Interview by MICHAEL STEVENS
Terrance Dicks’ author photo from the dustjacket of the 1974 hardback Doctor Who and the Auton Invasion.
In early 1973 Richard Henwood, an editor at the London-based publisher Universal-Tandem, went knocking on the door of the Doctor Who production office. With the ink still fresh on a licence from the BBC to publish a range of novelisations based on the programme, Henwood was looking for writers.