Terrance Dicks
- Writing
- May 10, 1935 · East Ham, London, England, UK
- August 29, 2019
Biography
Terrance Dicks was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. Dicks had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, which began when he worked as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974. Dicks also wrote for the series from the '70s through to the '80s and, at the same time, he penned some 60 odd novelisations of Doctor Who stories for Target Books. In the 1990s, Dicks wrote further original stories in the New Adventures and Missing Adventures range for Virgin. When BBC Books bought the rights to Doctor Who in the late '90s his novel, The Eight Doctors, was the first to be released.
Known for
Filmography
- Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour · Writer
- Tales of the Tardis · Script Editor
- Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
- Doctor Who and the Third Man
- Panopticon Genesis
- A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
- Axon Stations!
- Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
- IMC Needs You!
- Life on Earth · Self
- The Doctor's Moriarty · Self
- Plastic Fantastic
- Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
- Warriors of Mars
- The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
- The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
- Roger Delgado: The Master
- Shades of Grey
- The Frighten Factor
- The K-9 Files
- The Elusive David Agnew
- Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
- Hello Sailor!
- Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who · Self
- Rogue Time Lords
- Are Friends Electric?
- Built for War: The Sontaran Story
- Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
- The Dalek Tapes · Self
- Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
- The Story of Doctor Who
- ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
- Adventures in Space and Time · Self
- Carnival of Monsters
- Mindgame Trilogy · Writer
- Lust in Space · Self
- Mindgame · Writer
- Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
- Who is Tom Baker?
- Downtime · Script Consultant
- The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
- Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans · Writer
- 30 Years in the TARDIS · Self
- Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure · Writer
- The Franchise Affair · Producer
- Vanity Fair · Producer
- David Copperfield · Producer
- Who's Who
- Doctor Who's Who's Who
- Oliver Twist · Producer
- The Prisoner of Zenda · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Five Doctors · Writer
- Beau Geste · Script Editor, Creator
- The Hound of the Baskervilles · Script Editor
- Stalky & Co · Script Editor
- Great Expectations · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: State of Decay · Writer
- Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock · Writer
- Whose Doctor Who · Consulting Editor
- Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius · Writer
- Space: 1999 · Writer
- The Invisible Man · Writer
- Doctor Who: Robot · Writer
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior · Script Editor
- Moonbase 3 · Writer, Creator
- Doctor Who: The Green Death · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Mutants · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons · Script Editor
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space · Script Editor