Jim Hitchmough

Jim Hitchmough was a TV writer teacher academic and former seaman He was best known for creating and writing every single episode of the longrunning and awardwinning Granada television sitcom Watching but he also wrote for Coronation Street Brookside Albion Market the BBC Scotland sketch series Naked Video as well as a featurelength Screen One TV film The Bullion Boys He died in 1997 of a brain tumour