Terrance Dicks (in-universe)

Terrance Dicks
Species:	Human
Affiliated with:	Doctor Who
First mentioned in:	Bafflement and Devotion
Appearance:	U.N.I.T. On Call
Main actor:	Jon Culshaw

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Terrance Dicks was an author and writer for the Doctor Who series in the 20th century.

Biography

After a Doctor Who fan managed to contact 1970s UNIT and discussed 2020 with the Third Doctor, Jo Grant and the Brigadier, Terrance Dicks, also on the UNIT line, complimented the Doctor, Jo and the Brigadier's wise words and then called for a round of tea. He also came up with an idea for a Doctor Who story, "who's for a brew", and he wrote it down, intending to show it to Barry. (WC: U.N.I.T. On Call)

He wrote one-hundred and fifty novelisations, all of which were once owned by Paul Magrs. Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child was one of these novelisations, and it heavily contradicted another novelisation, Doctor Who in an Exciting Adventure with the Daleks, at least by the Eighth Doctor's viewpoint. (PROSE: Bafflement and Devotion) Another novelisation written by Dicks was The Three Doctors, which, in the draft of a story by Paul Magrs, one of the characters compared Omega and the anti-matter universe to the plastic armed owner of the Great Big Book Exchange. (PROSE: The Great Big Book Exchange)

Legacy

There was once a "Terrance Dicks Library" located in St Luke's University. (COMIC: The Lost Dimension)

Behind the scenes

• The "novelisations" that Terrance wrote are clearly intended to be Target novelisations, however this isn't explicitly stated in Bafflement and Devotion. In the real world, Dicks was credited on 38 of the around 150 original titles, still far more than any other writer in the range.
• Dicks made a vocal cameo in WC: U.N.I.T. On Call, voiced by Jon Culshaw.