Soon Dimmock, Scoops' editor, began to receive more sophisticated stories, targeted at an adult audience; he tried to change the magazine's focus to include more mature fiction but within twenty issues falling sales led Pearson's to kill the magazine.
The failure of Scoops gave British publishers the impression that Britain could not support a science fiction publication.
He wrote and directed a documentary film about the Scout Movement, Knights of Freedom, which was released in 1947.
[13] Dimmock was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire "for services to the Boy Scouts Association" in the 1951 New Year Honours.
[3] His obituary in the May 1955 edition of The Scouter was written by Lord Rowallan, the Chief Scout, who paid tribute to Dimmock's skill as an orator, artist and innovator, and concluded: "...thank God for that life, short by modern standards but so rich in achievement.