… Are they related? I think we should be told.
Above: Yeti from Doctor Who, 1967/68; below, Boohbah from the same stable as Teletubbies, 2004.
(NB that the creator of Boohbah and the Teletubbies, Anne Wood, first got involved professionally in children’s literature in the mid-1960s, and got Tom Baker to do The Book Tower in 1979-80…)
You might want to check out Of Blood and Honey, and I’m curious about well Ireland (early to middle 1970s) is portrayed.