Richard Harris
Richard Harris is a prolific British television writer, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. He writes primarily for the crime and detecitve genres, having contributed episodes of series like The Avengers, The Saint, The Sweeney, Armchair Mystery Theatre, and Target. He has helped to create several standout programmes of the genre, including Adam Adamant Lives!, Man in a Suitcase, and Shoestring. Despite a career which has been largely spent writing for the crime and detective genre, in 1994 he won the prize for best situation comedy from the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain for Outside Edge, a programme he had originated as a stage play. Indeed, though the majority of his work has been for television, a substantial amount of his output has been for the stage.
Plays authored
Past productions
- Henry IV
- Henry IV, Henry IV
- George / Sgt. Collins, Fings Ain’t Wot They Used T’Be, Theatre Workshop
- The Pier
- Ross, Macbeth, Theatre Workshop
- Mr Whittington
- Mr Whittington
- Lucia di Lammermoor
- Il Trovatore
- Faust