Prolific English radio, film, and TV screenplay writer
For the American politician, see Jimmy Eldridge.
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Jim Eldridge
Born
1944 (age 79–80) 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 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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