by Alwyn Turner
* really ambitious -Pixley, ‘Daleks’ Invasion USA 1967 A.D.’
* children’s science fiction – ibid.
* a sort of dynamic – Goss, Daleks! Conquer and Destroy
* no value – Terrance Dicks, PC
9 Avenging and Persuading
* Television is a monster – Moseley, Roger Moore, pp. 147–8
* I always saw the scripts – ibid.
* Action dramas – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 174
* The enormous advantage – Daily Mail, 27 November 1969
* anything to declare – Dept S: ‘A Cellar Full of Silence’
* the actual room – Dept S: ‘The Man in the Elegant Room’
* I couldn’t bear – Dept S: ‘A Cellar Full of Silence’
* the Marie Celeste – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* adventure-thriller – Macnee and Rogers, The Avengers, p. 15
* He came in – Brian Clemens, PC
* Every time I got – SFX #51, May 1999
* It got wilder – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* He turned in – Brian Clemens, PC
* I am not – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* He wasn’t suited – Brian Clemens, PC
* I wouldn’t have cast her – Brian Clemens, PC
* arguably the best – Times, 10 October 1968
* really weird – Fantasy Empire #4, 1982
* the best of all – Cornell, Day and Topping, The Avengers Dossier, p. 228
* They rate as – Macnee and Rogers, The Avengers, p. 15
* The country needs the money – Moore, My Word Is My Bond, p. 156
* anti-smoking lobby – ibid. p. 157
* I always try – Times, 18 September 1971
* every little fabric – Persuaders: ‘A Home of One’s Own’
* what was originally – Chapman, Saints and Avengers, p. 241
* had always wanted – Roger Moore, PC
* It was a great comfort – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* drive me bananas – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Making any long running – Roger Moore, PC
* making changes – Roger Moore, PC
* He was demanding – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* Tony on the screen – La Rivière and Cock, The Morning After: Remembering the Persuaders!
* reached new heights – Chester, All My Shows Are Great, p. 184
* Mostly it is lousy – Times, 29 October 1971
* Awful – Observer, 10 October 1971
* not a nude in sight – Observer, 26 September 1971
* Tooth rot – Guardian, 16 October 1971
* tongue-in-cheek – Curtis, The Autobiography p. 238
* I had to say – Times, 25 June 1973
* Get out your gat – Kavanagh, Tommy Handley, p. 135
* multiplied by three networks – Guardian, 26 February 1971
* why don’t we quit – La Rivière and Cock, The Morning After: Remembering the Persuaders!
10 Darkness Descends
* That’s not Mr Heath – Dicks, Terry Nation’s Dalek Special, p. 22
* We sat down – Brian Clemens, PC
* I shall be charitable – Guardian, 9 July 1970
* a would-be thriller – Times, 10 July 1970
* all the surprise – Daily Express, 10 July 1970
* I promise you – BBC WAC RCONT 20
* is leaving things – BBC WAC T65/85/1
* the dark recesses – ‘Chase’ ep. 4: ‘Journey into Terror’
* All your life – DVD production text, ‘Chase’ ep. 4: ‘Journey into Terror’
* railway nuts – Observer, 8 October 1972
* This position – BBC WAC T65/85/1
* I stopped – Beryl Vertue, PC
* Roger was a legend – Barry Cryer, PC
* good guy, bad guy – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 6
* a rottweiler – ibid.
* I think Terry – Terrance Dicks, PC
* It was very much – Owen and Burford, The Pinewood Story, p. 137
* I was grateful – Howerd, On the Way I Lost It, p. 279
* As good an attempt – Times, 19 April 1973
* his funniest film role – Daily Mirror, 30 March 1973
* for much of the time – Daily Express, 30 March 1973
* obviously tried – Guardian, 29 March 1973
* nailing a kipper – Observer, 1 April 1973
11 Dalek Renaissance
* We had a story – Terrance Dicks, PC
* bottle of champagne – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 6
* Peter Vincent – Barry Cryer, PC
* You can’t solve – Carpenter, Spike Milligan, p. 277
* Spike’s racist humour – Carpenter, Spike Milligan, p. 280
* Dalek Hugless-Doom – Guardian, 23 October 1973
* the second coming – Howe, Stammers and Walker, Doctor Who: The Seventies, p. 44
* I must have visited – Charles Braham, PC
* part of the rock and roll generation – Hernon, The Blair Decade, p. 17
* In the present climate – DVD production texts, ‘Planet’ ep. 4 p.
* I had known Jon – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* flamboyant dandy – Fantasy Empire #3, 1982
* One of the reasons – Terrance Dicks, PC
* vegetation that’s more – ‘Planet’ ep. 1
* She turned up late – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 3
* cryovolcanoes – I’m indebted here, as elsewhere, to comments from Lance Perkins
* Even though the Doctor – Times, 9 April 1973
* I cannot – BBC WAC T5/1247/1
* harmless things – Radio Times, 13 December 1973
* Quatermass, Maigret -DVD production text, ‘Daleks’ ep. 7: ‘The Rescue’
* beyond dispute – Observer, 26 May 1974
* My father was killed – ‘Death’ ep. 2
* SELL-OUT – Hill, Tribune 40, p. 182
* the curse of – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 5
* The main necessity – BBC WAC T65/29/1
* The idea of a city – ibid.
