Reply With QuoteQuatermass and the Pit
I feel that this list is long overdue, so your candidates please. To start;
The Zarbis on Doctor Who (no doubt there were other giant Who creepy-crawlies - details please)
The eponymous spaceship in Lexx.
Quatermass and the Pit
name='batman']Quatermass and the Pit
Thanks, Batters, actually it was while watching the film version of Q and the P yesterday that I started thinking of this topic. I never saw the TV version but I assume it had the same giant Martian grasshoppers.
name='Husky']Thanks, Batters, actually it was while watching the film version of Q and the P yesterday that I started thinking of this topic. I never saw the TV version but I assume it had the same giant Martian grasshoppers.
It did indeed .... I find the TV version much more creepy than the film.
Roger Moore fought a giant ant in an episode of The Saint.
Roger Moore fought a giant ant in an episode of The Saint.[/QUOTE]
The House on Dragon's Rock with Anthony Bate & the luscious Annette Andre.
name='Husky']I feel that this list is long overdue, so your candidates please.
Well, quite. I'm just surprised it's taken so long
There was a giant wasp in the last series of Doctor Who in the episode entitled The Unicorn and the Wasp. Agatha Christie and Felicity Kendall were also involved.
At the risk of being flippant, Victor Meldrew received a parcel which contained a huge 2ft long model fly. Mrs Warboys said it was "very realistic".
Let us not forget the honorary insects who inhabited The Planet of the Spiders and killed off the Third Doctor.
Weren't there a few in Land of the Giants?
One of my favourite scenes from The Simpsons has Kent Brockman making a giant insect blunder.
Ladies and gentlemen, er, we've just lost the picture, but, uh, what we've seen speaks for itself. The Corvair spacecraft has been taken over -- "conquered", if you will -- by a master race of giant space ants.
It's difficult to tell from this vantage point whether they will consume the captive earth men or merely enslave them. One thing is for certain, there is no stopping them; the ants will soon be here.
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.
name='dremble wedge']
And I, for one, welcome our new insect overlords. I'd like to remind them that as a trusted TV personality, I can be helpful in rounding up others to toil in their underground sugar caves.[/I]
I think we can all applaud Mr Brockman's pragmatism there.
Another memorable insect to take residence in Springfield is the Screamapillar who proves so demanding . From the Screamapillar care-tips manual
It needs constant reassurance or it will die.
It is sexually attracted to fire
name='batman']Roger Moore fought a giant ant in an episode of The Saint.
Never seen it but that's GOT to be quality television in anyone's book.
Please stand by for my follow-up thread: "TV programmes featuring animals defecating"
Here's a rare one; Kimba The White Lion fighting a giant locust in THE GIGANTIC GRASSHOPPER
and also a giant spider in The Cobweb Caper!
There was Arthur the caterpillar in Willo the Wisp voiced by KennethWilliams.
There was also the 1964 Dr Who story 'Planet Of Giants', where the 4 time travellers (Dr Who, his granddaughter Susan and Ian & Barbara) come face to face with giant insects on Earth.
Their not really giant though, it's just that the Tardis doors opened in flight and so when they dematerialised, they emerged as tiny beings.
But there was also the excellent 1973 story 'The Green Death' that featured giant maggots and a giant wasp: -
Plus Jon Pertwee (the Doctor) in drag (disguise playing a Welsh cleaning lady): -
Finally off the top of my head there's the giant rats from the 1977 Tom Baker classic 'The Talons Of Weng Chiang': -
Okay that's not an insect, but a big rubbery spider was also found which was treated carefully as it was thought to be a money spider.
name='taffy1967']
Plus Jon Pertwee (the Doctor) in drag (disguise playing a Welsh cleaning lady): -
LOL
Jon also dresses up as an elderly milkman in that one (taking over for his sick son and desperate to prove he's not past it LOL).
Plus it has one of the most touching scenes in the entire series when the Doctor says goodbye to Jo Grant.
John Belushu was a bee on early Saturday Night Live sketches. He's not small.
name='Tony Pendrey']At the risk of being flippant, Victor Meldrew received a parcel which contained a huge 2ft long model fly. Mrs Warboys said it was "very realistic".
Ha ha I remember that! Mrs Warboys was fantastic!
I can`t watch anything with insects in it giant or otherwise. Can`t bare them!
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Insects! The way I figure it, 4 legs is plenty for any animal - just put one in each corner and that's fine. But I don't see why any creature should need 6 or more legs, AND WINGS! It's just crazy! Let's see Richard Dawkins and Charles Darwin argue their way out of that one! They can't. Well, let's be fair, Darwin is slightly dead at the moment but he should have evolved into a giant-brained immortal being if he was so clever.
The whole evolution thing falls down when it comes to surplus legs. Why would nature go round giving out loads of legs all over the place? The only benefit in a multi-leg universe is to sock and footwear manufacturers. Maybe we should forget about the blind watchmaker and be thinking about blind cobblers.
The meaning of life is cobblers.
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