Brothers McGregor

Product Information

urn:lcp:brothersmcgregor0000well:epub:93e0afff-46b0-4f1f-beba-80f1d8c83fd5 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier brothersmcgregor0000well Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t1fk3bz94 Invoice 1652 Isbn 0586068945 The show ran for four series between 1985 and 1988. Episodes were written by Julian Roach and John Stevenson, who were also writing episodes of Coronation Street at the time. Transmitted on Thursday evenings from 3rd April to 8th May 1986 at 8.30pm except for Granada Television where transmission took place at 9.00pm. Stevenson’s first two marriages, to Barbara Sutcliffe in 1957 and Sheila McGregor in 1977, ended in divorce. He is survived by his third wife, Myra (nee Davies), whom he married in 1985, their daughters, Frances, Alex and Caroline, and Anna and Andrew, the children of his first marriage.

The 1978 shooting was the first violent death of any character since Coronation Street had begun 18 years earlier – and met with uproar from viewers, who bombarded the switchboard at Granada Television, which made the ITV soap. Other dramas from Stevenson’s pen included Ken Barlow’s doorstep confrontation with Mike Baldwin after discovering his wife Deirdre’s affair, and Don Brennan dying after driving Mike’s MG Midget at the factory boss and crashing into a viaduct. John Stevenson was responsible for writing Episode 2203 of Coronation Street which was broadcast on 12th May 1982 and which featured, as its main storyline, a party held in the Rovers Return Inn to celebrate the engagement of reformed scouse jailbird Eddie Yeats to Marion Willis. Among the guests invited were the McGregor Brothers from Liverpool. The visual joke of the two characters, Wesley and Cyril was that although they were introduced as brothers one was white and one was mixed-race, the explanation being given that they were in fact half-brothers, sharing the same mother. The party, mainly through the intervention of the two guests, got more and more riotous to the point where Annie Walker rang the police who turned up as Cyril and Wesley rolled the pub piano out of the front door and on to the street, intending to carry on the party into the night. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 2021-05-07 16:01:10 Boxid IA40110422 Camera Sony Alpha-A6300 (Control) Collection_set printdisabled External-identifier

What do you miss most about the past? Attractions, lost venues or perhaps the way of life. Take a look at our nostalgia survey Whether it's celebrating people, remembering a place long forgotten or opening the Echo archives to mark a special anniversary, Days Gone By will be an essential read. The following year in 1986, the Liverpool Echo reported how Barber and Whitchurch were becoming "one of the best sit-com double acts on telly," holding down the 9pm prime time spot. Although the Granada sitcom The Brothers McGregor ran for four series and twenty-six episodes, few people watching at the time, or remembering the programme since, realise that it was a spin-off from Coronation Street. Indeed very little publicity was given to this fact on the programme's launch in 1985, possibly so as to avoid viewers prejudging what the programme would be like.

John Stevenson and Julian Roach shared the writing duties between them, Podmore was also the executive producer and Bernard Thompson produced all twenty-six episodes. Only Peter Whalley and Adele Rose wrote more Coronation Street episodes than Stevenson. He also scripted spin-offs, including a 1977 sketch for a silver jubilee variety show performed for Queen Elizabeth II at the Palace theatre, Manchester, and a moving mini-episode featuring the return of Hilda for ITV Telethon ’90. Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-alpha-20201231-10-g1236 Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-2000266 Openlibrary_edition Signing up is free and it only takes a minute for you to get the best stories, sent straight to your inbox.The Brothers McGregor was an ITV sitcom set in Liverpool. It was seen by some as a spin off from the hugely popular Coronation Street as it’s two main characters had originally appeared in the soap for one episode in May 1982. Transmitted on Monday evenings from 16th February to 23rd March 1987 at 8.00pm except for Television South and Channel Television where transmissions ran on Thursdays from 19th February to 26th March at 7.30pm.