Terry Nation Army

Aug 12, 2019

TNA Extra: The Movie Studios Police Boxes TARDIS Facts! Police Box Facts! Sign Facts! ‘a special, slightly off-topic look at the various TARDIS and other Police Box props of the 1960’s

Aug 12, 2019

Inspired by Dudley Simpson's opening theme for the Doctor Who story The Chase, this music was used as a backing track for Dalek 63-88's first episode of Terry Nation Army.

Aug 22, 2019

a combination of composer Graeme Allan's memory of Dudley Simpson's score for the Doctor Who story The Chase, and original music based on it. The composer's memory was a little too clear and there's as much Dudley in this piece as there is Grame! Also some Saint-Saens and a tiny bit of Bartok...

Sep 8, 2019

In the third instalment of Music from Terry Nation Army, we journey back to the second Dalek movie made in 1965 (AD) at Shepperton. This music was featured in the second episode looking at the making of Dalek's Invasion Earth 2150 A.D. at Shepperton studios... While most of the music composer Graeme Allan wrote for that episode was original, there were a few minutes of original music from the movie transcribed and arranged for inclusion in the soundtrack, and it is these that are presented here.

Oct 14, 2019

This TNA Extra looks behind the scenes of “The Mechonoids” from the 1965 serial ‘The Chase’ - Terry Nation's abandoned design - The deleted robot - Where are they now? - Some dodgy narration..

Oct 22, 2019

A deep dive into the 1960s scripting processes to examine how they cocked up the Mechonoids' names. PLUS: Ealing Prop Mystery Solved Mechonoid Construction Secrets Fungoid Etymology Fun with Mimeography

Oct 30, 2019

this TNA Extra brings a wealth of unseen footage from Remembrance of the Daleks which reveals the troubled tale of how they struggled to end the Dalek civil war using the footage that had been shot. The Special Weapons Dalek caused some unexpected problems!

Nov 14, 2019

Episode 1 of the Mandalorian has a moment which will stop a Doctor Who fan in their tracks ... if they happen to have an encyclopedic knowledge of Dalek weaponry. In this episode we look at a few of the times that the Star Wars and Doctor Who universes overlapped.

Nov 8, 2019

‘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,

Dec 25, 2019

Doctor Who's first ever Christmas special is very strange indeed, but it has fascinating origins...

Feb 28, 2020

Everything you were told is a lie! In 1970... EVERYTHING CHANGED! Was the Doctor a human inventor?! SHOCKING REVELATIONS! BROKEN CONTINUITY!! PATRICK TROUGHTON'S CHEST!!! TIME ROTOR ARGUMENTS!!!! When Doctor Who was first created, the main character was definitely from another galaxy. But many changes were made and different writers had different ideas, many of which went unchallenged.