The reason for the uncustomarily low viewing figures was possibly due to a screening of the Montreux Golden Rose Pop Festival at the same time on BBC1, a popular screening which received viewing figures of 8.15 million and was the joint ninth most-watched programme nationally that week. This would appear to be corroborated by the fact that Man About The House, which followed Scully, also received much lower viewing figures than usual - the following week an extra 2.05 million people tuned in to a repeat of And Then There Were Two (1973),
This episode failed to rank in the top ten most-watched programmes on Channel 4 that week, the only episode of the series to do so. As the channel's tenth most-watched programme (a repeat of Some Enchanted Evening (1973) ) only had viewing figures of 1.7m, it means that this instalment was watched by over a million less people than any other episode.
Although Cathy Tyson had appeared in and was credited for the previous two episodes, this is the first time that her role is a speaking one.