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Jim Eldridge

{{Short description|Prolific English radio, film, and TV screenplay writer}}

{{For|the American politician|Jimmy Eldridge}}

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| birth_date = {{Birth year and age|1944}}

| birth_place = London, England

| occupation = Children's author and screenwriter.

| period = 1965–present

| genre = Comedy, drama, adventure, science fiction

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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.{{Cite web |url=http://www.jimeldridge.com/index.htm |title=HOME |access-date=14 February 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20060829031454/http://www.jimeldridge.com/index.htm |archive-date=29 August 2006 |url-status=dead }}

He lives in Kent with his wife.

Bibliography

;"Warpath" Series

  • Warpath 1: Tank Attack
  • Warpath 2: Deadly Skies
  • Warpath 3: Behind Enemy Lines
  • Warpath 4: Depth Charge Danger
  • Warpath 5: Last Convoy
  • Warpath 6: Beach Assault
  • Warpath 7: Night Bomber
  • Warpath 8: Island Of Fear

;"My Story" Series

  • My Story: The Trenches (2002)
  • My Story: Armada (2002)
  • My Story: Flying Ace (2003)
  • My Story: Spy Smuggler (2004)
  • My Story: Desert Danger (2005)

;"Museum mysteries"

  • Murder at the Fitzwilliam (2018)
  • Murder at the British Museum (2019)
  • Murder at the Ashmolean (2019)
  • Murder at the Manchester Museum (2020)
  • Murder at the Natural History Museum (2020)
  • Murder at Madame Tussauds (2021)
  • Murder at the National Gallery (2022)
  • Murder at the Victoria and Albert Museum (2022)
  • murder at the tower of london (2023)
  • Murder at the Louvre (2024)

;"Hotel mysteries"

  • Murder at the Ritz: The Stylish Wartime Whodunnit (2021)
  • Murder at the Savoy: The Sophisticated Wartime Whodunnit (2021)
  • ''Murder at Claridge's: The Elegant Wartime Whodunnit (2022)

Writing credits

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Time of My Life

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  • 6 episodes (1980)

|BBC1

Up the Elephant and Round the Castle

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  • "May the Best Man Win" (1983)
  • "The Hostage" (1985)
  • "A Taxing Problem" (1985)

|ITV

Bad Boyes

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  • 16 episodes (co-written with Duncan Eldridge, 1987–1988)

|BBC1

Uncle Jack and Operation Green

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  • 6 episodes (1990)

|BBC1

Time Riders

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  • 4 episodes (1991)

|Children's ITV

Uncle Jack and the Loch Noch Monster

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  • 6 episodes (1991)

|BBC1

Spatz

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  • "Talent Contest" (1991)
  • "Witness" (1992)

|Children's ITV

Uncle Jack and the Dark Side of the Moon

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  • 6 episodes (1992)

|BBC1

Uncle Jack and Cleopatra's Mummy

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  • 6 episodes (1993)

|BBC1

Harry's Mad

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  • "That's Entertainment" (1996)
  • "Spooks" (1996)
  • "Gambling Is a Risky Business" (1996)

|CITV

Woof!

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  • "When My Sheep Comes In" (1997)

|ITV

The Legend of the Lost Keys

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  • 10 episodes (1998)

|BBC2

Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde

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  • 6 episodes (1998)

|CBBC

Monster TV

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  • 26 episodes (1999–2001)

|BBC2
CBBC

The Ghost Hunter

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|BBC1

Powers

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  • 13 episodes (2004)

|BBC1

Awards and nominations

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1973

|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

|Lines from My Grandfather's Forehead

|Best Light Entertainment Show (Radio)

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1987

|Sunday Times Literary Award

|Save Our Planet: An Anti-Nuclear Guide for Teenagers

|{{n/a}}

|{{nom}}

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1988

|Royal Television Society Awards

|Bad Boyes

|Best Children's Drama Series (with Duncan Eldridge)

| {{won}}

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1988

|Sony Radio Awards

|King Street Junior

|{{n/a}}

|{{nom}}

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1989

|British Academy Television Awards

|Bad Boyes

|Best Children’s TV Series (with Duncan Eldridge)

|{{nom}}

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1991

|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

|rowspan="2"|King Street Junior

|{{n/a}}

|{{nom}}

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1992

|Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award

|{{n/a}}

|{{nom}}

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1998

|Rose d'Or

|Upwardly Mobile

|Shortlist for Best Situation Comedy

|{{nom}}

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rowspan="2"|1999

|Chicago International Festival of Children's Films

|Whizziwig: Double Trouble

|Short Children’s Film/Video (Live Action Category)

|{{nom}}

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Prix Danube

|Whizziwig: Double Trouble

|Best Children’s Drama

|{{nom}}

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References

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External links

{{Portal |Children's literature}}

  • {{IMDb name|id=0253167|name=Jim Eldridge}}
  • [http://www.jimeldridge.com/ Jim Eldridge homepage]
  • [http://www.writewords.org.uk/interviews/jim_eldridge.asp Jim Eldridge Interview]
  • [http://www.britishcomedy.org.uk/comedy/psidings.htm Parsley Sidings episode guide]

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