The first episode to be scheduled in a pre-watershed timeslot. While the rest of the fourth series was a post-9pm series, this particular episode just came before the watershed in an 8:50pm slot.
Terry's interview with Raquel Welch was not a highlight of the series for him, with the presenter recalling in his 2000 autobiography "Is it me?": "Raquel and I just did not hit it off. I mistook her for a glamour girl, when she was, according to herself, a serious artiste, something of a brain-box [...] The less seriously I took her, the more terse she became. It did not end in tears, but let's just say she didn't hang around 'hostility' afterwards to renew our acquaintance."
This episode ranked joint fifth in the BBC1-only chart that week, with both it and a broadcast of Tracy (1983) both being watched by 10.2 million viewers.
(The enormous success of Episode #1.1 (1984) on the minority BBC2 channel, being watched by 11 million viewers, meant that both shows were joint sixth in the overall BBC-only chart, a rare instance of a BBC2 programme out-rating some of the Top 10 on BBC1.)
(The enormous success of Episode #1.1 (1984) on the minority BBC2 channel, being watched by 11 million viewers, meant that both shows were joint sixth in the overall BBC-only chart, a rare instance of a BBC2 programme out-rating some of the Top 10 on BBC1.)