It was thought for years that the original videotape of "Laura" had been erased, relegating the film to memory and television myth status. This was apparently erroneous; copies of this version of "Laura" have been periodically shown at film festivals in the recent years.
George Sanders and Robert Stack had appeared years earlier in another television adaptation of "Laura", broadcast on the anthology series "The 20th Century Fox Hour", A Portrait of Murder (1955), playing the same roles they did in the 1968 TV version. That 1950s version, which runs only an hour, is sometimes rebroadcast on the Fox Movie Channel as part of their series "Hour of Stars".