British screenwriter Brian Finch died 27 June 2007. Born James Brian Finch in Wigan, Lancashire on 25 July 1936, he was best known for writing 151 episodes of the long-running drama Coronation Street, which he left in 1989.
He wrote a few episodes for genre productions, including Captain Scarlet (2005), The Secret Adventures of Jules Verne (2000), and The Tomorrow People (1973).
Before finding his calling as a screenwriter, Finch worked for the Royal Air Force in Paris as a writer, and wrote for several newspapers (including Manchester’s TV Times, where he ghost-wrote articles for the Beatles). He was a press officer for the BBC when he submitted his first screenplay.