Material derived from interviews – whether in person, by telephone or by email – is indicated as being personal communications with the mark ‘PC’.
Quotes taken from files in the BBC Written Archives Centre are indicated by the preface BBC WAC and then the file reference number.
Many of the novels cited that are out of copyright – by H.G. Wells, Arthur Conan Doyle and others – are available in so many editions that page references would be less than helpful; instead any references are to chapters.
Quotes from television, film and radio are my own transcriptions – my apologies for any misquoting or wayward spelling.
The following abbreviations are used for television shows and stories written by Terry Nation:
‘Android’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Android Invasion’ (1975)
Baron – The Baron (1966–7)
B7- Blake’s 7 (1978–81)
‘Chase’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Chase’ (1965)
‘Daleks’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Daleks’ (1963)
‘Death’ – Doctor Who: ‘Death to the Daleks’ (1974)
‘Destiny’ – Doctor Who: ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ (1979)
Dept S – Department S (1969)
‘Genesis’ – Doctor Who: ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ (1975)
‘Invasion’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ (1964)
‘Marinus’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Keys of Marinus’ (1964)
Persuaders – The Persuaders! (1971–2)
‘Plan’ – Doctor Who: ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ (1965)
‘Planet’ – Doctor Who: ‘Planet of the Daleks’ (1974)
Saint – The Saint (1962–9)
INTRO: Vote Dalek!
* Terry ‘Daleks’ Nation – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I have always been – Cook and Wright, British Science Fiction Television, p. 121
* I set out to write – Daily Mirror, 11 December 1964
* Stories must be strong – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* If he’d been writing – Molesworth, Terror Nation.
* I thought he was – ‘Invasion’, DVD commentary ep. 4
* an encyclopaedia – Daily Mirror, 11 December 1964
* absolute rubbish -Frost, Today, 1973
* notices of his death – Sun, 12 March 1997; Times, 13 March 1997
* more TV scripts – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* what people want – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* heroes constantly on the move – Usborne, Clubland Heroes, p. 89
* too much character – Symons, Bloody Murder, p. 238
* exaltation of idea – Amis, New Maps of Hell, p. 28
* he had read the novels – Buchan, Huntingtower, ch. 1
* a story-telling medium – Ferris, Sir Huge, p. 249
* the nicest guy – Terrance Dicks, PC
*I’ve never really met – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* He was an intelligent – Roger Moore, PC
* lovely, rich, pastoral voice – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* Tall, handsome, relaxed – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* Look, we’re just about – Terrance Dicks, PC
* Terry was larger – Deb Boultwood, PC
* Saturday afternoon – Butler, The Durable Desperadoes, p. 162
* I work directly – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Terry’s first drafts – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* I’ve known him – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* He had a habit – Terrance Dicks, PC
* Terry had talent – Brian Clemens, PC
* Terry was very ambitious – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* I have never – ibid.
* Between the mid ’60s – Cornell, Day and Topping, The Avengers Dossier, p. 4
* the same problem – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* same social experiences – Brian Clemens, PC
1 A Boy’s Own Story
* to be an actor – TV Times, 7 February 1964
* unemployment descended – Lewis and Lewis, The Land of Wales, p. 57
* foraging parties – Summers, Edge of Violence, p. 64
* a time of soup – ibid., p. 73
* stiff and starchy – Elsie White, quoted by Harry Greene, PC
* a different planet – Pill, A Cardiff Family in the Forties, p. 94
* far-left socialism – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* There were all sorts – Stan Stennett, PC
* I’m a prolific writer – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* three halfpence – Orwell, The Road to Wigan Pier, ch. 5
* He played truant – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* I grew up – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* horror fiction – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* quiet islands – Quicke, Tomorrow’s Television, p. 29
* I do not pretend – Blythe, The Age of Illusion, p. 46
* very influential – Brian Clemens, PC
* For over five hours – South Wales Echo and Express, 2 January 1942
* read a newspaper – Times, 4 January 1941
* common Nation trait – Cornell, Day and Topping, The Avengers Dossier, p. 260
* a wartime child – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* round the compartment – Buchan, The Island of Sheep, ch. 1
* as the hero – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* what was credible – Harry Greene, PC
* lack of imagination – DVD production text, ‘Daleks’ ep. 3: ‘The Rescue’
* the American shows – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* We listened closely – Muir, A Kentish Lad, p. 146
* personal pantheon – Monkhouse, Crying With Laughter, p. 102
* Youngsters with an ambition – Wyn Calvin, PC
* there they were – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* The glossy paper – Pickard, I Could a Tale Unfold, p. 116
* England I dream of – Thompson, Sunshine on Putty, p. 23
* reputation for comedy – Wyn Calvin, PC
* to be a comedian – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* dressed beautifully – Harry Greene, PC
* turn out more cogs – Summers, The Raging Summer, p. 83
* instant recognition – Harry Greene, PC
* he was the epitome – ibid.
