The actors that Frank Gorshin does impressions of during the course of the story are, in this order: John Wayne, Rex Harrison, Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas as a double act, Boris Karloff, Broderick Crawford, George C. Scott, Bing Crosby, James Cagney, Ed Sullivan, Richard Burton, Jack Nicholson, W.C. Fields, Cary Grant, Bela Lugosi, and Sydney Greenstreet.
Filmed aboard the R.M.S Queen Mary in Long Beach, California.
Frank Gorshin plays a similar character in The Hundred Lives of Harry Simms (1961) of The Defenders (1961) where his character is accused of murder yet he manages to make a series of lighthearted impressions.
Harold J. Stone (John Strauss) later appears as a different character in season five's He Married an Angel (1981).