Terrance Dicks

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Known Credits

43

Gender

Male

Birthday

1935-05-10

Day of death

2019-08-29 (84 years old)

Place of Birth

East Ham, London, England, UK

Terrance Dicks

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

  • The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

    The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

  • Built for War: The Sontaran Story

    Built for War: The Sontaran Story

  • ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

    ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

  • Rogue Time Lords

    Rogue Time Lords

  • IMC Needs You!

    IMC Needs You!

  • Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

    Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

  • Shades of Grey

    Shades of Grey

  • Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

  • The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

    The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

  • Panopticon Genesis

    Panopticon Genesis

  • Adventures in Space and Time

    Adventures in Space and Time

  • A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

    A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

  • Axon Stations!

    Axon Stations!

  • Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

    Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

  • Warriors of Mars

    Warriors of Mars

  • Plastic Fantastic

    Plastic Fantastic

  • Lust in Space

    Lust in Space

  • The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

    The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

  • Who's Who

    Who's Who

  • The Story of Doctor Who

    The Story of Doctor Who

  • The Doctor's Moriarty

    The Doctor's Moriarty

  • The Dalek Tapes

    The Dalek Tapes

  • Doctor Who's Who's Who

    Doctor Who's Who's Who

  • Doctor Who and the Third Man

    Doctor Who and the Third Man

  • The K-9 Files

    The K-9 Files

  • Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

    Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

  • Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour

    Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour

  • Hello Sailor!

    Hello Sailor!

  • 30 Years in the TARDIS

    30 Years in the TARDIS

  • The Frighten Factor

    The Frighten Factor

  • Whose Doctor Who

    Whose Doctor Who

  • Roger Delgado: The Master

    Roger Delgado: The Master

  • Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

    Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

  • Life on Earth

    Life on Earth

  • Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

    Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

  • Are Friends Electric?

    Are Friends Electric?

  • Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

    Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

  • Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado

    Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado

  • Myth Makers 29: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 2)

    Myth Makers 29: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 2)

  • Carnival of Monsters

    Carnival of Monsters

  • The Elusive David Agnew

    The Elusive David Agnew

  • Terrance & Me

    Terrance & Me

  • Myth Makers 25: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 1)

    Myth Makers 25: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 1)