* a very good story – Molesworth, Terror Nation
* a smashing set – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 6
* I think the imagery – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* our final mutational form – ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* mad professor – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* on all-fours – Wells, The Island of Doctor Moreau, ch. 12
* early experiments – ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* This thing – Nazarro, Doctor Who Magazine, 1989
* Davros is contained – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 2
* So I thought – DVD production text, ‘Genesis’ ep. 4
* The courage and resourcefulness – Nation, Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* If you had created – ‘Genesis’ ep. 5
* Today the Kaled race – ‘Genesis’ ep. 4
* It’s the villains – Fantasy Empire #2, 1981
* Such was the level – Caulfield, Mary Whitehouse, pp. 152–3
* Continuity on Doctor Who – Terrance Dicks, PC
* I see no limit – South Wales Echo, 2 March 1974
12 Journal of a Plague Year
* The critics – Sunday Telegraph Seven magazine, 31 May 2009
* Problems of overpopulation – Foreword to Loraine, The Death of Tomorrow
* Bubonic plague – BBC WAC RCONT 20
* In those days – Cross and Priestner, The End of the World, p. 16
* Incredible, isn’t it? – Radio Times, 12–18 April 1975
* We are at the end – Daily Mirror, 11 December 1964
* We had a big house – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* We had geese – ibid.
* My wife was exhausted – Macomber, Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 7
* She slaved through – Horizon, June 1989
* It is only since – Radio Times, 12–18 April 1975
* I’ve been thinking – Daily Express, 12 April 1975
* The Earth can start – http://www.kaldorcity.com/people/dtinterview.html
* It’s the land – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* The most valuable – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 5: ‘The Waking Ally’
* Survival at all costs – ‘Invasion’ ep. 4: ‘The End of Tomorrow’
* The thing about Terry Nation – DVD commentary, ‘Planet’ ep. 3
* New York must spend – Asimov, The Caves of Steel, pp. 95–7
* He wants a coalition – McIntosh, Challenge to Democracy, p. 184
* Different people – Times, 1 January 2004
* volunteers on call – Times, 7 April 1975
* Two years ago – Sun, 22 January 1977
* Just as Doctor Who – Observer, 4 May 1975
* Cartridges – Jack Ronder, Survivors: ‘Starvation’
* A man of forty – DVD production text, ‘Invasion’ ep. 2: ‘The Daleks’
* it’s up to somebody – Survivors: Genesis’
* I couldn’t be a leader – Survivors: ‘Gone Away’
* Nobody doubted – Nation, Survivors, p. 128
* At times – Daily Mail, 17 April 1975
* impressive, creepy – Guardian, 30 April 1975
* perfectly passable – Guardian, 17 April 1975
* It has slowed down – Times, 15 May 1975
* written by – Guardian, 25 June 1975
* One night – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* I’d like to be able – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* didn’t suit their image – Murray, Into the Unknown, p. 120
* This one was – Macomber, Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 7
* thick as a board – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
13 Surviving
* I fell out instantly – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* Wartime Broadcasting – Daily Telegraph, 3 October 2008
* a tortuous affair – interview included in Survivors DVD box set and DVD commentary, ep. 1: ‘The Fourth Horseman’
* He wanted to get – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* He was basically – Cross and Priestner, The End of the World, p. 35
* I came up with this idea – Brian Clemens, PC
* ever so badly – SFX #51, May 1999
* After I spent – Brian Clemens, PC
* Micawber fixation – Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids, p. 202
* There won’t always – ibid., p. 203
* The church was crammed – Doyle, The Poison Belt, ch. 5
* I didn’t think – SFX #51, May 1999
* I wrote to Terry – Brian Clemens, PC
* all the regulars – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* It was a shock – interview included in Survivors DVD box set
* Thinking hard – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* In my judgement – ibid.
* I was happier – interview included in Survivors DVD box set
* They seemed to think – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I’m one of the few – ibid.
* Women are better – Daily Express, 12 April 1975
* I become a matriarch – Daily Mirror, 16 April 1975
* I was wrong – Nation, Survivors, p. 64
* I don’t come easily – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* You may be queen – Survivors: ‘A Beginning’
* Some roads – Nation, Survivors, p. 198
* When there was nothing left – ibid., p. 108
* It goes down – Guardian, 17 April 1975
* a man to whom – Nation, Survivors, p. 119
* his past campaigns – ibid., p. 188
* this guy had scrounged – Macomber, Liberator’s Log vol. 5 no. 7
* Damn! – Nation, Survivors, p. 74
* I want to cross – ibid., p. 206
* In this country – ibid., p. 117
* Really what I wanted – Nazarro, TV Zone #31
* the novel of the length – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* the sorest pair – Nation, Rebecca’s World, p. 17
* Nature has endowed me – ibid., p. 105
* We are the victors – ibid., p. 119
* Call me silly – ibid., p. 43
* a pleasant, entertaining – Daily Express, 5 December 1975
* I’d been reading – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* more and more silly – Williams, Diaries, p. 503
14 Fighting the Federation
* I said to my wife – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* was so hot – Croft, You Have Been Watching, p. 208
* I don’t understand – Chester, All My Shows Are Great, pp. 136–7
* A group of criminals – Attwood, Blake’s 7: The Programme Guide, p. 7
* witty, glossy – BBC WAC T65/90/1
* cracking Boy’s Own – ibid.
