A single telecast on KTTV that drew 5,000 letters to the station — the impression that led KTTV to commission the 1955–1956 series. Date unknown: checked-negative across all 24 surviving TV-Radio Life issues of 1954 (the archive holds ~24 of 52 weeks). Source: "Who Is Neville?", TV-Radio Life, Apr 15–22 1955, p.31: "Many remember him when he was here last year and did one telecast—from which the station got 5000 letters."