Mark Dexter beat Laurence Fox for the part of James Fox's son, despite the fact that the two are genuine father and son.
The scene of The Little Mermaid's transformation into human is reminiscent of Dulac's famous illustration of the tale with similar white stairs meeting the sea and the mermaid's long black hair.
Hans Christian Andersen did overstay his welcome at Gad Hill in 1847. It was Charles Dickens himself, not one of his children, who wrote on the mirror of his guest's room "Hans Andersen slept in this room for five weeks - which seemed to the family AGES!"