Originally titled Bay Coven, it was changed to the name of the title location, Bay Cove, which is a better title for the aspects of a horror/mystery given that the "n" that turns Cove into Coven is a kind of spoiler i.e. Coven refers to what Bay Cove is hiding from the main characters.
Premiered the same night as game 7 of the 1987 World Series where the Minnesota Twins defeated the St. Louis Cardinals to win the championship.
Roger Birnbaum, Peter Guber and Jon Peters are what the DVD cover refers to as being made "by the makers of Batman and Unbreakable". Guber and Peters would go on to produce Tim Burton's Batman and Batman Returns while Birnbaum would produce Unbreakable.
As is common with television movies, the cast consists of actors and actresses known for television roles: Pamela Sue Martin, Nancy Drew and Dynasty; Barbara Billingsly, Leave it to Beaver; Jeff Conaway, Taxi; Woody Harrelson, Cheers; James Sikking, Hill Street Blues; Inga Swenson, Benson. And while Tim Matheson was primarily a movie actor, he was a television series child actor.
Tim Matheson had appeared on Leave It To Beaver, the famous sitcom that starred this movie's co-star, Barbara Billingsly.