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Terrance Dicks
Born
Terrance William Dicks
(1935-04-14)14 April 1935
East Ham, Essex, England
Died
29 August 2019(2019-08-29) (aged 84)
London, England
Alma mater
Downing College, Cambridge
Occupations
Television screenwriter
Script editor
Producer
Children's author
Years active
1962–2019
Known for
Doctor Who TV scripts, novelisations and novels
Spouse
Elsa Germaney
(m. 1963)
Children
3
Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019)[1] was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974. The Doctor Who News Page described him as "arguably the most prolific contributor to Doctor Who".[2] He later became a script editor and producer of classic serials for the BBC.
Dicks wrote many children's books during the 1970s and 1980s. He also maintained his association with Doctor Who by adapting televised stories into novelisations for Target Books and in later years contributing to many documentaries and DVD commentaries for the series.
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Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he...
the BBC met with enthusiastic support from the current script editor, TerranceDicks. The Doctor Who novelisations quickly became a backbone of the imprint...
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took over from TerranceDicks as script editor. Robot was written by Dicks, who cited King Kong as an influence for the serial. Dicks incorporated several...
needed] Horror of Fang Rock was a late replacement for the scripts TerranceDicks had originally submitted, a vampire-based tale entitled The Vampire...
violence being especially vicious in the Punjab. The script editor, TerranceDicks, had long wanted to do a story that would be an analogy for the end...
Mick Lewis Deadly Reunion by TerranceDicks and Barry Letts Eighth Doctor Adventures The Eight Doctors by TerranceDicks Genocide by Paul Leonard Independent...
the United Kingdom two days later. The Five Doctors was written by TerranceDicks, who had been the script editor for the entirety of the Third Doctor's...
who have effectively fulfilled producers' roles for the show, such as TerranceDicks' brief tenure as producer before the arrival of Barry Letts, and a brief...
given to Robin Bland, a pseudonym for writer and former script editor TerranceDicks, whose original script had been heavily rewritten by his successor as...
received onscreen credit for a live action, non-parodic story. E.g. TerranceDicks wrote four of the six episodes of The Seeds of Death in reality, but...
(1970). For the new season, producer Barry Letts and script editor TerranceDicks wanted to add new characters. They thought about how the Brigadier was...
script editor TerranceDicks felt that it was time for Terry Nation to return to the series and write another Dalek adventure. Letts and Dicks enjoyed the...
well as the third to be produced by Barry Letts and script edited by TerranceDicks. Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor Katy Manning as Jo Grant Jon Pertwee...
Machine[self-published source?] Smith 2021, p. 65. Dicks, Terrance (26 August 2021). The Essential TerranceDicks Volume 1 – via Penguin.co.uk. "Classic DOCTOR...
it shows. It had its moments though. — TerranceDicks, script editor, "The Outpost Interview: TerranceDicks". Outpost Gallifrey. Archived from the original...
WH Allen & Co'. The most prolific writer in the Doctor Who range was TerranceDicks, while actor turned writer Ian Marter, Malcolm Hulke, Philip Hinchcliffe...
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