When the BBC screened it on British television, they never mentioned vampires in their introduction. Instead, they said it concerned "a writer caught up in a world of mystery and terror."
Nancy McKeon appears in an uncredited role as one of the students in the school play rehearsal scene.
Three actresses in the miniseries share the same initials of "B.B.":Bonnie Bedalia,Bonnie Bartlett,and Barbara Babcock.
Bonnie Bartlett and Ed Flanders, who play the Nortons, were both in St. Elsewhere, where Ms. Bartlett played the wife of William Daniels character Dr. Mark Craig. Bartlett and Daniels have been married in real life since 1951.