 This was the first film shown on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies",  23 September 1961, the first television program to exclusively  broadcast relatively recent theatrical films on US network  television, most of them, like this one, in pan/scan versions (there  was no television "letterboxing" back then). The idea proved so  successful that NBC soon followed it up with another series with the  identical format, "Monday Night at the Movies", and it wasnt long  before the format was taken up by both CBS and ABC.