* a rather good comedian – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* I used to be a member – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* Terry was doing – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
2 Goings On
* I auditioned – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine 1989
* His first break – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* writing comedy scripts – Harry Greene, PC
* encourage new writers – Beryl Vertue, PC
* tenacity, initiative and guts – South Wales Echo, 27 May 1955
* encouragement and advice – BBC WAC RCONT1
* many a humorist – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will, p. 216
* We never heard the names – Times, 30 March 1963
* novel in every respect – Askey, Before Your Very Eyes, p. 93–4
* one hundred gags – Kavanagh, Tommy Handley, p. 110
* I never got a credit – Wilmut, Kindly Leave the Stage!, p. 131
* Pre-Ted Kavanagh – Muir, A Kentish Lad, p. 120
* their ambition – South Wales Echo, 27 May 1955
* When Ray and I started – Alan Simpson PC
* the advent of television comedy – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will, p. 326
* mutual protection society – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 19
* usual agency commission – ALS contract for Dave Freeman dated 26 September 1955, signed by Eric Sykes
* If you got stuck – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 33
* an altruistic manner – Beryl Vertue, PC
* the great value – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 33
* a rotten show – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989 op. cit.
* ordeal by fire – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* Everybody wrote – Alan Simpson, PC
* very double-barrelled – Beryl Vertue, PC
* a lovely man – Ray Galton, PC
* hairy tweeds – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 32
* Terry tried to be – this and following quotes: Alan Simpson, Beryl Vertue, Ray Galton, PC
* not cut out – Keith Waterhouse, Daily Mail, 9 March 2006
* you can write – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 32
* We feel that – Nation’s letter and Alastair Scott Johnston’s covering note, BBC WAC RCONT1
* We were beginning – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 38
* They were unafraid – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* Peter Sellers series – ALS letter to Dave Freeman dated 16 February 1956, signed by Beryl Vertue
* They cleared the potato sacks – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 33
* You’d go to lunch – ibid., p. 34
* Nice cupper tea – Observer, 26 August 1956
* I should like you to know – BBC WAC RCONT1
* a small pier – Observer 18 May 1958
* He has been in and out – Radio Times, 18 May 1961
* Ealing-film-type music – Observer, 28 May 1961
* voracious appetite – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will, p. 268
* It did okay – McCann, Spike & Co, p. 98
* witty and topical – BBC WAC T12/391/5 The Ted Ray Show
* He didn’t like me – Logan, It’s a Funny Life, p. 158
* They made me sick – ibid., p. 159
* at least two years – ibid., p. 162
* very depressed state – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
3 The Lads Themselves
* progressive comedy – Carpenter, Spike Milligan, p. 186
* This is shit – Monkhouse, Crying With Laughter, p. 97
* inclined by stage experience – Times, 1 January 1958
* crudely farcical – Bignell and O’Day, Terry Nation, p. 13
* sweetness and naivety – TV Times, 7 February 1964
* The play sucked – Tony Tanner, PC
* proved very successful – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* incredibly well received – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* a queer jumble – Guardian, 11 February 1964
* well in period – Daily Mirror, 11 February 1964
* big three – New Musical Express, 10 March 1961
* There’s Adam Faith – Galton and Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour, p. 109
* family comedy – Owen and Burford, The Pinewood Story, p. 92
* British appetite – quoted in Ross, Sid James
* dire – Independent, 10 March 2003
* Howard and Marjorie – The Stage, unknown date in 1956
* I have decided – Hancock and Nathan, Hancock, p. 111
* all comics loathe – Guardian, 18 February 1972
* Without any discussion – Oakes, Tony Hancock, p. 95
* more salubrious – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will, p. 352
* To my amazement – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 366
* wonderful audience – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon 1989
* collapse in giggles – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 366
* visibly shaking – ibid,. p. 367
* finished the writing – Hancock and Nathan, Hancock, p. 128
* cold food – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Matt’s compartment – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 458
* the fellatio – Williams, Diaries, p. 424
* best-ever scriptwriters – Oakes, Tony Hancock, p. 6
* I was never – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* hiding to nothing – Ray Galton, PC
* quite so common – Daily Mail, 3 January 1963
* unnecessarily nasty – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 365
* Hancock fancied himself – Oakes, Tony Hancock, p. 13
* wine snob – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* You bastard – Hancock and Nathan, Hancock, p. 130
* I have sometimes – Guardian, 4 January 1963
* It is all very funny – Times, 4 January 1963
* If we had never – Observer, 6 January 1963
