Had a budget in excess of $15 million, making this the largest television mini-series ever made in Australia.
While in prison the group's case was taken up by the biographer and lawyer James Boswell. After Mary's release Boswell provided her with a pension of £10 until his death in 1795.
Shot over 12 weeks in 22 locations.
After being returned to England, Mary Bryant and her group were all ordered to remain on their former sentence, until they should be discharged by course of law. On 2 May 1793, Bryant was released from Newgate prison with a free pardon, her sentence having expired, while Allen, Broom alias Butcher, Lillie, and Martin had to wait until 2 November 1793 to be released by proclamation. Bryant is believed to have returned to her family in Cornwall.
After landing on Timor island the Bryants and their crew claimed to be shipwreck survivors. Later on the group was discovered to be British convicts, apparently after William became drunk and confessed in the process of bragging. To avoid an international incident they were sent back to Britain to stand trial, travelling first on a Dutch ship (the Rembang) to Batavia in the company of survivors of HMS Pandora, a British ship sent to capture the Bounty mutineers, thereafter travelling from Batavia to Cape Town on the three Dutch VOC ships Vredenburg, Hoornwey and Horssen (carrying Mary Bryant and her daughter Charlotte), arriving there on 19 March 1792, and later from Cape Town in the company of Royal Marines returning from Sydney on the HMS Gorgon.