This tele-movie was made and first released about eleven years after its source Colin Thiele novel of the same name had been first published in 1973.
Third feature length filmed adaptation of a Colin Thiele novel. The first was Storm Boy (1976) and the second was Blue Fin (1978).
First feature length filmed adaptation of a Colin Thiele novel not to star or feature then young South Australian actor Greg Rowe who had previously starred in both feature filmed adaptations of Colin Thiele novels: Storm Boy (1976) and Blue Fin (1978).
Third filmed adaptation of a Colin Thiele novel produced and/or financed by the South Australian Film Corporation. The first was Storm Boy (1976), the second was Blue Fin (1978), the third was The Fire in the Stone (1984), the fourth was Sun on the Stubble (1996), and the fifth was 'Storm Boy' (2019).