"The Daleks don’t have any personal character, any conscience, or morality. They are totally bad. This has worried some American companies interested in them —Americans seem to think that even the blackest villain must have some redeeming features. They had to have a purpose, and I knew what: they were concerned with total domination."
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Terry Nation, "Doctor Who's who – archive, 1966" by Howard Loxton (1966), The Guardian; reposted (January 31, 2017).
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