Jim Hitchmough

Born: 1934-09-21 in Liverpool, Merseyside, England, UK

Died: 1997-05-11

Known For: 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.