[2] It was described as "the longest and most ambitious play ABN [the ABC] has put over so far"[1] although The Importance of Being Ernest, which followed on December 18, exceeded it by 12 minutes.

[4] In Italy in 1944, a small advance group of Allied soldiers arrives at an Italian farm to meet up with some partisan troops, with the aim of blowing up a supply dump.

The series was written for BBC television by English writer Iain McCormack.

[5] The ABC had previously broadcast Small Victory by MacCormick and would later do Act of Violence (1959) by the same author.

"You're watching ordinary people, close up, in highly emotional situations.” Among the amateurs he cast were Lewis Tegart, who had been acting in Little Theatre for 20 years but never professionally, and Alan Hopgood, who was a school teacher who had been performing in a university revue.