As the game wears on, guest panellist John Junkin jokes that "I didn't know what to do with October anyway". While a joke, it does also give an indication of the time it was filmed.
This episode did not make the BBC1 Top Ten for that week; the tenth-placed programme, Episode #3.11 (1984), had ratings of 10.4 million viewers.
The first episode to be screened for two weeks, with the previous Friday night taken up with a live edition of Match of the Day (1964).