Terrance Dicks
Writing • Born 1935-05-10 – Died 2019-08-29
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
40 credits
Life on Earth
Movie • 2011
Self
The Doctor's Moriarty
Movie • 2011
Self
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
Movie • 1997
Doctor Who and the Third Man
Movie • 2019
Lust in Space
Movie • 1998
Self
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
Movie • 2001
Hello Sailor!
Movie • 2008
Panopticon Genesis
Movie • 2017
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
Movie • 2021
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Movie • 1995
Adventures in Space and Time
Movie • 1999
Himself
30 Years in the TARDIS
Movie • 1993
Himself
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
Movie • 2013
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Movie • 2008
Who's Who
Movie • 1986
Whose Doctor Who
Movie • 1977
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
Movie • 2006
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
Movie • 2005
The Story of Doctor Who
Movie • 2003
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
Movie • 1998
Carnival of Monsters
Movie • 1999
The Dalek Tapes
Movie • 2006
Self
The Elusive David Agnew
Movie • 2008
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
Movie • 2012
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
Movie • 2009
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Movie • 2009
Are Friends Electric?
Movie • 2007
The K-9 Files
Movie • 2008
Warriors of Mars
Movie • 2010
Roger Delgado: The Master
Movie • 2009
Rogue Time Lords
Movie • 2007
Shades of Grey
Movie • 2009
Plastic Fantastic
Movie • 2011
The Frighten Factor
Movie • 2009
Axon Stations!
Movie • 2012
IMC Needs You!
Movie • 2011
Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
Movie • 2011
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
Movie • 2006
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
Movie • 2007
Self
Doctor Who's Who's Who
TV • 1985