Terrance Dicks
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.
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Movies (79)

Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024 · Writer

Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
2021

Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019

Panopticon Genesis
2017

A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013

Axon Stations!
2012

Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012

IMC Needs You!
2011

Life on Earth
2011 · Self

The Doctor's Moriarty
2011 · Self

Plastic Fantastic
2011

Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
2011

Warriors of Mars
2010

The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009

The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009

Roger Delgado: The Master
2009

Shades of Grey
2009

The Frighten Factor
2009

The K-9 Files
2008

The Elusive David Agnew
2008

Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008

Hello Sailor!
2008

Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
2007 · Self

Rogue Time Lords
2007

Are Friends Electric?
2007

Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006

Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006

The Dalek Tapes
2006 · Self

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005

The Story of Doctor Who
2003

ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001

Adventures in Space and Time
1999 · Himself

Carnival of Monsters
1999

Mindgame Trilogy
1999 · Writer

Lust in Space
1998 · Self

Mindgame
1998 · Writer

Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998

Who is Tom Baker?
1997

Downtime
1995 · Script Consultant

The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995

Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994 · Writer

30 Years in the TARDIS
1993 · Himself

Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure
1989 · Writer

Who's Who
1986

Oliver Twist
1985 · Producer

Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983 · Writer

Doctor Who: State of Decay
1980 · Writer

Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
1977 · Writer

Whose Doctor Who
1977 · Consulting Editor

Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976 · Writer

Doctor Who: Robot
1975 · Writer

Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
1974 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1973 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Mutants
1972 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
1972 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Inferno
1970 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970 · Script Editor

Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
1970 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The War Games
1969 · Writer, Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
1969 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969 · Script Editor

Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968 · Script Editor

Mindgame Requiem
· Writer
TV shows (16)

Tales of the Tardis
2023 · Script Editor

The Franchise Affair
1988 · Producer

Vanity Fair
1987 · Producer

David Copperfield
1986 · Producer

Bratt Farrar
1986 · Producer

Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985

The Prisoner of Zenda
1984 · Script Editor

Beau Geste
1982 · Script Editor, Creator

The Hound of the Baskervilles
1982 · Script Editor
Stalky & Co
1982 · Script Editor

Great Expectations
1981 · Script Editor

Space: 1999
1975 · Writer

The Invisible Man
1975 · Writer

Moonbase 3
1973 · Writer, Creator

Doctor Who
1963 · Writer, Script Editor

The Avengers
1961 · Writer, Teleplay
