Dicks, Terrance
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- A riot of writers, 1993:t.p. (Terrance Dicks) Can CIP (Dicks, Terrance, 1935- )
- Doctor who and the abominable snowmen, 2011:t.p. (Terrance Dicks)
- Guardian WWW site, viewed Sept. 4, 2019(Terrance Dicks; Terrance William Dicks, writer, producer and script editor, born 14 April 1935, East Ham, east London; died 29 August 2019; had a long association with the popular BBC series Doctor Who. He was the show's script editor from 1968 to 1974, wrote numerous episodes, and adapted more than 50 of the television stories into bestselling novelisations. Published by Target Books, they could reasonably be claimed to have inspired legions of children to take up reading in the 1970s and 80s. Unhappy with alterations to his script The Brain of Morbius (1976), Dicks decreed that it should "go out under some bland pseudonym". It did, credited to "Robin Bland")
- His The case of the ... 1978:t.p. (Terrance Dicks)
- IMDb, Mar. 28, 2012(Terrance Dicks; born in East Ham, London, England in 1935; alt. name: Robin Bland: misc. crew, writer, producer, actor; studied English at Downing College, Cambridge; after two year's national service in the army, he got a job as an advertising copywriter; wrote radio and television scripts as well as novels)
- Wikipedia, Mar. 28, 2012(Terrance Dicks; born May 10, 1935, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London; English writer best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s as well as novelizations of Doctor Who stories) viewed Sept. 4, 2019 (Born Terrance William Dicks; Born: 14 April 1935, East Ham, Essex, England; died 29 August 2019 (aged 84))
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Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974. The Doctor Who News Page described him as "arguably the most prolific contributor to Doctor Who". He later became a script editor and producer of classic serials for the BBC. Dicks wrote many children's books during the 1970s and 1980s. He also maintained his association with Doctor Who by adapting televised stories into novelisations for Target Books and in later years contributing to many documentaries and DVD commentaries for the series.
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