Victor Buono (Marko) was unusual among gay performers of his era by openly living together with same-sex partners and referred to himself as a "conscientious objector" in the "morality revolution" of the 1960s.
Arthritis is predominantly a disease of the elderly, but children can also be affected by the disease. More than 70% of individuals in North America affected by arthritis are over the age of 65. Victor Buono often played characters much older than himself. He passed away at age 43 on New Year's Day 1982, from a heart attack, 13 years after filming this episode.
Sister Bertrille reads the periodical Variety to the children, which has been published since 1905, when it was launched as a weekly publication reporting on theater and vaudeville. For much of its existence, Variety's writers and columnists have used a jargon called 'slanguage' or 'varietyese' that refers especially to the movie industry and the language initially spoken by the actors of its earlier days.
Marko's (The Magnificent) appearance at Contento San Tanco is scheduled for Sunday, June 18th.. This date fell on a Sunday only in 1967, way before the episode's original airdate on January 16, 1969.
The three nuns begin singing "Gonna Build a Mountain" in a slow, reverent style and are interrupted by the Reverend Mother, who asks the band to "pick up the tempo." The music instantly snaps into a sixties pop version of the song. Though it is done very quickly, it is very similar to the key scene in the hit 1992 feature film "Sister Act," in which Whoopi Goldberg a choir of nuns begin "Hail Holy Queen" as a hymn and in the second refrain transforms into a pop version. The story ends with the nuns reading about their successful performance in Variety. Colgems Records released this version of "Gonna Build a Mountain" as a single.