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A life-sized Dalek and K9 have been unveiled in a town centre to mark Sussex Day and a big Doctor Who anniversary.

Tom Baker as Doctor Who As the Doctor Who legend goes, Sydney Newman was furious when he saw Terry Nation’s scripts for ‘The Daleks’. For Newman – the BBC’s head of drama and a key figure in the creation of the series – the Daleks were the very thing that Doctor Who  shouldn’t be about: bug-eyed monsters. But Terry Nation, a former furniture salesman and gag writer for Tony Hancock, was adamant that his Daleks wouldn’t look like men in rubber suits. “I wanted to take the l...