George Reeves appears as Superman briefly around the 45:20 mark during a discussion of how important TV has become in presidential campaigns.
Theodore H. White asked ABC to premier the broadcast in December, rather than in February as originally scheduled. "The longer we wait," White reportedly told ABC executives, "the more we might be inclined to revise it, and there was nothing to be revised. Pull one emotional thread and you can unravel the whole fabric." Wolper Production received the finished prints from the lab three days before it was set to air, and someone realized the copyright date in the credits, 1964, had to be changed. According to producer David L. Wolper, staffer Ben Bennett sat at a splicer with a needle stuck in a paintbrush and by hand scratched a 3 over the 4 on every frame of every print.