Jim Eldridge
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Jim Eldridge is a radio, TV and movie scriptwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the UK and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years.
Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including Parsley Sidings, King Street Junior, Crosswords, Albert and Me and The Demon Headmaster. On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama Powers and Time of my Life, 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.
He has had 50 books published, which have sold over a million copies. [1]
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[edit] Awards
[edit] Awards won
Royal Television Society 1988
Best Children’s TV drama series for Bad Boyes (co-written with Duncan Eldridge)
Writer's Guild Award
Best Light Entertainment Show (Radio) 1973 for co-writing Lines from My Grandfather's Head (starring Ronnie Barker).
[edit] Award nominations
Rose d'Or (Montreux) 1998
Shortlist for Best Situation Comedy for Upwardly Mobile (RTÉ - 1997)
Prix Danube (Bratislava) 1999
Best Children’s Drama for Whizziwig: Double Trouble
Chicago International Festival Of Children's Films 1999
Short Children’s Film/Video (Live Action Category) for Whizziwig: Double Trouble
BAFTA 1989
Best Children’s TV Series for Bad Boyes
Sony Award 1988
Radio comedy for King Street Junior
Writers Guild (UK) 1991
For King Street Junior
Writers Guild (UK) 1992
For King Street Junior
Sunday Times Literary Award 1987
For “Save our Planet - an anti-nuclear guide for teenagers” (1986).
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] "Warpath" Series
- Warpath 1: Tank Attack (1999)
- Warpath 2: Deadly Skies (1999)
- Warpath 3: Behind Enemy Lines (1999)
- Warpath 4: Depth Charge Danger (1999)
- Warpath 7: Night Bomber (2000)
- Warpath 8: Island Of Fear (2000)
[edit] “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)
