Stick asks Spender if he has ever watched The Magnificent Seven (1960), to which he simply gives a wry look. This is a reference to Jimmy Nail's role in Auf Wiedersehen, Pet (1983) in which he and the rest of the main cast constantly refer to themselves as "The Magnificent Seven", and the episode was written by "Auf Wiedersehen, Pet" writer Ian La Frenais. Interestingly, another member of that Magnificent Seven, Christopher Fairbank, was also in that episode as Joe Phelan.