This was the last musical show written by Cole Porter before his death and the song "Wouldn't It Be Fun" (not performed in the show, but included in the soundtrack recording) contains the last lyrics that Porter wrote.
In this The DuPont Show of the Month (1957) presentation of Cole Porter's "Aladdin," the two stars respectively portraying the Emperor and the Governor--iconic Hollywood character actors Basil Rathbone and Akim Tamiroff--had two years earlier co-starred in their only feature film together, The Black Sleep (1956). One of their horror legend co-stars in that low-budget movie, John Carradine, had played a classic character in a different story of this series, playing John Canty in The Prince and the Pauper (1957) (the character played by Barton MacLane in the 1937 Errol Flynn film The Prince and the Pauper (1937)). Another of their horror colleagues who was not in "The Black Sleep," Boris Karloff, would later appear as Captain Billy Bones in the series' presentation of Treasure Island (1960).