Actress Jodie Foster only had three weeks break between the end of production on Un Viernes Alocado (1976) and the start of principal photography on Candleshoe (1977).
The fictional English estate and stately mansion home of "Candleshoe" aka ''Candleshoe Manor;; was portrayed by ''Compton Wynyates'' in Warwickshire county in England. This is the home of British peer Spencer Douglas David Compton, who is nick-named "Spenny", his title being the 7th Marquess of Northampton.
The film was made and released about twenty-four years after its source novel "Christmas at Candleshoe" by Michael Innes had been first published in 1953.
Norman Tokar replaced David Swift as the movie's film director. Swift is the film's screenwriter, who in the early 1960's had directed Pollyanna (1960) and Operación Cupido (1961) for Walt Disney. He had developed this film project for the company and was set to direct the picture. However, he felt Jodie Foster, who then was one of the most popular teenage actresses in the country, was all wrong for the part of Casey, and so stepped down from directing duties.