Part of a cycle of movies made during the mid-to-late 1970s about Tinseltown, Old Hollywood and its Golden Age including the Silent Film era. The pictures include Fedora (1978), Inserts (1975), Valentino (1977), Nickelodeon (1976), Silent Movie (1976), The Wild Party (1975), The Last Tycoon (1976), Hearts of the West (1975), The Day of the Locust (1975), The World's Greatest Lover (1977), Gable and Lombard (1976), Goodbye, Norma Jean (1976), Bud and Lou (1978), and W.C. Fields and Me (1976). Bogie (1980) and Mommie Dearest (1981) would soon follow as well.
The performance of "Who's on First?" in the film The Naughty Nineties (1945) is considered the quintessential version of the routine, and the clip is enshrined in a looped video at the Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, New York.
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello were elected into the 2008 New Jersey Hall of Fame for their services to arts and entertainment.
This tele-movie was made and first broadcast about a year after its source biographical book ''Bud and Lou: The Abbott and Costello Story'' by Bob Thomas had been first published the previous year in 1977.
Buddy Hackett plays Lou Costello. In Fireman Save My Child (1954), Hackett replaced Costello, who was forced to withdraw from the film due to ill health.