It was written by the programme's creator, Tony McHale, directed by Fraser Macdonald, and premiered on BBC Scotland on 23 June 2008.
[6] The episode's central characters, Faye, Joseph and Linden, were three of the series' best-known at the time of broadcast according to Kris Green of the entertainment news website Digital Spy.
[7] The Stage's Mark Wright observed that Linden was still fairly new to the programme at the time;[8] indeed, Pow had debuted in the role just five months previously, in January 2008.
He noted, "almost every shot features either glorious coastline or grimy townships, while the soundtrack is heavy with African drums.
[7] Jane Simon of the Daily Mirror commented on the implausibility of the plot: the way in which "The merest hint that the delectable Faye Morton might be in a spot of bother prompts two of Holby's top surgeons to drop everything in the middle of a shift and leap on the next plane to South Africa", and the "unlikely tales of dark, family-related woe" shared by Faye and Linden.