The two episodes broadcast this week were ranked individually by BARB. This edition charted at 46th place with 9.1 million viewers, while The Very Best of Wogan (1989) was slightly lower at 53rd position.
This was the first episode of Wogan since Episode #9.146 (1989), with the Monday night slot given over to a Christmas Day screening of Crocodile Dundee (1986). Crocodile Dundee massively outperformed Wogan in the slot, and every other programme on television that week - 21.8 million tuned in to watch it, with it topping the charts.
This edition was slated in the Sandwell Evening Mail (28th December 1989) as "40 of the least entertaining minutes even the BBC has ever offered for our enjoyment."