Terrance Dicks (1935-2019) was an author. Dicks is best known for his prolific contributions to Doctor Who - mainly in the field of novelizations.
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Adulthood[]
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Career[]
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Writing style[]
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Written Works[]
- Mean Streets - Dicks' only Bernice Summerfield novel. Tells of Benny investigating organized crime on the planet Megerra.
- Comeback - Dicks' only contribution to Big Finish's Sarah Jane Smith series and the debut of the series.
- A Mutual Friend (in A Life of Surprises) - A short story showing Bernice Summerfield and Sarah Jane Smith meeting each other.
Doctor Who[]
- Doctor Who and the Daleks in Seven Keys to Doomsday
- The Ultimate Adventure
- Made of Steel - a novella showing the remnants of the Cyberman invasion shown in Army of Ghosts/Doomsday.
- Revenge of the Judoon - a novella that serves as a prequel to Smith and Jones.
Novelizations[]
- 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
- 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
Novels[]
- Timewyrm: Exodus - Dicks' first Doctor Who novel and the second novel in the Timewyrm series. Shows the Seventh Doctor and Ace stopping the Nazis from taking over the world with the help of the War Chief and the Timewyrm.
- Blood Harvest - the prelude to the Missing Doctor Adventures series. Shows the Seventh Doctor stopping a cabal of Time Lords.
- Shakedown - an extended novelization of Shakedown: The Return of the Sontarans which adds a lot of new material and inserts the Seventh Doctor and his companions into the action.
- The Eight Doctors - the (much-maligned) first novel in the Eighth Doctor Adventure series. Shows the amnesiac Eighth Doctor visiting his past incarnations.
- Catastrophea - Dicks' first contribution to the Past Doctor Adventures series. Serves as a sequel/prequel to Frontier in Space.
- Players - the first novel to feature the titular recurring antagonists. Shows the Sixth Doctor stopping the Players from warping the history of Winston Churchill.
- Endgame - A part of the "Earth Arc". Shows the Eighth Doctor stopping the Players' "Endgame" during the fires of the Cold War.
- Warmonger - serves as a prequel to The Brain of Morbius and shows Morbius' civil war.
- Deadly Reunion (with Barry Letts) - shows the Brigadier (both in the "past" and the "present day") and the Third Doctor meeting the Greek gods.
- World Game - shows the Second Doctor stopping the Players' manipulation of the Napoleonic War on the orders of the Time Lords.
Short stories[]
- Dr. Who and the Hell Planet (in the Daily Mirror, December 31st 1976 issue)
- Farewells (in Doctor Who Yearbook 1993) - shows the Fourth Doctor properly saying goodbye to Sarah Jane Smith.
- Davros Genesis (in Dalek: The Astounding Untold History of the Greatest Enemies of the Universe) - serves as a prologue to Genesis of the Daleks.
- Save Yourself (in The Target Storybook) - Dicks' final Doctor Who story. Serves as a short epilogue to The War Games.
Nonfiction[]
- The Making of Doctor Who (with Malcolm Hulke)
- The Doctor Who Monster Book
- The Second Doctor Who Monster Book
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See Also[]
- Brian Hayles
- Malcolm Hulke
- Barry Letts
- Ian Marter
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