Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer bought the screen rights to all the 1,100 Nick Carter stories published from the 19th Century through the 1930s. However, all 3 of the films made in the Nick Carter series were based on original stories.
With this speech, Nick Carter derides three of his contemporary movie detectives: Nick Charles, Charlie Chan, and Sherlock Holmes: "Look, I'm not a storybook detective with, uh, a highball glass in one hand (Nick Charles) and, uh, a Chinese proverb (Charlie Chan) in another, nor can I tell you from the ashes of a man's cigar (Sherlock Holmes) that he, uh, had kippered herring for breakfast and hit his grandmother over the head with an ax."
This film received its initial television broadcast in Philadelphia Thursday 28 November 1957 on WFIL (Channel 6), followed by San Francisco 12 November 1958 on KGO (Channel 7); it was eventually aired in New York City 22 June 1960 on WCBS (Channel 2), and in Los Angeles 26 June 1960 on KTTV (Channel 11).