Jim Eldridge

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Jim Eldridge
Born1944 (age 80–81)
London, England
OccupationChildren's author and screenwriter.
Period1965–present
GenreComedy, drama, adventure, science fiction

Jim Eldridge (born November 1944) is an English radio, film and television screenwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the United Kingdom and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years.

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Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including Shut UP , King Street Junior , Coming Alive, Crosswords, Albert and Me , Parsley Sidings and The Demon Headmaster . On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama Powers , Time of My Life and Uncle Jack and written for The Ghost Hunter , Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde , and Up the Elephant and Round the Castle , in addition to other TV and radio series.

In 1971 he sold his first sitcom to the BBC and had his first book commissioned. Since then he has had more than 100 books published, which have sold over three million copies. [1] He lives in Kent with his wife.

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"Warpath" Series
"My Story" Series
"Museum mysteries"
"Hotel mysteries"

Writing credits

ProductionNotesBroadcaster
Time of My Life
  • 6 episodes (1980)
 BBC1
Up the Elephant and Round the Castle
  • "May the Best Man Win" (1983)
  • "The Hostage" (1985)
  • "A Taxing Problem" (1985)
 ITV
Bad Boyes
  • 16 episodes (co-written with Duncan Eldridge, 1987–1988)
BBC1
Uncle Jack and Operation Green
  • 6 episodes (1990)
BBC1
Time Riders
  • 4 episodes (1991)
 Children's ITV
Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster
  • 6 episodes (1991)
BBC1
Spatz
  • "Talent Contest" (1991)
  • "Witness" (1992)
Children's ITV
Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon
  • 6 episodes (1992)
BBC1
Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy
  • 6 episodes (1993)
BBC1
Harry's Mad
  • "That's Entertainment" (1996)
  • "Spooks" (1996)
  • "Gambling Is a Risky Business" (1996)
CITV
Woof!
  • "When My Sheep Comes In" (1997)
ITV
The Legend of the Lost Keys
  • 10 episodes (1998)
 BBC2
Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde
  • 6 episodes (1998)
 CBBC
Monster TV
  • 26 episodes (1999–2001)
BBC2
CBBC
The Ghost Hunter BBC1
Powers
  • 13 episodes (2004)
BBC1

Awards and nominations

YearAwardWorkCategoryResultReference
1973 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead Best Light Entertainment Show (Radio)Won
1987 Sunday Times Literary Award Save Our Planet: An Anti-Nuclear Guide for Teenagers—Nominated
1988 Royal Television Society Awards Bad Boyes Best Children's Drama Series (with Duncan Eldridge)Won
1988 Sony Radio Awards King Street Junior —Nominated
1989 British Academy Television Awards Bad BoyesBest Children’s TV Series (with Duncan Eldridge)Nominated
1991Writers' Guild of Great Britain AwardKing Street Junior—Nominated
1992Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award—Nominated
1998 Rose d'Or Upwardly Mobile Shortlist for Best Situation ComedyNominated
1999Chicago International Festival of Children's Films Whizziwig: Double Trouble Short Children’s Film/Video (Live Action Category)Nominated
Prix DanubeWhizziwig: Double TroubleBest Children’s DramaNominated

References

  1. ↑ "HOME". Archived from the original on 29 August 2006. Retrieved 14 February 2007.
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