The title is based upon the cry that American patriot Paul Revere made as he alerted the Massachusetts countryside of the advancing of the Red Coats in April 1775 at the start of the American Revolution: The British are coming! The British are coming!
Lili Valenty(Madame Olga) played a similar role in season four, episode 20 of Little House on the Prairie. She played a fortune teller who predicted the sex of Caroline's unborn child. She incorrectly predicted it would be a boy.