The license plate on the undertaker's Porsche is RIP 1.
This episode attracted an audience of 13.5 million - Making it the highest rated single drama of 1997 in the U.K.
The mother and son characters of Iris and Dennis Rainbird are related (as sister and cousin respectively) to Ursula and Alistair Gooding (again mother and son), characters in Dead Letters (2006). Both sets of characters were played by Elizabeth Spriggs and Richard Cant.
In 2021 Buckinghamshire tourism launched three themed tours of locations in the county that had been featured in the series.
Richard Cant plays Dennis Rainbird in this episode. He returns in episode 9.2, Dead Letters (2006), in the role of Alistair Gooding.