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Terrance William Dicks (14 April 1935 – 29 August 2019) [1] was an English author and television screenwriter, script editor and producer. In television, he had a long association with the BBC science-fiction series Doctor Who, working as a writer and also serving as the programme's script editor from 1968 to 1974.
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Andrew J. Cartmel (born 6 April 1958) is a British script editor, author and journalist. He was the script editor of Doctor Who during the Sylvester McCoy era of the show between 1987 and 1989. He has also worked as a script editor on other television series, as a magazine editor, as a comics writer, as a film studies lecturer, and as a novelist.
The Daleks' Master Plan is the fourth serial of the third season of the British science fiction television series Doctor Who.Written by Terry Nation and Dennis Spooner and directed by Douglas Camfield, the serial was broadcast on BBC1 in twelve weekly parts from 13 November 1965 to 29 January 1966.
Early titles for the script included Planet of the Robots and The Storm-mine Murders. The treatment of robots in this serial has many intentional nods to Isaac Asimov 's Three Laws of Robotics . The villain of the story is named Taren Capel, which is a reference to Karel Čapek , [ 2 ] who is credited with first coining the word "robot".
At the beginning of the sixth season, there was no slot available for Holmes' script, but the production staff began experiencing a number of problems with scheduled scripts. The Dominators , the first story in the season, ended one episode earlier, resulting in an extra episode being tacked onto the following story, The Mind Robber .
The Art of Destruction is a BBC Books original novel written by Stephen Cole and based on the long-running science fiction television series Doctor Who. It was published on 21 September 2006 alongside The Nightmare of Black Island and The Price of Paradise . [ 1 ]
The episode concerns the "lost" Shakespeare play Love's Labour's Won, which is referred to in more than one historical document, but which may be just an alternative title for an extant play. Historically, a reference to Love's Labour's Won (in Francis Meres 's Palladis Tamia, Wits Treasury , 1598) predates the construction of the Globe Theatre ...