* unpalatable truth – Daily Mail, 4 January 1963
* I expected it – Daily Express, 10 January 1963
* The series was doomed – Hancock and Nathan, Hancock,
* My second look – Daily Mirror, 1 March 1963
* no happy moments – Fisher, Tony Hancock, p. 385
* strange three weeks – Hancock and Nathan, Hancock, p. 133
* Hancock in rags -ibid., p. 134
4 Into the Unknown
* in a dream world – Jennings, The Paul Jennings Reader, p. 68
* The wonderful thing – Radio Times, 3 December 1964
* This is free television – Quicke, Tomorrow’s Television, p. 25
* a cross between – Shubik, Play for Today, p. 9
* non-conformist outsider – White, Armchair Theatre, p. 31
* Sydney was noisy – ibid., p. 79
* a suave character – Observer, 12 February 1961
* great impresario – Shubik, Play for Today, p. 31
* The policy I adopted – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, pp. 59–60
* I am proud – Daily Express, 5 January 1963
* I’ve always been a sucker – Observer, 22 April 1962
* too remote – David Butler, ‘How to pilot a TARDIS’ in Butler, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, p. 22
* In the late 1950s – Ballard, Miracles of Life, p. 184
* Ninety-five per cent – Times, 13 September 1958
* baffling characteristic – Guardian, 3 April 1961
* true literature – Ballard, Miracles of Life, p. 194
* man-eating – Amis, New Maps of Hell, p. 70
* more vitality – Observer, 28 September 1952
* a pet subject – Shubik, Play for Today, p. 54
* everyone is interested – Daily Mail, 20 June 1962
* I can’t really remember – Ray Galton, PC
* I don’t remember him – Beryl Vertue, PC
* one of the most subtle – Times, 16 February 1960
* I had nothing – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* galactic El Dorado – Simak, ‘Immigrant’, p. 219
* a doctorate on Earth – ibid., p. 275
* only one thing – ibid., p. 276
* an ingenious – Times, 4 August 1962
* level of writing – Times, 4 August 1962
* the most intelligent – Kinematograph Weekly, 9 August 1962
* the most accomplished – Yorkshire Evening Post, 25 July 1962
* the series as a whole – Daily Mail, 24 September 1962
* That was a great moment – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* ‘DUSTBIN’ MAN – Daily Mail, 19 April 1963
* a sort of anthology -Shubik, Play for Today, p. 42
* too derivative – Bignell and O’Day, Terry Nation, p. 14
* most interesting and amusing – Shubik, Play for Today, p. 57
* individualism and initiative – Asimov, The Caves of Steel, p. 92
* The balance – ibid., p. 96
* first became a city – ibid.
* Do you fear robots – ibid., p. 173
* A fascinating mixture – Listener, 16 July 1964
* highly successful – Times, 13 June 1964
* find no fault – Daily Telegraph, 6 June 1964
* highly polished – Times, 13 June 1964
* I actually sat back – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* I am confident – BBC WAC RCONT18
* The rabbits may hide – Bradbury, ‘The Fox and the Forest’, p. 157
* one of the most – Ward, Out of the Unknown, p. 110
* remorseless pursuit – Guardian, 23 November 1965
5 Life on a Dead Planet
* children’s science fiction – Hoey, Sunday Best, 6 February 1972
* How dare they? – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* your calibre – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* an inverted cone – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 367
* It was never intended – Butler, Time and Relative Dissertations in Space, p. 44
* senile old man – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, p. 71
* friends of friends – Howe, Stammers and Walker, Doctor Who: The Sixties, p. 11
* When I first read – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* Terry came round – Deb Boultwood, PC
* a flash of inspiration – Frost, Today
* two-syllable word – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* I don’t have many friends – ibid.
* this brilliant idea – Guardian, 2 May 2008
* frog-like animal – Peel and Nation, The Official Doctor Who and the Daleks Book, p. 186
* They are invulnerable – Wells, The War of the Worlds, Book One, ch. 11
* on the style of – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, p. 71
* Fear breeds hatred – ‘Daleks’ ep. 4: ‘The Ambush’
* ready-made army – ‘Daleks’ ep. 5: ‘The Expedition’
* I had a bad time – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* both hemispheres – Peel and Nation, The Official Doctor Who and the Daleks Book, p. 192
* they have realized – ibid., p. 193
* master of the planet – ‘Daleks’ ep. 6: ‘The Ordeal’
* cheap-jack – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, p. 71
* David Whitaker and I – DVD commentary, ‘Daleks’ ep. 2: ‘The Survivors’
* machine-like creatures – dalek6388.co.uk/the-daleks-the-dead-planet.htm
* anything mechanical – Giddings, Cusick in Cardiff
* The first time I saw them – DVD commentary, ‘Chase’ ep. 1: ‘The Executioners’
* never take off – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, p. 73
* cinema-goer – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* I saw Hattie – Le Mesurier, Lady Don’t Fall Backwards p. 60
* inside each of these – ‘Death’, ep. 2
* simply the vehicles – Manchester Daily Express, 21 November 1964
* peripatetic machine – Amis, New Maps of Hell, p. 26
* the human form – Asimov, The Caves of Steel, p. 134
* They were original – Terrance Dicks, PC
* tremendous contribution – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* rough notes – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* pepper pot – Giddings, Cusick in Cardiff
