Trivia

Writer Loring Mandel conceived the story for use on the daytime serial Love of Life (1951), in which he was employed as head writer in 1972-73. When the show's executive producer Darryl Hickman rejected the story, Mandel quit the show and developed it into a feature length screenplay instead.

This was the only film that Producer Jerome Hellman ever directed.

Filmed at Hall High School in West Hartford, CT.

Lorenzo Lamas: in a pre-fame role as Josh, Buffy's football player friend.