Snakedance was the second story in Peter Davison’s Fifth Doctor’s tenure to feature a monster known as the Mara. Christopher Bailey wrote both, and in a sense, they offered something that has become fundamental to…
Before we go any further, this review comes with two confessions. Confession #1: Destiny of the Daleks was the first Doctor Who story I watched with the mindset of a fan. It was so amazing…
There were seldom occasions in Classic Doctor Who when a companion was so thoroughly front and centre of the storytelling as Janet Fielding’s Tegan Jovanka was in Kinda, originally written for the screen by Christopher…
The Horns of Nimon, bless it, was never a great Doctor Who story. On the one hand, it was a fairly lazy piece of construction by Anthony Read, borrowing hugely from Greek myth (as the…
Audio: Audiobooks: BBC: Doctor Who Written by Terrance Dicks, and read by Janet Fielding The Silurians and the Sea Devils, originally created by Malcolm Hulke for a pair of Jon Pertwee Doctor Who stories in…
Terrance Dicks is a name that, despite his long and bright career working on other TV programmes and novel series, will always be synonymous with Doctor Who. As a script writer, and as the show’s…
Every Doctor Who fan who with an interest in the Classic era of the show (1963-1996) knows the work of Terrance Dicks. He’s not only impossible to ignore, having joined the TV show during the…
The Cybermen have always been Doctor Who’s silver medal monsters. At the very end of First Doctor William Hartnell’s time in the Tardis, they scored a massive hit with audiences, both for their size, their…
In which the sexier half of Mass Movement’s Middle Age Tag Team talks about Doctor Who: The Essential Terrance Dicks Volumes One & Two, Taskmaster: The Rubicon Trigger, Curse Of The Man-Thing, Wolverine: Black, White…
The Monster of Peladon was that reasonably rare thing in Doctor Who – a sequel story, showing the advancement of an alien world which acted as a mirror of political events here on Earth, and…
Doctor Who and the Image of the Fendahl – Written by Terrance Dicks & Read by Louise Jameson – CD / Audible (BBC Audio) You can tell almost immediately that Terrance Dicks probably enjoyed writing…
BBC Books to launch The World Cup of Terrance Dicks social media tournament on Monday 18 November 2019 BBC Books is to publish a hardback collection of Target novelisations by the late Terrance Dicks next…
