 The picture was directed by Richard L. Bare and aired on ABC as the pilot for "77 Sunset Strip" after an initial, brief theatrical release in the Caribbean.This trip to the Caribbean was legally significant.Huggins' claim to the characters and situations of "77 Sunset Strip" was strong, since he had created them in a series of 1940s novels and novellas, but his relationship to this, the first episode of the upcoming series, was comparatively weaker.