Writer / Creator:
SAM;(39 HOURS)-FAMILY AT WAR (52 HOURS)-THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR (13 HOURS)-SPOILS OF WAR (20 HOURS)-FLESH AND BLOOD (20 HOURS)-CAPSTICKS LAW (6 HOURS)-Writer / Editor / Producer: CORONATION STREET. 1960-1968 (200 EPISODES)-THE HARD WORD-CITY 68-ROOMS-THE VILLAINS-Writer / Producer:THE SYSTEM.-Writer / Contributor:PLAY FOR TODAY-ARMCHAIR THEATRE-PLAY OF THE MONTH-THIRTY MINUTE THEATRE-THE POWER GAME-THE VERDICT IS YOURS-ADAM SMITH-TURN OUT THE LIGHTS-NIGHTINGALES BOYS-THE LONDONERS-Adaptations:LOVE ON THE DOLE-APE AND ESSENCE-NUMBER 10-Editor:“GRANADA TELEVISION – THE FIRST GENERATION”-Books:CUDDON RETURN / SHAFT OF LIGHT-GRANADA TELEVISION- THE FIRST GENERATION-Consultant to Various Television Companies-Author of Various TV Plays & one Novel
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SAM;(39 HOURS)
FAMILY AT WAR (52 HOURS)
THIS YEAR NEXT YEAR (13 HOURS)SPOILS OF WAR (20 HOURS)
FLESH AND BLOOD (20 HOURS)
CAPSTICKS LAW (6 HOURS)
Writer / Editor / Producer:
CORONATION STREET. 1960-1970 – Full list of John’s Coronation Street writing credits
THE HARD WORD
CITY 68
ROOMS
THE VILLAINS
Writer / Producer:
THE SYSTEM.
Writer / Contributor:
PLAY FOR TODAY.
ARMCHAIR THEATRE.
PLAY OF THE MONTH.
THIRTY MINUTE THEATRE.
THE POWER GAME.
THE VERDICT IS YOURS.
ADAM SMITH.
TURN OUT THE LIGHTS.
NIGHTINGALES BOYS.
THE LONDONERS.
Adaptations:
LOVE ON THE DOLE.
APE AND ESSENCE.
NUMBER 10.
Editor:
“GRANADA TELEVISION – THE FIRST GENERATION”
Books:
CUDDON RETURN
GRANADA TELEVISION- THE FIRST GENERATION
Consultant to Various Television Companies.
Author of Various TV Plays & one Novel
Full list of John’s Coronation Street writing credits – here>>
From the British Film Institute Records:
1989 A Family at War[26/8/89]
Flesh and Blood Part 1 Creator
1981 A Place in the World
1981 The Promised Land
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 1 Feeling Your Age Creator
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 9 Worked Out
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 10 A Sort of Committee
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 7 Leave It with Me
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 2 Every Man Is an Island
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 5 Day of Rest
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 6 Fish and Chips Twice
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 8 Reap and Sow
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 3 Time of Life
1980 Flesh and Blood Part 4 A Decent Interval
1980 Turning Your Back
1980 A Hard Word
1980 Radical Change
1980 Winter of Discontent
1980 Missing Persons
1980 A Place to Live
1980 End of the Beginning
1980 Ends and Beginnings
1980 Behind the Mask
1980 Liberation
1980 You Can Make a New Beginning, Even with Your Final Breath
1977 Parting of the Ways
1977 The Keys of the Kingdom
1977 Conjugal Rights
1977 Storm Warning
1977 The Fault
1977 The Edge
1977 Another Place
1977 Comfort and Joy
1977 Back to Earth
1977 Profit and Loss
1977 Full Circle
1977 Family Ties
1977 Hay Time
1976 Dorothy and Clive (Rooms Compilation)[26/08/76]
1975 Mr Cotgrove and Miss Hicks
1975 Peter
1975 Bernard and Ginnie
1975 Angela and Lionel
1975 Peter
1975 Angela and Lionel
1975 Gertrud and Tim
1975 Bernard and Ginnie
1975 Mr Cotgrove and Miss Hicks
1975 Jo and Anne (Rooms Compilation)[25/06/75]
1975 Gertrud and Tim
1975 Compensation
1975 God Sent Sunday
1975 Bonfire Night
