This Australian movie was inspired by a teacher recruitment poster which was produced by the Australian state government of New South Wales around the time of the very early 1970s. The poster featured a man standing on Bondi Beach, New South Wales dressed in bathers, academic gown, mortarboard hat and holding some books. The poster featured the slogan: "Teach in the Sun in New South Wales Australia". The poster was used to attract English teachers to migrate to and work in Australia. This film's chief character played by Harry Secombe does just that. The poster also can actually be seen at the beginning of the movie.
The Mayfair Hotel seen in the movie was a run-down homestead on the outskirts of the New South Wales country town of Parkes. It was made-up and decorated as the country pub for this picture.
The Kookaburra Springs school seen in this film was actually an original old bush school that occupied a site about twenty miles away from the main shooting location near Parkes. The school was transported intact 20 miles to the filming location and placed next to the Mayfair Hotel set.
This film was in part actually filmed at the CSIRO Parkes Radio Telescope shortly after the Telescope was used to receive the video images from the moon landing in 1969. Part of the file has the children playing cricket in the dish of the Telescope. Similar to the film "The Dish" which also includes this. The lead of the children in the film still lives in Parkes working at this time at the D'Aquino winery store in Parkes and related the stories about this film and it's relationship to The Dish .
British actor, comedian and singer Harry Secombe was imported from England to headline this Australian theatrical feature film.