Terrance Dicks
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.
Acting (42 movies)
Life on Earth
2011
The Doctor's Moriarty
2011
Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
1997
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
Lust in Space
1998
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
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
Adventures in Space and Time
1999
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
Who's Who
1986
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005
Whose Doctor Who
1977
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
Carnival of Monsters
1999
The Dalek Tapes
2006
The Elusive David Agnew
2008
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
Are Friends Electric?
2007
The K-9 Files
2008
Warriors of Mars
2010
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009
Rogue Time Lords
2007
Shades of Grey
2009
Plastic Fantastic
2011
The Frighten Factor
2009
Terrance & Me
2021
Myth Makers 25: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 1)
1993
Myth Makers 29: Barry Letts and Terrance Dicks (Part 2)
1994
Myth Makers 37: Roger Delgado
1997
Axon Stations!
2012
IMC Needs You!
2011
Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
2011
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Doctor Who: The War Games | 1969 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: Robot | 1975 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius | 1976 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock | 1977 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: State of Decay | 1980 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: The Five Doctors | 1983 | Writer |
| Oliver Twist | 1985 | Producer |
| Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure | 1989 | Writer |
| Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans | 1994 | Writer |
| Mindgame | 1998 | Writer |
| Mindgame Trilogy | 1999 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour | 2024 | Writer |
| Doctor Who: The Eight Doctors | 2025 | Writer |