In his 1975 autobiography "One Day I'll Forget My Trousers" host Pete Murray stated that he arrived to present this episode, only to find out that he'd been fired:
"On the seventh week (sic), I went up to Birmingham as usual on the appointed day, and as I walked in I saw Reg Watson. "Hello. What are you doing here?" he asked. Wondering whether perhaps this was an off-camera rule of the game that I hadn't yet learned, I said mildly: "What do you mean?" "Well, hasn't anyone told you?" [...] Reg put the matter succinctly. "You've been taken off the programme."
This situation made me unhappy. Very unhappy. My unhappiness communicated itself to them, and I think they too were unhappy. They told me that that day's programme was to be done at the Ideal Home Exhibition in Birmingham, and that my place would be taken by Jerry Desmonde. I said that that was the first I had heard of it, and indicated that I was becoming unhappier by the minute.
So they said: "Tell you what we'll do. We'll put you on with Jerry and thank you for having been on the programme." This they did, and having done so presented me with what I took to be the consolation prize of a Kenwood Mixer. Since the nearest I get to cooking is pouring water over a tea-bag, this was no consolation whatsoever. I said as much to my agent. My agent said that he had been told, but that he didn't want to hurt my feelings!
"That's all very well," I said, "but how the hell do you think I felt when I got there?" He had no answer. Maybe they had told him about the Kenwood Mixer... certainly he never asked for a percentage on it. [...] I was determined never to do rubbish like 'Hit the Limit' again, especially having seen poor Jerry Desmonde, my successor, come to similar grief through a similar inability to impart the rules to the contestants. (They then got a third compere, and "changed the rules', though since no-one knew what they were in the first place, it beat me how they were able to change them)."