[3] In a negative review, Bill Edmund wrote in The Stage and Television Today, "The interviews with the celebrities would be much better if they weren't thanked quite so gushingly for condescending to come.
"[4] In a mixed review, Otta of Variety stated, "Producers T. Leslie Jackson and Stewart Morris gave a slick and fast-moving format to the melange, and the chief fault was the general flabbiness of Tony Marriott's script, especially in the linking.
"[6] The Guardian's Mary Crozier negatively reviewed the show, writing, "The slow, relentless pottering, the bad jokes, the schoolboy howlers, the silly drawings to illustrate news items, the ineffably coy and cosy air of the whole thing was unbelievable.
"[7] Nicholas Barrett of Birmingham Post called the series "two hours of ingratiating light entertainment", stating, "Open House seems to have catered for people who have nothing better to do than watch the box.
Its all-grinning, all-jesting presentation from the inevitable black Vynide swivel chair can have done little more than mildly tickle the passing fancy of the sort of audience whose sensibilities have already been dulled by the ad-men.