* The only interest – ‘Daleks’ ep. 6: ‘The Ordeal’
* Only one race – ‘Daleks’ ep. 7: ‘The Rescue’
* I can understand – DVD production text, ‘Daleks’ ep. 2: ‘The Survivors’
* That bloody Nation – Goodwin, When the Wind Changed, p. 367
* enormous contributors – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I’ve been reading – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* on the map – DVD commentary, ‘Invasion’ ep. 2: ‘The Daleks’
* After that first episode – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I would be very grateful – this and subsequent viewers’ letters: BBC WAC Teli/c/781/5948
* blond faeries – DVD production text, ‘Daleks’ ep. 3: ‘The Rescue’
* They’re amoral – Daily Mail, 28 December 1964
* those metal bodies – Guardian, 6 October 1972
* he couldn’t see it – Guardian, 9 July 1976
* Adults can see – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* a model community -Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys, p. 171
* the destined ruler – Charteris, The Happy Highwayman, p. 176
* their rightful -ibid., p. 189
* It seems to me – Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, pp. 243–4
* termites and wasps – Nigel Kneale, Quatermass and the Pit ep. 4: ‘The Enchanted’ (BBC TV)
* settled more issues – Heinlein, Starship Troopers, p. 28
* Things come together – Terrance Dicks, PC
* Every writer -Terrance Dicks, PC
* slightly magical – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* I wish I could – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* The one recurring dream – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* I was now a hit – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* in God’s name – Frost. Today
6 Dalek Invasion
* bug-eyed monsters – Norden, Harper and Gilbert, Coming to You Live!, p. 72
* the travellers – Radio Times, 6 February 1964
* We had no intention – Daily Mirror, 13 March 1964
* the Keys of Marinus – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* judge and jury – ‘Marinus’ ep. 1: ‘The Sea of Death’
* six feet tall – Daily Express, 5 April 1964
* elementary – ‘Marinus’ ep. 5: ‘Sentence of Death’
* I was a new agent – Beryl Vertue, PC
* My instructions are – BBC WAC RCONT18
* breaking new ground – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* fastest selling – Smith’s Trade News, 28 November 1964
* great pride – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* the real invasion – Guardian, 30 December 1964
* We would stock them – Aberdeen Evening Express, 21 December 1964
* Within days – Daily Mail, 12 December 1964
* I was going to give – Daily Mail, 14 December 1964
* Dalek of defence – Guardian, 15 October 1966
* Rescue men – Guardian, 11 January 1966
* Next year – Orange County Evening News, 13 January 1965
* I-am-a-Dalek – Guardian, 31 October 1965
* We started the merchandising – Beryl Vertue, PC
* great commercial operator – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* formed lately to deal with – Guardian, 1 October 1966
* outbreak of merchandising – Terrance Dicks, PC
* a manor house – Beryl Vertue, PC
* good parties – DVD commentary, ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* loads of champagne – Deb Boultwood, PC
* invented a life – Brian Clemens, PC
* He is proud – Guardian, 31 January 1966
* They became such a – Frost, Today
* Is any of this money – Goss, Daleks Beyond the Screen
* an ex-gratia payment – Daily Mirror, 30 April 2005
* Envy, I think – Terrance Dicks, PC
* according to Television Centre – Daily Sketch, 24 November 1964
* Tall, dark and shapely – Daily Mail, 28 November 1964
* I don’t want – ibid.
* I remembered Conan – Frost, Today
* What happened on Skaro – ‘Invasion’ ep. 2: ‘The Daleks’
* howl of anguish – Daily Mail, 28 November 1964
* Our switchboard – Glasgow Sunday Mail, 22 November 1964
* Terry and all of us – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* We’re old, child – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 5: ‘The Waking Ally’
* The appalling thing – Kevin Brownlow and Andrew Mollo, It Happened Here (Rath Films, 1965)
* My two children – BBC WAC Teli/c/781/5948
* Not all human beings – ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* What’s the point – ‘Invasion’ ep. 3: ‘Day of Reckoning’
* world you have come into – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* One day – ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* this awful panting – Nikkel and Dougherty, Information
* huge, black jellyfish – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* up in the sky – ‘Invasion’ ep. 2: ‘The Daleks’
* The Earth rebelled – ‘Invasion’ ep. 6: ‘Flashpoint’
* I just felt – DVD commentary, ‘Daleks’ ep. 7: ‘The Rescue’
* Writers have to be – Daily Mail, 28 November 1964
* I met Terry – Molesworth, Terror Nation
7 Action Men
* If you didn’t want – Tinker, The Television Barons, p. 62
* Is this the man – ibid., p. 50
* We have two scripts – Guardian, 11 October 1966
* Lew was a wonderful – Moore, My Word Is My Bond, p. 142
* half-hearted attempt – ibid., p. 103
* Money – Moseley, Roger Moore, p. 129
* After many years – Butler, The Durable Desperadoes, p. 259
* I am not here – Osgerby and Gough-Yates, Action TV, pp. 18–19
* Rumhattan cocktail – ‘Judith’ in Charteris, Saint Errant
* terror to the underworld – Charteris, The Saint Goes On, p. 19
* The human race – Charteris, The Happy Highwayman, p. 173
* tongue in cheek – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 109
