The interview with the cast of "The Common Pursuit" (Stephen Fry, John Sessions, John Gordon Sinclair and Rik Mayall), later joined by Lenny Henry and Griff Rhys Jones, is one of the more awkward interviews conducted for the series. While the group get some laughs from the studio audience, there are multiple instances where they crack jokes to almost complete silence.
Wogan rose 15 places in the charts this week, ranking at 55th place with an average of 7.2 million viewers per episode.
This was the first episode of Wogan since Episode #8.36 (1988), with the Friday night slot given over to Terry presenting A Song for Europe (1988).
"Don't It Make My Brown Eyes Blue" was Crystal Gayle's biggest hit on the UK Singles Chart, reaching No.5 in 1977.
The Stage (14th April 1988) claimed that the attendance figures were down this year for Wembley's "International Festival of Country Music", which Crystal Gayle had come on the show to promote. References were made to several acts being on for a brief time, and although Willie Nelson stole the show, during Gayle's hour-long set, the attendance was only "half full".