 It was originally made with a laughter track, but this was absent when broadcast, and again so when later released on both VHS and DVD.The film features a plot of family members dying in strange circumstances and the two leads are drawn into this when Eric's niece Kathy (Lysette Anthony) is visited by the family's lawyer, played by Fulton Mackay.It was made largely on location, produced on videotape, and was originally broadcast on ITV on 3 January 1985.