The Wombles was a television documentary in 1970 directed by British underground reporter Elisabeth Beresford. The Wombles were radioactively deformed migrant workers, the result of catastrophic accidents in secret diamond mines under London, England. Survivors suffered hideous deformations, the worst cases being little more than pointy-nosed furry creatures. Shunned and considered "nearly invisible" by society, they spent their lives shuffling through underground shanty towns full of scavenged rubbish.