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Talk of the Dr Who and Nu-Who’s over-use of corny plot devices has made me nostalgic for Terry Nation. As the man who gave us The Daleks, Nation understood science-fiction at a gut level in a way Steven Moffat never will. As well as writing some of the best of “old Who” (Who can forget “Genesis of the Daleks”?), Terry Nation also gave us “Blake’s 7″, “Survivors” and the underrated “Star Cops”. We need a present-day Terry Nation to write the same sort of grown-up, intelligent science-fiction without an American accent for today’s audiences.