Biography for
Terry Nation More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

8 August 1930, Cardiff, Wales, UK

Date of Death

9 March 1997, Los Angeles, California, USA (emphysema)

Mini Biography

Before becoming a film script writer Terry was a prolific writer of UK TV scripts in both action and science fiction genre. His scripts are noted for their depth, i.e. they usually have many sub-plots as well as the main plot. As a writer on the Dr Who TV series he created the DALEKs, the mechanical monsters who plan universal domination. On Earth they would constantly be planning to 'exterminate' all humans. Terry also created Blake's Seven, another popular UK science fiction TV series.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Paul Mason <odtaa@intonet.co.uk>

Spouse

Kate Nation

(? - ?)

Trivia

Before his involvement in the development of "Doctor Who" (1963), Nation had been a comedian and a script writer for Tony Hancock on his ITV series "Hancock" (1963). He would recall that it was his split with the comic which prompted him to pen his first Dalek saga.

He claimed that he based the Daleks on the SS and the Nazis.

Had a daughter called Rebecca.

Personal Quotes

I was, for that short time, the most famous writer on television... There was stuff coming to my house saying, 'Dalek Man - London'.

The function of people in television should be to take people away from all their daily toil.