It was the first Colombian audiovisual production for television that used a video camcorder (in U-Matic video format) to record exterior scenes. Until then, exterior scenes, as in many other audiovisual productions around the world, were filmed with a 16-millimeter movie camera because television cameras were too bulky to be used outside television studios.
The Story of José María Córdova was the first biographical story in episodic miniseries of the "Revivamos Nuestra Historia" series Produced for television by Eduardo Lemaitre and directed by Jorge Alí Triana
The actor Jorge Emilio Salazar would reprise the role of José María Córdova for the miniseries Bolívar, el hombre de las dificultades (1981) in 1981.