Continuity
- The serial is apparently set in November 1963 (see the Chronology for details), shortly after "An Unearthly Child", the first episode of the very first Doctor Who serial.
- Coal Hill School and a book on the French Revolution are shown, a nod to the book that Barbara Wright loaned to Susan Foreman in the first episode of Doctor Who; Ace battles a Dalek in Barbara's classroom where Susan was a pupil. A scene also takes place in I.M. Foreman's scrap yard, although it does not resemble the location as seen in "An Unearthly Child" or Attack of the Cybermen, and the name on the scrap yard sign is misspelled I.M. Forman. The sign painter had mistakenly painted "L.M. Forman". While the "L" was easily changed into an "I", the rest could not be altered in time for the recording of the story. This was later addressed in-story in the BBC-licensed Doctor Who novel The Algebra of Ice, as a race of creatures taking the form of mathematical equations causing a number of minor, self-correcting temporal disruptions in the vicinity of the Doctor, including the spelling of Foreman/Forman.)
- An apparent meta-reference to the show happens in one scene, the first and so far only explicit one in the show's history. A television screen shows a BBC Television caption of the period with a continuity announcer saying "This is BBC television, the time is quarter past five and Saturday viewing continues with an adventure in the new science fiction series Doc—", but is cut off by a scene change before completing the title.
- The story's second day, 23 November 1963, is set concurrently with the K-9 episode, "The Cambridge Spy".
- Ace, having grown up after decimalisation, is confused by shillings and pence; she is instructed by Sgt. Mike Smith outside of Coal Hill School. Susan Foreman faced similar confusion in Barbara Wright's class inside the school in An Unearthly Child.
- The Doctor says that Ace's tape deck being destroyed is a good thing - "the whole microchip revolution would take place now, twenty years too early." He builds her a new one before the events of Silver Nemesis.
- The undertaker refers to the fact that he thought the Doctor was supposed to be an "old geezer with white hair," referring to his first incarnation.
- The blind vicar opines that the Doctor's voice has changed in the month since they last spoke. The Doctor replies that his voice "has changed, several times."
- Simon Williams, Karen Gledhill and Pamela Salem have recently reprised their roles in this serial in an audio spin-off for Big Finish, titled Counter-Measures. The first boxset, featuring four stories, will be published in July 2012.
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