* only foreigners – Watson, Snobbery with Violence, p. 230
* I made a decision – La Riviere and Cock, The Saint… Steps Into Television
* I used to carry – Saint, ‘Jeannine’
* the fat cigars – quoted in Watson, Snobbery with Violence, p. 211
* foreign-looking birds – ibid., p. 230
* We’re the last – Saint, ‘The Man Who Could Not Die’
* I think he felt – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* I was given – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* the story of pearls – Charteris, Saint Errant, p. 88
* Whenever people get killed – Saint, ‘The Revolution Racket’
* If you’re smart – Saint, ‘The Contract’
* such a lot to do – Butler, The Durable Desperadoes, p. 124
* I know the rules – Saint, ‘Where the Money Is’
* We always called a lift – Brian Clemens, PC
* a number of things – Observer, 17 October 1965
* work with Bob – Moore, My Word Is My Bond, p. 139
* I remember Monty – interview included in Baron DVD box set
* I wasn’t allowed – DVD commentary, ‘Invasion’ ep. 5: ‘The Waking Ally’
* have the writer in – Brian Clemens, PC
* odd sort of balance – Terrance Dicks, PC
* As story editor – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* met Nation once – Bignell and O’Day, Terry Nation, p. 42
* never around – DVD commentary, ‘Marinus’ ep. 3: ‘The Screaming Jungle’
* Nation never appeared – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* As a theatre actor – DVD commentary, ‘Chase’ ep. 2: ‘The Death of Time’
* all the credits – Brian Clemens, PC
* anti-radiation gloves – ‘Daleks’ ep. 2: ‘The Survivors’
* Our shows were – Moore, My Word Is My Bond, p. 135
* a Hammer set – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* if Associated Television – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 111
* number one in Finland – Guardian, 2 March 1965
* We put out The Saint – Tinker, The Television Barons, p. 50
* I have sold everything – Observer, 31 December 1967
* ITC was basically – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 11
* Mayfair bachelor – Creasey, The Baron Returns, p. 7
* Ronald Colman – Creasey, Red Eye for the Baron, p. 23
* used the profit – Creasey, The Baron Returns, pp. 28–9
* psychological change – ibid., p. 9
* only three men – Baron, ‘The Killing’
* Lucille Ball – interview included in Baron DVD box set
* If nothing else – Ray, My Turn Next, p. 48
8 Dalek Empire
* the most famous writer – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* culture poured out – Daily Worker, 16 September 1954
* British domination – Booker, The Neophiliacs, p. 231
* favourite fictional hero – Time, 19 October 1962
* life in England – Mortimer, Paradise Postponed, pp. 142–3
* American TV companies – Sun, 3 August 1965
* the thing that attracted me – Hearn, Stripped for Action
* full-grown culture – Davies, Dalekmania
* sex and violence – Pirie, A New Heritage of Horror, p. 133
* few modern films – Guardian, 9 August 1965
* likely to do more harm – Guardian, 2 August 1965
* Shoddy – Observer, 22 August
* The money came in – Davies, Dalekmania
* Grown-ups may enjoy it – Times, 21 July 1966
* We’re in a stick – Goss, The Thrill of the Chase
* Yogi Bear – bbc.co.uk/doctorwho/classic/episodeguide/chase/detail.shtml, retrieved 11 September 2010
* These are tiny men – DVD production text, ‘Chase’ ep. 2: ‘The Death of Time’
* I think Terry – BBC WAC T5/1241/1
* the dark recesses – DVD production text, ‘Chase’ ep. 4: ‘Journey into Terror’
* one of those stories – Charteris, Saint Errant, p. 181
* about a saint -ibid., p. 189
* While the premise – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 135
* Allow the possibility – Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, Preface to 1st edn
* realms of fiction – BBC WAC T5/1241/1
* You had your eye – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* The Mechanoids – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* Daleks don’t like – ‘Chase’ ep. 4: Journey into Terror’
* If I was a producer – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* 007 of space – Pixley, ‘The Daleks Master Plan’
* the rarest mineral – ‘Plan’ ep. 2: ‘Day of Armageddon’
* the most dangerous – ‘Plan’ ep. 3: ‘Devil’s Planet’
* modelled on Stalin – though an article by Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore argues that Nation’s original concept owed more to the Cuban missile crisis, with Chen cast in the role of J.F. Kennedy. See http://www.kaldorcity.com/features/articles/masterplan.html
* very superior – Pixley, ‘The Daleks Master Plan’
* I’ve already told – BBC WAC T5/1246/1
* good clean fun – Daily Express, 22 December 1965
* strangely reminiscent – Times, 22 December 1965
* There was a terrible fight – Paul Fishman, PC
* The Daleks were – drwhointerviews .wordpress.com/2009/10/23/david-whitaker-1970s, retrieved 1 December 2010
* I got along – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I had a go – Beryl Vertue, PC
* very serious reservations – Pixley, ‘Daleks’ Invasion USA 1967 A.D.’
* I went to the United States – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* I didn’t like them -Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* ludicrously small -BBC WAC RCONT18
* really ambitious -Pixley, ‘Daleks’ Invasion USA 1967 A.D.’
* children’s science fiction – ibid.
* a sort of dynamic – Goss, Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
* no value – Terrance Dicks, PC
9 Avenging and Persuading
* Television is a monster – Moseley, Roger Moore, pp. 147–8
* I always saw the scripts – ibid.
