Pinocchio is a 90-minute musical television film adaptation of Carlo Collodi's classic 1883 book.
Peter Noone, lead singer of Herman's Hermits, played Pinocchio and Burl Ives was cast as Mister Geppetto.
Richard Lewine, the show's producer, described the problem to TV Guide: "Since we didn't want to cheat the audience out of seeing it grow, we hired Bil Baird to create one.
Bil stood behind Pinocchio, out of camera range, holding the end of a rod that attached to the nose.
It pre-empted two regular shows on NBC's schedule, The New Adventures of Huckleberry Finn and Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color.