Players

Players is a BBC Books original novel written by Terrance Dicks and based on the long-running British science fiction television series Doctor Who. It features the Sixth Doctor and Peri. Flashbacks scenes feature the Second Doctor meeting Winston Churchill and the Countess. These sequences serve as a partial prequel to Dick's subsequent novel World Game, which is set during Season 6B. Like all Doctor Who spin-off media, its relationship to the on... more

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Terrance Dicks

Terrance Dicks (born 10 May 1935 in East Ham, Essex (now Greater London)) is an English writer, best known for his work in television and for writing a large number of popular children's books during the 1970s and 80s. After leaving school, Dicks studied English at Downing College, Cambridge, and...
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