JIM ELDRIDGE

		JIM ELDRIDGE WRITING CREDITS
Home Workshop Dates Writing Credits BBC Comedy Guide King Street Junior: The Book Leaflet		TELEVISION & RADIO AWARDS WON: ROYAL TELEVISION SOCIETY 1988: Best Children’s TV drama series for “BAD BOYES” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge) WRITER’S GUILD AWARD: Best Light Entertainment Show (Radio) 1973 - co-writer of “LINES FROM MY GRANDFATHER’S FOREHEAD” starring Ronnie Barker. AWARDS NOMINATED FOR: ROSE D’OR (Montreux) 1998: Shortlist for Best Situation Comedy for “UPWARDLY MOBILE” (RTE - 1997) PRIX DANUBE (Bratislava) 1999: Best Children’s Drama for “WHIZZIWIG: DOUBLE TROUBLE” CHICAGO INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF CHILDREN’S FILMS 1999 (Short Children’s Film/Video (Live Action Category)) for “WHIZZIWIG: DOUBLE TROUBLE” BAFTA 1989: Best Children’s TV Series for “BAD BOYES” SONY AWARD 1988 - Radio comedy: “KING STREET JUNIOR” WRITERS GUILD (UK) 1991: “KING STREET JUNIOR” WRITERS GUILD (UK) 1992: “KING STREET JUNIOR” SUNDAY TIMES LITERARY AWARD 1987: “SAVE OUR PLANET - AN ANTI-NUCLEAR GUIDE FOR TEENAGERS” (MAGNET/METHUEN - 1986). See also the BBC Guide to comedy website: www.bbc.co.uk/comedy/guide/talent/e/eldridge_jim.shtml NUMBER ONE-RATED TV / RADIO SHOWS: “THE GHOST HUNTER” (Zenith/CBBCTV 2000/2002 – writer) “KING STREET JUNIOR” (BBC Radio 4 1985-present – creator/writer) “BAD BOYES” (CBBCTV – 1986-1988 – creator/writer) TELEVISION CREDITS TV DRAMA (AS CREATOR/WRITER): "BEHIND THE SET" - comedy drama (CBBCTV 2007) “POWERS” –13-part sci-fi series for CBBCTV (2004) See also: www.action-tv.org.uk/guides/powers.htm “MONSTER TV” – BBCTV children’s comedy-drama – 26 episodes (1999-2001) “THE LEGEND OF THE LOST KEYS” - BBC sci-fi drama series for LOOK & READ educational TV - 10 episodes. 1998) See also: www.lookandread.myby.co.uk/stories/legend/index.shtml “TIME RIDERS” - sci-fi series (Thames TV - 1991) “UNCLE JACK” - Children’s comedy-drama starring Paul Jones & Fenella Fielding (4 series totalling 24 episodes. (BBCTV - 1990 - 1993) “BAD BOYES” - co-written with Duncan Eldridge: 2 series totalling 16 programmes (BBCTV 1987-88) “CLEAN SLATE” - BBC TV Education – monologues - 8 programmes - 1989/90) TV DRAMA (AS WRITER): "SUSPECT" (CBBCTV - Scotland - 15 episodes - 2006) “THE GHOST HUNTER” (Zenith Productions for BBCTV Children’s, three series 1999-2002) “GYPSY GIRL” (Film & General for ITV – writer of 2 episodes – 2001) “THERE’S A VIKING IN MY BED” (BBCTV Children’s comedy-drama – 2001 - writer of 4 episodes) “JULIA JEKYLL & HARRIET HYDE” - (BBCTV Children’s comedy-drama - 1995-1999, writer of 35 out of 53 episodes) “OUT OF SIGHT” - Carlton TV children’s (1997-8) “WHIZZIWIG” - Carlton TV children’s (1998 - 2000) “HARRY’S MAD” - (Carlton TV Children’s - 1995) “WOOF” - (Carlton TV Children’s - 1996) TV SITCOM/ LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (AS CREATOR/WRITER): “TIME OF MY LIFE” - (BBCTV sitcom - 6 programmes - 1980) “WHAT GROWN-UPS SAY AND WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN” (Thames TV - 1987) TV SITCOM/ LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (AS WRITER): “UP THE ELEPHANT & ROUND THE CASTLE” - (Thames TV - Jim Davidson sitcom - 1985-1987) “UPWARDLY MOBILE” (Sitcom for RTE - 1997-98) “SPATZ” - Thames TV (1991) “JACKS & THE BEANSTALK” - BBC TV Pantomime (1991) starring The Chuckle Brothers. ALSO DISTRIBUTED AS MOVIES, EITHER AS TVM OR THEATRICAL RELEASE “TIME RIDERS” (1991) “THE LEGEND OF THE LOST KEYS”(1998) “THE GHOST HUNTER” (2000) RADIO CREDITS RADIO DRAMA (AS CREATOR/WRITER): “KING STREET JUNIOR” - BBC Radio 4 comedy-drama series. 