
Terrance Dicks
Known for department: Writing
Birthday: 1935-05-10 – 2019-08-29
Place of birth: East Ham, London, England, UK
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

Life on Earth
2011Self
The Doctor's Moriarty
2011Self
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
1997
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
Lust in Space
1998Self
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001
Hello Sailor!
2008
Panopticon Genesis
2017
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
2021
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995
Adventures in Space and Time
1999Himself
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993Himself
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013
Who's Who
1986
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006
Whose Doctor Who
1977
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005
The Story of Doctor Who
2003