This film was first telecast in Los Angeles Sunday 4 July 1948 on KTLA (Channel 5), in New York City Saturday 28 August 1948 on WPIX (Channel 11), and in Detroit Sunday 28 November 1948 on WWJ (Channel 4) as part of their newly acquired series of three dozen Hal Roach feature film productions, originally theatrically released between 1931 and 1943, and now being syndicated for television broadcast by Regal Television Pictures. It first aired in Fort Worth Saturday 12 March 1949 on WBAP (Channel 5), in Boston Sunday 26 June 1949 on WBZ (Channel 4), and in Atlanta Sunday 28 August 1949 on WSB (Channel 8).
The novel Road Show by Eric Hatch was originally published by Little, Brown and Company, Boston, in 1934.
Shemp Howard plays a character named "Moe". In real life, his younger brother is Moe Howard, leader of "The Three Stooges" comedy team.