The name of the theater Houdini performs in is called the Shaftesbury, the same name as the production company producing the series.
Harry Houdini did start working with his brother Dash (real name: Theodore) until he met and married his wife Bess, another stage performer in 1894. From then on, she became his on-stage assistant. As this episode takes place in 1896, the real Houdini would have been performing with his wife at that time.
This episode takes place in August 1896.
Ruby Ogden says that she is involved with H. G. Wells, who was very promiscuous in his relationships, but it is doubtful he was even in Canada in 1896. In 1891, Wells married his cousin Isabel Mary Wells, but they separated when he fell in love with one of his students, Amy Catherine Robbins, whom he married in 1895. With her consent, he had affairs with a number of women, including the American birth control activist Margaret Sanger, adventurer and writer Odette Keun and novelist Elizabeth von Arnim. In 1909, he had a daughter, Anna-Jane, with the writer Amber Reeves,Society, and in 1914, a son, Anthony West (1914-1987), by the novelist and feminist Rebecca West, twenty-six years his junior. In "Experiment in Autobiography" (1934), Wells wrote: "I was never a great amorist, though I have loved several people very deeply."