The BEST episodes written by Terry Nation

#1 - Jeannine

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 3

Simon becomes interested in an oriental diplomat's pearl necklace.

#2 - The Revolution Racket

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 5

A South American police Captain moonlights as an arms dealer.

#3 - Take-Over

The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 30

The home of Steed's friends Bill and Laura Bassett is invaded by a group of ruthless criminals who implant explosives in their throats. Unfortunately, this is the weekend that Steed is coming to stay.

#4 - Sibao

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 21

Simon encounters a young girl who is involved with voodoo.

#5 - Invitation to Danger

The Saint - Season 6 - Episode 2

Simon is taken prisoner by a beautiful blonde secret agent, who picks Simon up in a casino.

#6 - Genesis of the Daleks (6)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 16

#7 - Noon Doomsday

The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 10

Tara visits Steed in a special hospital following an injury to his leg. This is just the backdrop needed by Gerald Kafka, ex-head of Murder International, as he plans his revenge against Steed, who sent him to prison exactly seven years ago. At noon, Steed will die.

#8 - The Desperate Diplomat

The Saint - Season 6 - Episode 4

Simon tries to find a diplomat friend who disappeared with $1,000,000.

#9 - Genesis of the Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 12

#10 - Genesis of the Daleks (4)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 14

#11 - Genesis of the Daleks (1)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 11

#12 - Genesis of the Daleks (5)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 15

#13 - Aftermath

Blake's 7 - Season 3 - Episode 1

Severely damaged by combat in the Galactic War, the Liberator disperses its crew while it repairs itself. Avon lands on a planet and is rescued by the daughter of a former revolutionary. Priceless scenes between Avon and Servalan.

#14 - A Beginning

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 13

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...

#15 - Genesis

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 2

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...

#16 - Gone Away

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 3

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...

#17 - Chain of Events

The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 11

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.

#18 - The Future Hour

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 10

A pregnant young woman called Laura arrives at the grange, seeking shelter from her partner, a man called Huxley, who wants her back but doesn't want her unborn child. Abby and Greg argue as to whether she should be allowed to stay. When John and Lizzie unknowingly give away the fact that Laura is staying at the grange, Huxley embarks on a series of reprisals until the community agrees to give up Laura to him....

#19 - Take Me to Your Leader

The Avengers - Season 6 - Episode 23

The discovery of a talking attache case passed from courier to courier until it finally reaches 'Mr. Big' takes Steed and Tara on a dazzling and surreal romp around London.

#20 - Orac

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 13

The Liberator crew fly to Aristo to deliver the supplies to Ensor, in exchange for radiation drugs and the computer Orac, which Ensor gives to Blake before he dies. Orac predicts the destruction of the Liberator.

#21 - Redemption

Blake's 7 - Season 2 - Episode 1

The crew encounter the System, builders and original owners of the Liberator (known to them as Deep Space Vehicle-2). They disable its defense systems in an attempt to try to get their craft back. A sister ship (DSV-1), in pursuit, is destroyed by Orac.

#22 - Something of Value

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 12

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...

#23 - Genesis of the Daleks (3)

Doctor Who - Season 12 - Episode 13

#24 - Take Seven

The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 3

Danny and Brett try to help a girl whose "long lost brother" has suddenly appeared, cutting her off from her inheritance.

#25 - The Contract

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 14

An American airman is seeking revenge against The Saint.

#26 - Space Fall

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 2

Blake and some criminals attempt to seize control of the prison ship london as it passess a space war where an abandoned ship is found.

#27 - Someone Waiting

The Persuaders! - Season 1 - Episode 24

#28 - Planet of the Daleks (1)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 15

#29 - Lida

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 2

Simon comes to the aid of a girl who is being blackmailed.

#30 - Destiny of the Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 2

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…

#31 - Terminal

Blake's 7 - Season 3 - Episode 13

Avon secretly takes over the ship and flies it through a field containing enzymes which eat away at the Liberator's hull. They reach the planetoid Terminal, where Avon believes Blake is residing.

#32 - Garland's War

Survivors - Season 1 - Episode 6

Abby becomes separated from Jenny and Greg and rescues a man called Jimmy Garland (Richard Heffer) who is waging his own personal war against a man called Knox (Peter Jeffrey). Garland is heir to the Waterhouse estate that Knox has taken over and he wants it back so he can lead the community that has started there. Abby is captured by Knox and he tries to convince her that Garland has aggravated the situation and that he is willing to co-operate...

#33 - The Time to Die

The Saint - Season 6 - Episode 7

Simon stalks an avenging killer bent on playing a clever game of cat-and-mouse with his pursuer.

#34 - The Crime of the Century

The Saint - Season 3 - Episode 22

Simon joins forces with, his old adversary, Inspector Teal to stop the crime of the century.

#35 - Destiny of the Daleks (4)

Doctor Who - Season 17 - Episode 4

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

#36 - The Daleks' Master Plan: Devil's Planet (3)

Doctor Who - Season 3 - Episode 12

#37 - Planet of the Daleks (5)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 19

#38 - Planet of the Daleks (4)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 18

#39 - Powerplay

Blake's 7 - Season 3 - Episode 2

Avon and Dayna return to the Liberator, only to find it has been claimed by Tarrant. The rest of the crew are rescued by a medical ship and eventually brought back to the Liberator.

#40 - The Dalek Invasion of Earth: The Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 2 - Episode 5

The Daleks have conquered Earth. Susan and Barbara have joined the human resistance who launch an attack on the Dalek flying saucer where the Doctor and Ian are prisoners.

#41 - Mission to Destiny

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 7

The crew find a ship flying in a circle they investigate and find the crew asleep and the control smashed. Someone has destroyed the controls and is killing the crew one by one trying to get their hands on the priceless neutrotope.

#42 - Target MacGyver

MacGyver - Season 1 - Episode 10

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.

#43 - Project Avalon

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 9

Another freedom-fighter, Avalon, is held hostage by Travis in a Federation detention cell, and is recovered by Blake's crew. Travis devises a plan to destroy Blake and his crew using Avalon.

#44 - The Chase: The Planet of Decision (6)

Doctor Who - Season 2 - Episode 35

#45 - Planet of the Daleks (6)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 20

#46 - Cygnus Alpha

Blake's 7 - Season 1 - Episode 3

Blake tries to rescue the remaining prisoners from the prison planet Cygnus Alpha only to find they have a disease that can be cured by the power mad high priest Vargas

#47 - The Android Invasion (2)

Doctor Who - Season 13 - Episode 14

#48 - Planet of the Daleks (2)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 16

#49 - Planet of the Daleks (3)

Doctor Who - Season 10 - Episode 17

#50 - The Daleks: The Survivors (2)

Doctor Who - Season 1 - Episode 6

The dead planet is not uninhabited after all. The Doctor is about to meet what will become his greatest enemies. And he and his crew are dying of radiation sickness.