Terrance Dicks

Personal Info

Known For

Writing

Known Credits

70

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

  • Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour

    Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour

  • The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

    The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams

  • 30 Years in the TARDIS

    30 Years in the TARDIS

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

    A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee

  • The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

    The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers

  • Axon Stations!

    Axon Stations!

  • Jon & Katy

    Jon & Katy

  • Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

    Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?

  • ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

    ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis

  • The Peladon Saga: Part Two - The Monsters and the Monarchs

    The Peladon Saga: Part Two - The Monsters and the Monarchs

  • Built for War: The Sontaran Story

    Built for War: The Sontaran Story

  • Beginning the End: Making 'The Time Warrior'

    Beginning the End: Making 'The Time Warrior'

  • The Vampire Lovers: The Making of 'State Decay'

    The Vampire Lovers: The Making of 'State Decay'

  • Plastic Fantastic

    Plastic Fantastic

  • The One with the Maggots

    The One with the Maggots

  • IMC Needs You!

    IMC Needs You!

  • War Zone: The End of an Era

    War Zone: The End of an Era

  • The Story of Doctor Who

    The Story of Doctor Who

  • Warriors of Mars

    Warriors of Mars

  • What Lies Beneath

    What Lies Beneath

  • Doctor Who and the Third Man

    Doctor Who and the Third Man

  • The Final Curtain

    The Final Curtain

  • Lord of the Red Planet

    Lord of the Red Planet

  • Hello Sailor!

    Hello Sailor!

  • Mars Probe 7

    Mars Probe 7

  • Mars Probe 7

    Mars Probe 7

  • Lust in Space

    Lust in Space

  • Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

    Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who

  • The K-9 Files

    The K-9 Files

  • Evolution of The Invasion

    Evolution of The Invasion

  • Genesis of a Classic

    Genesis of a Classic

  • Getting a Head

    Getting a Head

  • Who's Who

    Who's Who

  • Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

    Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who

  • Rogue Time Lords

    Rogue Time Lords

  • Life on Earth

    Life on Earth

  • The Dalek Tapes

    The Dalek Tapes

  • Whose Doctor Who

    Whose Doctor Who

  • Shades of Grey

    Shades of Grey

  • Doctor Who's Who's Who

    Doctor Who's Who's Who

  • Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

    Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction

  • The Peladon Saga: Part One - The Markets and the Miners

    The Peladon Saga: Part One - The Markets and the Miners

  • The Doctor's Moriarty

    The Doctor's Moriarty

  • Blasting the Past

    Blasting the Past

  • Adventures in Space and Time

    Adventures in Space and Time

  • K-9 in E-Space

    K-9 in E-Space

  • The U.N.I.T Dating Conundrum

    The U.N.I.T Dating Conundrum

  • Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

    Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files

  • Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

    Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983

  • Panopticon Genesis

    Panopticon Genesis

  • The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

    The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

  • People, Power and Puppetry

    People, Power and Puppetry

  • Carnival of Monsters

    Carnival of Monsters

  • The Devil Rides Out: Making the Daemons

    The Devil Rides Out: Making the Daemons

  • Roger Delgado: The Master

    Roger Delgado: The Master

  • Are Friends Electric?

    Are Friends Electric?

  • Going Underground

    Going Underground

  • Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

    Second Time Around: The Troughton Years

  • Remembering Barry Letts

    Remembering Barry Letts

  • Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado

    Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado

  • Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

    Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised

  • The Elusive David Agnew

    The Elusive David Agnew

  • Hammer Horror

    Hammer Horror

  • Mutt Mad: The Making of 'The Mutants'

    Mutt Mad: The Making of 'The Mutants'

  • Destroy All Monsters!

    Destroy All Monsters!

  • The Frighten Factor

    The Frighten Factor

  • Terrance & Me

    Terrance & Me

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

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

  • Can You Hear the Earth Scream?

    Can You Hear the Earth Scream?

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

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