This is the first episode in the run to still exist in the ITV archives (as of February 2023).
Both Pilot (1973), Pilot (1973) and the remainder of the first series are all missing from the archive.
Both Pilot (1973), Pilot (1973) and the remainder of the first series are all missing from the archive.
This edition was joint 14th in charts, with both it and Ten Years of Pop Music: 1964 - 1974 (1973) attracting an audience of 5.6 million under the JICTAR Ratings system. (The Joint Industry Committee for Television Audience Research, which measured audiences in terms of homes, rather than individual viewers.)
As was regularly the case, rival talent show Opportunity Knocks (1956) was a bigger hit with viewers, at joint 12th place with 5.85 million.
As was regularly the case, rival talent show Opportunity Knocks (1956) was a bigger hit with viewers, at joint 12th place with 5.85 million.
Despite featuring acts who went on to be household names, including Lenny Henry and Jim Davidson, New Faces was never a particularly big hit with viewers, possibly in large part to ITV already having an established rival talent show in Opportunity Knocks (1956).
This was actually the first edition to make the National Top 20 chart.
This was actually the first edition to make the National Top 20 chart.