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Jul 30, 2009 · VINCE Powell, who became one of TV’s leading sitcom writers in the 1960s and 70s, has died at the age of 80. The prolific Miles Platting-raised writer scripted a string of hit shows, including ...
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Harry Driver. Harry Driver[1] (13 May 1931 – 25 November 1973) was a British television scriptwriter and executive producer. He is best remembered for his partnership with Vince Powell on comedy television programmes including Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, Nearest and Dearest, Bless This House and Love Thy Neighbour.
Jul 13, 2009 · Powell was born as Vincent Joseph Smith to Roman Catholic parents in Miles Platting, Manchester. When he was five, his mother died; two years later, his father remarried. Powell began a career as a tailor following the lead of his father, while performing as a comedian in the evenings. He met Harry Driver on the local club circuit.
Following the early death of Harry Driver at the age of 42 on 25 November 1973, Powell carried on writing alone, initially with further episodes of both Love Thy Neighbour and Spring and Autumn, before he created nine new sitcoms of his own, beginning with The Wackers (ITV, 1975), a domestic comedy based around the religious differences within a Liverpool family, and concluding with the ...
Jul 22, 2009 · Vince Powell, who died on July 13 aged 80, was a successful television scriptwriter with a string of hit series to his credit, including the controversial 1970s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour. 22 July ...
Smethurst also starred in Vince Powell’s seven-part BBC Radio 2 slice-of-life sitcom A Proper Charlie in 1984, as factory worker Charlie Garside. Madge Hindle played his wife with Jane Hazlegrove and Jason Littler as their daughter and son. [14] A second series of eight episodes followed at the end of 1985. [15]
