In Mrs Bloomsbury-Barton's living room, Worzel bangs a gong to summon the assembled guests to dinner. It was also likely to be an in joke. One of the main shareholders in the production company, Southern Television, was The Rank Organisation. Rank's symbol was a man banging a gong. A similar joke also appeared in the Rank production Carry On Up The Khyber, which also starred Joan Sims.