Dick Berg wrote the teleplay, as an adaptation of a story by Garson Kanin.

[4] Pat Bass (Anne Baxter) is the neglected wife of Leo Bass (Dana Andrews), the owner of a talent agency who has allowed business to dominate his life at the expense of his wife.

Ralph Mohr (Leslie Nielsen) is Bass's assistant, i.e., the "right hand man".

Television critic Jack O'Brian called it "well-written and extremely well acted," singling out Leslie Nielsen for special praise.

O'Brian also praised the physical production as "rich, big and impressively tasteful" and called Schaffner's direction "sure and effective".