Terrance Dicks | |
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| Born | Terrance W. Dicks 14 April 1935 |
| Died | 29 August 2019 (aged 84) |
| Alma mater | Downing College, Cambridge |
| Occupation(s) | Television screenwriter Script editor Producer Children's author |
| Known for | Doctor Who TV scripts, novelisations and novels |
| Spouse | Elsa (née Germaney) |
| Children | 3 sons |
Terrance Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) was an English author and former television screenwriter, script editor and producer. Dicks had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, also working as a writer and script editor from 1968 to 1974. He was known as "the most prolific contributor to Doctor Who".
Terrance died at his home in Hampstead, London after he short-illness on 29 August 2019 at the age of 84.