1985 – present (100 episodes.) Original series starred James Grout, Peter Davidson, Karl Howman & Vivienne Martin. New series (from 2002) starring Brigit Forsyth, Carolyn Pickles, Michael Cochrane, Paul Copley, Marlene Sidaway. See also: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/comedy/kingstreetjunior.shtml www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/kingstreet.html “COMING ALIVE” (BBC Radio 4 drama series starring Karl Howman & Phyllis Logan – 3 series of 6 episodes each – 1999 - 2001) “CROSSWORDS: ARTHUR IN BOURNEMOUTH” (BBC Radio 4 60-minute play starring Geoffrey Palmer & Wendy Craig – 2000) “CROSSWORDS: LEONARDO IN LYME REGIS” (60-minute play for BBC Radio 4, starring Geoffrey Palmer & Wendy Craig - 2002). “CROSSWORDS: SHAKESPEARE IN SOUTHAMPTON” (60-minute play for BBC Radio 4, starring Geoffrey Palmer & Wendy Craig - 2004). “STARTING OUT” - (BBC Radio 5 drama series 1991) “DOWN PAYMENT ON DEATH” - (BBC World Service - 5 part thriller adapted from own novel, starring Dinsdale Landen - 1976). RADIO DRAMA (AS WRITER): “THE DEMON HEADMASTER” - (4-part adaptation of novel by Gillian Cross for BBC Radio 5 - 1990) RADIO DRAMA (AS STORYLINE WRITER): “LYNTON BAY” (26 part series for BBC Radio Scotland – 2004). RADIO SITCOM/ LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (AS CREATOR/WRITER): “THE PIG’S BACK” - (BBC Radio 2 sitcom starring Ed Byrne & Jason Byrne - 1999) “TONY’S” - (BBC Radio 2 situation comedy series - 1977/79)- starring Victor Spinetti) “ALBERT & ME” - (BBC Radio 2 situation comedy series - 1977/1980 - starring Richard Beckinsale (series 1), Robert Lindsay (Series 2) “PARSLEY SIDINGS” (BBC Radio 2 situation comedy series - 1971/73 - starring Arthur Lowe, Kenneth Connor, Liz Fraser, Ian Lavender). See also: www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/psidings.htm RADIO SITCOM/ LIGHT ENTERTAINMENT (AS WRITER): “THE SIX MOTHERS IN LAW OF HENRY VIII” (historical sitcom Radio 4 – 1 episode – 2003) co-writer on: “LINES FROM MY GRANDFATHER’S FOREHEAD” (BBC Radio 4) “WEEK-ENDING” (BBC Radio 4) “SHEILA HANCOCK’S SKETCHBOOK” (BBC Radio 2) “HATTIE JACQUE’S SKETCHBOOK” (BBC Radio 2) “DERYCK GUYLER’S SKETCHBOOK” (BBC Radio 2) “PUNCHLINES” (BBC Radio 2) “OH NO IT ISN’T” (BBC Radio 4) Jim Eldridge has also been an invited BAFTA juror in 1993 (Category: Children’s TV Drama), 1999 (Category: Best Children’s Feature Film) and 2000 (Category: Children’s Entertainment) BOOKS (Jim Eldridge’s books have sold over a million copies worldwide). “WARPATH” SERIES (Puffin Books) “WARPATH 1: TANK ATTACK” (Puffin Books 1999) “WARPATH 2: DEADLY SKIES” (Puffin Books 1999) “WARPATH 3: BEHIND ENEMY LINES” (Puffin Books 1999) “WARPATH 4: DEPTH CHARGE DANGER” (Puffin Books 1999) “WARPATH 7: NIGHT BOMBER” (Puffin Books 2000) “WARPATH 8: ISLAND OF FEAR” (Puffin Books 2000) (Jim Eldridge’s books in the “Warpath” series have sold over 200,000 copies). “MY STORY” SERIES (Scholastic Books) “MY STORY: DESERT DANGER” (Scholastic Books 2005) “MY STORY: SPY SMUGGLER” (Scholastic Books 2004) “MY STORY: FLYING ACE” (Scholastic Books 2003) “MY STORY: ARMADA” (Scholastic Books 2002) “MY STORY: THE TRENCHES” (Scholastic Books 2002) (Jim Eldridge’s books in the “My Story” series have sold over 