To develop the script, Raye hired a team of writers including James Fishburn (who also acted as Executive Producer), John Mackellar, David Sale (who went on to write for the hugely popular 1970s soap opera "Number 96"), actor-writer Jon Finlayson (who had written a successful intimate revue in Melbourne with Barbara Angell), Melvyn Morrow (a writer of revues and later Director of Drama at Stonyhurst College and writer of "A Song to Sing, O") and Ken Shadie, who had begun writing comedy sketches while working in Seven's engineering department; he also later wrote for "Number 96" and co-wrote the script of the hit Paul Hogan film "Crocodile Dundee".