This was shot as a television movie for NBC, but Jamie Lee Curtis' wardrobe was a great deal more revealing in the European version.
The TV Production was optioned and owned by Larry Wilcox of CHIPS fame and then he negotiated a deal with MGM and NBC as a Movie of the Week.
Jamie Lee Curtis, Gloria Gifford and Mitchell Ryan were also in the Halloween movie series. Jamie Lee Curtis and Gloria Gifford also starred together in Halloween II (1981), which was released just two days earlier. Mitchell Ryan played the evil Dr. Wynn in Halloween 6 : La Malédiction de Michael Myers (1995).
Even though nudity wasn't shown in the television movie, Jamie Lee Curtis did have to perform topless for some scenes. When an interviewer once asked her if she was nervous since it was her first time to appear nude, she said "I was terrified! I asked them to refrigerate the set. I wanted it cold if they (her breasts) were going to be shot, standing up straight. It was done well; the set was cleared in one take. I thought I'd take it better than I did, because I was shaking like a leaf. Strangely enough, there was another scene where she's got this towel around her and her (character's) husband says, 'Come on, we're going to do those other shots now.' I was topless in front of the camera crew, because I'd have to take off the towel, but they shot me from the shoulders up. And that wasn't so traumatic. What could I do, put tape on them? They're breasts. Everybody has them. I wasn't nervous being naked in front of the crew. But in front of the camera, it was terrible. I went back to my room and had a good cry."
Both Dorothy Stratten and Jamie Lee Curtis, who had played her here, had guest-starred in separate episodes of Buck Rogers (1979). One of this film's producers, Tim King, had also started his television career as an associate producer on two other episodes of the sci-fi series.