The Man Who Invented the Daleks (59 page)

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After I spent
– Brian Clemens, PC

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Micawber fixation
– Wyndham,
The Day of the Triffids
, p. 202

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There won’t always
– ibid., p. 203

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The church was crammed
– Doyle,
The Poison Belt
, ch. 5

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I didn’t think
–
SFX
#51, May 1999

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I wrote to Terry
– Brian Clemens, PC

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all the regulars
– BBC WAC RCONT 21

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It was a shock
– interview included in
Survivors
DVD box set

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Thinking hard
– BBC WAC RCONT 21

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In my judgement
– ibid.

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I was happier
– interview included in
Survivors
DVD box set

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They seemed to think
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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I’m one of the few
– ibid.

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Women are better
–
Daily Express
, 12 April 1975

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I become a matriarch
–
Daily Mirror
, 16 April 1975

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I was wrong
– Nation,
Survivors
, p. 64

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I don’t come easily
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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You may be queen
–
Survivors
: ‘A Beginning’

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Some roads
– Nation,
Survivors
, p. 198

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When there was nothing left
– ibid., p. 108

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It goes down
–
Guardian
, 17 April 1975

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a man to whom
– Nation,
Survivors
, p. 119

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his past campaigns
– ibid., p. 188

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this guy had scrounged
– Macomber,
Liberator’s Log
vol. 5 no. 7

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Damn!
– Nation,
Survivors
, p. 74

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I want to cross
– ibid., p. 206

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In this country
– ibid., p. 117

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Really what I wanted
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#31

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the novel of the length
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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the sorest pair
– Nation,
Rebecca’s World
, p. 17

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Nature has endowed me
– ibid., p. 105

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We are the victors
– ibid., p. 119

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Call me silly
– ibid., p. 43

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a pleasant, entertaining
–
Daily Express
, 5 December 1975

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I’d been reading
– Groves,
The Terry Nation Story

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more and more silly
– Williams,
Diaries
, p. 503

14 Fighting the Federation

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I said to my wife
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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was so hot
– Croft,
You Have Been Watching
, p. 208

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I don’t understand
– Chester,
All My Shows Are Great
, pp. 136–7

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A group of criminals
– Attwood,
Blake’s 7: The Programme Guide
, p. 7

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witty, glossy
– BBC WAC T65/90/1

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cracking Boy’s Own
– ibid.

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it is our intention
– ibid.

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Virtually all revolutionary
– Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’

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If you grew up
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#34

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Terry Nation
– Darrow,
You’re Him, Aren’t You?
, p. 71

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his reckless daring
– Orczy,
The Scarlet Pimpernel
, ch. 23

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Sport, Madame la Comtesse
– ibid., ch. 4

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the Scarlet Pumpernickel
–
Persuaders
: ‘Five Miles to Midnight’

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He was supposed
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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To a man of my spirit
– Hope,
The Prisoner of Zenda
, ch. 1

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a thoroughly decent
–
Daily Mail
, 10 January 1978

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One of the many
–
Horizon
, December 1988

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the philosophy of an assassin
–
B7
: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’

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The Federation is degenerate
–
B7
: ‘Pressure Point’

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Authors, unless they are careful
– Usborne,
Clubland Heroes
, p. 182

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Stories of his exploits
–
B7
: ‘Project Avalon’

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Any damage
– B7: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’

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It was a hell
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB 108

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During those thirteen weeks
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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99.9 per cent
– Fleming,
Starburst
, 1979

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We wanted to show
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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This wasn’t a polite computer
– ibid.

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I plan to live
–
B7
: ‘Time Squad’

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Blake’s
7
has turned out
–
Daily Express
, 24 January 1978

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a mix of olde-world
–
Guardian
, 10 January 1978

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Terry Nation’s new series
–
Times
, 24 January 1978

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the
Star Wars
boom
–
Observer
, 29 January 1978

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For all those adults
–
Daily Mail
, 10 January 1978

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I enjoyed and admired
– Rigelsford,
The Making of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7
, p. 7

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When we did
–
Guardian
, 15 July 1989

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Well that’s us finished
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB 108

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I do not accept
– BBC WAC T65/90/1

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strange, bastard medium
– DVD commentary,
B7
: ‘Shadow’

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its drugged, dejected masses
–
Daily Mail
, 10 January 1978

15 The Story Continues

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approaches were made
– see also Oliver,
The Blake’s 7 Merchandise Guide

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I knew I wanted
– Nikkel and Dougherty,
Information

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Basically you get
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB
107

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Terry was happy
– Trevor Hoyle, PC

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People knew about
– Terrance Dicks, PC

