Gridlock (novel) the inventor of a hydrogen-based power system for cars – green energy – that sinister forces, most likely representing the oil industry, seek to suppress. His disability is aggressive-sympathetically handled, for example he actively embraces the word 'spastic', claiming it back, taking it away from the term of abuse it had become (in the UK) at the time of publication. Gridlock (novel) Gridlock is a 1991 novel by Ben Elton. The novel depicts a near-future London in which traffic congestion has reached almost critical levels, such that accidents in a few key places could bring the entire city's traffic network
Gridlock (Doctor Who) "Utopia", while "Last of the Time Lords" suggest that the Face of Boe's true identity is Captain Jack Harkness (John Barrowman). "Gridlock" was in the third filming block for the series, along with "The Lazarus Experiment". Filming took place from mid-September to early October 2006. The episode uses "some of the largest and most complex CGI effects of all the series so far". The Motorway was entirely constructed out of CGI aside from a single car set; it was the first time an episode was set inside a "CGI world". Will Cohen, The Mill's Visual FX Producer, revealed in "Radio