[1] It was formerly believed to include the first televised interracial kiss on British television[2][3] until the rediscovery of an earlier interracial kiss featuring the same male actor in an ITV broadcast of Hot Summer Night on 1 February 1959.
It was an adaptation of a stage play of the same name by Jamaican-born Barry Reckord and was directed by Claude Whatham.
[9] The plot involves Dave, a young, intellectual, middle class Jamaican man (played by Lloyd Reckord; the writer's brother), who becomes involved with Terry, a white, working class woman (Elizabeth MacLennan) while living with his aunt in the Brixton district of London, en route to studying at Cambridge University.
[8] Unseen for over 50 years, a recording of the broadcast was rediscovered in the British Film Institute's archive in 2015.
[12] The title of the play is the penultimate line of each verse of the 1868 children's hymn, Jesus Bids Us Shine by Susan Bogert Warner.