| LC control no. | n 78057783 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Dicks, Terrance |
| See also | Bland, Robin |
| Birth date | 1935-04-14 |
| Death date | 2019-08-29 |
| Place of birth | London (England) |
| Field of activity | Children's literature Television programs |
| Profession or occupation | Authors |
| Found in | His The case of the ... 1978: t.p. (Terrance Dicks) A riot of writers, 1993: t.p. (Terrance Dicks) Can CIP (Dicks, Terrance, 1935- ) Doctor who and the abominable snowmen, 2011: t.p. (Terrance Dicks) Wikipedia, Mar. 28, 2012 (Terrance Dicks; born May 10, 1935, East Ham, Essex, now Greater London; English writer best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s as well as novelizations of Doctor Who stories) viewed Sept. 4, 2019 (Born Terrance William Dicks; Born: 14 April 1935, East Ham, Essex, England; died 29 August 2019 (aged 84)) IMDb, Mar. 28, 2012 (Terrance Dicks; born in East Ham, London, England in 1935; alt. name: Robin Bland: misc. crew, writer, producer, actor; studied English at Downing College, Cambridge; after two year's national service in the army, he got a job as an advertising copywriter; wrote radio and television scripts as well as novels) Guardian WWW site, viewed Sept. 4, 2019 (Terrance Dicks; Terrance William Dicks, writer, producer and script editor, born 14 April 1935, East Ham, east London; died 29 August 2019; had a long association with the popular BBC series Doctor Who. He was the show's script editor from 1968 to 1974, wrote numerous episodes, and adapted more than 50 of the television stories into bestselling novelisations. Published by Target Books, they could reasonably be claimed to have inspired legions of children to take up reading in the 1970s and 80s. Unhappy with alterations to his script The Brain of Morbius (1976), Dicks decreed that it should "go out under some bland pseudonym". It did, credited to "Robin Bland") |
| Associated language | eng |
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