Actor

Terrance Dicks

Writing

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Movies: 79Series: 13Crew credits: 53

TMDB ID: 159214

IMDb ID: nm0225605

Known for: Writing

Born: May 10, 1935

Died: August 29, 2019

Age: 84

Place of birth: East Ham, London, England, UK

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1961 - 2024

Years active: 64

Average TMDB rating: 7.2

Wikidata: Q351168

Also known as

Uncle Terrance

Other jobs

Script Editor (30)Writer (17)Producer (4)Consulting Editor (1)Script Consultant (1)

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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.

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Movie credits linked with Terrance Dicks.