The use of the surname "Gatlin" in the song and TV movie is a tongue-in-cheek friendly poke in the eye from Kenny Rogers to his friends, Larry, Rudy, and Steve Gatlin who are fellow country music singers.
Based on the song of the same name written by Roger Bowling and Billy Ed Wheeler and recorded by American country music artist Kenny Rogers.
Ana Alicia's debut.
Ana Alicia and Largo Woodruff were both in popular slasher movies around this time. Ana played Nurse Janet in Halloween II (1981), the sequel to John Carpenter's Halloween (1978), and Largo co-starred in The Funhouse (1981) which features an homage to Halloween (1978) in the opening sequence.