This served as the pilot for The Joey Bishop Show (1961) television series. It is considered a spin-off even though the characters here-in introduced were never used again in this series and their surnames were changed for the new television series.
This episode contains one of the very early direct references to a bathroom in the history of television situation-comedies. What's more, the actual word 'bathroom' is used (in fact, more than once) here instead of a euphemism for it such as 'water closet', which had been occasionally allowed by the television censors. The use of the word 'bathroom' on a family-comedy show was truly shocking to most viewers in 1961.
Marlo Thomas' character Stella Mason is introduced as a potential mate to Danny Thomas' character Danny Williams by the girl's mother. In real life Marlo Thomas is Danny Thomas' daughter.