Jim Hitchmough

Birth : 1934-09-21,

History

Jim Hitchmough was a TV comedy writer, teacher and academic. He was best known for creating and writing every single episode of the long-running Granada television sitcom Watching, but also wrote for Coronation Street and Brookside; and a feature-length TV film The Bullion Boys. He died in 1997 of a brain tumour.

Movies

The Bullion Boys
The Bullion Boys
Writer
Based on a true story. In 1940, Britain's gold reserves were transferred for safety to Liverpool because of the threat of a German invasion. The top-secret operation was known only to a handful of security men and senior bank officials... and a group of Liverpool dockers who handle the move. Billy Mac, the dockers' leader, hatches an ingenious plan to steal some of the gold bars from under the noses of the guards.