"Filmink" later wrote that "Steinbeck was... a natural choice to play the lead... She laughed, loved and suffered with jolly good decency – the quintessential Muriel Steinbeck part." Ailsa McPherson, who worked on the show as script assistant, wrote "for performance quality "Autumn Affair" relied heavily on Muriel Steinbeck's professionalism and her photographic memory She had a prodigious capacity to remember lines and to be almost work perfect after reading them aloud only three or so times. It saved the episode on a good many occasions."