This episode did not make the BBC2 Top Ten. The joint tenth-rated programmes broadcast on the channel that week, screenings of championship darts and Tarzan Finds a Son! (1939), both had ratings of 3.2 million.
George Vance again displays some anti-Welsh sentiments, views which could be assumed to have been toned down after the casting of Windsor Davies. Although I Came, I Saw, I Conquered (1985) was a remake of the pilot, and so the two scripts could be directly compared, it's not known if any editing went on for this edition.
However, while Vance talks of the "Welsh Mafia", he refers to the solicitors as "hillbillies", as if to specify a difference between them and "normal" Welsh people. Owen Thomas later asks his wife to give allowances for George, as he "has lived in England for 25 years".
However, while Vance talks of the "Welsh Mafia", he refers to the solicitors as "hillbillies", as if to specify a difference between them and "normal" Welsh people. Owen Thomas later asks his wife to give allowances for George, as he "has lived in England for 25 years".