
Terrance Dicks
Born
May 10, 1935
Died
August 29, 2019 (84 years old)
Known For
Writing
Place of Birth
East Ham, London, England, UK
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 Doctors: The Jon Pertwee Years Behind the Scenes Vol 1
2021

Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
2021

Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019

Panopticon Genesis
2017

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013

Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012

Life on Earth
Self
2011

The Doctor's Moriarty
Self
2011

Plastic Fantastic
2011

Warriors of Mars
2010

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009

Roger Delgado: The Master
2009

Shades of Grey
2009

The K-9 Files
2008

The Elusive David Agnew
2008

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008

Hello Sailor!
2008

Rogue Time Lords
2007

Are Friends Electric?
2007

Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006

The Dalek Tapes
Self
2006

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005

The Story of Doctor Who
2003

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001

Adventures in Space and Time
Himself
1999

Carnival of Monsters
1999

Lust in Space
Self
1998

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998

Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
1997

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995

30 Years in the TARDIS
Himself
1993

Who's Who
1986

Doctor Who's Who's Who
(1 episode)
1985

Whose Doctor Who
1977