In Britain, this film had a limited release on the art-house circuit in 1980 in a double-bill with a famous film made half-a-century earlier, Luis Bunuel's "L'Age D'Or", which had only recently come off the censor's banned list. One critic remarked that this double-billing meant that he had had both his best and his worst cinema-going experience of 1980 on the same evening.
Sandy Ratcliff (Kathy) would go on to become a regular in the BBC TV soap opera 'Eastenders (1985-present), alongside Gillian Taylforth, whose younger sister Kim Taylforth appears in this film.
The radio station where Robert is a disc jockey was based on the United Biscuits Network, which broadcast to factories owned by United Biscuits.
The football results read out over the car radio are from Saturday 10th March 1979.