In one scene a shop window of television sets shows the Bush brand as part of the display. Bush was a subsidiary of the "Rank Organisation," the distributors of the film.
A close-up of an envelope shows the address where most of the action takes place to be Shepherds Bush. This was the London suburb where the BBC had its television studios.
Hector (Gordon Jackson) meets his auntie , Mrs MacDonald (Jean Cadell) In Whiskey Galore Jean Cadell plays Gordon Jackson's mother.