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        4. Terry Nation ( – 97) was born on this day (8 August) 86 years ago.
        5. Before becoming a film scriptwriter, Terry Nation was a prolific writer of UK television scripts in both the action and science fiction genres.

          6. One of the most significant of contributors to British genre television, Terry Nation (born in Cardiff on 8 August 1930) will always be remembered as creator of those formidable despots of the Universe, the Daleks, the most popular adversary of the BBC's Doctor Who.

          His oft-quoted mantra was that "the function of people in television should be to take people away from all their daily toil", and in doing so Nation became one of Britain's most successful television writers in the 1960s and 1970s.

          He got his foot in the show business door through his work in the field of comedy.

          Attempting to launch himself as a comedian in the early 1950s, he found his reception less than encouraging; his material showed promise, but his delivery did not. Taken under the wing of Spike Milligan, he became a writer in the comedian's Associated London Scripts, working alongside Galton and Simpson, Johnny Speight and John Junkin.

          During the 1950s, he worked on some 200 radio scripts