Rebecca Gilling revealed in an interview that a real crocodile was spotted where she had spent hours shooting the fake crocodile attack. She learned this after the scene was shot.
At a July 2012 drama launch in Sydney, the Nine Network announced it was to remake the original miniseries. Former producer/executive producer Hal McElroy was intended to return (alongside Di McElroy), with Pete McTighe scripting, but financial cutbacks at Nine forced the revival's cancellation.
A single of Brian May's "Main Theme" to the miniseries was released in 1983. The B-side was his piece "Crocodile Attack".
Hal McElroy had already seen James Reyne act on stage, but said it was only when a friend gave him Australian Crawl's 1981 album "Sirocco" one Christmas that he realised on the record sleeve was his Greg Marsden: "He had to be mysterious and open, charming and absolutely villainous. He had to be ruthless and spunky, the quintessential dangerous-to-play-with male."
Originally promoted as series made up of six one-hour episodes.