The nursery rhyme that Ted quotes is "Jack Sprat." The most common version of the rhyme is: Jack Sprat could eat no fat/ His wife could eat no lean/ And so between them both, you see/ They licked the platter clean.
This film received its initial USA telecasts in Cincinnati Sunday 2 October 1949 on WLW-T (Channel 4), in Los Angeles Sunday 16 October 1949 on KTLA (Channel 5), in Chicago Sunday 30 October 1949 on WGN (Channel 9), in Detroit Sunday 6 November 1949 on WWJ (Channel 4), in Atlanta Wednesday 23 November 1949 on WSB (Channel 8), and in New York City Friday 10 March 1950 on WPIX (Channel 11).
Robert Newton would also appear in the 1954 remake "The Beachcomber," this time playing the lead, opposite Glynis Johns.