The episode was a television play that was originally broadcast on 15 March 1977.
The play is based on the book of the same name by Nicholson and Stephen Smith and recounts Vivian Nicholson's life story from the 1950s to the early 1970s in a non-linear fashion.
He wrote in his autobiography: "From that day on, I followed her wild, seemingly stupid adventures in the papers - and believed every snide, snooty, biased word the relentless publicity said.
"[2] Being given Nicholson's book by director John Goldschmidt caused Rosenthal to reassess his attitude and "become a fan"[2] eager to put across an explanation of her behaviour.
[3] The work was released on DVD as part of Jack Rosenthal at the BBC by Acorn media in 2011, alongside other works for television written by Rosenthal.