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Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks

Writing1935East Ham, London, England, UK

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 History

2023
Tales of the Tardis
TVScript Editor
1998
1995
Downtime
Script Consultant
1985
Oliver Twist
Producer
1968
1963
Doctor Who
TVScript Editor
Doctor Who
TVWriter
1961
The Avengers
TVWriter
The Avengers
TVTeleplay

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Personal Info

Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
5/10/1935
Day of Death
8/29/2019
Place of Birth
East Ham, London, England, UK