* Action dramas – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 174
* The enormous advantage – Daily Mail, 27 November 1969
* anything to declare – Dept S: ‘A Cellar Full of Silence’
* the actual room – Dept S: ‘The Man in the Elegant Room’
* I couldn’t bear – Dept S: ‘A Cellar Full of Silence’
* the Marie Celeste – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* adventure-thriller – Macnee and Rogers, The Avengers, p. 15
* He came in – Brian Clemens, PC
* Every time I got – SFX #51, May 1999
* It got wilder – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* He turned in – Brian Clemens, PC
* I am not – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* He wasn’t suited – Brian Clemens, PC
* I wouldn’t have cast her – Brian Clemens, PC
* arguably the best – Times, 10 October 1968
* really weird – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* the best of all – Cornell, Day and Topping, The Avengers Dossier, p. 228
* They rate as – Macnee and Rogers, The Avengers, p. 15
* The country needs the money – Moore, My Word Is My Bond, p. 156
* anti-smoking lobby – ibid. p. 157
* I always try – Times, 18 September 1971
* every little fabric – Persuaders: ‘A Home of One’s Own’
* what was originally – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 241
* had always wanted – Roger Moore, PC
* It was a great comfort – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* drive me bananas – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Making any long running – Roger Moore, PC
* making changes – Roger Moore, PC
* He was demanding – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* Tony on the screen – La Rivière and Cock, The Morning After: Remembering the Persuaders!
* reached new heights – Chester, All My Shows Are Great, p. 184
* Mostly it is lousy – Times, 29 October 1971
* Awful – Observer, 10 October 1971
* not a nude in sight – Observer, 26 September 1971
* Tooth rot – Guardian, 16 October 1971
* tongue-in-cheek – Curtis, The Autobiography p. 238
* I had to say – Times, 25 June 1973
* Get out your gat – Kavanagh, Tommy Handley, p. 135
* multiplied by three networks – Guardian, 26 February 1971
* why don’t we quit – La Rivière and Cock, The Morning After: Remembering the Persuaders!
10 Darkness Descends
* That’s not Mr Heath – Dicks, Terry Nation’s Dalek Special, p. 22
* We sat down – Brian Clemens, PC
* I shall be charitable – Guardian, 9 July 1970
* a would-be thriller – Times, 10 July 1970
* all the surprise – Daily Express, 10 July 1970
* I promise you – BBC WAC RCONT 20
* is leaving things – BBC WAC T65/85/1
* the dark recesses – ‘Chase’ ep. 4: ‘Journey into Terror’
* All your life – DVD production text, ‘Chase’ ep. 4: ‘Journey into Terror’
* railway nuts – Observer, 8 October 1972
* This position – BBC WAC T65/85/1
* I stopped – Beryl Vertue, PC
* Roger was a legend – Barry Cryer, PC
* good guy, bad guy – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 6
* a rottweiler – ibid.
* I think Terry – Terrance Dicks, PC
* It was very much – Owen and Burford, The Pinewood Story, p. 137
* I was grateful – Howerd, On the Way I Lost It, p. 279
* As good an attempt – Times, 19 April 1973
* his funniest film role – Daily Mirror, 30 March 1973
* for much of the time – Daily Express, 30 March 1973
* obviously tried – Guardian, 29 March 1973
* nailing a kipper – Observer, 1 April 1973
11 Dalek Renaissance
* We had a story – Terrance Dicks, PC
* bottle of champagne – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 6
* Peter Vincent – Barry Cryer, PC
* You can’t solve – Carpenter, Spike Milligan, p. 277
* Spike’s racist humour – Carpenter, Spike Milligan, p. 280
* Dalek Hugless-Doom – Guardian, 23 October 1973
* the second coming – Howe, Stammers and Walker, Doctor Who: The Seventies, p. 44
* I must have visited – Charles Braham, PC
* part of the rock and roll generation – Hernon, The Blair Decade, p. 17
* In the present climate – DVD production texts, ‘Planet’ ep. 4 p.
* I had known Jon – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* flamboyant dandy – Fantasy Empire #3, 1982
* One of the reasons – Terrance Dicks, PC
* vegetation that’s more – ‘Planet’ ep. 1
* She turned up late – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 3
* cryovolcanoes – I’m indebted here, as elsewhere, to comments from Lance Perkins
* Even though the Doctor – Times, 9 April 1973
* I cannot – BBC WAC T5/1247/1
* harmless things – Radio Times, 13 December 1973
* Quatermass, Maigret -DVD production text, ‘Daleks’ ep. 7: ‘The Rescue’
* beyond dispute – Observer, 26 May 1974
* My father was killed – ‘Death’ ep. 2
* SELL-OUT – Hill, Tribune 40, p. 182
* the curse of – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 5
* The main necessity – BBC WAC T65/29/1
* The idea of a city – ibid.
* a very good story – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* a smashing set – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 6
* I think the imagery – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* our final mutational form – ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* mad professor – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* on all-fours – Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, ch. 12
* early experiments – ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* This thing – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* Davros is contained – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* So I thought – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 4
* The courage and resourcefulness – Nation, Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* If you had created – ‘Genesis’ ep. 5
* Today the Kaled race – ‘Genesis’ ep. 4
* It’s the villains – Fantasy Empire #2, 1981
* Such was the level – Caulfield, Mary Whitehouse, pp. 152–3
* Continuity on Doctor Who – Terrance Dicks, PC
* I see no limit – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
12 Journal of a Plague Year
* The critics – Sunday Telegraph Seven magazine, 31 May 2009
* Problems of overpopulation – Foreword to Loraine, The Death of Tomorrow
* Bubonic plague – BBC WAC RCONT 20
* In those days – Cross and Priestner, The End of the World, p. 16
* Incredible, isn’t it? – Radio Times, 12–18 April 1975
* We are at the end – Daily Mirror, 11 December 1964
* We had a big house – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* We had geese – ibid.
