Even though their contract with RTVE included two more episodes after this one, RTVE communicated to the team the cancellation of the show while they were in the middle of filming this episode, and even though Narciso Ibáñez Serrador offered to do one more final episode with all the budget coming from his own expenses, to do a proper ending for the season, RTVE then new president Carmen Caffarel, in a decision that was, and still is, widely criticized, did not allow him to do that final episode and commanded them to leave the studio empty by the end of that recording.
This abrupt cancellation, which was announced to the team in charge of the construction of the sets (they did not even dared to tell the director in person) after the Question Round had already been recorded is the reason that in the beginning, Luis talks about a book that would have been the topic of the following week, "King Solomon's Mines", a book that even was released in stores with the coupon to participate as contestants, and also the winners of the Question Round were designated champions to return that following week.
The cancellation also forced the team to do improvised last minute changes to the contest. As the champions would not be able to return the following week, the production team decided to let them participate in the Auction along the winners of the Elimination Round, with one member of each couple as representatives, and the prize won there would be double, one for each couple. Actors also improvised a few phrases to give conclusions to their characters and say goodbye to the host and the audience, sometimes catching Luis Roderas off-guard. Serrador was so outraged by this mistreatment to him and the show that, after 40 years, he left RTVE and never worked for them again.
This abrupt cancellation, which was announced to the team in charge of the construction of the sets (they did not even dared to tell the director in person) after the Question Round had already been recorded is the reason that in the beginning, Luis talks about a book that would have been the topic of the following week, "King Solomon's Mines", a book that even was released in stores with the coupon to participate as contestants, and also the winners of the Question Round were designated champions to return that following week.
The cancellation also forced the team to do improvised last minute changes to the contest. As the champions would not be able to return the following week, the production team decided to let them participate in the Auction along the winners of the Elimination Round, with one member of each couple as representatives, and the prize won there would be double, one for each couple. Actors also improvised a few phrases to give conclusions to their characters and say goodbye to the host and the audience, sometimes catching Luis Roderas off-guard. Serrador was so outraged by this mistreatment to him and the show that, after 40 years, he left RTVE and never worked for them again.