At 2:48 Sister Frances says that Sister Monica Joan is 'waiting for Doctor Who to start'. Doctor Turner treats a man called Mr. Percival, who is played by Peter Davison, who portrayed the fifth incarnation of the Doctor in Doctor Who (1963). Stephen McGann, who plays Doctor Turner, is also the brother of Paul McGann, who played the eighth Doctor.
Phyllis makes a comment about an event only happening once in a Preston Guild. In 1179, Henry II granted the town of Preston the right to have a Guild Merchant. The Guild controlled the town's craftsmen, the right to trade in the town and the town's marketplace. Membership of the Guild was for life, and the membership rolls were updated every 20 years.
Updating of the rolls involved bringing together all of the town's traders, merchants and craftsmen and was a perfect excuse for a display of civic pageantry, great processions and feasting.
Updating of the rolls involved bringing together all of the town's traders, merchants and craftsmen and was a perfect excuse for a display of civic pageantry, great processions and feasting.
Judy Parfitt, who plays Sister Monica Joan, played the character Vera Donovan in Dolores Claiborne who also fell down stairs, albeit purposefully.