Despite a fairly poor audience reaction throughout the ninth series - the rest of the run had averaged at 38th place in the charts - this final episode was a big hit.
Attracting 13.6 million viewers, it reached ninth place in the charts, the only edition of the final series to make the Top 20.
Attracting 13.6 million viewers, it reached ninth place in the charts, the only edition of the final series to make the Top 20.
In her 1990 book "Love, Sex and the Pursuit of Chocolate", Nina Myskow revealed that Max Bygraves was originally touted as one of the panellists on this edition:
"I find middle-aged men terribly crabby. Like Max Bygraves, who refused to go in the same box as me for a final of 'New Faces'. He expected, perhaps, that they would throw me off the show. They threw him out instead. It took him about eight hours to come up with a quote reacting to it: 'Sharing a box with her would be like sharing the back seat of a Volkswagen with Adolf Hitler - except with Hitler there would have been more room because he was thinner.'
When I was asked for my response I said, 'At the risk of sounding pompous, it is my job as a panellist on "New Faces" to make remarks about talent. Therefore, I have nothing to say about Max Bygraves.'
On the show, the first act was a singer called Max Bacon. I couldn't resist saying, 'Thank God it's the only Singalonga Max tonight', and the whole audience went, "Yeeeaaah.' It was wonderful. I hope he choked at home."
"I find middle-aged men terribly crabby. Like Max Bygraves, who refused to go in the same box as me for a final of 'New Faces'. He expected, perhaps, that they would throw me off the show. They threw him out instead. It took him about eight hours to come up with a quote reacting to it: 'Sharing a box with her would be like sharing the back seat of a Volkswagen with Adolf Hitler - except with Hitler there would have been more room because he was thinner.'
When I was asked for my response I said, 'At the risk of sounding pompous, it is my job as a panellist on "New Faces" to make remarks about talent. Therefore, I have nothing to say about Max Bygraves.'
On the show, the first act was a singer called Max Bacon. I couldn't resist saying, 'Thank God it's the only Singalonga Max tonight', and the whole audience went, "Yeeeaaah.' It was wonderful. I hope he choked at home."