* it is our intention – ibid.
* Virtually all revolutionary – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* If you grew up – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* Terry Nation – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 71
* his reckless daring – Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel, ch. 23
* Sport, Madame la Comtesse – ibid., ch. 4
* the Scarlet Pumpernickel – Persuaders: ‘Five Miles to Midnight’
* He was supposed – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* To a man of my spirit – Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda, ch. 1
* a thoroughly decent – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
* One of the many – Horizon, December 1988
* the philosophy of an assassin – B7: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’
* The Federation is degenerate – B7: ‘Pressure Point’
* Authors, unless they are careful – Usborne, Clubland Heroes, p. 182
* Stories of his exploits – B7: ‘Project Avalon’
* Any damage – B7: ‘Seek – Locate – Destroy’
* It was a hell – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* During those thirteen weeks – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* 99.9 per cent – Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* We wanted to show – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* This wasn’t a polite computer – ibid.
* I plan to live – B7: ‘Time Squad’
* Blake’s 7 has turned out – Daily Express, 24 January 1978
* a mix of olde-world – Guardian, 10 January 1978
* Terry Nation’s new series – Times, 24 January 1978
* the Star Wars boom – Observer, 29 January 1978
* For all those adults – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
* I enjoyed and admired – Rigelsford, The Making of Terry Nation’s Blake’s 7, p. 7
* When we did – Guardian, 15 July 1989
* Well that’s us finished – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* I do not accept – BBC WAC T65/90/1
* strange, bastard medium – DVD commentary, B7: ‘Shadow’
* its drugged, dejected masses – Daily Mail, 10 January 1978
15 The Story Continues
* approaches were made – see also Oliver, The Blake’s 7 Merchandise Guide
* I knew I wanted – Nikkel and Dougherty, Information
* Basically you get – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 107
* Terry was happy – Trevor Hoyle, PC
* People knew about – Terrance Dicks, PC
* I had a very good agent – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I wanted the weight – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* Terry said that he had – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* He didn’t seem – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* Chris Boucher – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* Blake’s 7 is a space adventure – Nation, ‘Blake’s 7: Series Two’
* We stamped on that idea – Chris Boucher interview, ‘The Anorak Zone’, 2003
* I kept piling it on – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* unenviable task – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 85
* Servalan hit on – ibid., p. 144
* dominant, arrogant anti-hero – Elizabeth Coldwell, ‘Science Frictions’ in Forum vol. 31, no. 3 (1997)
* I never really saw her – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* It was Terry’s instinct – Stevens and Moore, Liberation, p. 64
* We made the decision – Nazarro, TV Zone #33
* From that time on – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
* There is a legend – DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* Two vast computers – ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* So, the long darkness – ‘Destiny’ ep. 3
* ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ – DVD production text, ‘Destiny’ ep. 1
* To be honest – DVD commentary, ‘Destiny’ ep. 2
* Oh, I’m sure – ‘Destiny’ ep. 4
* If you’re supposed – ‘Destiny’ ep. 2
* I upset Terry – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* the copyright in – BBC WAC RCONT 21
* nicknames for Thatcher – Guardian, 21 March 1980
* I was fascinated – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* You’ll notice that – BBC WAC T65/72/1
* I actually missed – Nazarro, TV Zone #35
16 To America and Beyond
* It’s a marvellous -Fleming, Starburst, 1979
* I didn’t have – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* I believe that I wrote – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* I did admire – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
* purposely did not let – interview c.1995, included on DVD issue of Blake’s 7, season four
* It was an ending – Stevens and Brown, ‘Chris Boucher’, DWB 108
* They paid me – Peel, Starburst, 1995
* What is difficult – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* Typical! -Terry Nation and Stephen Downing, MacGyver, ‘Thief of Budapest’
* a kamikaze episode – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* He absolutely loved – Groves, The Terry Nation Story
* Hope is game – Faye-Saunders, Radio Times Guide to Films, p. 911
* strange vehicles – Macomber, The Liberator’s Log, vol. 5 no. 6
* We were so close – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* plenty of other factors – for further discussion of this, see Cross, Worlds Apart, pp. 10–11
* next year – Ophir, Gies and Best, Horizon, 1989
* That’s the kind of thing – Darrow, You’re Him, Aren’t You?, p. 125
* Nothing has been happening – Nazarro, TV Zone #34
