Talk:Terry Nation

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I really don't like "Although often derided by modern critics as an overly simplistic and repetitive writer who got lucky with a BBC staff designer's vision for the monster in The Daleks, Nation was an incredibly versatile scriptwriter who wrote for many different kinds of shows with great success."

modern critics - examples ? why "modern" - as opposed to critics at the time, or what ?

incredibly versatile - support for that ? many different kinds - apart from Hancock, the rest of the shows mentioned were all written by a similar pool of writers.

Surely more important is his ability to create a show like Blakes 7 that gained a long lasting fandom.

-- Beardo 06:33, 16 March 2006 (UTC)

I think you're right — I'm removing that section for now, for the time being at least unless references criticism and analysis can be added. Angmering 11:01, 18 March 2006 (UTC)

I've added reqphoto template so that we can maybe get a photo of Terry Nation on this page... Sbwoodside 04:07, 3 July 2006 (UTC)

Done --Deadly∀ssassin^(talk) 03:36, 4 January 2008 (UTC)

Query about reference

One of the references cited is: "Tarrant, Graham. Obituary: Terry Nation. "The Independent". Thursday March 13 1997 (page 18)". Is this a genuine reference? Given how often characters with the name crop up in his work and given that the name is a partial-anagram of Terry Nation, it seems a very bizarre coincidence that an obituary of Terry Nation be written by someone called Tarrant!

-- Joe King 17:23, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

I thought so too when I found and added it! But that's certainly the name that appears on the byline. Sorry there's no online link. Angmering 21:25, 5 November 2006 (UTC)

Bibliography accuracy

The date for Rebecca's World is given as 1978, but my copy is earlier (Beaver Books, 1976) and cites first publication by G. Whizzard Publications / André Deutsch in 1975. I don't have an ISBN for the first edition, so I haven't edited the page.

Philbelb (talk) 12:06, 7 January 2015 (UTC)

Dr Who print debut

Nation is credited as co-author of the earliest Dr Who print publication in ISFDB, catalogued there as June 1964. [1] (The Daleks story was also the first to be published as a novel, we say at The Daleks#In print and give date 22 November 1964.) [2]

Source: Dr Who Universe series listing at the Internet Speculative Fiction Database, which I searched by date and found '1963' in titles only and '1964' as date for these two publications only. --P64 (talk) 20:06, 12 November 2015 (UTC)

Personal life?

The only mention of his wife is in the sidebar, likewise his daughter. Could someone add information about when he married, when his daughter was born, anything at all of a personal nature?

Just a thought :) -- SatyrTN (talk / contribs) 06:59, 17 January 2016 (UTC)

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