Saturday, July 30, 2022

Doctor Who (1963) 15.01.X

Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction (2005)

36 minutes

Script Editor Terrance Dicks and Producer Barry Letts talk about Dicks' career working on Doctor Who. Several other people who have worked on Doctor Who or with Terrance Dicks in some other capacity are also in this documentary. They are
  • Louis Marks, Writer
  • Peter Darvill-Evabs, Publisher (Virgin Books)
  • Brenda Gardner, Publisher (Pidadilly Press)
  • Paul Cornell, Writer
  • Christopher Barry, Director
  • Eric Saward, Script Editor
The other topics discussed include
  • the origin of the Master
  • writing and rewriting scripts
  • Dicks and Letts working relationship
  • novelizations of Doctor Who stories and children's books that Dicks wrote
Dicks wrote six Doctor Who Stories, in whole or it part. They are all to discussed to some degree. These stories are
  • The War Games
  • Robot
  • The Brain of Morbius
  • Horror of Fang Rock
  • State of Decay
  • The Five Doctors

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