This episode stays loyal to Robert Louis Stevenson's original novel unlike Disney's Muppet musical adaptation which premiered in theaters four months later. Wishbone's depiction of Long John Silver has a parrot like in the novel while The Muppets version would have a lobster.
Captain Smollett is absent in this production.
Due to being a children's television series, Jim does not slay Israel Hands in this production. In this version, Israel almost fatally stabs Jim with a sword. Long John Silver deplores this thought by seriously informing his crew to continue seeking for Captain Flint's buried treasure.