150,000 copies). See also: www.scholastic.co.uk/zone/book_my-story_boys.htm “HOW TO HANDLE GROWN-UPS” SERIES (Red Fox) “HOW TO HANDLE GROWN-UPS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1985) “WHAT GROWN UPS SAY AND WHAT THEY REALLY MEAN” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1986) “MORE WAYS TO HANDLE GROWN UPS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1987) “THE COMPLETE HOW TO HANDLE GROWN-UPS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1991) “EVEN MORE WAYS TO HANDLE GROWN-UPS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1996) (The “How To Handle Grown-Ups” series has sold over 750,000 copies). “SAS” SERIES (Puffin Books) “SECRET ASSAULT” (Puffin Books 2004) “JUNGLE WAR” (Puffin Books 2004) “LONDON SIEGE” (Puffin Books 2003) “HOSTILE TERRAIN” (Puffin Books 2003) OTHER BOOKS "A CANNY HISTORY OF CARLISLE" (Bookcase - 2006) "KING STREET JUNIOR - THE INSIDE STORY" (Greenfinch Park - 2006) "KIDULTHOOD" (novelisation of the screenplay by Noel Clarke - Bloomsbury Books - 2006) “DESERT DUEL” (Scholastic Books 2004) “SPIES AND SECRET WARRIORS” (Chicken House Books UK/ published in the USA by Scholastic as “SPIES AND SPECIAL FORCES” (2003) “WARRIORS” (Chicken House Books UK/ Scholastic USA 2001) “CAPTAIN HAWK” (A & C Black 1997) “PERRY HOMES AND THE CASE OF THE MISSING HEAD” (Ginn & Co 1997) “TRACTORS AND DIGGERS SAVE THE DAY” (Bloomsbury Books 1997) “THE HOLIDAYS SURVIVAL GUIDE” - (Beaver Books 1989) “KING STREET JUNIOR” - (BBC Books 1988) “THE LEGEND OF THE LOST KEYS” (BBC Books 1998) “SAVE OUR PLANET - an Anti-nuclear Guide for Teenagers” (Magnet/Methuen - 1986 - nominated for the Sunday Times Literary Award 1987). “FREAK: THROUGH THE LIGHTNING GATE” (Red Fox Books 1994) “FREAK: DEATH AND THE LIZARD MAN” (Red Fox Books 1994) “AAAAAARGH - A Monster Hunters Guide” - (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1994) “PEREGRINE PEABODY’S COMPLETELY MISLEADING HISTORY OF THE WORLD” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Beaver Books 1988) “PEREGRINE PEABODY’S COMPLETELY MISLEADING GUDIE TO SPORTS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Beaver Books 1989) “BOGIES BOILS AND BELLY-BUTTONS” (co-written with Duncan Eldridge - Red Fox Books 1986) “BAD BOYES” (Red Fox - 1987) “BAD BOYES AND THE GANGSTERS” (Red Fox - 1988) “THE AMAZING TRUTH ABOUT YOU AND YOUR STAR SIGN” - Corgi Books. 1987) “MONSTERMAN” - (Teen Books/Methuen. 1988). “THE COMPLETELY MISLEADING GUIDE TO SCHOOL” (Red Fox Books. 1990). “UNCLE JACK AND OPERATION GREEN” (Red Fox Books. 1990). “UNCLE JACK AND THE LOCH NOCH MONSTER” (Red Fox Books 1991) “TIME RIDERS” (Red Fox Books 1991) “POTTS” (Red Fox Books 1991) “DOWN PAYMENT ON DEATH” - (Robert Hale 1971) WRITING AS “LEE JAMES”: FANTASY SOLDIERS 1: DEATH IN THE JUNGLE (Bloomsbury Books - 1995) FANTASY SOLDIERS 2: KILLER IN THE CITY (Bloomsbury Books - 1995) FANTASY SOLDIERS 3: WHITE DEATH (Bloomsbury Books - 1995) FANTASY SOLDIERS 4: PLAGUE SHIP (Bloomsbury Books - 1995) [Home] [Film & TV - 1 Day] [Film & TV - 2 Day] [Film & TV - Advanced] [Drama & Comedy for Radio - 1 Day] [Drama & Comedy for Radio - 2 Day] [Drama & Comedy for Radio - Advanced] [Developing Characters & Stories] [Writing Books & Getting Published] [Teamwriting - 1 Day] [Teamwriting - 2 Day] [Distance Learning - Film & TV] [Distance Learning - Drama & Comedy for Radio] [Writing Credits] [BBC Comedy Guide] [King Street Junior - The Book] [Leaflet]