Jonathan Pryce, James Warrior and Ralph Nossek were the only ones to reprise their roles from the stage version. The former two also appeared in With Gun and Camera (1975).
Gethin Price is twenty-five years old. Jonathan Pryce was thirty-two when he reprised his stage role for television.
Jonathan Pryce and Derrick O'Connor would later appear in Brazil (1985) and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (2006).