Writer/director Rolfe Kanefsky said that when they adapted the comic book series for television, they dropped the darker idea of using the box to force women to have sex against their will used in the comics. They wanted to avoid anything that alluded to rape or taking advantage of women.
Some individual episode were renamed and released as standalone movies on home video. An example includes The Body Beautiful which was renamed as The Ultimate Attraction for its DVD release.
Michelle Bauer said she had a lot of fun making her episode, but hated the cheesy German accent, saying she sounded like a really bad Bela Lugosi. She kept begging director Rolf Kanefsky to let her drop the accent, but he wouldn't.
Unlike its utilization in the comic book series, the clicker box doesn't require a receiver planted in its recipient's head. Instead, it goes from hand to hand through different people.
The budget prohibited expensive optical effects so producers worked with a mechanical technology.