Terrance Dicks

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Terrance Dicks
Dicks in 2013
Born	Terrance William Dicks (1935-04-14)14 April 1935 East Ham, Essex, England
Died	29 August 2019(2019-08-29) (aged 84) London, England
Alma mater	Downing College, Cambridge
Occupations	Television screenwriter Script editor Producer Children's author
Years active	1962–2019
Known for	Doctor Who TV scripts, novelisations and novels
Spouse	Elsa Germaney ​ (m. 1963)​
Children	3

Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019)^[1] 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".^[2] 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.