1975 What You Care Is What You Do
1975 The Difference between Us
1975 Gains and Losses
1975 Home Thoughts from Abroad
1975 In the midst of Plenty
1975 The Next in Line
1975 Proposals
1975 Ends and Means
1975 The Honest Generation
1975 Opting Out
1974 Jo and Anne
1974 Ted and Mrs Fox
1974 Miss Peebles and Mr Busby
1974 Ted and Mrs Fox
1974 Dorothy and Clive
1974 Miss Peebles and Mr Busby
1974 Muriel and Sally
1974 Muriel and Sally
1974 Jo and Anne
1974 Sarah
1974 Monica
1974 Monica
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1974 Dorothy and Clive
1974 A New World
1974 Land
1974 Half a Loaf
1974 Sins of the Fathers
1974 Shape Yourself around It
1974 The World As It Is
1974 Two Steps Forward, One Step Back
1974 Moving On
1974 Credit
1974 Head and Heart
1974 Stay Single and Live Forever
1973 Poor Law
1973 United We Stand
1973 Breadwinners
1973 A Way of Life
1973 For Ever and Ever and Ever and Ever…
1973 Home from Home
1973 Sam[26/06/73]
1973 The Beginning of Winter
1973 The Cost of Living
1973 Out of the Blue
1973 Where the Heart Is
1973 A Day to Remember
1973 No Going Back
1972 Under New Management
1972 Yielding Place to New
1972 Two Fathers
1972 Coming Home
1972 The Old Order Changeth
1972 The Sensible Thing
1972 A Faint Refrain
1971 Lend Your Loving Arms
1971 Spread a Little Happiness
1971 Take It on Trust
1971 Salute the Happy Morn
1971 Thicker than Water
1971 For the Duration
1971 I Wanted to Be with You
1971 The Things You Never Told Me
1971 We Could Be a Lot Worse Off
1971 A Separate Peace
1971 Flesh and Blood
1971 The Straight and Narrow
1971 Breaking Point
1971 Giving and Taking
1971 Clash by Night
1971 The Lucky Ones
1971 Into the Dark
1971 Happy Returns
1971 You Can Choose Your Friends
1971 Hazard
1971 The Lost Ones
1971 The Fundamental Things Apply
1971 Believed Killed
1971 This Year, Next Year…
1970 I Can Be Happy, Can’t I?
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The Night They Hit Number Eight
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Is Your Journey Really Necessary?
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There’s a Hole in Your Dustbin, Delilah
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Full list of Johns Coronation Street writing credits
Occasionally John wrote under the name John Ellison
John also edited and produced the street for many years
A breakdown of each episode with story line and credits can be seen here: https://coronationstreet.fandom.com/wiki/John_Finch
1961 (16 episodes)
Episode 24 (3rd March 1961)
Episode 28 (20th March 1961)
Episode 29 (22nd March 1961)
Episode 31 (29th March 1961)
Episode 34 (10th April 1961)
Episode 35 (12th April 1961)
Episode 39 (26th April 1961)
Episode 49 (31st May 1961)
Episode 55 (21st June 1961)
Episode 64 (24th July 1961)
Episode 73 (23rd August 1961)
Episode 78 (11th September 1961)
Episode 79 (13th September 1961)
Episode 86 (9th October 1961)
Episode 97 (15th November 1961)
1962 (24 episodes)
Episode 126 (26th February 1962)
Episode 130 (12th March 1962)
Episode 134 (26th March 1962)
Episode 138 (9th April 1962)
Episode 144 (30th April 1962)
Episode 145 (2nd May 1962)
Episode 146 (7th May 1962)
Episode 149 (16th May 1962)
Episode 152 (28th May 1962)
Episode 156 (11th June 1962)
Episode 160 (25th June 1962)
Episode 162 (2nd July 1962)
Episode 168 (23rd July 1962)
Episode 174 (13th August 1962)
Episode 178 (27th August 1962)
Episode 182 (10th September 1962)
Episode 184 (17th September 1962)
