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{{you may|Terrance Dicks}} | |name = Terrance Dicks | ||
'''Terrance Dicks''' was an [[author]]. | |species = Human | ||
|affiliation = Doctor Who (N-Space) {{!}} ''Doctor Who'' | |||
|first mention = Bafflement and Devotion (short story) | |||
|only = U.N.I.T. On Call (webcast) | |||
|actor = Jon Culshaw | |||
}}{{you may|Terrance Dicks|n1= the real individual}} | |||
'''Terrance Dicks''' was an [[author]] and [[writer]] for the [[Doctor Who (N-Space)|''Doctor Who'' series]] in the [[20th century]]. | |||
== Biography == | |||
After a [[Doctor Who fan (U.N.I.T. On Call)|''Doctor Who'' fan]] managed to contact [[1970s]] [[UNIT]] and discussed [[2020]] with the [[Third Doctor]], [[Jo Grant]] and [[Alistair Gordon Lethbridge-Stewart|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 Letts (U.N.I.T. On Call)|Barry]]. ([[WC]]: ''[[U.N.I.T. On Call (webcast)|U.N.I.T. On Call]]'') | |||
He wrote [[150 (number)|one-hundred and fifty]] [[Target Books (Bafflement and Devotion)|novelisations]], all of which were once owned by [[Paul Magrs (Bafflement and Devotion)|Paul Magrs]]. ''[[Doctor Who and an Unearthly Child (in-universe)|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 (short story)|Bafflement and Devotion]]'') Another novelisation written by Dicks was ''[[The Three Doctors (book)|The Three Doctors]]'', which, in the draft of a story by [[Paul Magrs (Bafflement and Devotion)|Paul Magrs]], [[Simon (Enter Wildthyme)|one]] of the characters compared [[Omega]] and the [[anti-matter universe]] to the [[Terrance (Enter Wildthyme)|plastic armed owner]] of the [[Great Big Book Exchange]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Great Big Book Exchange (short story)|The Great Big Book Exchange]]'') | |||
== Legacy == | |||
There was once a "[[Terrance Dicks Library]]" located in [[St Luke's University]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | There was once a "[[Terrance Dicks Library]]" located in [[St Luke's University]]. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[The Lost Dimension (comic story)|The Lost Dimension]]'') | ||
== Behind the scenes == | == Behind the scenes == | ||
* The "novelisations" that Terrance wrote are clearly intended to be [[Target novelisation]]s, however this isn't explicitly stated in [[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)| | * The "novelisations" that Terrance wrote are clearly intended to be [[Target novelisation]]s, however this isn't explicitly stated in ''[[Bafflement and Devotion (short story)|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 (webcast)|U.N.I.T. On Call]]'', voiced by [[Jon Culshaw]]. | |||
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