It was set during the French Revolution and was based on a play by Fritz Hochwälder.
[3] The Public Prosecutor is responsible for rounding up victims of the guillotine.
It was Patricia Kennedy's second TV performance following playing Mrs Rattenbury in Killer in Close Up.
[5] The play took eight weeks to prepare and involved construction of an eight foot guillotine.
[6] GTV-9 engineers called up after the broadcast to congratulate ABV-2 on the technical excellence of the program.