The Wombles
The Wombles were a music group.
In 1974, Flo, a waitress at the Nadir Motorway Service Station, mentioned the Wombles to the Eighth Doctor and Lucie. She had served them once. (AUDIO: Horror of Glam Rock)
Gustous R Thripsted's Genetic Politics Nobody Really Wants to Hear About compared Faction Paradox's family structure to the Wombles': both featured younger members gathering information in the field, while each department of secret empire was run by a specialized elder. He noted that this might explain the traditional Faction rhyme, "Making good use of the times that we find, times that the everyday folk leave behind." (PROSE: The Spiral Politic Database)
Behind the scenes
- Bernard Cribbins, who played Wilfred Mott, Tom Campbell in Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. and Arnold Korns in Horror of Glam Rock, was the narrator of the Wombles' television series and provided the voices of all of the characters.
- Bonnie Langford,David Jason and Jon Pertwee worked together in the 1977 film Wombling Free