Rarely rebroadcast after its initial showing on CBS in 1975, this was included in Turner Classic Movies' centennial tribute to Doris Day's 100th birthday on April 3, 2022.
After this aired in 1975, Doris Day retired from her showbiz career and, other than accepting a Cecil B. DeMille award and occasional talk show appearances with Johnny Carson and Merv Griffin, she did not appear in public again for over a decade.
This was one of two one-hour musical specials which were part of CBS's 1968 multi-million-dollar contract with Doris Day's production company, a contract that Day always insisted was negotiated by her husband and manager Martin Melcher without her knowledge. When Melcher died suddenly in April 1968, Day chose to go ahead and honor the contract, appearing in this program and The Doris Mary Anne Kappelhoff Special (1971), as well as starring in The Doris Day Show (1968) from 1968-1973.
This special was made and aired after Doris Day's long-running sitcom The Doris Day Show (1968) had left the air; it was produced to fulfill the final commitment from Day's multi-million-dollar 1968 CBS contract.
This was written and produced by one of the iconic TV figures of the time, George Schlatter, best known as the man behind NBC's biggest hit of the 1960s, Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In (1967).