 It was based on a radio play that had been performed in Australia and on the BBC in 1960.The BBC production starred Ina de la Haye and Robert Rietty.The "Sydney Morning Herald" TV critic called it "rather stale fare" as the plot and characters were too predictable, adding that thematically the play "a warm-blooded extension of an Immigration Department pamphlet; bur its mainspring was a device as old as comedy and diplomacy... A neat, visually fluent, but also stodgily predictable, 60 minutes of viewing."