* My wife was exhausted – Macomber, Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 7
* She slaved through – Horizon, June 1989
* It is only since – Radio Times, 12–18 April 1975
* I’ve been thinking – Daily Express, 12 April 1975
* The Earth can start – http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/dtinterview.html
* It’s the land – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* The most valuable – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 5: ‘The Waking Ally’
* Survival at all costs – ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* The thing about Terry Nation – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 3
* New York must spend – Asimov, The Caves of Steel, pp. 95–7
* He wants a coalition – McIntosh, Challenge to Democracy, p. 184
* Different people – Times, 1 January 2004
* volunteers on call – Times, 7 April 1975
* Two years ago – Sun, 22 January 1977
* Just as Doctor Who – Observer, 4 May 1975
* Cartridges – Jack Ronder, Survivors: ‘Starvation’
* A man of forty – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 2: ‘The Daleks’
* it’s up to somebody – Survivors: Genesis’
* I couldn’t be a leader – Survivors: ‘Gone Away’
* Nobody doubted – Nation, Survivors, p. 128
* At times – Daily Mail, 17 April 1975
* impressive, creepy – Guardian, 30 April 1975
* perfectly passable – Guardian, 17 April 1975
* It has slowed down – Times, 15 May 1975
* written by – Guardian, 25 June 1975
* One night – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* I’d like to be able – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* didn’t suit their image – Murray, Into the Unknown, p. 120
* This one was – Macomber, Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 7
* thick as a board – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
13 Surviving
* I fell out instantly – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* Wartime Broadcasting – Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2008
* a tortuous affair – interview included in Survivors DVD box set and DVD commentary, ep. 1: ‘The Fourth Horseman’
* He wanted to get – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* He was basically – Cross and Priestner, The End of the World, p. 35
* I came up with this idea – Brian Clemens, PC
* ever so badly – SFX #51, May 1999
* After I spent – Brian Clemens, PC
* Micawber fixation – Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, p. 202
* There won’t always – ibid., p. 203
* The church was crammed – Doyle, The Poison Belt, ch. 5
* I didn’t think – SFX #51, May 1999
* I wrote to Terry – Brian Clemens, PC
* all the regulars – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* It was a shock – interview included in Survivors DVD box set
* Thinking hard – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* In my judgement – ibid.
* I was happier – interview included in Survivors DVD box set
* They seemed to think – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I’m one of the few – ibid.
* Women are better – Daily Express, 12 April 1975
* I become a matriarch – Daily Mirror, 16 April 1975
* I was wrong – Nation, Survivors, p. 64
* I don’t come easily – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* You may be queen – Survivors: ‘A Beginning’
* Some roads – Nation, Survivors, p. 198
* When there was nothing left – ibid., p. 108
* It goes down – Guardian, 17 April 1975
* a man to whom – Nation, Survivors, p. 119
* his past campaigns – ibid., p. 188
* this guy had scrounged – Macomber, Liberator’s Log vol. 5 no. 7
* Damn! – Nation, Survivors, p. 74
* I want to cross – ibid., p. 206
* In this country – ibid., p. 117
* Really what I wanted – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* the novel of the length – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* the sorest pair – Nation, Rebecca’s World, p. 17
* Nature has endowed me – ibid., p. 105
* We are the victors – ibid., p. 119
* Call me silly – ibid., p. 43
* a pleasant, entertaining – Daily Express, 5 December 1975
* I’d been reading – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* more and more silly – Williams, Diaries, p. 503
14 Fighting the Federation
* I said to my wife – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* was so hot – Croft, You Have Been Watching, p. 208
* I don’t understand – Chester, All My Shows Are Great, pp. 136–7
* A group of criminals – Attwood, Blake’s 7: The Programme Guide, p. 7
* witty, glossy – BBC WAC T65/90/1
* cracking Boy’s Own – ibid.
* it is our intention – ibid.
* Virtually all revolutionary – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* If you grew up – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* Terry Nation – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 71
* his reckless daring – Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, ch. 23
* Sport, Madame la Comtesse – ibid., ch. 4
* the Scarlet Pumpernickel – Persuaders: ‘Five Miles to Midnight’
* He was supposed – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* To a man of my spirit – Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda, ch. 1
* a thoroughly decent – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
* One of the many – Horizon, December 1988
* the philosophy of an assassin – B7: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’
* The Federation is degenerate – B7: ‘Pressure Point’
* Authors, unless they are careful – Usborne, Clubland Heroes, p. 182
* Stories of his exploits – B7: ‘Project Avalon’
* Any damage – B7: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’
* It was a hell – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* During those thirteen weeks – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* 99.9 per cent – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* We wanted to show – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* This wasn’t a polite computer – ibid.
