Awards: This episode earned an Emmy nomination for John Hawkesworth for Outstanding Writing in a Drama Series.

Date: The fox-hunting season has started (end October/start November) and it is before Christmas (see next episode), so winter 1913.

Goof: David Langton: "I made little lists for weeks. If it hadn't... if I hadn't been engaged for Marjorie, I think I'd have funked it." (1'05")

Richard background: He went to Oxford University (1'08").

Lady Marjorie background: Richard refers to "old Walter Southwold", presumably Lady's Marjorie's father (1'37")? Lady Marjorie is once again referred to as the eldest daughter (of an earl) (1'27") (see also Magic Casements).

The location sequences for this story were shot at the same time as those for A Change of Scene – at Burley House, Burley on the Hill, in Rutland. Jean Marsh and Christopher Beeny did not go on the location shoot, so doubles were presumably used for the brief appearance of them getting out of the car (5'37").

Goof: Look closely behind Marsh and Beeny at 6'02" and you can see Elisabeth Day as Cecile waiting in the background (on the stairs) for her cue.

Goof: Anthony Dawes (Breeze): "Mr Makepiece is unfordunately indisposed." (6'25")

Helen Lindsay (who reappears as "Kitty" Cochrane-Danby) also appeared in the Thomas & Sarah episode Made In Heaven.

Goof: The necklace that Rose puts on Hazel is all twisted up (15'25").

The music for the hunt scenes is from The Four Seasons by Vivaldi – one of the few uses of incidental music in Upstairs, Downstairs.

Goof: The horse that the stunt double for Meg Wynn Owen rides seems to be a shade lighter than the one ridden by Wynn Owen herself.

Joseph sings a line from Who Were You With Last Night, a 1912 song by singer/comedian Mark Sheridan (34'14").

Some of the events in this episode resurface in What the Footman Saw later in the season.