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Colin Bostock-Smith (born 1942)[1] is a British television and radio comedy writer.
Early career
Until the age of 30, he was a journalist, noting in a review of an early performance by the Beatles ("four young men with four fringes, three guitars, and some drums") that they were "not nearly as bad as they might have been".[2] He later edited the music newspaper Top Pops.[3] However, he always had—in his words—"this feeling that I would like to write comedy",[4] starting in this area with contributions to the BBC Radio 4 show Week Ending.
Bostock-Smith has contributed to a significant number of British television comedies. In a 2008 interview, he noted that he was the sole writer of all 41 episodes of the early-1980s ITV sitcom Metal Mickey, and claims to be most proud of his work on Not the Nine O'Clock News and the sitcom Me and My Girl.[4]
Selected credits
Writing contributions
- Not the Nine O'Clock News
- Smith and Jones
- Clive James (The Clive James Show, Friday Night Clive, Saturday Night Clive)
- Basil Brush[5]
- Metal Mickey[5] (Wrote all 41 episodes)
- Terry and June
- Week Ending
- Punchlines (for BBC Radio 2)
- My Sainted Aunt (for BBC Radio 2)
- Bruce Forsyth's Big Night
- The Two Ronnies
- Shelley
- Crackerjack ("The Krankies! I wrote a lot for The Krankies"[4])
- Me and My Girl
- Roland Rat
- Naked Video
- Trouble in Mind
- Who Dares Wins
- Russ Abbot
- The Odd Job (novelisation of the 1978 film)
Other
- As Time Goes By (Bostock-Smith claims he only came up with the original concept, saying "I’ve never written a word of it. [..] I didn’t even write the title. It was my idea, you see."[4])
References
- ^ "I was born in 1942, so I was exactly the right age for rock and roll when it all happened." [1]
- ^ http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/environment/in-focus-she-loved-them-yeah-yeah-yeah-1-151119[dead link]
- ^ Smith, Alan. "Every No.1 in the 1960s is listed from all the nine different magazine charts!". Dave McAleer. Archived from the original on May 10, 2011. Retrieved 4 October 2012.
Original editor was the noted author Colin Bostock-Smith.
- ^ a b c d "The den of Geek interview: Colin Bostock-Smith". 14 May 2008.
- ^ a b "In Brief".
