The Best Episodes Written By Terry Nation

Every TV Episode Written by Terry Nation Ranked from Best to Worst by Thousands of Voters

  1. Background image for Genesis
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Genesis

    S1:E2

    Abby meets Arthur Wormley who has some strong ideas about how the survivors of 'the death' should organise themselves. Meanwhile Greg Preston (Ian McCulloch) meets a strong willed woman called Anne (Myra Frances) who needs his help to rescue a man who is trapped under a tractor in a nearby quarry. Elsewhere Jenny is still wandering the countryside alone...

    Director:Gerald Blake
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  2. Background image for Gone Away
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - Gone Away

    S1:E3

    Abby, Jenny and Greg have made an abandoned church their base. Abby hopes to find her son Peter. They make a trip to a nearby supermarket to gather some food supplies and encounter some of Wormley's men who insist they leave their loot. Jenny and Greg overpower them and they escape. The men are intent on revenge and begin to search the countryside for the trio...

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    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - Something of Value

    S1:E12

    When a flood destroys both their crops and stores, the survivors decide to trade the petrol in the tanker driven there by Donnie and Anne, as its the only thing of value they have left. Greg and Jenny set off in the tanker to trade with a nearby settlement. However they are followed by a man called Lawson and his two cronies, who want the petrol for themselves at any cost...

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  4. Background image for A Beginning
    10.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - A Beginning

    S1:E13

    Abby is tiring of life at the grange and her thoughts turn to resuming her search for her son. After a row with Greg over the taking in of a sick girl, Ruth. Abby sets off for Waterhouse to find Jimmy Garland. Meanwhile Greg and Arthur make their first attempts towards federating the communities that have sprung up since 'the death'. When Ruth recovers, Greg and Jenny discover she is a former medical student and that she has some startling news for them...

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  5. Background image for Genesis of the Daleks (6)
    9.6/10(8 votes)

    #5 - Genesis of the Daleks (6)

    S12:E16

    Gharman tries to convince the Kaleds to vote against the Dalek project but Davros has a trick up his sleeve, while the Doctor works to destroy the tape recording of Dalek victory and the Thals plan an intervention of their own.

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  6. Background image for Genesis of the Daleks (1)
    9.1/10(9 votes)

    #6 - Genesis of the Daleks (1)

    S12:E11

    The planet Skaro, the distant past. The Time Lords divert the Doctor, Sarah Jane and Harry to this war-torn world, and give the Doctor a mission: the evil of the Daleks is about to be born here, and the Doctor is to try to ensure they evolve into less lethally aggressive beings - or, failing that, to avert their creation altogether. But has even the Doctor the right to commit genocide?

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  7. Background image for Genesis of the Daleks (4)
    9.1/10(8 votes)

    #7 - Genesis of the Daleks (4)

    S12:E14

    The Doctor fails to prevent the Thals from destroying the Kaled city but they don't have long to enjoy their victory before the Daleks attack.

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    9.1/10(8 votes)

    #8 - Genesis of the Daleks (5)

    S12:E15

    The Doctor is forced to give Davros full details of future Dalek victories but opposition to Davros' plans is growing among the Kaleds and soon there is open rebellion.

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    9.0/10(8 votes)

    #9 - Genesis of the Daleks (2)

    S12:E12

    The Doctor and Harry are taken to the Kaled bunker where Davros is preparing to demonstrate the Daleks, while Sarah Jane is captured by the Thals and taken to their city as a slave worker.

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  10. Background image for The Fourth Horseman
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #10 - The Fourth Horseman

    S1:E1

    A virulent flu bug is spreading through the country like wildfire. Abby Grant (Carolyn Seymour) and her husband David (Peter Bowles) are aware that the flu has reportedly claimed millions of people's lives in China, but they don't think that could happen in England. Abby becomes ill and takes to her bed. Meanwhile Jenny Richards (Lucy Fleming) learns from a doctor that this is no flu bug and that hundreds are now dying. Acting on his advice she flees London for the countryside. Abby wakes days later and fears that she may be the only one left alive...

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  11. Background image for Genesis of the Daleks (3)
    8.9/10(8 votes)

    #11 - Genesis of the Daleks (3)

    S12:E13

    The Doctor and Harry head to the Kaled city to alert the authorities to Davros' plans while Sarah Jane and Sevrin are forced to work on the completion of the Thals' rocket.

