Terrance Dicks
Known for: Writing
Born: May 10, 1935
Died: August 29, 2019
Place of birth: East Ham, London, England, UK
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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Filmography
79 movies · 15 TV shows, newest first
5.8
Doctor Who: The War Games in Colour
2024
5.6
Tales of the Tardis
2023
0.5
Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
2021
NR
Doctor Who and the Third Man
2019
NR
Panopticon Genesis
2017
NR
A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
2013
NR
Axon Stations!
2012
NR
Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
2012
NR
IMC Needs You!
2011
NR
Life on Earth
2011
NR
The Doctor's Moriarty
2011
NR
Plastic Fantastic
2011
NR
Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
2011
NR
Warriors of Mars
2010
NR
The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
2009
NR
The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
2009
NR
Roger Delgado: The Master
2009
NR
Shades of Grey
2009
7.0
The Frighten Factor
2009
NR
The K-9 Files
2008
NR
The Elusive David Agnew
2008
NR
Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
2008
NR
Hello Sailor!
2008
NR
Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
2007
NR
Rogue Time Lords
2007
NR
Are Friends Electric?
2007
7.0
Built for War: The Sontaran Story
2006
8.0
Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
2006
7.5
The Dalek Tapes
2006
8.0
Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
2005
8.0
The Story of Doctor Who
2003
NR
ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
2001
9.0
Adventures in Space and Time
1999
7.0
Carnival of Monsters
1999
5.5
Mindgame Trilogy
1999
9.0
Lust in Space
1998
4.9
Mindgame
1998
8.5
Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
1998
NR
Who is Tom Baker?
1997
5.7
Downtime
1995
NR
The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1995
6.4
Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
1994
7.9
30 Years in the TARDIS
1993
NR
Doctor Who The Ultimate Adventure
1989
6.3
The Franchise Affair
1988
NR
Vanity Fair
1987
5.2
David Copperfield
1986
10.0
Who's Who
1986
NR
Doctor Who's Who's Who
1985
5.5
Oliver Twist
1985
6.5
The Prisoner of Zenda
1984
7.8
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
1983
7.0
Beau Geste
1982
6.3
The Hound of the Baskervilles
19827.0
Stalky & Co
1982
6.3
Great Expectations
1981
7.3
Doctor Who: State of Decay
1980
7.6
Doctor Who: Horror of Fang Rock
1977
2.0
Whose Doctor Who
1977
8.0
Doctor Who: The Brain of Morbius
1976
7.1
Space: 1999
1975
6.2
The Invisible Man
1975
7.0
Doctor Who: Robot
1975
7.4
Doctor Who: Planet of the Spiders
1974
5.5
Doctor Who: The Monster of Peladon
1974
6.2
Doctor Who: Death to the Daleks
1974
6.8
Doctor Who: Invasion of the Dinosaurs
1974
7.4
Doctor Who: The Time Warrior
1974
7.3
Moonbase 3
1973
8.4
Doctor Who: The Green Death
1973
7.0
Doctor Who: Planet of the Daleks
1973
7.5
Doctor Who: Frontier in Space
1973
7.8
Doctor Who: Carnival of Monsters
1973
5.9
Doctor Who: The Time Monster
1972
7.2
Doctor Who: The Mutants
1972
7.6
Doctor Who: The Sea Devils
1972
7.5
Doctor Who: The Curse of Peladon
1972
7.9
Doctor Who: Day of the Daleks
1972
7.6
Doctor Who: The Dæmons
1971
6.6
Doctor Who: Colony in Space
1971
6.8
Doctor Who: The Claws of Axos
1971
7.5
Doctor Who: The Mind of Evil
1971
7.8
Doctor Who: Terror of the Autons
1971
8.6
Doctor Who: Inferno
1970
7.2
Doctor Who: The Ambassadors of Death
1970
7.3
Doctor Who and the Silurians
1970
8.7
Doctor Who: Spearhead from Space
1970
9.7
Doctor Who: The War Games
1969
7.8
Doctor Who: The Seeds of Death
1969
6.4
Doctor Who: The Krotons
1969
8.8
Doctor Who: The Invasion
1968
7.9
Doctor Who
1963
7.8
The Avengers
1961
NR
Mindgame Requiem
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