Trivia

The successful resurrection of "The Creature" doesn't happen (solely) through electricity in this series. During a stay at Lake Geneva in Switzerland from May to September 1816 (during which she laid the foundations for what would become Frankenstein, or: The Modern Prometheus, published in 1818), Mary Shelley described ideas of galvanism and the re-animation of corpses. Unlike virtually all later film adaptations, however, the original novel never precisely describes the use of electricity to successfully re-animate a body. In fact, in Frankenstein (1910), the very first silent film adaptation of the novel, the creature emerges from a bubbling cauldron in what appears to be alchemy rather than actual modern science. In this series, the exact circumstances of the first truly successful resurrection are also kept vague, except the use of a "tincture" and "tissue" is mentioned.

When asked which regiment he served in, Marlott answered, "The 95th rifles." This was the same regiment that Richard Sharpe served in, also played by Sean Bean in Sharpe's Rifles (1993). Marlot also had a green rifleman's jacket in his trunk, also worn by Sharpe.

When two watched boys enter the body snatchers pub one is whistling "Over the hills and far away" - theme tune to the Sharpe stories in which Sean Bean played the title character.

The series was filmed in Northern Ireland, an emerging hub for dark gothic TV and Film, with series such as Game of Thrones and Films such as Dracula Untold being shot in the small country in recent years

Esther is offered a fee of "one crown per day" to fix a dress for Frederick Dipple's automaton. This amounts to 5 shillings or the modern equivalent of £243 (adjusted for 2017 inflation), or £1,215 for five days' work. Earlier, a bribe for some information is mentioned as costing 10 guineas. This is the equivalent of 210 shillings historically, or a whopping £10,206 (adjusted for 2017 inflation).