This opening episode was the second most-watched programme on BBC2 that week, with 5.95 million viewers.
Each edition of the series features the main supporting cast listed in order of appearance, before the rest of the cast are listed under "with".
The main supporting cast in this instance are the first six credited performers after Brian Murphy, which seem to be based on name recognition at the time. Although some of the characters listed under "with" are only in this episode, Linda Robson played a regular character, yet only ever gets credited under the "with" category.
The main supporting cast in this instance are the first six credited performers after Brian Murphy, which seem to be based on name recognition at the time. Although some of the characters listed under "with" are only in this episode, Linda Robson played a regular character, yet only ever gets credited under the "with" category.