Mr Raymond

Mr Raymond was the fictional schoolteacher of the Rainbow Kids, the human protagonists of The Rainbow Adventures, a fantasy animated series created by the Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids' Department of Entertainment for internal broadcast in the Cupid Homeworld. The series' premise saw the kids travelling through people's dreams using a magic rainbow; Mr Raymond's fever-dreams were slated to be the setting of The Walkies, the upcoming episode which would follow The Moonbeams. (PROSE: Plagiarism of the SavageMen)

Behind the scenes

Plagiarism of the SavageMen was created as a topical satire of a then-ongoing controversy in the Doctor Who surrounding the perceived resemblance between a piece of 2016 armchair concept art by artist Matthew Savage for a new design of Cybermen, and the design used for the helmet of Ashad as seen in the 2019 trailer for Series 12 of the TV series, which did not credit Savage. The dispute would eventually be settled amicably between the artist and the BBC along terms not disclosed to the public.

As such, despite obviously having a very different storyline and main characters, The Rainbow Adventures is presented as a sort of spoof of Doctor Who. Case in point, The Walkies appears to be a counterpart to the original 1963 The Daleks serial, with “Little Billy” being named in reference to William Hartnell who portraied the Doctor; the cliffhanger throwing a rising thermometer evoking the Who cliffhanger of a rising radiation counter on the control panel of the Doctor's ship at the end of the previous serial. Likewise, “Mr Raymond” was ostensibly named in reference to Dalek designer Raymond Cusick.