The pilot was a portrait of Alexandre Dumas, entitled "Camille, the Naked Lady and the Musketeers".
It was filmed in just one day in October 1956, at a Poverty Row studio in Hollywood using the $5,000 fee that Welles had earned from his guest appearance on I Love Lucy.
Welles used photo stills and drawings to illustrate the programme.
He hoped that future episodes would profile Winston Churchill and P. T.
However, film historian Joseph McBride believes it to be significant, as it was "an early example of the 'essay film', a genre that would increasingly occupy Welles.