According to the article "Your Evenings at Home Are Expensive" in "TV Guide" (9/11/53), the weekly talent/production budget this season is $60,000.
The series production moves from cramped Studio 6B in Rockefeller Center to the more spacious Center Theater on Sixth Avenue.
This season Milton Berle gets a week off each month. Beginning on 10/7/1952, The Buick Circus Hour (1952) aired every fourth week.