This episode was 24th in the charts with 8.4 million viewers.
Vincent Price made his sole appearance on Blankety Blank with this episode. Other celebrities in the fifth series who only appeared once on the show were Jim Davidson (5.7), Maggie Philbin (5.9) and Jimmy Edwards (5.14: Christmas Special).
The tradition of crediting the celebrity panellists in alphabetical order by surname is largely discarded in the fifth series, including this episode. Altogether only five episodes had alphabetical credits from this run.