The sitcom received negative reviews in the newspapers, and Peter Davison acknowledged that it was perhaps instrumental in his fall from the limelight during the 1990s. In his 2016 autobiography "Is There Life Outside The Box?", Davison confessed:
"If I had to pinpoint a job that sent me spiralling into my dark decade, it might be Fiddlers Three, a sitcom for Yorkshire Television written by Eric Chappell. It was funny enough, but somewhat similar, I discovered later, to his series The Squirrels, made ten years before. [...] The lure of Fiddlers Three was the money which I desperately needed at that moment. We were living unhappily in an eight-bedroom riverside house with mortgage debt and interest on unpaid tax rising by the day. [...] I'm probably being slightly unfair to Fiddlers Three. We had a very good cast, Paula Wilcox played my wife, Charles Kay was my boss, and Tyler Butterworth and Peter Blake my office rivals, and if you judge a job by how much fun you have making it, Fiddlers would be right up there."
