This was the first ever contemporary feature film to be entirely shot in and around the city of Adelaide and its environs since the silent film era.
One of two Australian movies both debuting in 1976 where the then child actor Robert Bettles played a character with a disease or disability. In Let the Balloon Go (1976) his character has poliomyelitis (aka polio and infantile paralysis) whilst in The Fourth Wish (1976) his character has terminal leukaemia.
According to the film's closing credits, the movie's "music [was] played by the augmented University of Adelaide Wind Quintet."
The film's closing credits declare that this picture was: "Filmed entirely in Adelaide and at the Studios of the South Australian Film Corporation."
A number of cast and crew had all recently worked together on the then recent Australian film feature 'Ride a Wild Pony' (1975). This included director Don Chaffey, costume designer Judith Dorsman, and actors John Meillon, Michael Craig, Robert Bettles, and Les Foxcroft.