Les Dawson later regretted not pushing for Holiday With Stings to be made into a series.
In his 1985 autobiography, "A Clown Too Many", he wrote: "Holiday With Strings was just a one-off show, which was the biggest mistake I ever made. . . . I should have followed it up with at least a series of six. Written by Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Holiday With Strings would have become a landmark in television."