Shinbone incorporated the talents of some of the original cast, including Eddie Bracken as Archie the cockroach, Carol Channing as mehitabel, and John Carradine as Tyrone T. Tattersol.
During the summer of 2006, Betis re-signed Maldonado from Lorca for €62,000, with the player donning shirt number 24 due to his love for the television show 24 (he also had a Jack Bauer tattoo on his right shin).
Re-evaluation of the bone in the nineties after being prepared out of the rock by John Albert Long and Ralph Molnar showed that it actually was the shinbone of some sort of theropod.