# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/terrance-dicks
# Generated: 2026-08-13T23:20:04.034Z

schema: https://schema.org/Person
url: "https://fame.am/person/terrance-dicks"
name: "Terrance Dicks"
slug: "terrance-dicks"
description: "Terrance William Dicks was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974. The Doctor Who News Page described him as \"arguably the most prolific contributor to Doctor Who\". He later became a script editor and producer of classic serials for the BBC."
tagline: "English writer (1935–2019)"
image: "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/38/Terrance_Dicks.jpg"
gender: "male"
country:
  name: "United Kingdom"
  isoCode: "GB"
category:
  name: "Writers"
  slug: "writers"
profileType:
  name: "Writer / Author"
  slug: "writer"
birthDate: "1935-04-14"
deathDate: "2019-08-29"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
scores:
  popularity:           46.35
  momentum:             0
  historical:           9.049356
  currentAttention:     0
  sourceConfidence:     65
  profileCompleteness:  75
  trendDirection:       "FALLING"
ranks:
  global:   null
  country:  null
  category: null
platforms:
  - platform:  "IMDB"
    url:       "https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0225605/"
    handle:    "nm0225605"
sources:
  - url: "https://musicbrainz.org/artist/46a24dfe-5d3e-4b43-b8ba-3f5216080ded"
    title: "MusicBrainz"
    type:  "DATABASE"
  - url: "https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://hu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://ru.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%94%D0%B8%D0%BA%D1%81%2C_%D0%A2%D0%B5%D1%80%D1%80%D0%B5%D0%BD%D1%81"
    title: "Дикс, Терренс"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terrance_Dicks"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "WIKIPEDIA"
  - url: "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q351168"
    title: "Wikidata"
    type:  "WIKIDATA"
  - url: "https://www.themoviedb.org/person/159214"
    title: "Terrance Dicks"
    type:  "DATABASE"

# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump