Because it was the first television teaming of the two famous redheads, the special was hailed as "A Television First" and was also Lucille Ball's first appearance in color. Lucille Ball had only just started shooting the first season of "The Lucy Show" which was shot and aired in black and white during season one.
This program was nominated for three 1963 Emmy Awards as well as a Director's Guild Award. At the 1963 Emmy's Lucille Ball was also nominated for her work on "The Lucy Show", although she lost to Shirley Booth in "Hazel."
During the special, Kaye sang, danced, and told a story imitating Maurice Chevalier's English accent. Chevalier had co-starred in "Lucy Goes To Mexico" (1958), and was imitated by everyone on "I Love Lucy" in "The French Revue" (S3;E7).
Lucille Ball sang, danced (the Twist), and did imitations of Judy Garland, Carol Channing, and Marlene Dietrich. Three years later, Lucy Carmichael would go undercover as Carol Channing in "Lucy and the Undercover Agent" (S4;E10), dressing as Channing did in "Hello, Dolly!" In 1971, Lucy Carter dressed as Marlene Dietrich in "The Hollywood Unemployment Follies" (S3;E22) singing "Falling in Love Again (Never Wanted To)" from the 1930 German film "The Blue Angel." In that same episode there is a mannequin of Judy Garland as Dorothy in "The Wizard of Oz," although no one imitates her.