It had many Prisoner Cell Block H alumni in its cast, including Maggie Kirkpatrick, Paula Duncan, Michael Long and Amanda Muggleton.
The series was sold to sold to the UK's ITV network the very week it was axed in Australia. The curtailment of the show came as a surprise to the production team, as they had just extended some contracts by another year (meaning those cast-members had to be paid despite no production taking place), many of whom were said to be told on the Friday not to bother coming into work on Monday.
Gwen Plumb had been cast as Summer Bay town gossip Doris Peters in the pilot episode of Seven's Home and Away (1988); however Reg Watson recalled her 1985 stint in his series Neighbours (1985) as curmudgeonly farmer Mrs. Forbes, and wrote the part of Mum Foote for her. In deference and loyalty to her old boss (Watson having also created The Young Doctors (1976)), Plumb chose to appear in Ten's Richmond Hill (1988) instead.
Publicity suffered in that there was no easy peg to hang the show's description on, plus a perceived reluctance from cast members to undertake personal appearances. This was Ten's official reason for the series axing.
Some of the cast found the tone of the show quite downbeat to begin with, before more comedic elements swung to the fore.