Danny Bonaduce reported that at one point he was called a "mother f**ker" by Richard Pryor. A producer quickly told Pryor, "You can't call a ten-year-old kid a mother f**ker."
This was the pilot for a proposed series which would have starred 'Louis Gossett Jr' and Richard Pryor as the Simon brothers.
The Partridge Family's concert booking date was mixed up with the Temptations. The Tempations only played one concert in 1971 and it was at the Spectrum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania the night before this show aired.