The idea for a reunion movie sprang out of cast members reconnecting with each other while attending Sorrell Booke's funeral. The project came to fruition a couple of years later when reruns of the show airing on Cable TV's Nashville Network drew higher than anticipated ratings.
This film establishes that Cooter went on to become a Congressman, which is what Ben Jones, the actor who plays Cooter, did in real life.
Enos' spin off role is written into the reunion by explaining him as a detective in L.A., which was his role in Enos (1980) Every episode ended with his writing to Daisy about what had happened to him. In the reunion, he hands her all of the letters he had written while in L.A.
The shirt worn by Bo in this movie is one of his original shirts from the series.