"You are consulted by a Dr Quist..."

I'm writing an exam paper for my patent law course and have just recycled part of the plot of a Doomwatch episode (or rather the novel it was expanded into). I wonder if any of my students will notice?

(Very probably not, considering that most of them weren't born until the late 1980s. Certainly I had to explain that I'd based the scenario of one of my tutorial problems on an even earlier film.)