Between 7:10 and 7:35pm GMT on November 22, 1963, an episode of The Thin Man (1957) was being shown on the Irish television channel Telefís Éireann (now RTÉ One) when it was announced that U.S. President John F. Kennedy had been shot during a visit to Dallas, Texas. The series' star Peter Lawford was Kennedy's brother-in-law as he was married to his younger sister Patricia Kennedy from 1954 to 1966.
The Thin Man is a half-hour weekly television series based on the mystery novel The Thin Man (1933) by Dashiell Hammett.
This was the first TV series produced by MGM.
The dog, Asta, was played by three identical wire-hair terriers.