A career criminal who was recruited to a gang which was being put together by the alien mercenary Lytton. He believed that they were going to rob a bank, but Lytton really wanted the gang to help him free the Cryons of Telos from enslavement by the Cybermen. He led them into the London sewers where they were captured by the Cybermen hiding there. They were working on a scheme to divert Halley's Comet into the path of the Earth so that the planet would not be in any condition to threaten their original home planet of Mondas when it returned to the Solar System in December 1986.
The Cybermen captured the Doctor and forced him to take everyone to Telos in the TARDIS. Here Lytton needed Griffiths to help steal a time-ship which the Cybermen had obtained.
Griffiths and a couple of escaped slave workers, also recruited by Lytton, managed to reach the ship - only to be killed by a protective electrical booby-trap.
Played by: Brian Glover. Appearances: Attack of the Cybermen (1985).
- A regular on the BBC TV sitcom Porridge, Glover is probably best known for his small role as the joke-telling villager in the "Slaughtered Lamb" pub at the beginning of An American Werewolf In London. He gave up teaching to become a wrestler before moving into acting.
- According to the novelisation, the character's full name is Charles Windsor Griffiths.
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