain, however, had signed a standard five-year contract. Paramount Television obtained a court order that she could not work in Hollywood until her contract expired. This TV movie was her first dramatic role in two years because of Paramount's court order.
A "made for TV" movie.
The name of the dog is Happy.