In the end, Alvin, in variable degrees of frustration, would say, "I shall leave you at this point, Elizabeth," and would walk out of sight.

The minimal theme music was played by a solo harpist who was partially visible on the opening title screen.

[citation needed] On September 11, 1998, Betty White, Jack Narz and Peter Michael Goetz as Alvin participated in a restaging of Life with Elizabeth for 13 at 50, a two-hour retrospective of KCOP-TV's 50th anniversary co-hosted by news anchors Tawny Little and Alan Frio.

The segment was filmed in front of a live studio audience, with Betty White playing her original role.

[8][9] Because the show was formatted as separate eight-minute sketches, a number of used 16mm prints of the films were cut into individual segments and sold on the "home movies" market by the Superior Bulk Film Co. of Chicago, a mail-order movie equipment dealer, in the late 1960s and 1970s.