An outtake for this episode featured guest panellist Kenny Everett holding up a sign saying "Terry is a poof". Host Terry Wogan jokes "not everybody knows that", before Kenny tells him "by the way Ter, thanks for last night."
This episode ranked seventh on the BBC-only chart with ratings of 8.5 million. Unusually, the most-watched BBC programme that week was on the minority channel BBC2, with a repeat screening of Episode #9.1 (1981), which was watched by 10 million people and ranked ninth in the overall UK TV chart.
One of just five episodes from the fifth series to credit the celebrity guests in alphabetical order.