When Sid sits up from the coffin, he does an impression of Frankenstein's Monster. Alex Price plays Proteus, one of Frankenstein's creatures on Penny Dreadful (2014)
The surname of the undertaking family in The Resurrectionists is Blackstone. Jack Deam (Inspector Mallory) previously played DS Ken Blackstone in 32 episodes of DCI Banks, Deam being the only actor besides Stephen Tompkinson to appear in every episode of that series.