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Post by paul stamper on Sept 2, 2019 17:38:50 GMT
Read the sad news that Terrance Dicks passed away last Thursday age 84. Sad loss to who RIP thoughts with his family.
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Post by George D on Sept 3, 2019 3:28:16 GMT
He has given dr who more than any other human being. Much gutted by his loss rip
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Post by lousingh on Sept 3, 2019 4:02:40 GMT
Came here to say this. RIP.
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Post by Jaspal Cheema on Sept 3, 2019 7:47:52 GMT
Terribly sad news.One of the greatest contributors to Dr Who ever and a creative genius.R.I.P Terran Cedicks.Hope you can now have endless conversations up above with your fellow Sontaran Hol Mes.
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Post by Arthur Chim on Sept 3, 2019 13:02:29 GMT
I thoroughly enjoyed the many stories Terence Dicks recounted of his time on Doctor Who. The contribution of Terence Dicks and Barry Letts to classic Doctor Who will live on forever. R.I.P. Mr Dicks
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Post by mattg on Sept 3, 2019 15:20:58 GMT
RIP indeed and slightly surreal timing for me as I had coincidentally purchased Doctor Who Magazine's Target Books Special just a few hours earlier in which, unsurprisingly, Dicks featured prominently. Reading the section documenting his considerable contribution to the Target range I recall thinking 'is Terrance still with us? He must be quite old by now'. As I say, surreal timing. Still, Terrance will remain superb value on classic 'Who's DVD extras with his insightful contributions always endowed with his customary sardonic wit, affable demeanour and penchant for saying "you know"! He is perhaps also testiment to an older, more educated and enlightened breed of writer who could happily work with (and exude a persistent respect and immeasurable fondness for) the likes of Malcom Hulke - despite the latter's politics being utterly antithetical to his own. True professionalism. Indeed, Doctor Who was all the richer for the combined creative energies of such genuinely talented (but often ideologically diverse) writers of which the show's modern incarnation could only....well, that's an embittered whinge for another place and another time!
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Post by lousingh on Sept 4, 2019 13:37:29 GMT
He is perhaps also testiment to an older, more educated and enlightened breed of writer who could happily work with (and exude a persistent respect and immeasurable fondness for) the likes of Malcom Hulke - despite the latter's politics being utterly antithetical to his own. True professionalism. Italicised: I was stunned to find out that Malcolm Hulke was a communist. His novelisations of "Colony in Space" and "Invasions of the Dinosaurs" for the US market had overt Christian symbolism and Bible references that were nowhere in the originals. I figured the two viewpoints would have been antithetical to each other.
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