Terrance Dicks Terrance Dicks , whom fans have long affectionately called " Uncle Terrance " , script edited the Patrick Troughton and Jon Pertwee eras of " Doctor Who " and wrote many " Doctor Who " episodes , novels and novelisations . Profile . Overview . Terrance Dicks began his long association with " Doctor Who " in 1968 , when he joined the production team during the Second Doctor story " The Invasion " . He soon began writing scripts for the series . His first notable work was " The War Games " , an epic , ten - episode collaboration with Malcolm Hulke . Dicks served as script editor through the Jon Pertwee era . He handed the reins to Robert Holmes with the coming of Tom Baker . Dicks continued to supply scripts for the series under his name and pseudonyms , specifically " Robin Bland " which was used when too many changes were made to his script for " The Brain of Morbius " . Between seasons 13 and 14 , he unsuccessfully attempted to sell a version of " Doctor Who " to BBC Radio , which would have starred Tom Baker and Elisabeth Sladen . ( INFO : " The Seeds of Doom " ) At roughly the same time , he submitted what would become " State of Decay " to the " Doctor Who " production office . It remained unproduced for several years as the BBC had recently produced of " Dracula " . His final script for televised " Doctor Who " was for the twentieth anniversary story " The Five Doctors " . In 1973 , Dicks , along with other writers from the TV series , were commissioned by Target Books to write novelisations adapting TV episodes . Over the next two decades , Dicks became the most prolific author of the line . He was editor of the range at one point . In later years , when Target adopted the policy of commissioning the original teleplay writers to novelise their works , Dicks became the " go - to guy " when the original teleplay writer was deceased , unable or unwilling to adapt their work in book form . The Target Books line was retire d in the early 1990s . Dicks wrote original novels for virtually every line of Doctor Who fiction , with notable exceptions being Virgin Missing Adventures , Telos Publishing , Big Finish Productions ' Bernice Summerfield series of books and the current hardcover series of BBC Books novels , although he has written two entries in the Quick Reads novella series , most notably " Made of Steel " , which introduced fans to Martha Jones a full month before her TV debut . He is one of only a handful of Classic Era TV writers to have written licenced Modern Era stories ( others include Andrew Cartmel , who has written for the " Doctor Who Adventures " comic strip , and Rona Munro , who contributed a script to Series 10 ) . He also co - wrote " The Making of Doctor Who " , the first non - fiction book about the series . In 2007 , after a hiatus of seventeen years , Dicks returned to writing episode novelisations by adapting " Invasion of the Bane " for a new series of novelisations based upon " The Sarah Jane Adventures " , published by Penguin Character Books . Although most closely associated with " Doctor Who " , Dicks has also worked on other projects , such as a mid - 1970s series of novels featuring the adventures of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police . Dicks has written novels and novelisations featuring every incarnation of the Doctor except the Ninth Doctor and Twelfth Doctor . In terms of novelisations , discounting the Modern Era Doctors , for whom novelisations have not been commissioned , along with the Eighth Doctor , the only Doctor era not receiving the Dicks treatment at some point was the Seventh Doctor ( discounting the special case of " Shakedown " , a partial novelisation of the independent film " " , which Dicks adapted for the Virgin New Adventures , expanding the story to include the Seventh Doctor ) . He also contributed to the charity reference book " " . Contributions to the " Doctor Who " universe . Major characters and concepts created in a Terrance Dicks script or substantially developed by him as script editor include the Time Lord s ( in " The War Games " , co - written with Malcolm Hulke ) , as well as played by Roger Delgado . More minor creations include the Rutan s , the War Lord , the Death Zone and Morbius . Contributions to the mythos . Major characters and concepts created for or debuting in a Terrance Dicks script include :