This cartoon was produced during the brief shutdown of Warner Bros.'s animation department in 1953. Since Robert McKimson had no crew at the time, he decided to animate the whole cartoon himself. McKimson considered this one of his best cartoons.
The news dateline from "OLDMAN, MO." is a play on the title of the jazz song "Old Man Mose" by Louis Armstrong.
One of the news datelines is from "Cherry Hill Country Club, Colo." There really was and still is a Cherry Hills Country Club in Cherry Hills Village, Colorado.
The line from the news anchor: "There's bad news tonight." is a reference to Gabriel Heatter, who often began his radio broadcasts with "There's good news tonight."
The gang of police, and their calamity, is likely modeled on the famous comedy film group The Keystone Cops.