Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks (born 10th May 1935), whom fans have often affectionately called "Uncle Terry", is a former script editor of Doctor Who and the author of many related scripts, novels and novelisations. He was particularly prolific in his work for Target Books, being the staff writer for a large number of the books, and in later years becoming the "go-to guy" when the original teleplay writer was unable (or unwilling) to adapt their work in book form. He also served as editor for the book series at one point. Afterwards, he went on to write original novels for virtually every line of Doctor Who fiction, with notable exceptions including Virgin Missing Adventures, Telos Publishing, Big Finish's Bernice Summerfield series of books, and the current hardcover series of BBC Books novels, though he has written two entries in the Quick Reads novella series. He also co-wrote The Making of Doctor Who, the first non-fiction book about the series.

In 2007, after a hiatus of 17 years, Dicks returned to writing episode novelisations by adapting Invasion of the Bane for a new series of novelisations based upon The Sarah Jane Adventures.

Although most closely associated with Doctor Who, Dicks has also worked on other projects as well, such as a mid-1970s series of novels featuring the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

Dicks has written novels, or novelisations, featuring every incarnation of the Doctor, with the exception of the Ninth Doctor. In terms of novelisations, discounting the Ninth and Tenth Doctors, for whom novelisations have not been commissioned, the only Doctor era not receiving the Dicks treatment at some point was the Seventh Doctor (discounting the special case of Shakedown).

TV stories, 1969-1983

 * The War Games (with Malcolm Hulke)
 * Robot
 * The Brain of Morbius - under the alias Robin Bland
 * Horror of Fang Rock
 * State of Decay
 * The Five Doctors

Non-BBC spin-off productions

 * Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

Target Novelisations

 * Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion
 * Doctor Who and the Day of the Daleks
 * Doctor Who and the Abominable Snowmen
 * Doctor Who and the Giant Robot
 * Doctor Who and the Terror of the Autons
 * Doctor Who and the Planet of the Spiders
 * Doctor Who and the Three Doctors
 * Doctor Who and the Loch Ness Monster
 * Doctor Who and the Genesis of the Daleks
 * Doctor Who and the Revenge of the Cybermen
 * Doctor Who and the Web of Fear
 * Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks
 * Doctor Who and the Pyramids of Mars
 * Doctor Who and the Carnival of Monsters
 * Doctor Who and the Dalek Invasion of Earth
 * Doctor Who and the Claws of Axos
 * Doctor Who and the Brain of Morbius
 * Doctor Who and the Planet of Evil
 * Doctor Who and the Mutants
 * Doctor Who and the Deadly Assassin
 * Doctor Who and the Talons of Weng-Chiang
 * Doctor Who and the Face of Evil
 * Doctor Who and the Horror of Fang Rock
 * Doctor Who and the Time Warrior
 * Death to the Daleks
 * Doctor Who and the Android Invasion
 * Doctor Who and the Hand of Fear
 * Doctor Who and the Invisible Enemy
 * Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl
 * Doctor Who and the Robots of Death
 * Doctor Who and the Destiny of the Daleks
 * Doctor Who and the Underworld
 * Doctor Who and the Invasion of Time
 * Doctor Who and the Stones of Blood
 * Doctor Who and the Androids of Tara
 * Doctor Who and the Power of Kroll
 * Doctor Who and the Armageddon Factor
 * Doctor Who and the Nightmare of Eden
 * Doctor Who and the Horns of Nimon
 * Doctor Who and the Monster of Peladon
 * Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child
 * Doctor Who and the State of Decay
 * Doctor Who and the Keeper of Traken
 * Doctor Who and the Sunmakers
 * Meglos
 * Four to Doomsday
 * Arc of Infinity
 * The Five Doctors
 * Kinda
 * Snakedance
 * Warriors of the Deep
 * Inferno
 * The Caves of Androzani
 * The Mind of Evil
 * The Krotons
 * The Time Monster
 * The Seeds of Death
 * The Faceless Ones
 * The Ambassadors of Death
 * The Mysterious Planet
 * The Wheel in Space
 * The Smugglers
 * Planet of Giants
 * The Space Pirates

Virgin New Adventures

 * Timewyrm: Exodus
 * Blood Harvest
 * Shakedown - novelisation and expansion of the non-BBC spinoff production, Shakedown: Return of the Sontarans

BBC Eighth Doctor Adventures

 * The Eight Doctors
 * Endgame

BBC Past Doctor Adventures

 * Catastrophea
 * Players
 * Warmonger
 * Deadly Reunion (with Barry Letts)
 * World Game

Quick Reads

 * Made of Steel
 * Revenge of the Judoon

The Sarah Jane Adventures novelisations

 * Invasion of the Bane

Virgin Bernice Summerfield New Adventures

 * Mean Streets

Non-fiction

 * The Making of Doctor Who (with Malcolm Hulke)

Contributions to the Mythos
Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Terrance Dicks script include:
 * The War Lord
 * Experimental Prototype Robot K1
 * Rutan Host
 * Raston Warrior Robot
 * The Death Zone
 * Also, it was in Dicks' The Brain of Morbius that the debate over how many regenerations the Doctor has had was ignited; ironically, it was a later Dicks script, The Five Doctors that first indicated on screen that there had been only five up to that point.