Doctor Who Collection : The Lost TV Episodes

Terry Nation is best known to Doctor Who fans as the creator of the Daleks. His first serial featuring them was The Daleks (aka The Dead Planet/The Mutants), and he went on to write several more including The Dalek Invasion of Earth, The Chase, The Daleks' Master Plan (with Dennis Spooner) and Genesis of the Daleks. He also penned two non-Dalek episodes, The Keys of Marinus and The Android Invasion. As well as Doctor Who, Terry Nation's TV work also includes The Saint, Department S, The Persuaders and The Avengers. He also created two other sci-fi cult hits. Survivors and Blake's 7. Terry Nation died in LA in 1997. John Lucarotti first wrote about Marco Polo when he scripted an eighteen-part radio series about him for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. When he was approached to write for Doctor Who, he remembered this CBC series and chose the medieval explorer as his subject. He contributed two more scripts for the series - The Aztecs and The Massacre of St. Bartholomew's Eve - and wrote the novelisations of all his scripts for Target books. He died in Paris on 20 November 1994, aged 68. Brian Hayles wrote for radio, television and film, including such series as The Archers, United! and Z Cars. Hayles' work on Doctor Who included adventures for the first three Doctors. His first story was the well-remembered The Celestial Toymaker, and after his historical adventure The Smugglers, Hayles wrote The Ice Warriors - introducing the creatures for which he is best remembered. He wrote three further Ice Warriors stories, the last two featuring the Third Doctor and set on the feudal planet Peladon. Brian Hayles died in 1978. Donald Tosh worked at Granada in the early Sixties, where he greenlighted the series Florizel Street - later to become Coronation Street. After moving to the BBC, he became Story Editor for Doctor Who, and contributed to the scripts for several serials including The Massacre and The Celestial Toymaker. He left television in the 1970s and