Nicholas Briggs masters the best of Terry Nation’s writing voice, creating an utterly compelling drama in Susan and her deep, challenging relationship with the Daleks. These are the menacing, canny Daleks that we rarely get to see on TV.

Susan is a bit of a precursor to Liv Chenka - similar characters with a different backstory. The story of how the Daleks follow Susan’s conversations in order to work out how best to manipulate humans is frightening and effecting. The heightened premise is made real - similar to Nation’s Survivors or Blake’s 7.