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Post by IndieMacUser on Sept 2, 2019 13:59:06 GMT
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You know, now that you mention it, I actually do rather like Attack of the Cybermen ...
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Post by lidar2 on Sept 2, 2019 14:24:23 GMT
Absolutely gutted by this. Terrance Dicks, or to be more accurate his novelisations, were such an important part of my childhood. It is no exaggeration to say that, for me, Terrance WAS Doctor Who, more so then even Tom Baker or Jon Pertwee. This one really hits hard.
He really was the maestro - even more so than Robert Holmes. Not only his stories but also the way he wrote them - any academic success I might have had in arts subjects involving essay writing, any occasion when I use the correct spelling and grammar, the credit belongs as much to Terrance Dicks' novelisations as it does to my teachers/lecturers.
What a terrible year 2019 is turning out to be. Paul Darrow and then Terrance Dicks passed away. Any death is of course sad, but these two were so important to me growing up.
RIP Terrance and thank you for all the many hours of pleasure in my childhood and adulthood.
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Post by whiskeybrewer on Sept 2, 2019 14:58:00 GMT
Just saw this online too. Man that's a gut punch. Another Legend gone
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Post by Timelord007 on Sept 2, 2019 15:02:10 GMT
R.I.P Terrence Dicks, a bonafide legend who wrote some truly fantastic Doctor Who episode's, novels, the Doctor Who community today is a little less brighter, my thoughts go out to his family & friends.
Absolutely gutted & saddened by this news but Terrence has left behind such a richness of Doctor Who literature that fans old & new can enjoy for generations to come.
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Post by mark687 on Sept 2, 2019 15:21:14 GMT
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Post by Hieronymus on Sept 2, 2019 15:24:37 GMT
When the local station took Doctor Who off the air (in the middle of The Androids of Tara), I was fortunate enough to discover Target novelizations. I bought and read all of them. My bookshelves were capacious enough to hold them all. I've read more books by Terrance Dicks than by any other author and knew his name long before I knew about his other work with the program.
Uncle Terry shall be missed.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 15:43:12 GMT
It's almost churlish to try and pay tribute to someone with his legacy in the world of Doctor Who in just a few words. It's truly immeasurable. So I'll just say: Thank you Uncle Terrance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 15:44:44 GMT
A whole generation of young boys who would otherwise have stuck to comics, arguably got reading books through his novelisations. He was the name on most of the Target range and one became so familiar with his narrative style, that those by Hayles, Hulke and Marter for example, always stood out as a noticeably different voice. All things come to pass. Farewell Uncle Terrance.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 15:50:30 GMT
A wonderful writer who shaped very much of the Classic era of Doctor Who. RIP
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Post by muckypup on Sept 2, 2019 15:52:22 GMT
Sad day Indeed, but he brought joy to many of us and left a legacy that will last forever
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Post by mark687 on Sept 2, 2019 16:04:25 GMT
I think one of my best mistakes in regards to Doctor Who was reading Day of the Daleks and Auton Invasion (Spearhead) before seeing them on TV. Day in particular vivid, pacey, action packed. Thank you Mr Dicks for such brilliantly wide-scope and enthralling fiction on and off screen.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 16:29:02 GMT
Very very sad news... Terrance Dicks was a man whose writing played a big part of my life in it's formative years with all those Target novels. He was a proper Doctor Who legend.
RIP Uncle Terrance... you definitely will not be forgotten!
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Post by fitzoliverj on Sept 2, 2019 16:29:38 GMT
There's been a fuss in the media in the last few weeks about the Royal Mint's decision not to honour Enid Blyton, for her contribution to the literacy of children, with a special coin. If she's not considered suitable, Terrance Dicks must surely be the only comparable candidate.
(By-the-way, according to his page on Tardis Fandom, it is asserted that Terrance Dicks has written for every Doctor except 9 and 12. He definitely wrote short novellas for 10, but I can't find anything for 11 or 13. Is this a mistake? 13 is understandable, the article may just be out of date, but 11?!)
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Post by number13 on Sept 2, 2019 17:25:30 GMT
How very very sad. To me, as to countless others, he is part of my childhood, a legend of print and of the Pertwee era I love above all others, and with Barry Letts he did so much to make my Doctor the triumph he was.
I bought all the early Target novels as soon they started being published in paperback in 1974. In those days before video or repeats, they were 'Doctor Who' beyond Saturday teatimes and when I saw 'Terrance Dicks' on a new 'Target' I knew I was in for a great read and I always was. I read them so often in the 70s that to this day I can recite passages from his writing.
At the very top of my list comes 'The Day of the Daleks' which first held me gripped by its prose on a long car journey and gave me pictures I have never forgotten: Moni making his way through the night, UNIT troops skirmishing with Ogrons in the darkness, the menacing Black Dalek, Anat emerging from the tunnels just as dawn breaks “over the sea of rubble” and contemplating that success by the Doctor would mean “a new dawn for all of them”.
