T hroughout, the Drahvins are the Doctor’s companion Vicki calls the robotic servants of the hideous, ammonia- was as taken with the Chumblies as engaged in guerrilla warfare against the Chumblies, as inhaling Rills, in honour of their peculiar motion. The Chumblies’ lethal potential belies their quirky appearance, since (among other facilities) they’re armed with a combustible light ray. Vicki actress Maureen O’Brien her on-screen character – “sort of little metal things that were jelly-like in that they wobbled,” she told DWM in 1987. “They were very sweet. And inside the Chumblies, working them like pedal cars, were dwarves and midgets. They were very nice and, of course, never having grown beyond five foot two, I had a great fellow- signed up with the Coventrybased agency ‘Lester’s Midgets’.