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  12. Background image for Thief of Budapest
    8.0/10(4 votes)

    #12 - Thief of Budapest

    S1:E3

    MacGyver travels to Budapest to meet with a Russian double agent who is in possession of a watch containing information about other Russian spies. However, before MacGyver can take the watch, the agent is killed and the watch is stolen. Now MacGyver must work with the Gypsies to get it back.

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  13. Background image for Target MacGyver
    8.0/10(2 votes)

    #13 - Target MacGyver

    S1:E10

    After blowing away a nuclear facility under the control of an aggressive world leader, MacGyver returns home for some peace and quiet, only to find his boss waiting for him. He advises MacGyver that a contract is out on his life and he needs to skip town for awhile.

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  14. Background image for Destiny of the Daleks (1)
    7.8/10(5 votes)

    #14 - Destiny of the Daleks (1)

    S17:E1

    Skaro, the Dalek homeworld, some time in the future. The TARDIS lands in the irradiated ruins of the old Kaled city and something is moving underneath the wasted surface of the planet…

    Director:Ken Grieve
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  15. Background image for Destiny of the Daleks (2)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #15 - Destiny of the Daleks (2)

    S17:E2

    Romana has been captured by the Daleks, the Doctor is the guest of the Movellans. The Daleks are drilling deep into Skaro for something and the Doctor has an awful suspicion about their objective…

    Director:Ken Grieve
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  16. Background image for Destiny of the Daleks (4)
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #16 - Destiny of the Daleks (4)

    S17:E4

    Trapped between the Movellans and the Daleks, the Doctor must find a way to defeat both. Meanwhile, vast space fleets await new orders.

    Director:Ken Grieve
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  17. Background image for The Golden Triangle
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #17 - The Golden Triangle

    S1:E2

    When MacGyver tries to retrieve a canister filled with a deadly chemical in Burma, he stumbles right into an area known as the Golden Triangle, where the military uses farmers as slaves on the opium fields. MacGyver is mistaken for a narcotics agent and is captured, but convinces the slaves to fight their oppression. MacGyver assists by setting several traps at the slave camp, and when the army returns to suppress the unrest, the real action begins.

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  18. Background image for A Home of One's Own
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #18 - A Home of One's Own

    S1:E16

    Danny buys a `handy man's special' cottage in England and discovers that his neighbors are into the occult.

    Director:James Hill
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  19. Background image for Five Miles to Midnight
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #19 - Five Miles to Midnight

    S1:E17

    Trying to open a travel business, Danny and Brett encounter a New York hoodlum who needs to be smuggled out of Italy after he killed an Italian gangster.

    Director:Val Guest
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  20. Background image for A Death in the Family
    7.7/10(3 votes)

    #20 - A Death in the Family

    S1:E21

    Brett's relatives are being killed off one by one, so Brett and Danny decide to find the killer before he gets to Brett.

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  21. Background image for Planet of the Daleks (5)
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #21 - Planet of the Daleks (5)

    S10:E19

    The Doctor and his friends ambush two Daleks as part of their plan to get back into the city, but the Daleks are on the verge of unleashing their virus.

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  22. Background image for Planet of the Daleks (6)
    7.6/10(5 votes)

    #22 - Planet of the Daleks (6)

    S10:E20

    The Doctor and his friends prepare to refreeze the Dalek army but the Dalek Supreme has arrived on the planet determined to destroy them all.

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  23. Background image for Destiny of the Daleks (3)
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #23 - Destiny of the Daleks (3)

    S17:E3

    The Daleks have awoken Davros in the heart of Skaro. Only the Doctor and the Movellans stand between them and their objective. But are the Movellans really on the Doctor's side?

    Director:Ken Grieve
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  24. Background image for Chain of Events
    7.5/10(4 votes)

    #24 - Chain of Events

    S1:E11

    While out camping at Brett's family estate, Danny gets chained to a brief case which he can't get off that contains a bomb.

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  25. Background image for Planet of the Daleks (3)
    7.4/10(5 votes)

    #25 - Planet of the Daleks (3)

    S10:E17

    The Doctor and Codal escape from their cell and meet up with the Thal commandos who are trying to get into the Dalek base.

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Terry Nation Ratings Summary

"Genesis" is the best rated episode written by Terry Nation. It scored 10/10 based on 1 votes. It was directed by Gerald Blake. It aired on 4/23/1975 and is rated 0.0 points higher than their second-best episode, "Gone Away".