This episode was being aired as a syndicated rerun on WABC-TV in New York at the time President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. For a period, the ABC network was able to broadcast bulletins only on WABC-TV and on it's Mountain and Pacific time zone affiliates. This episode was interrupted several times during it's WABC-TV local airing, while an ABC network rerun of Father Knows Best was interrupted in the western United States.