Person Details

Birthday: 1935-05-10 03:44:17

Death: 2019-08-29 03:44:17

Aliases: Uncle Terrance

Gender: Male

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

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Movie Involvements: 30

TV Involvements: 8


Most Famous Work

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.

Most Famous Work

The Avengers
Average
8

The Avengers

(1961) Teleplay
Doctor Who
Average
8

Doctor Who

(1963) Writer
Tales of the Tardis
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4

Tales of the Tardis

(2023) Script Editor
Space: 1999
Average
7

Space: 1999

(1975) Writer
The Invisible Man
Average
6

The Invisible Man

(1975) Writer
Moonbase 3
Average
5

Moonbase 3

(1973) Creator
Doctor Who: The Five Doctors
Average
8
The Prisoner of Zenda
Average
6

The Prisoner of Zenda

(1984) Script Editor

Acting

Writing

Year Role Movie/Tv
2023 Writer
Script Editor
1999 Writer
1998 Writer
1994 Writer
1984 Script Editor
1983 Writer
1980 Writer
1977 Writer
1976 Writer
1975 Writer
Writer
Writer
1974 Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
1973 Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
1972 Script Editor
1971 Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
Script Editor
1970 Script Editor
1969 Writer
Script Editor
Script Editor
1963 Writer
1961 Writer
Teleplay
Year Role Movie/Tv

Production

Year Role Movie/Tv
1985 Producer
Year Role Movie/Tv

Editing

Year Role Movie/Tv
1977 Consulting Editor
Year Role Movie/Tv

Creator

Year Role Movie/Tv
1973 Creator
Year Role Movie/Tv

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