[5] Episodes were reruns of stories produced by Music Corporation of America, originally shown on Stars Over Hollywood.
[1] Ethel Barrymore, Dorothy Lamour, and Gloria Swanson made their TV dramatic debuts on the program.
[3] Competing shows on other networks included The Big Idea on DuMont, Perspective on ABC, and I Love Lucy on CBS.
[7] Columnist Jack Gould of The New York Times wrote that the premiere episode on NBC "was alleged to be a comic treatise on a baseball umpire".
[14] He summarized Hollywood Opening Night as "a pleasant, well-lit, well-upholstered vacuum of a show which should kill a half hour of your time as painlessly as possible.