Former BBC designer Ray Cusick has died of heart failure at age 84, BBC News reports. Cusick is best known for helping create the Daleks, a race of armored aliens that remain one of the most iconic pieces of Doctor Who lore. Writer Terry Nation came up with the concept of the gliding, semi-robotic menaces, which Cusick turned into the squat design that's stayed consistently forbidding over a half-century of television. On a 2008 episode of Doctor Who Confidential , Cusick said that some of the design was practical: a mechanical prop would likely have backfired, so it needed to fit a human operator who would probably be sitting down. "I drew a seat, ergonomic height, 18 inches, got the operator down, then drew around it."
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