As part of the promotion for this film's release in 1979, Ted Coombs traveled on roller-skates across the USA for a total of 5,193 miles, setting a world record. He is now a technology author, futurist, artist, and scientist.
The film takes place in 1998.
Dorothy Stratten appears in an uncredited role wearing a Playboy Bunny style costume in the scene where Roy Budnitz donates blood.
Film debut of Zelda Rubinstein, Dorothy Stratten and Elizabeth Carder.
When Mouling Jackson is performing with her band on stage during the telethon, in the background on her set is a huge poster of the face of a Chinese man, wearing a Mao era cap with a red star, yelling. That poster is of actor Burt Kwouk as Chinese Chairman Peng and was a left over from the set of the 1968 Anthony Quinn movie "The Shoes of a Fisherman"