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Legendary Corrie writer, John Stevenson dies
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<blockquote data-quote="Englishboy" data-source="post: 379528" data-attributes="member: 70"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12492259/Coronation-Street-cast-pay-tribute-screenwriter-John-Stevenson.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p>John Stevenson, one of Corrie’s most prolific scriptwriters with 447 episodes to his name (the third most of any writer after Adele Rose and Peter Whalley) has passed away from alzheimers at the age of 86.</p><p></p><p>Widely recognised as one of the programme’s most significant figures he was responsible for creating the characters of Mike Baldwin, Alec Gilroy, Fred Elliott and Ashley Peacock (amongst others)</p><p></p><p>Working on the show from 1976 until his retirement in 2006 he was responsible for writing the episode where Ernie Bishop was famously killed off at a botched wages snatch at Mike Baldwin’s denim factory.</p><p></p><p>He also scripted Bet Lynch’s ill fated return to the cobbles in 2002 and was the brains behind the high profile Mike Baldwin dementia storyline in 2004.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Englishboy, post: 379528, member: 70"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-12492259/Coronation-Street-cast-pay-tribute-screenwriter-John-Stevenson.html[/URL] John Stevenson, one of Corrie’s most prolific scriptwriters with 447 episodes to his name (the third most of any writer after Adele Rose and Peter Whalley) has passed away from alzheimers at the age of 86. Widely recognised as one of the programme’s most significant figures he was responsible for creating the characters of Mike Baldwin, Alec Gilroy, Fred Elliott and Ashley Peacock (amongst others) Working on the show from 1976 until his retirement in 2006 he was responsible for writing the episode where Ernie Bishop was famously killed off at a botched wages snatch at Mike Baldwin’s denim factory. He also scripted Bet Lynch’s ill fated return to the cobbles in 2002 and was the brains behind the high profile Mike Baldwin dementia storyline in 2004. [/QUOTE]
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