Terrance Dicks

Personal Info

Known For Writer

Gender Male

Birthday 1935-05-10

Deathday 2019-08-29 (84 years old)

Place of Birth East Ham, London, England, UK

Also Known As Uncle Terrance

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

Writer

2023
2023
Tales of the Tardis

as Script Editor

1999
1998
Mindgame

as Writer

1984
The Prisoner of Zenda

as Script Editor

1975
1975
Space: 1999

as Writer

1975
1974
1973
1973
1972
1971
Doctor Who: The Dæmons

as Script Editor

1971
1971
1971
1970
Doctor Who: Inferno

as Script Editor

1969
Doctor Who: The Krotons

as Script Editor

1969
Doctor Who: The War Games

as Script Editor

1968
Doctor Who: The Invasion

as Script Editor

1963
Doctor Who

as Writer

1961
The Avengers

as Writer

1961
The Avengers

as Teleplay

Editor

1977
Whose Doctor Who

as Consulting Editor

Producer

1985
Oliver Twist

as Producer

Creator

1973
Moonbase 3

as Creator