Terry Nation Army Season 1, Episode 9: A Mechanical Appendix

Camber's Dalek Disaster

this episode discusses an epic failure during a location shoot resulted in the construction of an ingenious prop which still survives today. And reveals a previously unknown fact about The Daleks Master Plan special effects work.

14 min

The Mystery of Terry Nation's Special Daleks

this episode explores the distant origins of one of the most unusual Daleks to appear on TV; the Supreme in Planet of the Daleks. It also explains how Terry Nation came to own the Supreme and three other movie props, and discovers their true genesis to discover they are not actually movie Daleks after all.

17 min

Shepperton's Secrets – Part One

Behind the scenes making the second Peter Cushing movie. How Shepperton Studio's standing set and backlot were used, and how the historic grounds became featured in Daleks Invasion Earth 2150AD.

25 min

Shepperton's Secrets – Part Two

the concluding half of the investigations into the filming of the Dalek Invasion at Shepperton Studios, piecing together the timeline at the end of production to reveal a desperate scramble to reassemble the set and film some decent Dalek footage.

25 min

Destroyers from the Unknown

This episode looks at two lost Dalek productions, neither of which were "Doctor Who" episodes. Firstly ‘The Destroyers’, which was the pilot episode of a Dalek spinoff series which Terry Nation tried to launch, and how the legal agreements may - or may not - have influenced Doctor Who. And the Out of the Unknown episode called ‘Get Off My Cloud’, which featured the Daleks in a dreamworld, but is lost from the archives.

24 min

The Haylock Conspiracy

This week the influences behind the introduction of "one of the supreme council" in Planet of the Daleks, and the goings on in the background which nearly derailed the whole process

19 min

Policing the Boxes

4 min

The Society of Machines

23 min

Fixing Remembrance in the Edit

12 min

The Abyss of the Black Jellyfish

In this episode, ‘take a deep dive into John's Hole to find out why filming at an open cast mine turned out to be slightly irrelevant, how Terry Nation's design ideas were ignored in the creation of his new monster,

20 min

Blasting from Exxilon to Tatooine

6 min