Colin Mapson designed, made and even operated the Drashigs for the 1973 story Carnival of Monsters.
Colin Mapson took an unconventional route to a three-decade career in the BBC Visual Effects Department. “I was a window dresser for Debenhams, the department store,” he says. “I come from Gloucestershire originally. We did a float for Gloucester Carnival every summer and I found I was enjoying the prop-making side much more than the window dressing.
Colin Mapson, pictured in 1998, holding a model he made for Nightmare of Eden (1979).
Photo © Steve Cambden.