Filmed mostly in Cronulla, Australia.
The premiere episode debuted to 925,000 viewers and came 9th for the night in its 8:30 timeslot.
Filming on the series began in April 2012, with locations mainly around the Sutherland Shire on Wanda Beach. The shoot lasted for twelve weeks and wrapped on 1 July 2012.
On 8 May 2014, Ten's production division went bankrupt. Co-producer John Edwards told TV Tonight that a third season of Puberty Blues is likely but may not come immediately.
Craig Mathieson of The Sydney Morning Herald wrote "Puberty Blues is good. Really good. What's perhaps been most interesting about the series, set as it is about 35 years back, is just how dark it is. No, this is not Mad Men (2007), far from it, but the folks behind Puberty Blues have cultivated a surprisingly opaque picture of late-1970s Australia."