This film received its first USA telecast Saturday 24 February 1940 on New York City's pioneer, and still experimental television station W2XBS, which would not receive full time commercial status until 29 June 1941 as WNBT (Channel 1).
The title screen on the surviving 16mm print actually reads "Emil and the Detective".
Emil's home village with its distinctive windmill in opening sequences is named as Little Crendon in the newspaper report of his return near the end of the film. This village is invented (as was "Neustadt" in the 1931 German version), but there are references to it being somewhere in Kent from Emil's conversations and the station announcer who lists some rural stations on the route to Charing Cross via Sevenoaks. The location was actually Long Crendon in Buckinghamshire, some 100 miles from Kent.
The running time on the 2013 BFI DVD issue (alongside the 1931 German original) which is apparently restored from the sole surviving copy is only 59 minutes. Taking into account PAL speed up (standard UK region 2 DVDs play at 25 frames/50 fields per second rather than the 24 frames/60 fields format of most territories) this means the surviving print would have played for around 61 minutes when shown in a standard cinema projector. However it is unclear from the DVD booklet account whether this means approximately 10 minutes of footage has been lost or whether the original length of the UK version was only 61 minutes and therefore a fair bit shorter than the 1931 German original, which as per the 1936 Kinematograph Year Book was 6390 feet (71 minutes)