[2] The show was sponsored by the Ford Motor Company, whose founders shared a last name with the host but had no known relation.

[3] Beginning in September 1958, the show was telecast in color, and was broadcast from NBC Studios in Burbank, California.

[9] Television icon Norman Lear was also a writer on The Ford Show,[1] though he has claimed that Roland Kibbee was in fact the show's main writer and that he merely wrote the opening monologues.

[10][1] Lear has also stated that both Yorkin and Kibbee were in charge on the show's production.

[10] The program was officially named not for the host, but for the show's sponsor, the Ford Motor Company.