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Terrance Dicks: Fact & Fiction
(36'10")
Terrance Dicks and his colleagues and fans look back over his
career.
- Barry Letts explains how he was thrown into Doctor Who and
found Dicks waiting for him - Dicks explains his origins and
talks to us about The War Games, Mac Hulke and his disbelief
when people describe it as classic television.
- Louis Marks speaks of his love of Dicks' sense of humour
that he injected into Day of the Daleks amongst others.
- Letts and Dicks remind us that Doctor Who was a
collaboration and then go on to cover the creation of The
Master.
- Dicks believes rewrites are "nonsense" - Marks shares
his thoughts on the matter.
- Dicks and Letts discuss a "low budget" sequence in
Ambassadors of Death that included a helicopter.
- Dicks explains why he nearly always shied away from the
producers job.
- We look at the 1985 version of Oliver Twist and Dicks'
contribution.
- Peter Darvill-Evans introduces the Target novelisations, and
tells us about Dicks' work on them. Brenda Gardner joins Dicks
to explain why. Gardner also tells us about Dicks' writing
career outside Who.
- Darvill-Evans then introduces the New Adventures and tells
us why he courted Dicks to write one of the earliest.
- Paul Cornell gives us his thoughts on Dicks' writing style.
- Christopher Barry covers Robot and The Brain of Morbius,
which Dicks gives us his thoughts on, and working with Robert
Holmes.
- Dicks then explains how Horror of Fang Rock came about, as a
quick replacement for the postponed State of Decay.
- Cornell tells us why Horror of Fang Rock is such a classic
and Dicks chats with him about why he decided to make the enemy
into the Rutan.
- Eric Saward moves us onto the subject of The Five Doctors
and why he approached Dicks.
- Cornell asks Dicks about the classic lines such as "Chap
with wings, there, five rounds rapid." and regenerating the
Doctor in Planet of the Spiders before going on to emphasise
just what an impact he had - something which Marks, Saward and
Letts agree with.
- Letts asks Dicks how he'd like to be remembered.
"Professional" is the answer.
Featuring: Terrance Dicks, Barry Letts, Christopher Barry, Paul
Cornell, Peter Darvill-Evans, Brenda Gardner, Louis Marks, Eric
Saward
Lighting Cameraman: Clive Gill
Sound: Neil Papworth
Research: David J Howe
Editor: Anastasia Stylianou
With Thanks to Aimee Ashwell, Andrew Martin, Jason May, Ed Strading
Produced & Directed by Keith Barnfather
BBC Worldwide
(C) BBC MMV
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Paddy Russell - A Life in Television (14'03")
An interview with the director. She explains how she first got into
television, and goes on to talk about Mother Courage and her
Children, controlling the studio floor "like a man", The Massacre of
St Bartholomew's Eve, Invasion of the Dinosaurs, Pyramids of Mars
(and working with Tom Baker), Horror of Fang Rock (she was initially
set to work on State of Decay), the design of the Rutan, Tom and
Louise Jameson's relationship and how lucky she feels about her
career.
Paddy Russell was Interviewed by Martin Wiggins
Produced by Paul Vanezis
Made in Birmingham
BBC Worldwide
(C) BBC MMV
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Antique Doctor Who Show
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By Richard Molesworth
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