And in later years, his cheery presence enlivened so many DVD commentary tracks with ancedotes and memories of those great stories - and as everyone who's heard them will know, he took ownership of the word 'bouffant'! As with his novels decades before, I always looked forward to a commentary when I knew he was on the panel and they were always rewarding listens.
I was partway through The Time War 3, but in his honour I will now return to the audiobook of that earlier Time War and travel once again with my Doctor and Jo across the wastelands of future Earth with the voice of Richard Franklin and the prose of Terrance Dicks. 'This time, it's going to be different' - but also just as exciting and gripping a story as it always is and always will be.
RIP Terrance Dicks.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 17:47:42 GMT
And in later years, his cheery presence enlivened so many DVD commentary tracks - and took ownership of the word 'bouffant'!
A lovely post N13 but this in particular warmed me as it reminded me of something that always makes me laugh and smile on a commentary with Uncle Terrance. As anyone who has listened to all Terrance's Pertwee commentary knows, as Number 13 is saying, Terrance would always have the exact same line about Pertwee's hair "You can tell how far into the era he is by how bouffant his hair is". Now that's funny enough but the part that made me laugh so very hard is....argghh, I think it was a story with Lis Sladen, a latter era commentary recorded well into the range, where someone else points that out first and Terrance acts like he's never noticed "Oh, yes - so you can! Well noticed!" It's almost like a little Easter egg for followers of the commentaries. A great moment that almost comes as the payoff to a long running joke. I also had a mild obsession with his description of Davison's Doctor as having "a pleasant, open face". So I was delighted on the Terrance Dicks: On Target documentary about his book works that Paul Cornell brought up exactly the same term, always stopping to ponder it when Terrance wrote it each time,, and saying he'd love to ask Dicks about it as Paul tenuously thought it was a cricket reference. The end credits of the documentary see Paul get to ask Terrance finally "Is that a cricket joke?" and Terrance said he has no idea about any sport much less cricket and it was a more colourful way of saying "plain".
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Post by Audio Watchdog on Sept 2, 2019 17:47:49 GMT
It's almost churlish to try and pay tribute to someone with his legacy in the world of Doctor Who in just a few words. It's truly immeasurable. So I'll just say: Thank you Uncle Terrance. Seconded.
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Post by Deleted on Sept 2, 2019 17:50:39 GMT
Oh very very sad news... Without whom my growing up would have been all the poorer .Thank You Terrance- Rest In peace.
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Post by number13 on Sept 2, 2019 18:01:20 GMT
And in later years, his cheery presence enlivened so many DVD commentary tracks - and took ownership of the word 'bouffant'! A lovely post N13 but this in particular warmed me as it reminded me of something that always makes me laugh and smile on a commentary with Uncle Terrance. As anyone who has listened to all Terrance's Pertwee commentary knows, as Number 13 is saying, Terrance would always have the exact same line about Pertwee's hair "You can tell how far into the era he is by how bouffant his hair is". Now that's funny enough but the part that made me laugh so very hard is....argghh, I think it was a story with Lis Sladen, a latter era commentary recorded well into the range, where someone else points that out first and Terrance acts like he's never noticed "Oh, yes - so you can! Well noticed!" It's almost like a little Easter egg for followers of the commentaries. A great moment that almost comes as the payoff to a long running joke. I also had a mild obsession with his description of Davison's Doctor as having "a pleasant, open face". So I was delighted on the Terrance Dicks: On Target documentary about his book works that Paul Cornell brought up exactly the same term, always stopping to ponder it when Terrance wrote it each time,, and saying he'd love to ask Dicks about it as Paul tenuously thought it was a cricket reference. The end credits of the documentary see Paul get to ask Terrance finally "Is that a cricket joke?" and Terrance said he has no idea about any sport much less cricket and it was a more colourful way of saying "plain". Thanks Davy - and yes as a cricket fan I'd also wondered about that and I loved his exchange with Paul Cornell!
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Post by shallacatop on Sept 2, 2019 18:04:29 GMT
There’s not many more legends in the Doctor Who pantheon than Terrance Dicks. I once read he was involved in just under a quarter of the original run of Doctor Who. The vision he and Barry Letts had during the Pertwee era laid the foundations of the revival and added so much to Doctor Who’s mythology.
And, of course, there’s the Target books. I must confess I know him more for his televised work, but the Targets of his I have read have lovely, no nonsense prose. The article dedicated to him in the recent DWM Special Edition on the books is very fitting, as are the comments made by the writers he influenced in the latest issue.
RIP.
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Post by Tim Bradley on Sept 2, 2019 18:09:39 GMT
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