Terrance Dicks
Terrance Dicks ( born May 10, 1935 in London ) is a British writer and reciter, whose name is closely associated with the British sci-fi cult series Doctor Who.
Life and works
Terrance Dicks was born in London in 1935 and has found his place of work. After leaving school, studied English at Downing College Dicks and then rendered military service in the British Army. After his discharge from the armed forces, he worked for five years as a copywriter of newspapers and began writing radio plays for the BBC in his spare time. Since the late 1960s, he is active as a writer. His name is closely associated with the BBC TV series Doctor Who, where he is active as a screenwriter up to subsequent processing of the stories in film books and serialized novels in book form. He has also participated in two Doctor Who computer games. His sphere of influence extends beyond the employees of other television series and children's books, which are located at a considerable part in the field of science fiction and fantasy.
Doctor Who
His big chance on television came when his friend Malcolm Hulke asked him to help him when writing an episode of the popular ABC Weekend TV action adventure series The Avengers - at the Dicks as a co- writer for the show earned recognition. He has also written for the popular ATV soap opera Crossroads, before he began his work in 1968 as deputy screenwriter for the popular BBC 's science fiction series Doctor Who.
Children's book author
1976 Dicks wrote a trilogy, published by Target Books, the " The Mounties " is - it is about a recruit in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police. These were followed by another target 1979-1983 Books trilogy "Star Quest ", which was later reissued by Big Finish Productions.
Since 1978, Dick worked on the series "The Baker Street Irregulars ", which eventually included 10 books, the last appeared in 1987. 1981 began Dicks also the series " Cry Vampire " at, consisting of six horror novels for children, the substantive parallels to his novel the series of Doctor Who State of Decay have, are also frequently occurred in the vampires.
1987 saw Dicks the beginning of a new series of books for very young children and called this " TR Bear ". It included seven books. These were followed by the number " Sally Ann " on a determined ragdoll and " Magnificent Max", a cat, and "The Adventures of Goliath " about a golden retriever. The Goliath series is Dicks extensive series of eighteen books. Another five books about a St. Bernard formed the " Harvey " series.
" Johnatan ' s Ghost " and three more episodes were released in 1988 and the three books " MacMagic " followed in 1990. " The Littlest Dinosaur " in 1993 and " The Littlest published on Guard " in 1994. Other works from 1994 were " Woof! The Never Ending Tale ", the" Cold Blood " series ( four books), the " Chronicals of a Computer Game Addict " ( four books).
Between 1998 and 2000 produced Dicks wrote the three-part " Changing Universe". Since then, Dick has written on the " The Unexplained " series with twelve books so far.
Apart from the considerable number of fictional works Dicks also has some non-fiction books for children, including " United Europe ", "A Riot of Writers ", " Uproar in the House", " A Right Royal History" and " The Good, the Bad and the Ghastly "is written.
Let 's latest work (2009), " Penetrated Minds - Worshipers of the black mother"
Works in German language (selection)
- Doctor Who and the child of the stars, Munich: Goldmann, 1990
- Doctor Who and the Daleks the conspiracy, Munich: Goldmann, 1989
- Doctor Who, Munich: F. Schneider
- The 4 of Baker Street, Munich, Vienna: F. Schneider