Raffles the chimpanzee insists on watching "Mother Carey's Chickens", which turns out to be the top-rated television program that night. "Mother Carey's Chickens" is a 1911 novel by Kate Douglas Wiggin that was first filmed as Mother Carey's Chickens (1938). Walt Disney Productions (the studio behind "The Barefoot Executive") filmed its own version of the story as Summer Magic (1963), with Hayley Mills.
The logo for fictional TV network UBC combines elements from the logos of major American networks National Broadcasting Company (NBC), American Broadcasting Company (ABC) and CBS.
Heather North acted in this film after she finished the second season of Scooby Doo, Where Are You! (1969).