Terry Nation

Terry Nation (8 August 1930-9 March 1997 ) wrote numerous Doctor Who television stories and created the Daleks. Outside of Doctor Who, he is best known for creating Blake's 7 and the post-holocaust drama serial Survivors. Nation was born in Wales and worked as a writer for Tony Hancock before Hancock fired him.

Nation wrote for science fiction series such as Out of This World, Festival and Out of the Unknown and later moved on to action series such as The Saint, The Baron, The Champions, Department S, The Avengers, The Persuaders! and The Protectors. He also served as script consultant on The Baron, The Avengers and The Persuaders!.

He later moved to America where he produced episodes of MacGyver. He died of emphysema in Los Angeles in 1997. In later Doctor Who TV stories he has been credited as the creator of the Daleks in on-screen credits.

Doctor Who

 * The Daleks
 * The Keys of Marinus
 * The Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * The Chase
 * Mission to the Unknown
 * The Daleks' Master Plan (episodes 1-5, 7)
 * Planet of the Daleks
 * Death to the Daleks
 * Genesis of the Daleks
 * The Android Invasion
 * Destiny of the Daleks

Theatrical movies

 * Dr. Who and the Daleks (story)
 * Daleks' Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (story)

Short stories

 * Daleks: The Secret Invasion
 * We are the Daleks!

Other

 * The Dalek Book
 * The Dalek Outer Space Book
 * The Dalek Pocketbook and Space Travellers Guide

Television

 * Whicker's World

Specials

 * Once Upon a Time Lord
 * Thirty Years in the TARDIS

Direct-to-video

 * Daleks: The Early Years
 * Dalekmania

Contributions to the mythos

 * Daleks
 * Thals
 * Skaro
 * Voord
 * Robomen
 * Slythers
 * Mechonoids
 * Steven Taylor
 * Sara Kingdom
 * The possibility of a companion dying during a story (in this case, Katarina, but originally intended to be Vicki Pallister)
 * Exxilon
 * Davros
 * Thousand Year War
 * Kraals
 * Second Romana