Richard Burton's final performance. It was filmed after 1984 (1984), which was his final theatrical film. He only agreed to play a supporting role in this television series because his daughter Kate Burton was one of the cast.
It marks as the first time real life couple Liam Neeson and Natasha Richardson would work on a same project, though they only met for real when they starred in Eugene O'Neill's play "Anna Christie" (1993) and later in Nell (1994), the year in which they finally married.