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John Lavalie http://cuttingsarchive.org/index.php?title=Mr_Dalek_Dies&diff=14422&oldid=prev 2016-08-01T22:44:57Z

<p>Created page with &quot;{{obit|Terry Nation}}{{article | publication = Daily Mirror | file = 1997-03-12 Daily Mirror.jpg | px = 650 | height = | width = | date = 1997-03-12 | author = David Thompso...&quot;</p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{obit|Terry Nation}}{{article<br /> | publication = Daily Mirror<br /> | file = 1997-03-12 Daily Mirror.jpg<br /> | px = 650<br /> | height = <br /> | width = <br /> | date = 1997-03-12<br /> | author = David Thompson<br /> | pages = <br /> | language = English <br /> | type = <br /> | description = <br /> | categories = <br /> | moreTitles = <br /> | morePublications = <br /> | moreDates = <br /> | text = <br /> Dr Who writer scared millions <br /> <br /> THE man who created the Daleks in TV's Doctor Who has died, aged 66.<br /> <br /> Scriptwriter Terry Nation's robotic aliens scared and enthralled millions of youngsters with their death rays and a battle cry of EX-TER-MIN-ATE.<br /> <br /> They first appeared in a 1963 episode called The Dead Planet with William Hartnell as the first Time Lord.<br /> <br /> They then became part of national life as the BBC programme took off.<br /> <br /> Nation, who had suffered from emphysema for a number of years, died at home in Los Angeles on Sunday.<br /> <br /> He was born in Cardiff and worked as a comedian, later turning his hand to scriptwriting.<br /> <br /> He said of his creation: &quot;I certainly didn't set out to frighten children with the Daleks.&quot;<br /> <br /> And he once joked he was responsible for putting &quot;Exterminate&quot; into the vocabulary of three-year-olds.<br /> <br /> Nation, who owned the rights to the Dalek, penned six episodes of Dr Who.<br /> <br /> He also wrote plays, adaptations and sci fi, as well as scripts for Terry Scott, Stanley Baxter, Tony Hancock. and the Goon Show.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> <br /> 5 THINGS YOU DIDN'T KNOW ABOUT ROBOTS<br /> <br /> (1) NAME was taken from an encyclopaedia marked DAL-EK.<br /> <br /> (2) IN early shows the front of the gun was a rubber sink plunger. <br /> <br /> (3) THEY come from the planet Scaro. <br /> <br /> (4) THEY &quot;live&quot; part of the Dalek is a slimy green being about the size of a brain.<br /> <br /> (5) THE Supreme Dalek is golden.<br /> <br /> <br /> Caption: TAKING PLUNGE: Nation with one of Daleks<br /> <br /> Spelling correction: Skaro<br /> }}</div>

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