- Adored by the Network: Impressed by Queen for a Day's high ratings, NBC president Robert E. Kintner ordered the show's running time be increased from 30 minutes to 45 minutes in order for the network to sell more commercials, at a then premium rate of $4,000 per minute.
- Channel Hop: The television run started on NBC and moved to ABC just after the midpoint of its lifespan. It then aired in syndication for one season and then once on Lifetime as a special.
- Keep Circulating the Tapes: Most of the show has been destroyed per standard network practices of the day. 17 episodes and a partial 18th are known to exist of the original run — two Mutual, four NBC (plus the partial), and eleven ABC (mostly from 1964). In 2005, First Look Media released a three-disc DVD set containing seven full episodes and fragments of another five, all with their commercials intact.
- Several episodes appear on various public-domain compilations, with the "Classic Game Shows & More" DVD set containing a 45-minute episode from March 28, 1958 (taped at the Moulin Rouge) and a half-hour Circus Day show from around September 1964 note .
- The Internet Archive has the aforementioned 1958
and 1964 episodes, plus one from October 17, 1960.
- Long Runner: 19½ years, eight of it on television.
- What Could Have Been: In 1987, Barry & Enright Productions unsuccessfully attempted to revive the show with Monty Hall as host and with Fries Distribution Company as distributor.
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