At this stage TV ratings were published with only the Network Top 20, meaning programmes on the minority channel of BBC2 were extremely unlikely to feature. The release of Top 10s per channel began in 1981.
As is perhaps only natural, Kelly Monteith recycled a lot of the material he uses on Des O'Connor Tonight for his own TV show. While no "movie connections" are cited for this, as it's simply making the most of his own act, some of his pieces about the nature of being a "comedian", delivered here, were reworked and used to open his TV series in Episode #1.1 (1979).
On this edition Kelly Monteith talks about being newly married, having gotten married in March that year; in Episode #6.6 (1982) he talks about getting divorced.