Though the fictional story of the settlement of the Ohio territory, the miniseries was filmed at the site of the frontier town where the young Abraham Lincoln matured and studied to be a lawyer, New Salem, Illinois. The cabin that Sayward and Portius Wheeler lived in is the recreation of the cabin where Ann Rutledge lived, the woman that Abe Lincoln courted while he lived in New Salem. Hal Holbrook played President Lincoln in two separate television projects.
There is a bedroom kiss between Jane Seymour and her younger sister, imagining what it would be like to have a man kiss them passionately, which was far ahead of its time for television.
Julie Gibson's first screen appearance after a 20-year hiatus.