Shaun Evans (P.C. Kevin Hales) & Roger Allam (Det. Supt. Mackintosh) also worked together on Endeavour (2012) as DS Endeavour Morse & DI Fred Thursday respectively.
Adrian Dunbar (Martin Summers) & Keeley Hawes (Alex Drake) also worked together on Line of Duty (2012) as Ted Hastings & Lindsay respectively, as well as on The Hollow Crown (2012) as the Plantagenet & Queen Elizabeth respectively.
Music:
- The Lunatics (Have Taken over the Asylum) - Fun Boy Three Released in 1981.
- Theme to Grange Hill (a.k.a. Chicken Man) - Alan Hawkshaw
- Non T'amo Piu - Paulo Totsi
- Rio - Duran Duran Released in 1982.
- Love Plus One - Haircut 100 Released in 1982.
- Look of Love - ABC Released in 1982.
- Stand and Deliver - Adam and the Ants Released in 1981.
- La Wally - Alfredo Catalani
- The Model - Kraftwerk
- Rat Race - The Specials Released in 1980.
- You Sexy Thing - Hot Chocolate Released in 1975.
- Mirror Man - The Human League Released in 1982.
Ray (Dean Andrews) says, "It's like a wet dream in Radio Rentals in 'is gaff." Radio Rentals was a UK electronics chain that rented and sold televisions and VCRs in the 70s and 80s, comparable to the US chain Radio Shack.
Alex (Keeley Hawes) watches a BBC News report from 5th April, 1982 of the aircraft carriers Hermes and Invincible leaving Portsmouth harbour with other ships for the Falklands (co-incidentally the Falkland Islands governor was named Hunt). This was the beginning of the UK involvement in taking back the Falkland Islands from Argentinian armed forces.