This episode did not make the BBC2 Top Ten. The tenth-rated programme broadcast by the channel, a screening of international snooker, was watched by 3.25 million.
The butler states that the events of The Winds of Change.... (1985) had taken place two weeks earlier.
Diana Berriman's launderette assistant doesn't get named in the programme, but is credited in the end titles as "Sharon".
George offers to lend Viscount Bloxham some books, including The Thorn Birds - a book he was seen reading right at the start of the series in I Came, I Saw, I Conquered (1985).