Indeed. Although, in fairness, it should be noted that the Pantomime Ants were but dupes of one of those rabble-rousing, immaterial intelligences that float around the Who-verse.
/Don
P.S. Also note that this was the famous episode that broke the show's budget. The producer had been overjoyed to receive this huge cheque from the BBC: thinking that it was for the next *show* when, in fact, it was for the next *season*. So the Zarbi show had whole troops of ballerinas being Giant Pantomime Butterflies and so forth and was a critical and ratings smash.
Then the producer when back for another cheque and was sniffily informed that there was no more where that had come from. So, while frantic budget re-negotiations were underway, the next episode was all in the control room of the TARDIS since that was the only set they owned. I remember it as a nice one of those four-people-stuck- in-an-elevator screenplays.
Giant pantomime ants
Pantomime Ants were but dupes of one of those rabble-rousing,
immaterial intelligences that float around the Who-verse.
/Don
P.S. Also note that this was the famous episode that broke the
show's budget. The producer had been overjoyed to receive this huge
cheque from the BBC: thinking that it was for the next *show* when,
in fact, it was for the next *season*. So the Zarbi show had whole
troops of ballerinas being Giant Pantomime Butterflies and so
forth and was a critical and ratings smash.
Then the producer when back for another cheque and was sniffily
informed that there was no more where that had come from. So, while
frantic budget re-negotiations were underway, the next episode was
all in the control room of the TARDIS since that was the only set
they owned. I remember it as a nice one of those four-people-stuck-
in-an-elevator screenplays.