Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge
Born 1944 (age 7172)
London, England
Occupation Children's author and screenwriter.
Period 1965–present
Genre Comedy, 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.

Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including Parsley Sidings, King Street Junior, Crosswords, Albert and Me and The Demon Headmaster. On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama Powers and Time of My Life, 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.

He has had 80 books published, which have sold over a million copies.[1]

Bibliography

"Warpath" Series
"My Story" Series

Writing credits

Production Notes Broadcaster
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)
CITV
Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster
  • 6 episodes (1991)
BBC1
Spatz
  • "Talent Contest" (1991)
  • "Witness" (1992)
CITV
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

Year Award Work Category Result Reference
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 N/A Nominated
1988 Royal Television Society Awards Bad Boyes Best Children's Drama Series (with Duncan Eldridge) Won
1988 Sony Radio Awards King Street Junior N/A Nominated
1989 British Academy Television Awards Bad Boyes Best Children’s TV Series (with Duncan Eldridge) Nominated
1991 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award King Street Junior N/A Nominated
1992 Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award N/A Nominated
1998 Rose d'Or Upwardly Mobile Shortlist for Best Situation Comedy Nominated
1999 Chicago International Festival of Children's Films Whizziwig: Double Trouble Short Children’s Film/Video (Live Action Category) Nominated
Prix Danube Whizziwig: Double Trouble Best Children’s Drama Nominated

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