Terrance Dicks
Born: 1935-05-10 in East Ham, London, England, UK
Died: 2019-08-29
Known For: Writing
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.
Filmography
2024
- Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour ... (Writer)
2023
- Tales of the Tardis ... (Script Editor)
2017
2011
2010
2009
2006
1999
- Adventures in Space and Time as Himself
- Mindgame Trilogy ... (Writer)
- Carnival of Monsters
1998
- Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
- Mindgame ... (Writer)
- Lust in Space as Self
1995
- Downtime ... (Script Consultant)
- The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994
- Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans ... (Writer)
1993
- 30 Years in the TARDIS as Himself
1989
- Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure ... (Writer)
1988
- The Franchise Affair ... (Producer)
1987
- Vanity Fair ... (Producer)
1986
- David Copperfield ... (Producer)
- Who's Who
1985
- Doctor Who's Who's Who
- Oliver Twist ... (Producer)
1984
- The Prisoner of Zenda ... (Script Editor)
1983
- Doctor Who: The Five Doctors ... (Writer)
1982
- The Hound of the Baskervilles ... (Script Editor)
- Beau Geste ... (Script Editor)
- Stalky & Co ... (Script Editor)
1981
- Great Expectations ... (Script Editor)
1980
- Doctor Who: State of Decay ... (Writer)
1977
- Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock ... (Writer)
- Whose Doctor Who
1976
- Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius ... (Writer)
1975
- Space: 1999 ... (Writer)
- The Invisible Man ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: Robot ... (Writer)
1974
- Doctor Who: The Time Warrior ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks ... (Script Editor)
1973
- Moonbase 3 ... (Writer)
- Doctor Who: The Green Death ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Frontier in Space ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters ... (Script Editor)
1972
- Doctor Who: The Sea Devils ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Time Monster ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Mutants ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks ... (Script Editor)
1971
- Doctor Who: Colony in Space ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Dæmons ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil ... (Script Editor)
1970
- Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: Inferno ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who and the Silurians ... (Script Editor)
1969
- Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The Krotons ... (Script Editor)
- Doctor Who: The War Games ... (Writer)
1968
- Doctor Who: The Invasion ... (Script Editor)
1963
- Doctor Who ... (Writer)
1961
- The Avengers ... (Writer)