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name: "Terrance Dicks"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/terrance-dicks"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 May 1935"
died: "29 August 2019"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
updated: "2026-09-16T15:44:17.983638+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# Terrance Dicks

Writer. Born 10 May 1935 in East Ham, London, England, UK. Died 29 August 2019.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 May 1935, East Ham, London, England, UK
- **Died:** 29 August 2019
- **Active:** 1961–1963
- **Also known as:** Uncle Terrance
- **Works often with:** Bill Strutton, Dennis Spooner, Geoffrey Orme, John Lucarotti, Malcolm Hulke, Peter Ling

## Biography

Terrance Dicks was an English television screenwriter, script editor and author. He began his television career writing episodes of *The Avengers* (1961) with Malcolm Hulke and later contributed to other series including *Crossroads*.

Dicks joined *Doctor Who* (1963) in 1968 as assistant script editor and served as script editor from 1969 to 1974, working closely with producer Barry Letts on the Jon Pertwee era. He wrote several episodes for the series, including *The War Games* (1969, with Hulke), *Robot* (1974–75), *Horror of Fang Rock* (1977) and *The Five Doctors* (1983). He also wrote more than sixty novelisations of *Doctor Who* stories for Target Books and later original novels for Virgin and BBC Books.

Dicks was born Terrance William Dicks on 14 April 1935 in East Ham, London, and died on 29 August 2019.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, tardis.wiki, theguardian.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Doctor Who* (1963), Fi1m 81, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/doctor-who.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *The Avengers* (1961), Teleplay, Writer

## Also known for

- *Space: 1999* (1975), Writer

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