In the beginning scene, Hammer is running away from a radio-controlled airplane, a parody of the crop duster scene from the film North by Northwest (1959). After shooting down the plane, Hammer argues with the female owners of the plane while an Alfred Hitchcock lookalike passes by them.
Hammer uses a lamp to electrocute a henchman on the train, similar to the Jaws character from "From Russia With Love'", the title which Hammer also references later in the episode.