In Magazine (1992), Patsy insultingly compares Saffron to Helena Bonham Carter. During Edina's dream in this episode, Bonham Carter plays Dream Saffron.
While discussing past sex scandals, Edina and Patsy mention Mandy Rice-Davies, Christine Keeler and the Profumo affair. The real Rice-Davies appears in this episode as Patsy in Edina's dream.
In Magazine (1992), Patsy's mother mentions The Female Eunuch. In this episode, Germaine Greer, author of that book, plays Edina's mother in Edina's dream.
In the dream sequence, Lady Penelope Creighton-Ward (voiced by Sylvia Anderson) tells Edina the 'sad news'. Penelope is a fictional character introduced in the British mid-1960s Supermarionation television series Thunderbirds (1965) and is known for her style and fashion in every aspect of her life.
When this episode aired in 1994, Joanna Lumley was 47 years old, the same age that Patsy is horrified to see printed in one of the tabloids covering her sex scandal.