Dicks went on to become the main script editor on the programme the following year, and earned his first writing credit on the show when he and Hulke co-wrote the epic ten-part story The War Games which closed the sixth season and the era of Second Doctor Patrick Troughton.

In 1968 he was employed as the assistant script editor on Doctor Who. He also wrote for the ATV soap opera Crossroads. His break in television came when his friend and mentor, Malcolm Hulke, asked for his help with the writing of an episode of the ABC (ITV) action-adventure series The Avengers, on which Dicks received a co-writer's credit on the broadcast. Following his discharge from the armed forces, he worked for five years as an advertising copywriter, and began writing radio play scripts for the BBC in his spare time. He studied English at Downing College, Cambridge, and did two years of National Service in the British Army. He was born in East Ham, Essex, in 1935, the only son of his parents William and Nellie (Ambler). PLEASE NOTE: When you purchase this title, the accompanying PDF will be available in your Audible Library along with the audio.Terrance Dicks was best known for his work as Script Editor for the third Doctor's era and as the author of many of the Target novelisations of Doctor Who scripts. Read by William Russell, Geoffrey Beevers, Mark Gatiss and John Leeson.Įach purchase is accompanied by a PDF booklet featuring full cast and credits, chapter-by-chapter navigation and sleeve notes for each book by David J. In Doctor Who and the Ribos Operation, the Fourth Doctor, Romana and K9 embark on a quest for the first missing segment of the Key to Time, and in The Androids of Tara they become entangled in the politics of a planet on which androids are a vital commodity. In Doctor Who and the Planet of the Daleks, the Third Doctor and Jo discover a vast army of Daleks waiting to mobilise and conquer on the planet Spiridon. In Doctor Who and the Space War, the Third Doctor finds that a full-scale war between Earth and the planet Draconia seems inevitable. In The Sensorites, the First Doctor is forced into an uneasy alliance with a race of telepathic creatures from the Sense-Sphere. Five classic novelisations of exciting TV adventures set on distant planets!

Doctor Who by Terrance Dicks