Robert Carlyle and Robbie Coltrane would go on to star together again in the Bond film "The World Is Not Enough" (1999).
Christopher Eccleston starred in 28 Days Later and the Robert Carlyle starred in its sequel 28 Weeks Later.
Jimmy Beck has regrown the moustache he shaved off in the previous instalment.
Robert Carlyle would later go on to star with Ricky Tomlinson in "The 51st State" (2001), again playing a Liverpudlian who supports Liverpool.
Lorcan Cranitch and Beth Goddard later appeared in The Last Detective s4e5 (Dead Peasants Society).