Terry Nation

Terry Nation
Birth date:	8 August 1930
Death date:	9 March 1997
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer, creator of the Daleks
Stories:	See credits section
Main time period active:	1963-1965, 1973-1975
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The Saint, The Persuaders!, Survivors, Rebecca's World, Blake's 7, MacGyver
IMDb profile

Terry Nation (8 August 1930-9 March 1997) wrote numerous Doctor Who television stories and created the Daleks. Outside of Doctor Who, he is best known for creating Blake's 7 and the post-holocaust drama serial Survivors. Nation was born in Wales and worked as a writer for Tony Hancock before Hancock fired him.

Nation wrote for science fiction series such as Out of This World, Festival and Out of the Unknown and later moved on to action series such as The Saint, The Baron, The Champions, Department S, The Avengers, The Persuaders! and The Protectors. He also served as script consultant on The Baron, The Avengers and The Persuaders!.

He later moved to America where he produced episodes of MacGyver. He died of emphysema in Los Angeles in 1997. In later Doctor Who TV stories he has been credited as the creator of the Daleks in on-screen credits.

Selected credits

Writing

Television

Doctor Who

• The Daleks
• The Keys of Marinus
• The Dalek Invasion of Earth
• The Chase
• Mission to the Unknown
• The Daleks' Master Plan (episodes 1-5, 7)
• Planet of the Daleks
• Death to the Daleks
• Genesis of the Daleks
• The Android Invasion
• Destiny of the Daleks

Theatrical movies

• Dr. Who and the Daleks (story)
• Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (story)

Prose

Short stories

• Daleks: The Secret Invasion
• We are the Daleks!

Other

• The Dalek Book
• The Dalek Outer Space Book
• The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide

Appearances

Television

• Whicker's World

Specials

• Once Upon a Time Lord
• Thirty Years in the TARDIS

Direct-to-video

• Daleks: The Early Years
• Dalekmania

Notes

• Though credited with the authorship of The Dalek Chronicles and the various Dalek annuals, the actual extent of his creative input on the author(s) remains unknown.
• Terry Nation created and wrote much of the dystopian sci-fi television series Blake's 7. He also created Survivors and was involved in several other series including the 1960s action-adventure show The Baron for ITC.
• Nation's later work shifted to American television, including writing and producing episodes of the action-adventure show MacGyver for ABC.
• His literary writing credits include novels based upon Blake's 7 and Survivors, along with standalone works such as the 1975 fantasy novel Rebecca's World. Despite this output, he never wrote a novelisation for Target Books based upon any of his Doctor Who storylines.

Contributions to the mythos

• Daleks
• Thals
• Skaro
• Voord
• Robomen
• Slythers
• Mechonoids
• Steven Taylor
• Sara Kingdom
• The possibility of a companion dying during a story (in this case, Katarina)
• Exxilon
• Davros
• Thousand Year War
• Kraals
• Second Romana

External links

• Terry Nation at the Internet Movie Database