There were said to be only five 35mm prints of the film, all blown-up from 16mm, which journeyed around Australia for screenings. This helps explain the slight 'soft-focus' feel and general scratchy quality of surviving prints.
A gay kiss between Don Finlayson and Simon Carr was seemingly excised from all of the currently-existing prints at some point after the film hit cinemas; consequently the sequence is no longer known to exist.
This movie was the first time that a 'Number 96' production had been seen in color. The TV series Number 96 (1972) up to the time of this movie's release had still been in black-and-white.
The address of the real life building which still stands today that was used as an exterior for the block of apartments in this movie and the TV series Number 96 (1972) is 83 Moncur Street, Woollahra, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia.
The original script had Sonia and Duncan Hunter moving into a recently-vacant Flat 6 and Diana Moore moving into Flat 5, which is directly over Flat 3 (concierge Dorrie Evans' flat). At the last minute, the script required the new occupants be allocated opposite flats, as Sonia's story line would involve her using the open balcony of Flat 5. (All other flats had enclosed balconies or shopfronts.) Note that Dorrie Evans still hears noises directly overhead when Diana is moving in to the empty Flat 6.
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