Joy Galli was an art teacher at a grade school in Florida. Besides playing Countess Dracula in this TV special, Galli also made the model of the Halloween planet.
The stop-motion animation dinosaur was done in Texas.
This TV special was made in 1981, but was never broadcast and hence was unavailable to be seen by the public until it was featured as an extra on both the DVD and Blu-ray releases of The Alien Dead (1980) by Retromedia Entertainment.