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'''Terrance Dicks''' (born 1935) is probably the closest thing the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' franchise has to a single "public face", and has been involved with the show for a longer period of time than anyone ever.
He was hired as assistant script editor in 1968 through the recommendation of his friend and fellow writer Malcolm Hulke, and became full script editor in 1969. He and Barry Letts, the producer, had creative control of the show for all five seasons in which [[Jon Pertwee]] played the Doctor.
Although he was not credited as a writer on any of these stories, he made a heavy contribution to the scripts. Outside his period as script editor, he was credited writer on ''[[Doctor Who/Recap/S6
His most visible contribution to the franchise, however, was his involvement with the [[Doctor Who Novelisations
Since the end of the original TV show, he has written thirteen original novels in all the different prose sections of the [[Doctor Who Expanded Universe]], including the second [[Virgin New Adventures|Virgin New Adventure]], ''Timewyrm: Exodus'', and the first of the [[Eighth Doctor Adventures]], ''The Eight Doctors''.
Other oddments in the ''Who'' franchise include the plays ''Doctor Who and the Seven Keys to Doomsday'' and ''The Ultimate Adventure'', the novelisation of ''Invasion of the Bane'' (the inaugural episode of ''[[
The fandom still sees regular demands for him to be invited to write a TV story again.
Outside his work for ''[[Doctor Who]]'', he wrote well over a hundred original books for children, mainly in the crime, adventure, and [[Funny Animal]] genres.
After leaving ''[[Doctor Who]]'', he and Letts created the short-lived and [[Darker and Edgier|extremely grim]] hard-SF BBC show ''[[Moonbase Three]]'', and then worked on many adaptations of classic novels and other literature for the Beeb. His early pre-''Who'' TV work included episodes of ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' and ''[[Crossroads]]''.
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* [[Elmuh Fudd Syndwome]]: Hence his fan nickname of "Cuddly Uncle Tewwy"
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