Geoffrey Lancashire

[1] Lancashire was a freelance journalist before joining Granada Television as a continuity scriptwriter days before the company began broadcasting in 1956.

Lancashire also wrote other television series including Inheritance (1967), The Lovers (1970), Shabby Tiger (1973), The Cuckoo Waltz (1975) and Foxy Lady (1982).

[1] He had an aptitude for writing and devising television comedy, and with Rosenthal won a Writers' Guild award for The Lovers.

He never fully recovered and lived at Denville Hall, a nursing home for people from the television and theatrical professions.

He died at Watford General Hospital on 3 October 2004 and was survived by Hilda,[a] his actor daughter Sarah and her twin brother, and two other sons.