Not submitted to the British Board of Film Censors by any distributor, it was however purchased by the ITV network. Dubbed into English and reverting to its original title Revolt of the Praetorians, the UK television premiere was on 4 November 1991, but only in the Yorkshire region. Yorkshire Television chose it for the second of their "Roman Follies" series, a light-hearted season of the worst of the Italian epics.
Despite his "beefcake" status, Richard Harrison has only two bare-chested scenes in this movie. He's briefly seen wrapped in a towel while washing up, and later he's shown bare-chested when brought as a prisoner before Domitian.