Terry Nation Army

Terry Nation Army
Subject:	The Daleks in the 1960s
Release date:	1 July 2019 - 5 August 2019
Key crew
Narrator:	Gavin Rymill
Producer:	Gavin Rymill and Jon Green

Terry Nation Army was an independent documentary series about the behind-the-scenes history of the Daleks on television. It was masterminded by Gavin Rymill and Jon Green, being a spin-off of the Dalek63•88 reference website and released on its official YouTube channel.

Series 1 (comprising six episodes around 20 minutes in length) was released over the month of July 2019 on YouTube, having been announced in June. Eight additional "unbound" episodes were released following Series 1's conclusion, spanning the period from 12 August 2019 to 28 February 2020. These "Specials & Bonus Videos", as they were labeled, focused on tangential aspects of the history of 1960s Doctor Who. These episodes later would be retroactively incorporated into Series 1. Series 2 was comprised of eight episodes, releasing from April to December 2022. Series 3 began releasing in May 2023.

Although not licensed by the BBC, the series featured participation by many people involved in the production of official Doctor Who media, such as Jonathan Morris. It also developed a partnership of sorts with Big Finish, who timed a special promotion on The Masters of Luxor with the release of the Terry Nation Army episode The Failed Dalek Rivals, which ended by advertising said promotion.

