by Alwyn Turner
Julian Symons, Bloody Murder: From the Detective Story to the Crime Novel – a History (Faber & Faber, 1972; rev pbk edn: Penguin, 1974)
Ben Thompson, Sunshine on Putty: The Golden Age of British Comedy from Vic Reeves to The Office (Fourth Estate, 2004; rev pbk edn: Harper Perennial, 2004)
Denys Thompson (ed.), Discrimination and Popular Culture (Pelican, 1964)
Jack Tinker, The Television Barons (Quartet, 1980)
Martin Tropp, Mary Shelley’s Monster: The Story of Frankenstein (Houghton Mifflin, 1977)
Alwyn W. Turner, Crisis? What Crisis? Britain in the 1970s (Aurum, 2008)
Alwyn W. Turner, Halfway to Paradise: The Birth of British Rock (V&A Publishing, 2008)
Alwyn W. Turner, My Generation: The Glory Years of British Rock (V&A Publishing, 2010)
Richard Usborne, Clubland Heroes: A Nostalgic Study of Some Recurrent Characters in the Romantic Fiction of Dornford Yates, John Buchan and Sapper (Constable, 1953)
Mark Ward, Out of the Unknown: A Guide to the Legendary BBC Series (Kaleidoscope, 2004)
Colin Watson, Snobbery with Violence: English Crime Stories and Their Antecedents (Eyre & Spottiswoode, 1971; rev edn: Eyre Methuen, 1979)
Leonard White, Armchair Theatre: The Lost Years (Kelly Publications, 2003)
Kenneth Williams (ed. Russell Davies), The Kenneth Williams Diaries (HarperCollins, 1993)
Roger Wilmut, Tony Hancock – ‘Artiste’ (Eyre Methuen, 1978)
Roger Wilmut, Kindly Leave the Stage! The Story of Variety 1919–1960 (Methuen London, 1985; pbk edn: 1989)
E. Fiction
This is, necessarily, only the briefest of guides to the fiction consulted during the writing of this book, covering those works that are quoted. Where a paperback or revised edition is shown, it indicates that any page references cited are to that edition.
Isaac Asimov, The Caves of Steel (TV Boardman, 1954; pbk edn: HarperCollins, 1993)
Ray Bradbury, ‘The Fox and the Forest’ in The Illustrated Man (Doubleday, 1951; pbk edn: Corgi, 1955)
John Buchan, Huntingtower (Hodder & Stoughton, 1922)
John Buchan, The Island of Sheep (Hodder & Stoughton, 1936)
Leslie Charteris, The Happy Highwayman (Hodder & Stoughton, 1933; pbk edn: 1953)
Leslie Charteris, The Saint Goes On (Hodder & Stoughton, 1934; pbk edn: 1955)
Leslie Charteris, Saint Errant (Hodder & Stoughton, 1949; pbk edn: Coronet, 1972)
Brian Clemens, adapted by Ted Hart, More Stories from Thriller (Fontana, 1975)
John Creasey, The Baron Returns (George H. Harrap, 1937, published under pseudonym Anthony Morton; pbk edn: Corgi, 1965)
John Creasey, Red Eye for the Baron (Hodder & Stoughton, 1958, published under pseudonym Anthony Morton; pbk edn: Pan, 1962)
Philip K. Dick, ‘Imposter’ (1953), reprinted in Minority Report (Gollancz, 2002)
Arthur Conan Doyle, The Complete Professor Challenger Stories (John Murray, 1952)
John Eyers, Survivors: Genesis of a Hero (Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1977; pbk edn: Futura, 1977)
Gillian Freeman, The Leader (Anthony Blond, 1965)
Ray Galton and Alan Simpson, Hancock’s Half Hour (Woburn Press, 1974)
H. Rider Haggard, She (Longmans Green, 1887; pbk edn: Oxford University Press, 1991)
Robert A. Heinlein, Starship Troopers (Putnam, 1959; pbk edn: Ace, 1987)
William Hope Hodgson, Carnacki the Ghost-Finder (Nash, 1913)
Anthony Hope, The Prisoner of Zenda (Macmillan, 1894)
Trevor Hoyle, Blake’s 7 (Sphere Books, 1977)
Trevor Hoyle, Blake’s 7: Project Avalon (Arrow Books, 1979)
Trevor Hoyle, Blake’s 7: Scorpio Attack (BBC, 1981)
John Mortimer, Paradise Postponed (Viking, 1985; pbk edn: Penguin, 1986)
