In 1952, a brand new 20" television manufactured by General Electric would cost $300.
Parts of this episode were cut for syndication. The DVD restores the scenes. We get to see Lucy's full practice the first time she reads the scripted testimony Ricky wrote for her. We also see Ricky feeding Lucy her part and Lucy stumbling over her memorized lines during court, and this is why Fred announces that the "subject's been rehearsed." Finally, the judge asks Lucy to repeat the part where she compliments him and she raises her skirt.
This episode was shown as a rerun during the show's fourth season, between episodes #117 and #118. The new "flashback" opening has Ricky showing Lucy his Don Juan make-up. Lucy says that Ricky looks like a "Spanish Uncle Sam" in the make-up. The Ricardos receive a letter from Lucy's mother, and Mrs. McGillicuddy refers to Fred and Ethel as "Ted and Evelyn." She also says in the letter that she sent the Ricardos' and the Mertzes' television sets out to be fixed before she figured out that they weren't working due to the electricity being off in the building. Ricky says that the Mertzes' TV has been a problem ever since the Ricardos gave it to them for their anniversary. This leads in to the memory of what happened in "The Courtroom." Sadly, only the script for this flashback episode still exists. The footage has been lost.
Only last year (in season 1, episode #2, 'Be a Pal'), the Mertzes were celebrating their 18th anniversary. They will continue to say they've been married for 25 years for the rest of the series.
Lucy is reading the April 1952 issue of "Mademoiselle".