Flip is rehearsing a "Three Musketeers" sketch for his television show. Lucille Ball had a small role in a 1935 film version.
Starting with this episode, Coby Ruskin, who had directed two previous episodes, becomes the regular director of "Here's Lucy" and will direct nearly all (65) future episodes. This is also the first episode without Desi Arnaz Jr. as a regular cast member. Bob Carroll, Jr. and Madelyn Davis return to the series' rotation of writers and the show.
On the "I Love Lucy" episode "Lucy Writes a Novel" (ILL S3;E24) Lucy Ricardo says "My novel may turn out to be another 'Gone with the Wind'!" She compares Ricky to Rhett Butler and herself to Scarlett O'Hara.
The theme music gets an updated more jazzy sound to it beginning with this season premier episode.