Robert Muller, The Lost Diaries of Albert Smith (Jonathan Cape, 1965; pbk edn: After All, This Is England, Penguin, 1967)
Bernard Newman, The Blue Ants (Digit, 1963)
Baroness Orczy, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Hutchinson, 1905)
Clifford D. Simak, ‘Immigrant’ (1954), in Brian Aldiss (ed.), Galactic Empires (St Martin’s Press, 1976; pbk edn: Legend, 1988)
Frederick E. Smith, based on screenplays by Terry Nation, The Persuaders! Book Two (Pan, 1972)
John Summers, Edge of Violence (Leslie Frewin, 1969)
John Summers, The Raging Summer (Michael Joseph, 1972)
Horace Walpole, The Castle of Otranto (1764; pbk edn: Oxford University Press, 1996)
H.G. Wells, The Time Machine (William Heinemann, 1895)
H.G. Wells, The Island of Dr Moreau (William Heinemann, 1896)
H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds (William Heinemann, 1898)
H.G. Wells, The First Men in the Moon (George Newnes, 1901)
John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids (Michael Joseph, 1951; pbk edn: Penguin, 1954)
F. Websites
625 Online (www.625.org.uk)
The Anorak Zone (www.anorakzone.com)
BBC (www.bbc.co.uk)
BFI Screen Online (screenonline.org.uk)
British Television Drama (britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk)
Dalek 6388 (dalek6388.co.uk)
Dave Freeman (davefreeman.co.uk)
Doctor Who Interviews (drwhointerviews.wordpress.com)
Harry Worth (harryworth.co.uk)
Internet Movie Database (IMDb.com)
Magic Bullet (kaldorcity.com)
Memorable TV (memorabletv.com)
The Morning After (itc-classics.com)
The Saint (saint.org)
Survivors: A World Away (survivors-mad-dog.org.uk)
Television Heaven (televisionheaven.co.uk)
Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org)
Further Reading
The only existing book on Terry Nation is Jonathan Bignell and Andrew O’Day’s Terry Nation (Manchester University Press, 2004), an academic study which focuses on his science fiction work. For Nation’s own accounts of his career, see in particular the interviews with Jackie Ophir, Diane Gies and Nicola Best in the magazine of the Blake’s 7 Appreciation Society, Horizon, issue 22 (June 1989), and with Joe Nazarro in TV Zone issues 31, 33, 34 and 35 (June–October 1992).
Graham McCann’s Spike & Co: Inside the House of Fun with Milligan, Sykes, Galton & Simpson (Hodder & Stoughton, 2006) is the definitive account of Associated London Scripts. Long out of print, Denis Gifford’s The Golden Age of Radio (B.T. Batsford, 1985) remains an essential reference work, even in the age of the internet.
Of the many books on Doctor Who, David J. Howe, Mark Stammers and Stephen James Walker’s series Doctor Who: The Sixties, Doctor Who: The Seventies and Doctor Who: The Eighties (Doctor Who Books, 1992–7) are recommended, as is Time and Relative Dissertations in Space (Manchester University Press, 2007), edited by David Butler.
James Chapman’s Saints and Avengers: British Adventure Series of the 1960s (I.B. Tauris, 2002) is an entertaining take on some of the key ITC shows.
For Survivors and Blake’s 7, see respectively Rich Cross and Andy Priestner’s The End of the World: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Survivors (Telos Publishing, 2005), and Alan Stevens and Fiona Moore’s Liberation: The Unofficial and Unauthorised Guide to Blake’s 7 (Telos Publishing, 2003). Both are excellent.
And finally, the best books on the fiction of Nation’s youth are still Richard Usborne’s Clubland Heroes (Constable, 1953) and William Vivian Butler’s The Durable Desperadoes (Macmillan, 1973). They’re even more fun than the novels they chronicle.
