In 2017, when Netflix bought this show, John Doyle, Canada's "The Globe and Mail" newspaper television critic, commented regarding the cancellation: "At the time the show was cancelled by CBC, there was a widespread belief that the theme of political corruption was what got the show killed. In those Harper-era days, the series was in dangerous territory for a beleaguered CBC. The fact that it was superb TV, widely praised, was less important than fear of government criticism."

Based on the 2005 CBC TV movie of the same name.

Both Ian Tracey and Bernie Coulson appeared in Huckleberry Finn and His Friends (1979) (1979) as Huckleberry Finn and Sid Sawyer respectively.