Production began on 1 March 1994 and completed on 30 June 1994, lasting 4 months.

[citation needed] One of the criticisms was that it portrayed an elderly Chinese Singaporean and Malay Singaporean woman wearing the wrong costumes and ornaments and speaking the wrong phrases.

The creator of Masters of the Sea, Joanne Brough, mentioned in 1995 that it was "too ambitious for a first effort", due to having a larger cast and not enough time to develop plots in a limited 30-minute episode.

[3] TCS executive Daniel Yun said in 1997 that the failure was because the foreign consultants did not understand the local context, and called it a "half-baked Singaporean attempt".

Despite that, the experiences helped TCS to produce later serials, including Triple Nine[3] and Growing Up.