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) which featured a similar character named Swifty Frisko. Also in the online commentary, Davies noted that Brannigan's appearance was based on "Ratz", the CGI disembodied cat's head that was a "virtual presenter" of CBBC's "Live & Kicking" in the early 1990s. Ma and Pa at the start of the episode are based on the farming couple in the painting "American Gothic", both having identical hairstyles, glasses and fashions. Alice and May Cassini are the first homosexual married couple featured in "Doctor Who". The episode marks the second appearance of the large crustacean Macra race, who previously appeared in the Second