The serial was made by the English Regions Drama department based at BBC Birmingham and was shot on location in Liverpool. The producer was Michael Wearing, who was based at Birmingham with a specific remit to make "regional drama", and who would later be instrumental in bringing the BBC's drama serials "Edge of Darkness" (1985) and "Our Friends in the North" (1996) to the screens. The writer Alan Bleasdale went on to write the scripts for "The Monocled Mutineer" (BBC1, 1986) and "G.B.H." (Channel 4, 1991)