Originally, CBS intended this episode to be a stand-alone TV Movie. However, when ratings of the movie were pretty good, they decided to start production of a full-blown television series.
Kevin Rushton makes his first appearance in this episode playing the guy in the bar who threatens the boys with a bottle. He went on to play various characters throughout the show's history.
The poem that Fraser was reciting at the end of the episode Victora's Secret part 2, as he lay on the train platform is "The Windhover" by Gerard Manley Hopkins.