{"product_id":"terry-nation-isbn-9781781310410","title":"Terry Nation","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe Daleks are one of the most iconic and fearsome creations in  television history. Since their first appearance in 1963, they have  simultaneously fascinated and terrified generations of  children, their  instant success ensuring, and sometimes eclipsing, that of Doctor Who.  They sprang from the imagination of Terry Nation, a failed stand-up  comic who became one of the most prolific writers for television that  Britian ever produced. Survivors, his vision of a post-apocalyptic  England, so haunted audiences in the Seventies that the BBC revived it  over thirty years on, and Blake’s 7, constantly rumored for return,  endures as a cult sci-fi classic. But it is for his genocidal pepperpots  that Nation is most often remembered, and on the 50th anniversary of  their creation they continue to top the Saturday-night ratings.  Yet  while the Daleks brought him notoriety and riches, Nation played a much  wider role in British broadcasting’s golden age. He wrote for Spike  Milligan, Frankie Howerd and an increasingly troubled Tony Hancock, and  as one of the key figures behind the adventure series of the Sixties –  including The Avengers, The Saint and The Persuaders! – he turned the  pulp classics of his boyhood into a major British export. In The Man Who  Invented the Daleks, acclaimed cultural historian Alwyn W. Turner,  explores the curious and contested origins of Doctor Who's greatest  villains, and sheds light on a strange world of ambitious young writers,  producers and performers without whom British culture today would look  very different.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"White Lion Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44896603570405,"sku":"NP9781781310410","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/terry-nation-isbn-9781781310410","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}