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Llandaff Cathedral following the bombing raid on Cardiff in January 1941 Mirrorpix

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Mr Herbert’s class at Radnor Road Boys’ School in 1938, with Terry Nation (middle row, far right) From Stewart Williams’ Cardiff Yesterday Vol. 21

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Rehearsal of the ‘Poor Man’s Picasso’ sketch onstage at the Capital Cinema, Cardiff in 1948 with Terry Nation (third from right) and Harry Greene (far right) Courtesy of Harry Greene

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Beryl Vertue with the founding members of Associated London Scripts: Eric Sykes, Alan Simpson, Spike Milligan and Ray Galton Popperfoto/Getty Images

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John Junkin, Dave Freeman and Terry Nation in their office at ALS in Shepherd’s Bush Courtesy of Deb Boultwood

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Tony Hancock in ‘The Assistant’, Hancock (1963) Topfoto

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Peter Cushing as Elijah Baley in ‘The Caves of Steel’, Story Parade (1964) BBC Photo Library

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The Dalek city in ‘The Daleks’, Doctor Who (1963) Courtesy of Raymond P. Cusick

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The Doctor (William Hartnell) in ‘The Daleks’, Doctor Who (1963) BBC Photo Library

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Publicity still from ‘The Keys of Marinus’, Doctor Who (1964), showing the creatures from ‘The Velvet Web’ Courtesy of Raymond P. Cusick

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Terry Nation and Raymond Cusick Alamy

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The Daleks take over London in 1964’s ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’

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Cannes for the 1965 Film Festival BBC Photo Library and Getty Images

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William Hartnell with toy Daleks Getty Images

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Leslie Illingworth’s cartoon of Charles de Gaulle as a Dalek (1964) www.cartoons.ac.uk

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The Slyther reading The Dalek Book (1964) Getty Images

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Jason King (Peter Wyngarde) in ‘A Cellar Full of Silence’, Department S (1969) Rex Features

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Terry Nation with a script for The Baron (1966) Rex Features

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John Steed (Patrick Macnee) and Tara King (Linda Thorson) in The Avengers (1968) Rex Features

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Lord Brett Sinclair (Roger Moore) and Danny Wilde (Tony Curtis) in The Persuaders! (1971) Alamy

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Poster for The House in Nightmare Park (1973) BFI

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Arthur Wormley (George Baker) and Abby Grant (Carolyn Seymour) in Survivors (1975)

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Terry Nation’s 1976 novel based on the series BBC Photo Library and Orion Publishing Group

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The Doctor (Tom Baker) and Davros (Michael Wisher) in ‘Genesis of the Daleks’, Doctor Who (1975) BBC Photo Library

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The original crew of the Liberator in Blake’s 7 (1978), with left-right: Gan (David Jackson), Avon (Paul Darrow), Cally (Jan Chappell), Blake (Gareth Thomas), Jenna (Sally Knyvette) and Vila (Michael Keating) BBC Photo Library

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Servalan (Jacqueline Pearce) in Blake’s 7 (1979) BBC Photo Library

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Terry Nation with his daughter Rebecca, at the time of the publication of his novel Rebecca’s World (1975) Alamy