When introducing the "Nutcracker" excerpts, Jane Wyatt mentions that "tonight, on Christmas Eve, the Nutcracker dances with the Sugar Plum Fairy". In nearly all productions of "The Nutcracker", which Villella and Ms. Verdy both danced with the New York City Ballet, the Nutcracker does not dance with the Sugar Plum Fairy. It is the Sugar Plum Fairy's cavalier who dances with her. If the Nutcracker dances with anybody (as he does in the Baryshnikov version), it is with Clara, the heroine of the ballet. However, in a German-American production of the ballet first shown on U.S. TV in December of 1965, Villella again appears as the Nutcracker, and in this one he dances in turn with both Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy.
The box cover of the videocassette mistakenly lists John Raitt and Jane Morgan (aka Jane Morgan) as appearing on this program, but they do not, and it does not list Earl Wrightson, Lois Hunt, Phyllis Curtin, or Lisa della Casa, who do.
Like many during that era, Jane Wyatt mistakenly refers to the ballet "The Nutcracker" as "The Nutcracker Suite". This is because the complete ballet was not widely performed in the U.S. at that time, but the suite from the ballet (consisting of eight pieces of music from the complete work) was.