Richard Dinnick

Richard Dinnick
Birth date:	22 January 1968
Work in the DWU
Main jobs:	Writer
Stories:	See Credits Section
Main time period active:	2005, 2010-12, 2016-18
Career highlights
Notable non-DWU work:	The History of the Internet, Tree Fu Tom, Go Jetters, Thunderbirds Are Go
Twitter
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Richard Dinnick (born 22 January 1968) is a TV writer who contributes prose, comic strips and audio dramas tie-in media for BBC Books, BBC Children's Books, Titan Publishing, Big Finish Productions Doctor Who Adventures, Doctor Who Insider and Doctor Who DVD Files magazine.

In the course of his writing he has created many recurring aliens, monsters and characters including the Volsci, the Dahensa, the Pathicols, the Metraxi, and the Ra'ra'vis.

Career

Besides Doctor Who, he has also written for other franchises (Stargate, Sapphire & Steel) and companies (Noise Monster, Sunbird, Titan).

He writes for children's and mainstream drama TV as well as his own IP in comic books such as ROB (Legendary Entertainment).

DWU credits

Novels

• The Underwater War

Books accompanying boxed "kits"

• Doctor Who: A History of the Supreme Dalek
• Doctor Who: A History of the Adipose
• Doctor Who: A History of the Weeping Angels
• Doctor Who: A History of K9
• Doctor Who: A History of the Sonic Screwdriver
• Doctor Who: A History of the Cybermen
• Doctor Who: A History of the Daleks
• Doctor Who: A History of the TARDIS

Short stories

Short Trips

• Neptune (in Short Trips: The Solar System)

Bernice Summerfield

• Past Caring (in Present Danger)

Myths & Legends

• Introduction
• The Mondas Touch
• The Terrible Manussa
• The Unwanted Gift of Prophecy
• The Evil and the Deep Black Sky
• Jorus and the Voganauts
• The Vardon Horse
• Defiance of the New Bloods
• The Kingdom of the Blind
• The Labyrinthine Web
• The Angels of Vengeance
• The Jeopardy of Solar Proximity
• The Multi-Faceted War
• The Enigma of Sisterhood
• Pandoric's Box

The Missy Chronicles

• Alit in Underland

Lethbridge-Stewart

• The Soothsayer (in Lineage)

Comic stories

Doctor Who Adventures

• The Lunar Tyk

IDW Publishing

Doctor Who Annual 2012

• Time Fraud

Titan Comics

Doctor Who: The Twelfth Doctor

• The Wolves of Winter
• The Great Shopping Bill
• A Confusion of Angels

Doctor Who: The Thirteenth Doctor

• The Many Lives of Doctor Who

• The Many Lives of Doctor Who
• The Path of Skulls
• Card Conundrum
• Invasion of the Scorpion Men
• Time Lady of Means
• Ophiuchus
• Virtually Indestructible
• Crossing the Rubicon
• The Time Ball
• The Whole Thing's Bananas
• Return of the Volsci
• Nurse Who?
• Without a Paddle
• Harvest of the Daleks

2017 Convention Special

• The Last Action Figure

Audio stories

Doctor Who Main Range

• Paradoxicide (part of Recorded Time and Other Stories)

Companion Chronicles

• The Wanderer
• The Rings of Ikiria

Short Trips

• A Star is Born

Bernice Summerfield

• Dead Man's Switch (with John Dorney)

Reference books

• The Big Finish Companion: Volume 1 - Writer
• The Big Finish Companion: Volume 2 - Co-Editor (with Paul Spragg)

External links

• Official website
• Official Twitter account