* I plan to live – B7: ‘Time Squad’
* Blake’s 7 has turned out – Daily Express, 24 January 1978
* a mix of olde-world – Guardian, 10 January 1978
* Terry Nation’s new series – Times, 24 January 1978
* the Star Wars boom – Observer, 29 January 1978
* For all those adults – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
* I enjoyed and admired – Rigelsford, The Making of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7, p. 7
* When we did – Guardian, 15 July 1989
* Well that’s us finished – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* I do not accept – BBC WAC T65/90/1
* strange, bastard medium – DVD commentary, B7: ‘Shadow’
* its drugged, dejected masses – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
15 The Story Continues
* approaches were made – see also Oliver, The Blake’s 7 Merchandise Guide
* I knew I wanted – Nikkel and Dougherty, Information
* Basically you get – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 107
* Terry was happy – Trevor Hoyle, PC
* People knew about – Terrance Dicks, PC
* I had a very good agent – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I wanted the weight – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* Terry said that he had – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* He didn’t seem – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* Chris Boucher – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* Blake’s 7 is a space adventure – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* We stamped on that idea – Chris Boucher interview, ‘The Anorak Zone’, 2003
* I kept piling it on – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* unenviable task – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 85
* Servalan hit on – ibid., p. 144
* dominant, arrogant anti-hero – Elizabeth Coldwell, ‘Science Frictions’ in Forum vol. 31, no. 3 (1997)
* I never really saw her – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* It was Terry’s instinct – Stevens and Moore, Liberation, p. 64
* We made the decision – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* From that time on – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* There is a legend – DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* Two vast computers – ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* So, the long darkness – ‘Destiny’ ep. 3
* ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ – DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 1
* To be honest – DVD commentary, ‘Destiny’ ep. 2
* Oh, I’m sure – ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* If you’re supposed – ‘Destiny’ ep. 2
* I upset Terry – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* the copyright in – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* nicknames for Thatcher – Guardian, 21 March 1980
* I was fascinated – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* You’ll notice that – BBC WAC T65/72/1
* I actually missed – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
16 To America and Beyond
* It’s a marvellous -Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* I didn’t have – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I believe that I wrote – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I did admire – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* purposely did not let – interview c.1995, included on DVD issue of Blake’s 7, season four
* It was an ending – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* They paid me – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* What is difficult – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Typical! -Terry Nation and Stephen Downing, MacGyver, ‘Thief of Budapest’
* a kamikaze episode – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* He absolutely loved – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* Hope is game – Faye-Saunders, Radio Times Guide to Films, p. 911
* strange vehicles – Macomber, The Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 6
* We were so close – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* plenty of other factors – for further discussion of this, see Cross, Worlds Apart, pp. 10–11
* next year – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* That’s the kind of thing – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 125
* Nothing has been happening – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* part of an organized lobby – Times, 14 November 1983
* When the Blake’s 7 Magazine – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 144
* the British public – Gittins, Top of the Pops, p. 53
* because they thought – Cross and Priestner, The End of the World, p. 231
* I retain an enormous – Foreword to Peel and Nation, The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book
* American aficionados – Times, 13 March 1997
* He loved it – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* was rubbish – appearance on Room 101 (BBC TV), 15 April 2002
* We were told – Howe, Stammers and Walker, Doctor Who: The Eighties, p. 171
* Your day’s gone – Sykes, If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will, p. 453
* My agent and I – Davies, Dalekmania
* We were forced – Segal and Russell, Doctor Who: Regeneration, p. 82
* Mr Hancock had demanded – Daily Telegraph, 5 August 2004
* We want to protect – Guardian, 5 August 2004
* too evil – News of the World, 4 July 2004
* Doctor Who without Daleks – Sun, 2 July 2004
* thanks to the Sun’s campaign – Sun, 7 August 2004
* Whoever’s in charge – Daily Telegraph, 10 August 2004
* This was the one – Daily Express, 2 May 2005
* For thirty – Sunday Mirror, 1 May 2005
* It’s a bit like – interviewed on Doctor Who Confidential (BBC TV), 30 April 2005
* a raving, grinning maniac – Times, 10 December 2008
* croak-voiced Daleks – James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, 1993
* I’m not sure I want – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I don’t know – Peel, Starburst, 1995
OUTRO: Closing Credits
* My intention is always – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* Let every part – Hewison, Culture and Consensus, p. 44
* right to triviality – Thompson, Discrimination and Popular Culture p. 61
* The disquiet about television – Hewison, Culture and Consensus, p. 118
* I was determined – Tinker, The Television Barons, pp. 47–8
* a follow-up – Kibble-White and Williams, The Encyclopaedia of Classic Saturday Night Telly, p. 14
* the function of people – BFI Screen Online
* I’d get very uneasy – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* If Terry sent you – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* It was not difficult – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* I didn’t want – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* written at white heat – Haggard, She, p. xv
* lapped up – Daily Mirror, 11 December 1964
* I delivered something – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* If I had my way – Nikkel and Dougherty, Information
* Terry Nation had a thing – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 3
* As a wartime child – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* Much of sci-fi – Guardian, 15 July 1989
* Whilst we remain – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* They’d watch from – Davies, Dalekmania
* To have written – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I suppose that – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
* A type of robot – Oxford English Dictionary (http://www.oed.com – retrieved 28 November 2010)
* A good story – Nazarro, TV Zone p. 33 http://www.oed.com