Episode 189 (3rd October 1962)
Episode 190 (8th October 1962)
Episode 196 (29th October 1962)
Episode 201 (14th November 1962)
Episode 203 (21st November 1962)
Episode 209 (12th December 1962)
Episode 214 (31st December 1962)
1963 (17 episodes)
Episode 217 (9th January 1963)
Episode 223 (30th January 1963)
Episode 229 (20th February 1963)
Episode 234 (11th March 1963)
Episode 239 (27th March 1963)
Episode 242 (8th April 1963)
Episode 251 (8th May 1963)
Episode 255 (22nd May 1963)
Episode 259 (5th June 1963)
Episode 265 (26th June 1963)
Episode 269 (10th July 1963)
Episode 274 (29th July 1963)
Episode 286 (9th September 1963)
Episode 291 (25th September 1963)
Episode 300 (28th October 1963)
Episode 306 (18th November 1963)
Episode 315 (18th December 1963)
1964 (17 episodes)
Episode 321 (8th January 1964)
Episode 326 (27th January 1964)
Episode 336 (2nd March 1964)
Episode 345 (1st April 1964)
Episode 346 (6th April 1964)
Episode 352 (27th April 1964)
Episode 359 (20th May 1964)
Episode 367 (17th June 1964)
Episode 371 (8th July 1964)
Episode 379 (29th July 1964)
Episode 386 (24th August 1964)
Episode 390 (7th September 1964)
Episode 401 (14th October 1964)
Episode 404 (26th October 1964)
Episode 405 (28th October 1964)
Episode 413 (25th November 1964)
Episode 416 (7th December 1964)
1965 (21 episodes)
Episode 424 (4th January 1965)
Episode 430 (25th January 1965)
Episode 435 (10th February 1965)
Episode 437 (17th February 1965)
Episode 440 (1st March 1965)
Episode 449 (31st March 1965)
Episode 454 (19th April 1965)
Episode 455 (21st April 1965)
Episode 464 (24th May 1965)
Episode 468 (7th June 1965)
Episode 474 (28th June 1965)
Episode 481 (21st July 1965)
Episode 486 (9th August 1965)
Episode 492 (30th August 1965)
Episode 493 (1st September 1965)
Episode 497 (15th September 1965)
Episode 500 (27th September 1965)
Episode 504 (11th October 1965)
Episode 508 (25th October 1965)
Episode 520 (6th December 1965)
Episode 527 (29th December 1965)
1966 (19 episodes)
Episode 533 (19th January 1966)
Episode 537 (2nd February 1966)
Episode 547 (9th March 1966)
Episode 552 (28th March 1966)
Episode 557 (13th April 1966)
Episode 570 (30th May 1966)
Episode 576 (20th June 1966)
Episode 581 (6th July 1966)
Episode 584 (18th July 1966)
Episode 588 (1st August 1966)
Episode 592 (15th August 1966)
Episode 601 (14th September 1966)
Episode 607 (5th October 1966)
Episode 614 (31st October 1966)
Episode 615 (2nd November 1966)
Episode 618 (14th November 1966)
Episode 622 (28th November 1966)
Episode 624 (5th December 1966)
Episode 628 (19th December 1966)
1967 (17 episodes)
Episode 635 (16th January 1967)
Episode 636 (18th January 1967)
Episode 638 (25th January 1967)
Episode 642 (8th February 1967)
Episode 646 (22nd February 1967)
Episode 651 (13th March 1967)
Episode 657 (3rd April 1967)
Episode 668 (10th May 1967)
Episode 680 (21st June 1967)
Episode 687 (17th July 1967)
Episode 692 (2nd August 1967)
Episode 704 (13th September 1967)
Episode 709 (2nd October 1967)
Episode 710 (4th October 1967)
Episode 715 (23rd October 1967)
Episode 720 (8th November 1967)
Episode 728 (6th December 1967)
1968 (6 episodes)
Episode 748 (14th February 1968)
Episode 763 (8th April 1968)
Episode 771 (6th May 1968)
Episode 810 (25th September 1968)
Episode 815 (14th October 1968)
Episode 822 (6th November 1968)
1969 (3 episodes)
Episode 894 (21st July 1969)
Episode 908 (8th September 1969)
Episode 917 (8th October 1969)
1970 (1 episode)
Episode 1036 (21st December 1970)