The 2004 American DVD's packaging and disc text incorrectly list its run time as 204 minutes long when it is actually 174 minutes (on television it was 177 minutes but the 2004 American DVD omits the first episode's end credits).
Donald Sutherland's first film, The Castle of the Living Dead (1964), starred Christopher Lee, who had played the monster in The Curse of Frankenstein (1957). Sutherland also appeared with Robert De Niro in 1900 and Backdraft.
In Frankenstein (1994), Donald Sutherland's character was played by Aidan Quinn. Sutherland and Quinn appeared together in The Assignment (1997). Captain Waldman is a character frequently omitted from film adaptations of Shelly's novel. Kenneth Branagh also directed Hamlet (1996), which featured another frequently-dropped character, Fortinbras, played in that film by Rufus Sewell. Sutherland had previously played that role as well, in Hamlet at Elsinore (1964). He and Sewell also appeared together in The Pillars of the Earth (2010).