32nd in the charts with 9.94 million viewers.
The episode title is a pun on "A Star Is Born", a story that has been filmed many times with perhaps the most notable being A Star Is Born (1937) with Janet Gaynor and Fredric March in the lead roles, and A Star Is Born (1954) with Judy Garland and James Mason in the lead roles. Three years before "A Star Is Gorn" was used in this series, it had been used for an episode of Minder, A Star Is Gorn (1984).