Jim Hitchmough
Writing
Biography
Jim Hitchmough was a TV writer, teacher, academic and former seaman. He was best known for creating and writing every single episode of the long-running and award-winning 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 feature-length Screen One TV film The Bullion Boys. He died in 1997 of a brain tumour.
Known For
Anthology drama series.
Screen One
A young couple from Merseyside and their off again/on again relationship.
Watching
Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.
The Bullion Boys
The NHS Hillcroft Medical Centre has a vacancy for a practise manager. The receptionist Beryl Oldham is the favourite for the job, but then pompous ex-Army officer Maurice Ribley arrives to vye for the position