This was the first Disney-released film to receive a "PG" rating in the United States, five years before they launched Touchstone Pictures to expand into the "adult" market. The company's name never appeared on this title though: it was an independent production released through Disney-owned Buena Vista Distribution company.
Take Down was partially filmed in the small town of American Fork, Utah, at the old high school that was built around the turn of the 20th century and abandoned as a school at the end of the 1974-1975 school year. Much of the student body of the high school skipped school for several days in 1978 and showed up to be extras for this film. Members of American Fork High School's classes of '79 through '81 are featured in crowd scenes and in close-ups throughout the film. Boyd Silversmith, who plays Jack Gross in the film, was an alumnus of American Fork High School's class of 1978.