Apparently Shirley MacLaine and her British crew developed a mutual loathing of each other during the making of this series. All were mutually happy after it was cancelled.
After trying to make various changes to the scripts with which she was extremely dissatisfied, Shirley MacLaine was not allowed to see each script until forty-eight hours before shooting was due to start.
It was reported that Shirley MacLaine was paid forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars per episode. It was one of the most expensive television shows on air at the time, mainly due to the Hollywood female lead and shooting on location.
Shirley MacLaine made a deal with Executive Producer Sir Lew Grade that he would finance her in movies of her own choice if she "took a crack at television". She took her crack with this show, and he financed her in Desperate Characters (1971) and The Possession of Joel Delaney (1972).
The series was photographed on film rather than the standard videotape most sitcoms utilized by 1971. Also eschewing both a studio audience and a synthetic laugh track, each episode plays like a mini feature film.
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By what name was Il mondo di Shirley (1971) officially released in Canada in English?
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