Actress Phyllis Logan ("Shirley") co-starred with Brenda Blethyn in the Mike Leigh film Secrets & Lies (1996), generally regarded as Blethyn's breakout role.
Despite being a regular character, Bethany Whelan is missing from the next 9 storylines.
Actress Judy Parfitt plays the character of "Maggie" in this episode of "Vera" while she played a character named "Vera" in the film Dolores Claiborne (1995).
Judy Parfitt, who played Maggie, the former mistress of Vera's father, plays one of the lead nuns, Sister Monica Joan, on the long-running series, "Call the Midwife".