List of episodes

Series 1

#	Name	Subject	Credits	Release date
1	Camber's Dalek Disaster Documentary	"In this episode we discuss how an epic failure during a location shoot resulted in the construction of an ingenious prop which still survives today. And we reveal a previously unknown fact about The Daleks' Master Plan special effects work."	Written and edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Archive Photo: Robert Kew Archive Documents: Richard Bignell & Jonathan Morris Video Thanks To: Simeon Carter, Greg Bakun, The Metebelis Two Podcast, Chris Balcombe	1 July 2019
2	The Mystery of Terry Nation's Special Daleks	"In this episode, we explore the distant origins of one of the most unusual Daleks to appear on TV: the Supreme in Planet of the Daleks. We explain how Terry Nation came to own the Supreme and three other movie props, and we discover their true genesis to discover they are not actually movie Daleks after all."	Written and edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Photos: James Russell, Marc Sinclair, Ian Scales, Tim Baker, George Farrell, Steve Williams Archive Documents: Richard Bignell & Jonathan Wrigley Video Thanks To: Mick Hall, John Kelly	8 July 2019
3	Making Of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. at Shepperton (Part 1/2)	"Behind the scenes making the second Peter Cushing movie. How Shepperton Studios' standing set and backlot were used, and how the historic grounds became featured in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD."	Co-written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Co-written and Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Gerald Larn Voiced by: Paul Carmichael 2008 Quote Thanks To: Domingo Lizcano With Thanks To: Anthony McKay, M. Courtman, Michael Richardson, Nick Pollard	15 July 2019
4	Making of Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. at Shepperton (Part 2/2)	"In the concluding half of our investigations into the filming of the Dalek Invasion at Shepperton Studios, we piece together the timeline at the end of production to reveal a desperate scramble to reassemble the set and film some decent Dalek footage."	Co-written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Co-written and Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Ron Moody Voiced by: Chris Walker-Thomson Archive Photo Thanks To: Colin Young Colourised by: Clayton Hickman With Thanks To: Anthony McKay, M. Courtman, Michael Richardson, Martin Kempton, Nick Pollard, Richard Atkinson, Steve Allen, Lucy Ashdown, Anthony Lamb	22 July 2019
5	The Lost Colour 1960s Dalek Episodes	"This week's episode looks at two lost Dalek productions, neither of which were actually Doctor Who episodes. A pilot episode of a Dalek spinoff series which Terry Nation tried to launch, and we look at how the paperwork may - or may not - have influenced Doctor Who. And the Out of the Unknown episode called Get Off My Cloud, which featured the Daleks in a dreamworld, but is lost from the archives."	Written and edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Theme Music by: Graeme Allan Incidental Mysic by: Ross Bugden With Immense Gratitude To: Richard Bignell For The Destroyers Archive Material With Immense Gratitude To: Colin Cutler For Our Of The Unknown Archive Material Jean Marsh Voiced by: Elaine Hyder Space Security Imagery and Colourisation: Ant Lamb The Destroyers Logo: David Czeck Photo Colourisation by: Clayton Hickman Firearms Wrangler: Tony Gavin Video Resources Thanks to: Matthew Purchase Richard Bignell & Jonathan Wrigley Video Thanks To: Mick Hall, John Kelly	30 July 2019
6	How Did A Crime Create the Dalek Supreme?	"This week we look at the influences behind the introduction of 'one of the Supreme Council" in Planet of the Daleks, and the thefts which happened before production which nearly derailed the whole process."	Written and edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Photos by: James Russell, Marc Sinclair, Ian Scales, Tim Baker, George Farrell, Steve Williams, Mick Hall With Thanks to: Clayton Hickman, Paul Scoones, Richard Bignell, Stuart Crouch, James Goss	5 August 2019
7	What Really Happened to the Movie TARDIS and Other Boxes	“The movie TARDIS which is used ‘Dr. Who and the Daleks’ was probably built for that production, in 1965. The same prop was used again in ‘Daleks Invasion Earth 2150 AD’, the following year. Although it isn’t perfect … it’s the best of a bad bunch.”	Written and Edited by‘': Gavin Rymill Researched by: Jon Green and Clayton Hickman Theme Music by: Graeme Allan	12 August 2019
8	The Failed Dalek Rivals: Mechonoid Designs Rejected and Deleted Robots from The Chase	“The Mechonoids were large geodesic polyhedric robots which made their one and only screen appearance at the end of the Doctor Who serial ‘The Chase’ in 1965. … However, unlike the Daleks, Terry Nation had carefully described the exact shape of his new robots, yet what he asked for was not what ended up on screen. He also devised another potentially marketable toy to appear in ‘The Chase’, which was omitted from the final program. So, what were the reasons he didn’t get the robots he asked for?, how were they eventually built?, and does one of them still survive today?”.	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Terry Nation voiced by: Chris Walker-Thomson Archive Materials Thanks to: Jonny Morris, Richard Bignell, Samuel Payne, James Goss Thanks to‘’:Toby Hadoke, Mick Hall, Toby Chamberlain & Lee Horris, Gareth M., Julie Killick, John Isles & Johnathan Miles, Sophia & Martin Gill	14 October 2019
9	Mechonoid Script Mistakes and Prop Mysteries Solved - Mission Recon & Merch Bonus Info	“To begin with, when and why did the name change from Mechon to Mechonoid?, and how did the wrong name make it to screen? To understand what happened, we need to follow the production process from script to screen.”	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Archive Material and Information Thanks to: Jonny Morris, Richard Bignell, Rhys Williams, Richard Long	22 October 2019
10	How Remembrance of the Daleks was Fixed in the Edit	“The raw location footage from the 1988 serial ‘Remembrance of the Daleks’ provides a wealth of information about the production process, including revealing one big change that had to be made to the ending. The alteration was needed because of certain decisions during recording, which resulted in several shots having to be dropped from the final episode because they no longer made sense. In this episode, we’ll look through some interesting clips from episode four, reconstruct the problematic scene as it was written, and show why it had to be fixed in the edit.”	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Archive Material: Colin Young Thanks to: Mike Tucker	30 October 2019
11	The Original Ending of Dalek Invasion of Earth and its Problematic Monster Costume	“In the 1964 television serial ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’, there were too closely linked elements which both changed considerably from draft script to screen. In Terry Nation’s original draft, a pack of alien creatures from the Daleks’ home planet patrol the vast expanse known as ‘The Abyss’. The monsters, called ‘Slithers’, were conceived by the writer to look a particular way, but were then realised quite differently, and then hastily redesigned mid-production. Plus, a completely different version was conceived with a surprising appearance, but it was never implemented. So, what were all these alternative versions of the monster?, why is the no mention of the abyss that it roamed in the final TV episode?, and what does any of this have to do with an eighteenth-century book about English plants?”.	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Voices: Paul Carmichael, Jon Green Thanks to: Jonathan Morris, Richard Long, Peter Ware (editor)]	8 November 2019
12	Dalek Guns in The Mandalorian EXPLAINED and Other Dr Who Stuff in Star Wars	“If you’re a Doctor Who fan with a very keen eye for detail, then episode one of the new Disney + series ‘The Mandalorian’ provides one moment which might just stop you in your tracks. When The Mandalorian’s weapons cabinet is opened, there’s a DL21 blaster inside, and included in that design is a nozzle that looks identical to those seen in a Doctor Who serial from 1974. But before you write this off as a coincidence, after all propmakers often used real world parts in their creations, there’s more to this story that meets the eye. And we can prove that this is no coincidence, and that Dalek guns are genuinely linked to the Star Wars universe.”	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Researched with: Jon Green Music by: Graeme Allan Thanks to: Rhys Williams, Glenn Cleave, James Clancy, Steve @ sayhellospaceman	14 November 2019
13	Doctor Who's Weird 1965 Christmas Special	“Doctor Who’s first ever Christmas special was an episode named ‘The Feast of Steven’, broadcast on Christmas Day 1965. It was also Doctor Who’s last Christmas special for 40 years. … So how did this unusual episode come about?, how did the production team originally intend to incorporate real Hollywood legends into the episode, and who really wrote it?”.	Thanks to: Richard Bignell, Jonny Morris, Jeremy Bentham}}	25 December 2019
14	When The Doctor Was a Human Who Invented the TARDIS	“It may be surprising to learn, that in the early years of Doctor Who, there was no consensus on the origin of The Doctor or his time machine. When Terry Nation came to write ‘Section Dalek Three’, eventually called ‘The Chase’, it was clear in his mind that The Doctor had built the TARDIS himself. And it seemed he was probably just an ordinary man from the future. Some of these clues actually survive into the broadcast version, but some were edited out. One particular lost piece of dialogue shone on a spotlight on The Doctor’s own people, a people who we discover were not necessarily aliens at all. “	Written and Edited by: Gavin Rymill Music by: Graeme Allan Thanks to: Clayton Hickman, Jim Sangster, Jonny Morris, Si Hodges, David Hyder, Tom Spilsbury	28 February 2020