The production was taped on an extremely hot day at the maximum security HM Prison Pentridge in Coburg, Victoria (hence the references to "Coburg City" in the Western sketch). The cast were provided with cold soft drinks, whilst the audience (largely made up of specially selected inmates and their families, as a unique reward for good behaviour) had to make do with lukewarm tapwater.
Colette Mann was no stranger to Pentridge, as earlier in her career she had volunteered to give movement and dance lessons to the inmates.
Jimmy Doyle was a genuine 25 year old Pentridge inmate who was due for release for day following the recording. His section, where he sings "Going Home" is often excised from online copies of the programme.
Most if not all of the cast had backgrounds in live stage and/or musical comedy (indeed, Colette Mann, Betty Bobbitt and Jane Clifton had an act as a three-woman troupe, The Mini Busettes). Sheila Florance, however, struggled with some of more vigorous song-and-dance elements of the piece.