By 1971, Woody Allen had sworn off doing television work but decided to do this special as a contribution to PBS. When this special was yanked before airing because of pressure from the Richard Nixon White House - it was a satire of then National Security Advisor Henry Kissinger - Allen cited the incident as an example of why he "sticks to movies." However, he later returned to television on three occasions: Don't Drink the Water (1994), Sounds from a Town I Love (2001) and Crisis in Six Scenes (2016).
This is the first of three times that Woody Allen and Diane Keaton played a married couple. The other two are Love and Death (1975) and Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993).
Diane Keaton (Renata Baldwin) would later play another character named Renata in Interiors (1978), Woody Allen's first purely dramatic film.