Nine episodes, each approximately three minutes long, were broadcast between periods of NHL hockey games.
The brainchild of NBC executive and New York Rangers season ticket holder Donald Carswell, who conceived the idea and scripted first drafts of the initial episodes, Peter Puck was developed for the television network in partnership with Hanna-Barbera.
When the network stopped carrying NHL games in 1975, NBC sold Peter's rights back to Hanna-Barbera, which later sold them to Brian McFarlane, a member of the network's NHL broadcast team (and the son of Leslie McFarlane, also known as first of many to assume the pen name "Franklin W. Dixon" and pen the Hardy Boys books).
That same year, Peace Arch Entertainment released the entire series to DVD.
The clips are seen in their original form, with outdated rules and references omitted.