Director Charles Walters was an uncredited director on "Ziegfeld Follies" (1945) which starred Lucille Ball, although not in the segment he staged. He also directed two episodes of "Here's Lucy" and will also direct "What Now Catherine Curtis?" in 1976.
This was Lucille Ball's third prime time special after the end of "Here's Lucy" in 1974. The first two were "Happy Anniversary and Goodbye" and "Lucy Gets Lucky" nine months earlier.
This special is available on DVD from MPI video or can be streamed online. It was originally aired on CBS in the USA and ITV in the UK.
Although he made a wordless walk-on cameo as bus driver Ralph Kramden in the second-aired "Here's Lucy", this is the first time Lucille Ball and Jackie Gleason have acted together on screen. This continues Ball's employment of "Honeymooners" alumni like Art Carney (Ed Norton) in "Happy Anniversary and Goodbye" and "What Now Catherine Curtis?", Audrey Meadows (Alice Kramden) in "Life With Lucy" (1986), and
Jane Kean (Trixie Norton from 1966 on) in "The Lucy Show" (1966).
In form and content, this material resembles Neil Simon's 1968 play and 1971 film "Plaza Suite," which is also divided into three stories with actors playing multiple roles. The fact that the first story of the special takes place in a hotel suite strengthens the comparison. The year after this special aired, Simon wrote a similar play titled "California Suite" which was filmed in 1978.