In the scene where Bobby (Patrick Duffy) encounters J.R. (Larry Hagman) at Southfork for the first time, Bobby offers J.R. a drink, but J.R. refuses, citing doctor's advice. This film was filmed and aired less than four months after Larry Hagman's liver transplant in July 1996. J.R. was drinking again on Dallas (2012).
The character of Sue Ellen Ewing returned to the regular Dallas (1978) continuity for the first time since Reel Life (1989) in this television film. Sue Ellen's only appearance in the interim was in the series finale Conundrum (1991) as part of an alternate reality in which J.R. was never born.
This was the first Dallas production to return to the famous Southfork Ranch property since the end of the 1988-89 season. For the original series' last two years on the air, all Southfork exteriors were filmed on an interior soundstage in California.
This marks the final appearance of Omri Katz as John Ross Ewing. He had first played the role in The Road Back (1983) 13 years earlier.