The 44th most-watched programme that week, with 7.42 million viewers, this was the most-watched episode of the season.
From this point on, the series (still retitled "Lily Savage's Blankety Blank") was transferred to the ITV network. Barring a couple of semi-official editions on charity shows, the programme wouldn't return to the BBC until 2020.
The average viewing figures for this 16th series were 6.13 million viewers.
Lily reveals that she shares the same day and month of birth as Paul O'Grady in this episode, telling a contestant that her birthday is "14th of June". It's possible that "Lily's" full date of birth matches O'Grady's, as her later admission that her year of birth is "1974" is intended as a joke, with the studio audience laughing heartily.
The Lily Savage era of the programme frequently contains references that aren't strictly suitable for the timeslot in which it was put out. Examples from this episode include pornography, telephone sex lines and Lily heavily implying that she performed fellatio while being proposed to. However, the most explicit reference is Lily's impression of Linda Blair from the Exorcist, saying "your mother knits socks in Hell". If the audience doesn't know the line being parodied, then the joke makes no sense. But if the parodied line is known, then it's one far too graphic to be referenced at 7pm.