Index
A for Andromeda (1), (2)
Aaronovitch, Ben (1)
Adams, Douglas (1)
Adventures of Robin Hood, The (1)
Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, The (1)
‘Aftermath’ (Blake’s 7) (1)
Alan, Ray (1)
Alaskans, The (1)
Alper, Fred (1)
Altered States (1)
Amazing Robert Baldick, The (1)
American Forces Network (AFN) (1)
Amis, Kingsley (1), (2)
And Soon the Darkness (1), (2)
‘And Suddenly You’re Dead’ (The Baron) (1), (2)
And the Same to You (1)
Anderson, Gerry (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
Anderson, Lindsay (1)
Anderson, Richard Dean (1)
‘Android Invasion, The’ (Doctor Who) (1), (2)
Andromeda Breakthrough (1)
Anholt, Tony (1)
Antrobus, John (1), (2)
Appointment with Fear (1)
Aridians (1)
Armchair Theatre (1), (2)
Army Game, The (1)
Arthur Haynes Show, The (1), (2)
Ashton, Brad (1), (2)
Askey, Arthur (1), (2), (3)
‘Assistant, The’ (Hancock) (1), (2)
Associated London Scripts (ALS) (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7)
Attlee, Clement (1), (2)
ATV (1), (2)
Avengers, The (1), (2)
TN’s contribution to (1)
Englishness of (1)
created (1)
TN writes for (1)
and Mother (1)
popularity in the United States (1)
‘Bagman’ (The Protectors) (1)
Baker, George (1)
Baker, Robert S. (1), (2), (3), (4)
Baker, Roy Ward (1)
Baker, Tom (1)
Ballard, J.G. (1)
Band Waggon (1)
Banks-Smith, Nancy (1), (2), (3)
Barber, Glynis (1)
Barker, Ronnie (1), (2)
Baron, The (1)
TN’s contribution to (1)
American market for (1)
original conception for (1)
broadcasts starts (1)
TN writes for (1)
similarities with The Saint (1)
Barry, Christopher (1)
Barry, Dick (1), (2), (3), (4)
Barry, John (1)
Barwick, Tony (1)
Bauer, David (1)
Baxter, Stanley (1)
BBC
and Associated London Scripts (1)
and Band Waggon (1)
radio programmes on (1)
and ITV (1)
and merchandising (1)
drama on (1), (2)
starts colour broadcasting (1)
remakes TN’s works (1)
and Saturday evening programming (1)
BBC Enterprises (1), (2)
Beano (1)
Beatles, The (1), (2)
Bedouin (1)
‘Bedsitter, The’ (Hancock’s Half Hour) (1)
‘Beginning, A’ (Survivors) (1)
Benny Hill Show, The (1)
Benny, Jack (1)
Bentley, Dick (1)
Berman, Monty (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Bevan, Aneurin (1)
Beyond Omega (1)
Beyond Our Ken (1)
Beyond the Fringe (1)
Bird, Michael J. (1)
‘Black Orchid’ (Doctor Who) (1)
Black, Peter (1)
Black and White Minstrel Show, The (1)
Blackman, Honor (1)
Blair, Tony (1)
‘Blake’ (Blake’s 7) (1)
Blake, George (1)
Blake’s (1)
possible revival of (1)
and TN’s storytelling (1)
TN proposes to BBC (1)
compared to Star Trek (1)
and Robin Hood legend (1)
character of Blake (1)
first season (1)
critical reaction to (1)
special effects in (1)
novelization of (1)
second season (1), (2)
third season (1)
fourth season (1)
cult following in the United States (1)
enduring popularity of (1)
as radio plays (1)
and story arc (1)
Blake’s 7 (Hoyle) (1)
Blake’s Junction (1)
Blessed, Brian (1)
‘Blood Donor, The’ (Hancock’s Half Hour) (1)
Bluett, Kitty (1)
Bob Hope Programme, The (1)
‘Body Snatchers, The’ (The Champions) (1)
Boston, Richard (1)
‘Botany Bay’ (Out of this World) (1)
Boucher, Chris (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6)
‘Bounty’ (Blake’s 7) (1)
Boultwood, Deb (1), (2), (3)
Bowles, Peter (1)
Boyle, Robin (1)
Bradbury, Ray (1), (2)
Braham, Charles (1)
Brambell, Wilfred (1)
Broadley, Philip (1)
Brooks, Edwy Searles (1)
Brownlow, Kevin (1)
Bryce, John (1)
Buchan, John (1), (2)
Bulldog Drummond (1), (2)
Callaghan, James (1)
Calling All Forces (1)
Calling the Stars (1)
Calvin, Wyn (1), (2)
Cardiff (1)
Cardiff Arts Ball (1)
Carnell, John (1)
Carry On Behind (1)
Carry On Columbus (1)
Cartmel, Andrew (1)
Castle, Roy (1)
Catchpole, Charlie (1)
Caves of Steel, The (1), (2)
