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Terrance Dicks (1935 - ) is an screenwriter, producer and author, most associated with his work on Doctor Who. Other genre work includes tbe penning of the Space 1999 episode "The Lambda Factor" and four episodes of The Avengers (with Malcolm Hulke).

Dicks came to work on Doctor Who as an assistant script editor in the program's fifth season (1967), a position he had been invited to fill by his friend, new script editor Derrick Sherwin. Sherwin didn't like the job and wanted to move on to greener pastures, but he thought Dicks might like it. Promoted to head script editor in the middle of the next season, Dicks did indeed seem to like the position. He would remain in it until the end of season eleven, making him the longest to hold that position in the series' long history. During this period, Dicks would form an extremely successful partnership with series producer Barry Letts, bringing the show back from the brink of cancellation and paving the way for his successors to achieve even greater heights of success.

After his departure as script editor, Dicks maintained his strong association with the show, penning several more scripts and writing more than fifty of the Target Books novelizations of the televised adventures. He is also the author of a number of the Doctor Who spin off novels published in the 1990s and in the new millennium.

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