The production system was shared by three studios: Toei Kyoto TV Productions, which produced period and early-modern dramas and contemporary dramas featuring Kyoto settings, Toei Tokyo Productions located in Ikuta, and Toei TV Productions located in Oizumi, and the studios competed with each other in order to continue mass-producing the programs.
その製作体制は三つの撮影所に分けられており、まず時代劇や近代もの、京都が舞台の現代劇を作っている東映京都テレビプロ、生田に構えていた東映東京製作所、大泉に設けた東映テレビプロがそれぞれ凌ぎを削りながら作品の量産を続けた。