‘Cellar Full of Silence, A’ (Department S) (1)
Chadbon, Tom (1)
‘Chain of Events’ (The Persuaders!) (1), (2)
Champions, The (1), (2)
Chan, Jacqui (1)
Chandler, Raymond (1)
Chappell, Jan (1)
Charlie McCarthy Show, The (1)
Charteris, Leslie (1), (2), (3), (4), (5), (6), (7), (8)
‘Chase, The’ (Doctor Who) (1), (2)
Chesney, Ronald (1)
Chesterton, Ian (1)
Chilton, Charles (1)
‘Chosen, The’ (Survivors) (1)
Churchill, Winston (1), (2)
Clark, Sir Kenneth (1)
Clemens, Brian (1)
on TN’s writing style (1)
rivalry with TN (1)
influence of radio drama (1)
on TN’s wealth (1)
on The Avengers (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
on script editors (1)
co-writes And Soon the Darkness (1)
and ‘K Is for Killing’ (1)
bring lawsuit against TN (1), (2)
Coburn, Anthony (1), (2), (3)
Cold Lazarus (1)
Coldwell, Elizabeth (1)
Collins, Joan (1)
Come Back Mrs Noah (1)
Comedy Playhouse (1)
comics (1)
Conan Doyle, Arthur (1), (2), (3)
Connor, Kenneth (1)
Cooper, Tommy (1)
Copley, Peter (1)
Costanza, George (1)
Cotton, Bill (1), (2)
Count of Monte Cristo, The (1)
‘Countdown’ (Blake’s 7) (1)
‘Countdown’ (The Baron) (1)
Courtney, Nicholas (1)
Creasey, John (1), (2), (3)
Cribbens, Bernard (1), (2)
Crichton, Charles (1)
‘Crime of the Century, The’ (The Saint) (1)
Critchley, Julian (1)
Croft, David (1)
Crook, Mackenzie (1)
Crosby, Bing (1)
Crossman, Richard (1)
Crozier, Mary (1), (2), (3)
Cryer, Barry (1), (2)
Curse of the Daleks, The (Nation and Whitaker) (1)
Curtis, Tony (1), (2), (3), (4)
Cushing, Peter (1), (2)
Cusick, Raymond P. (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Cuthbertson, Iain (1)
Cybermen (1)
Daily Express (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Daily Mail (1), (2), (3)
Daily Mirror (1), (2)
‘Dalek’ (Doctor Who) (1)
‘Dal
ek Invasion of Earth, The’ (Doctor Who) (1), (2), (3), (4)
Dalek Outer Space Book, The (Ashton) (1)
‘Daleks, The’ (Doctor Who) (1), (2)
Daleks, The
return in 2005 (1)
origins of name (1)
success of (1)
creation of (1)
design of (1)
immediate impact of (1)
and Dalekmania (1)
in TV Century 21 (1)
continuing appearance (1), (2)
apparent disappearance in 1967 (1)
TN’s control over use of (1)
return in ‘Planet of the Daleks’ (1), (2), (3)
and ‘Genesis of the Daleks’ (1)
and ‘Destiny of the Daleks’ (1)
last appearance in 1980s (1)
in 2005 series (1)
and TN (1), (2)
Daleks Book, The (Nation) (1), (2)
Daleks–Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. (1)
Daleks’ Master Plan, The’ (Doctor Who) (1), (2), (3)
‘Daleks: The Secret Invasion’ (Nation) (1)
Dandy (1)
Danger Man (1), (2)
Danger – Men At Work (1)
Dare, Daphne (1)
Darrow, Paul (1), (2), (3), (4), (5)
Davies, Clement (1)
Davies, Russell T. (1)
Davis, Gerry (1)
Davros (1), (2)
‘Dawn’ (The Saint) (1)
Day After, The (1)
Day of the Triffids, The (Wyndham) (1), (2), (3)
de Souza, Edward (1)
‘Death in the Family, A’ (The Persuaders!) (1)
‘Death to the Daleks (Doctor Who) (1), (2), (3)
‘Deliverance’ (Blake’s 7) (1), (2)
Department S (1), (2)
‘Desperate Diplomat, The’ (The Saint) (1)
‘Destiny of the Daleks’ (1)
Detective Weekly (1)
Dick, Philip K. (1)
Dickie Valentine Show, The (1)
Dicks, Terrance (1)
describes TN (1)
on TN’s writing style (1), (2), (3)
on the Daleks (1), (2), (3)
on TN’s wealth (1)
on script editors (1)
on Roger Hancock (1)
plans ninth season of Doctor Who (1)
and Doctor Who books (1), (2), (3)
and ‘Death to the Daleks’ (1)
Dirty Dozen, The (1)
‘Disorderly Room, The’ (1)
Doctor Who
2005 series (1), (2)
support from Huw Wheldon (1)
TN starts work on (1)
impact of first episode (1)
and ‘The Dalek Invasion of Earth’ (1)
filming of (1)
and ‘The Chase’ (1)
and ‘The Daleks’ Master Plan’ (1)
changes in 1970s (1)
‘Genesis of the Daleks’ voted best story (1)
