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November 24, 2003
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Terry Nation was the genius behind Blake's 7, responsible for much of The Saint and The Avengers and created the scariest Dr. Who villains ever. While I cannot blame him for wanting to discombobulate the BBC, I am most unhappy a proviso of his will may mean there will be no Daleks in the new Who.
The BBC jointly owns the rights to the Daleks with inventor Terry Nation, who died in 1997. And while BBC chiefs want the robotic killing machines in the new series the executors of Mr Nation’s estate are saying No. A TV insider said: “No one knows exactly why, but Terry fell out with the BBC at some point. He told the executors never to let the BBC use the Daleks again. “Fans want to see the Daleks return, but they may be disappointed.”
Posted by Ghost of a flea at November 24, 2003 09:33 AM
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I have a feeling that the falling out may have been over "Blake's Seven". Didn't they end the series kind of abruptly, killing (in a sense), a child of his?
That might have soured him towards them using anything else he had worked on.
Posted by: FredKiesche at November 25, 2003 09:02 PM