Terrance Dicks
Birthday: 1935-05-10
Place of Birth: East 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.
Movies
Life on Earth
A documentary about the making of Terror of the Autons. Actors Katy Manning and Richard Franklin, b...
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The Doctor's Moriarty
With the introduction of the Master, the Doctor now had his very own Moriarty, who would be the dark...
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Who is Tom Baker? Unauthorised
The Doctor is everyone’s favourite Time Lord. And Tom Baker is everyone’s favourite Doctor. With hi...
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Doctor Who and the Third Man
A retrospective documentary on the tenure of Jon Pertwee as the Third Doctor in the show Doctor Who....
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Lust in Space
Doctor Who travelled with the most gorgeous girls in the Cosmos. But was there any Lust in Space? D...
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ReUNITed at Chicago Tardis
It was a operation worthy of UNIT itself… bringing The Brigadier (Nicholas Courtney), Captain Yates ...
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Hello Sailor!
Cast and crew discuss the making of The Sea Devils, from the television series Doctor Who....
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Panopticon Genesis
On August 6th 1977, the world’s first Doctor Who convention was held in a church hall in Battersea, ...
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Panopticon Destiny – The Matrix Files
On August 6th 1977, the world’s first DOCTOR WHO convention was held at a church hall in Battersea, ...
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The Making of Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans
Climb aboard the HMS Belfast and enter Pinewood Film Studios for a fascinating and humorous insight ...
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30 Years in the TARDIS
A documentary celebrating the 30th anniversary of Doctor Who, featuring new interviews, rare archive...
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Adventures in Space and Time
A documentary on the history of Doctor Who (1963) featuring new interviews with cast and crew, trans...
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Celebration: Doctor Who in 1983
Producer Steve Broster takes a look back to 1983 and the celebration of Doctor Who's twentieth anniv...
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Who's Who
Produced for American Public Television, this documentary on the long-running Doctor Who television ...
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A Dandy and a Clown: The Life of Jon Pertwee
This exclusive documentary looks at the life and career of Jon Pertwee. With contributions from acto...
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Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
With a writing career spanning 6 decades, this special documentary looks at Terrance Dicks' work for...
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Whose Doctor Who
Melvyn Bragg presents this 1977 documentary about Doctor Who from BBC2's 'The Lively Arts' strand, f...
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Built for War: The Sontaran Story
The genesis and development of the Sontaran race through the history of the series, as told by some ...
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The Story of Doctor Who
Documentary to celebrate the fortieth anniversary of this popular cult sci-fi television series....
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Where on Earth Is Katy Manning?
By her own admission, Katy Manning is ‘as blind as a bat’ and never knows where she’ll end up. When ...
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The Dalek Tapes
A look at the appearances of the Daleks and Davros in the classic Doctor Who era....
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The Elusive David Agnew
The Elusive David Agnew was a BBC documentary looking at David Agnew. It was released on the DVD of ...
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Second Time Around: The Troughton Years
Writers, directors, actors and other people associated with Doctor Who discuss Patrick Troughton's t...
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The Perfect Scenario: Lost Frontiers
In the far future, the remaining population of an oxygen-depleted planet Earth lies in enforced stas...
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The Perfect Scenario: The End of Dreams
Continuing his search for inspiration, Zed resumes his studies of twentieth-century television's Doc...
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Are Friends Electric?
This documentary examines Tom Baker's introduction as the Doctor and the making of his first story, ...
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The K-9 Files
Several key production personnel look at the making of K-9 and Company: A Girls Best Friend, plus K-...
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Warriors of Mars
A brief history of the Ice Warriors in Doctor Who by the people who designed and brought them to lif...
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Roger Delgado: The Master
A biography of actor Roger Delgado, featuring previously unseen photographs, rare excerpts from his ...
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Rogue Time Lords
A potted history of the many errant Gallifreyans to have appeared in the show....
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Shades of Grey
The War Games saw the end of black-and-white Doctor Who. This documentary examines the artistic limi...
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Plastic Fantastic
How did the writers of Doctor Who and other programmes take something as everyday as plastic and tur...
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The Frighten Factor
What exactly is Doctor Who's 'Frighten Factor'? A diverse panel of experts try to answer the questio...
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Regenerations: From Black and White to Colour
Spearhead from Space marked not only the arrival of a new Doctor but also the transition from black ...
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Changing Time: Living and Leaving Doctor Who
A special 50-minute documentary that looks at the making of The Hand of Fear, and also examines the ...
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Terror Nation: Terry Nation and Doctor Who
A documentary about the writer Terry Nation, creator of the Daleks....
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