The Nag's Head is completely redesigned in this episode.
At the end of the episode when Raquel leaves carrying her suitcase, it's the same house Vimal lived at in Cash and Curry (1981).
Extending the running times of the episodes was the point where the show came into its own as a comedy-drama, according to David Jason, rather than as a sitcom. It wasn't just that there was now time to get more of John Sullivan's great lines in; there was now more space in which things could unfold. Jason doubted that without the extra length, the romances between Del Boy and Raquel and Rodney and Cassandra would never have developed, and he was glad to have Tessa Peake-Jones and Gwyneth Strong in the cast because they knew what they were doing and fit right in.
Raquel mentions to Del that she had a line in a Doctor Who (1963) episode about ten years earlier. Tessa Peake-Jones played Marta in The Time of the Doctor (2013) 25 years, to the day, later. The waiter in the scene is played by Nicholas Courtney who had a recurring role in the classic incarnation of the series as Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart. Furthermore, John Challis had previously appeared in "The Seeds of Doom" and Roger Lloyd Pack would later appear in Rise of the Cybermen (2006)/The Age of Steel (2006).