Returning to England to complete the film, after a holiday break, Anthony Perkins was arrested at Heathrow Airport when authorities found eight grams of marijuana and three spots of LSD in his possession. He plead guilty and tried to claim that the location shooting had put him under severe duress. He was fined the British equivalent of $142.
When HBO acquired the North American rights to this mini-series, about twenty years after it was made, their trailer credited Joanna Lumley straight after Rod Steiger (with Anthony Perkins (who died in 1992) now dropped to third. The narrator also states that Joanna Lumley was the star of 'Absolutely Fabulous', a comedy series that wasn't made until eight years after this made.
In his book'Split Image' Charles Winecoff writes there was tension between Anthony Perkins and Rod Steiger. Upset that Steiger had a larger trailer (a stipulation in his contract that his female lover be accommodated on set, whereas Tony was solo) Perkins complained constantly to director Michael Ferguson that the actor was stepping on his lines and stealing his scenes. Steiger, in turn, warned Ferguson that Perkins was on drugs.