12 Facts About Terry Nation

Terence Joseph Nation was a Welsh screenwriter and novelist.

When Terry Nation was commissioned to write The Daleks for Doctor Who, the villainous eponymous creatures established the series' early popularity.

Terry Nation later devised the recurring character of Davros in Genesis of the Daleks.

Now unemployed, and with a young family to support, Terry Nation contacted Whitaker and accepted the offer, writing the second Doctor Who serial, The Daleks.

In 1973, following an eight-year absence from the series, Terry Nation returned to writing for the Daleks on Doctor Who with the Third Doctor serial Planet of the Daleks.

Terry Nation wrote two non-Dalek scripts for Doctor Who, The Keys of Marinus in 1964, which introduced the Voord, and The Android Invasion in 1975, which introduced the Kraals.

In 1969, when the show began to be produced in colour, Terry Nation granted permission for the Daleks to be used in the series three episode Get Off My Cloud, based on the story by Peter Phillips about a bed-bound science-fiction author who finds himself within one of his own fantasies after a mental breakdown.

Terry Nation didn't write any episodes in the fourth series of Blake's 7.

In 1980, Terry Nation moved to Los Angeles, where he developed programme ideas and worked for various production studios.

Terry Nation wrote scripts for the hit TV series MacGyver and A Fine Romance.

Terry Nation died from emphysema in Los Angeles on 9 March 1997, aged 66.

In 2013, Terry Nation was commemorated with a blue plaque at the house in Cardiff where he was born.