Love Is a Many-Splendored Thing (film) was killed and she runs to visit their favorite hilltop meeting place. The rights to the novel were bought by David Brown of 20th Century Fox for the producer Sol C. Siegel. However, when he left the company the project was given to Buddy Adler. Parts of the film were shot on location in Hong Kong by second-unit director Otto Lang, which was unusual for its time. Two weeks of location filming in Hong Kong had been completed before the final screenplay had been finished by screenwriter John Patrick. He then had to adapt the screenplay to include as many
Love Is a Many-Splintered Thing for his role after having a meeting at the same studio where "The Simpsons" record their voice-overs. After hearing that there was an uncast role, he commented: "I said, 'I hate to muscle in here, guys, but could I record it?' Next thing, I'm standing in a room with all those famous voices: Bart, Marge, Homer, Lisa." His two small roles in the episode were not "Sherlock"-related; instead, he portrayed the British Prime Minister and Severus Snape, in a spoof of "Love Actually". The episode received 2.0 in the 18-49 demographic and was watched by a total of 4.19 million