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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,[1] having been announced in June.[2] 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.[3]
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 |
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| 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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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5 August 2019 |
Specials
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