Jim Eldridge

Jim Eldridge
Born	1944 (age 72–73) London, England
Occupation	Children's author and screenwriter.
Period	1965–present
Genre	Comedy, drama, adventure, science fiction

Jim Eldridge (born November 1944) is an English radio, film and television screenwriter with hundreds of radio and TV scripts broadcast in the United Kingdom and across the world in a career spanning over 30 years.

Eldridge is the creator and writer of radio shows including Parsley Sidings, King Street Junior, Crosswords, Albert and Me and The Demon Headmaster. On TV, he has created children's science fiction drama Powers and Time of My Life, and written for The Ghost Hunter, Julia Jekyll and Harriet Hyde and Up the Elephant and Round the Castle, in addition to other TV and radio series.

He has had 80 books published, which have sold over a million copies.

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