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Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks

Writer · 1935–2019 · East Ham, London, England, UK

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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.

Wrote 49

2020s

  1. 2024

    Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour

    Writer

  2. 2023

    Tales of the Tardis

    Script Editor

1990s

  1. 1999

    Mindgame Trilogy

    Writer

  2. 1998

    Mindgame

    Writer

  3. 1995

    Downtime

    Script Consultant

  4. 1994

    Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

    Writer

1980s

  1. 1989

    Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure

    Writer

  2. 1984

    The Prisoner of Zenda

    Script Editor

  3. 1983

    Doctor Who: The Five Doctors

    Writer

  4. 1982

    Beau Geste

    Script Editor

  5. The Hound of the Baskervilles

    Script Editor

  6. 1981

    Great Expectations

    Script Editor

  7. 1980

    Doctor Who: State of Decay

    Writer

1970s

  1. 1977

    Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock

    Writer

  2. 1976

    Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius

    Writer

  3. 1975

    Space: 1999

    Writer

    72

  4. The Invisible Man

    Writer

  5. Doctor Who: Robot

    Writer

  6. 1974

    Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders

    Script Editor

  7. Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon

    Script Editor

  8. Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks

    Script Editor

  9. Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs

    Script Editor

  10. Doctor Who: The Time Warrior

    Script Editor

  11. 1973

    Moonbase 3

    Writer

  12. Doctor Who: The Green Death

    Script Editor

  13. Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks

    Script Editor

  14. Doctor Who: Frontier in Space

    Script Editor

  15. Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters

    Script Editor

  16. 1972

    Doctor Who: The Time Monster

    Script Editor

  17. Doctor Who: The Mutants

    Script Editor

  18. Doctor Who: The Sea Devils

    Script Editor

  19. Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon

    Script Editor

  20. Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks

    Script Editor

  21. 1971

    Doctor Who: The Dæmons

    Script Editor

  22. Doctor Who: Colony in Space

    Script Editor

  23. Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos

    Script Editor

  24. Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil

    Script Editor

  25. Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons

    Script Editor

  26. 1970

    Doctor Who: Inferno

    Script Editor

  27. Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death

    Script Editor

  28. Doctor Who and the Silurians

    Script Editor

  29. Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space

    Script Editor

1960s

  1. 1969

    Doctor Who: The War Games

    Writer, Script Editor

  2. Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death

    Script Editor

  3. Doctor Who: The Krotons

    Script Editor

  4. 1968

    Doctor Who: The Invasion

    Script Editor

  5. 1963

    Doctor Who

    Writer, Script Editor

    83
  6. 1961

    The Avengers

    Writer, Teleplay

    82

No release date

  1. Mindgame Requiem

    Writer

Acted in 33

2020s

  1. 2021

    Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

    Movie

2010s

  1. 2019

    Doctor Who and the Third Man

    Movie

  2. 2017

    Panopticon Genesis

    Movie

  3. 2013

    A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

    Movie

  4. 2012

    Axon Stations!

    Movie

  5. Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

    Movie

  6. 2011

    IMC Needs You!

    Movie

  7. Plastic Fantastic

    Movie

  8. Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour

    Movie

  9. 2010

    Warriors of Mars

    Movie

2000s

  1. 2009

    The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

    Movie

  2. The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

    Movie

  3. Roger Delgado: The Master

    Movie

  4. Shades of Grey

    Movie

  5. The Frighten Factor

    Movie

  6. 2008

    The K-9 Files

    Movie

  7. The Elusive David Agnew

    Movie

  8. Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

    Movie

  9. Hello Sailor!

    Movie · Science Fiction · Documentary

  10. 2007

    Rogue Time Lords

    Movie

  11. Are Friends Electric?

    Movie

  12. 2006

    Built for War: The Sontaran Story

    Movie

  13. Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

    Movie

  14. 2005

    Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

    Movie

  15. 2003

    The Story of Doctor Who

    Movie

  16. 2001

    ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

    Movie

1990s

  1. 1999

    Carnival of Monsters

    Movie

  2. 1998

    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    Movie

  3. 1997

    Who is Tom Baker?

    Movie

  4. 1995

    The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

    Movie

1980s

  1. 1986

    Who's Who

    Movie

  2. 1985

    Doctor Who's Who's Who

    TV

1970s

  1. 1977

    Whose Doctor Who

    Movie

Produced 5

1980s

  1. 1988

    The Franchise Affair

    Producer

  2. 1987

    Vanity Fair

    Producer

  3. 1986

    David Copperfield

    Producer

  4. Bratt Farrar

    Producer

  5. 1985

    Oliver Twist

    Producer

Created 2

1980s

  1. 1982

    Beau Geste

    Creator

1970s

  1. 1973

    Moonbase 3

    Creator

Edited 1

1970s

  1. 1977

    Whose Doctor Who

    Consulting Editor

Appearances7

2010s

  1. 2011

    Life on Earth

    Self

  2. The Doctor's Moriarty

    Self

2000s

  1. 2007

    Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

    Self

  2. 2006

    The Dalek Tapes

    Self

1990s

  1. 1999

    Adventures in Space and Time

    Himself

  2. 1998

    Lust in Space

    Self

  3. 1993

    30 Years in the TARDIS

    Himself