David Ellis's other writing credits include Paul Temple, Spy Trap, and many episodes of Dixon of Dock Green in the 1960s and Z-Cars in the late 1960s and early 1970s.
Make Me A Widow was the most successful of these, opening in London in the Summer of 1964 and playing in repertory around the country for many years afterwards.
[4] The Big StoreEllis, who once again co-wrote with Hulke in November 1966, submitted this four-part story, with complete drafts for Episode One.
The story would see The Doctor, Polly, Jamie, and Ben land in a mall in 1973, where they discover a two, unidentified aliens; one by numbers and another with letters.
[6] The mannequin invasion story idea was reused in Robert Holmes’ Spearhead from Space in 1970 as a Jon Pertwee serial.