The production was the first Taiwanese Opera program to be shown on Taiwanese prime time TV. In addition to television productions, the widely talented Yang also starred in many Taiwanese-language films. One of those, the 1981 film Chen San and Wu Niang, was the last such Taiwanese-language production.
戲路極廣的楊麗花，除了是電視歌仔戲的天王小生，還曾將多部歌仔戲推上大銀幕，並以本來面貌、嬌俏溫婉的女兒身，擔綱演出多部國台語電影，其中《陳三五娘》（1981）是國內台語片的關門之作。