Ian Dickerson (born 1969) is a

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writer, director and producer. He has written about adaptations of

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and

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. He directed ''Randall and Hopkirk (Revisited)'' for Network in 2007 and the following year acted as producer on the documentaries ''The Saint Steps In...To Television'' and ''The Saint Steps In...To Colour'' also for release on Network

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s. He wrote, produced and directed ''The Saint Steps In...To the 70s'' for Network and these were subsequently combined and released as a standalone DVD entitled ''The Saint Steps In...To Television'' later that year. His first book, ''The Saint on TV'', was published by Hirst Publishing in 2011. Further books include ''The Saint on the Radio'' (Purview Press, May 2015), ''Who is the Falcon?'' (Purview Press, December 2016) and "A Saint I Ain't" (Chinbeard, 2019). He lives in

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, England. Dickerson wrote a book about US radio adaptations of Sherlock Holmes, titled ''Sherlock Holmes and His Adventures on American Radio'' (2019). He also published previously unreleased scripts from the 1940s radio series ''

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''. Dickerson explained in a 2018 interview that he was given the scripts by the family of Leslie Charteris, the creator of the Saint who also wrote Sherlock Holmes radio scripts.

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