The last major drama series to be made at BBC Television Centre. The trend moved to shooting drama in a more cinematic style, on single-camera fiim and on location rather than studio-bound multi-camera video.
Exterior shots took place at 24 Berkeley Square, Bristol, which was at the time (and still is) home to Taylor and Taylor advertising agency.
Mercilessly parodied by comedy duo, French and Saunders, in their BBC comedy series, as "The House of Idiot". Stella Gonet, Louise Lombard and Cathy Murphy, made guest appearances, as themselves,
Devised by actresses, Jean Marsh and Eileen Atkins who, twenty years earlier, had created the classic period drama, Upstairs, Downstairs, for LWT/ITV.
The cast photo of Tilly Foss, actress Cathy Murphy, is of Madge, actress Judy Flynn (NOT Murphy), with just a sliver of Murphy in the photo's lower right corner!