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I had a very good agent
– Peel,
Starburst
, 1995

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I wanted the weight
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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Terry said that he had
– BBC WAC RCONT 21

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He didn’t seem
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB
108

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Chris Boucher
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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Blake’s
7
is a space
adventure –
Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’

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We stamped on that idea
– Chris Boucher interview, ‘The Anorak Zone’, 2003

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I kept piling it on
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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unenviable task
– Darrow,
You’re Him, Aren’t You?
, p. 85

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Servalan hit on
– ibid., p. 144

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dominant, arrogant anti-hero
– Elizabeth Coldwell, ‘Science Frictions’ in
Forum
vol. 31, no. 3 (1997)

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I never really saw her
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB
108

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It was Terry’s instinct
– Stevens and Moore,
Liberation
, p. 64

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We made the decision
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#33

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From that time on
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#35

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There is a legend
– DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 4

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Two vast computers
– ‘Destiny’ ep. 4

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So, the long darkness
– ‘Destiny’ ep. 3

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‘Destiny of the Daleks’ –
DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 1

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To be honest
– DVD commentary, ‘Destiny’ ep. 2

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Oh, I’m sure
– ‘Destiny’ ep. 4

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If you’re supposed
– ‘Destiny’ ep. 2

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I upset Terry
– Groves,
The Terry Nation Story

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the copyright in
– BBC WAC RCONT 21

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nicknames for Thatcher
–
Guardian
, 21 March 1980

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I was fascinated
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#34

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You’ll notice that
– BBC WAC T65/72/1

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I actually missed
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#35

16 To America and Beyond

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It’s a marvellous
-Fleming,
Starburst
, 1979

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I didn’t have
– Peel,
Starburst
, 1995

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I believe that I wrote
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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I did admire
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#34

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purposely did not let
– interview c.1995, included on DVD issue of
Blake’s 7
, season four

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It was an ending
– Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’,
DWB
108

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They paid me
– Peel,
Starburst
, 1995

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What is difficult
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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Typical!
-Terry Nation and Stephen Downing,
MacGyver
, ‘Thief of Budapest’

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a kamikaze episode
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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He absolutely loved
– Groves,
The Terry Nation Story

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Hope is game
– Faye-Saunders,
Radio Times Guide to Films
, p. 911

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strange vehicles
– Macomber,
The Liberator’s Log
, vol. 5 no. 6

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We were so close
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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plenty of other factors
– for further discussion of this, see Cross,
Worlds Apart
, pp. 10–11

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next year
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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That’s the kind of thing
– Darrow,
You’re Him, Aren’t You?
, p. 125

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Nothing has been happening
– Nazarro,
TV Zone
#34

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part of an organized lobby
–
Times
, 14 November 1983

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When the
Blake’s 7 Magazine –
Darrow,
You’re Him, Aren’t You?
, p. 144

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the British public
– Gittins,
Top of
the Pops
, p. 53

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because they thought
– Cross and Priestner,
The End of the World
, p. 231

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I retain an enormous
– Foreword to Peel and Nation,
The Official Doctor Who & the Daleks Book

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American aficionados
–
Times
, 13 March 1997

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He loved it
– Groves,
The Terry Nation Story

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was rubbish
– appearance on
Room 101
(BBC TV), 15 April 2002

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We were told
– Howe, Stammers and Walker,
Doctor Who: The Eighties
, p. 171

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Your day’s gone
– Sykes,
If I Don’t Write It, Nobody Else Will
, p. 453

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My agent and I
– Davies,
Dalekmania

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We were forced
– Segal and Russell,
Doctor Who: Regeneration
, p. 82

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Mr Hancock had demanded
–
Daily Telegraph
, 5 August 2004

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We want to protect
–
Guardian
, 5 August 2004

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too evil
–
News of the World
, 4 July 2004

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Doctor Who
without Daleks
–
Sun
, 2 July 2004

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thanks to the
Sun’s
campaign
–
Sun
, 7 August 2004

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Whoever’s in charge
–
Daily Telegraph
, 10 August 2004

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This was the one
–
Daily Express
, 2 May 2005

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For thirty
–
Sunday Mirror
, 1 May 2005

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It’s a bit like
– interviewed on
Doctor Who Confidential
(BBC TV), 30 April 2005

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a raving, grinning maniac
–
Times
, 10 December 2008

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croak-voiced Daleks
– James MacTaggart Memorial Lecture, 1993

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I’m not sure I want
– Ophir, Gies and Best,
Horizon
, 1989

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I don’t know
– Peel,
Starburst
, 1995

OUTRO: Closing Credits

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My intention is always
– Fleming,
Starburst
, 1979