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# J. C. Wilsher

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Active:** 1992–2006

## Biography

J. C. Wilsher, full name John Charles Wilsher, is an English television screenwriter and playwright. He is best known for police and law enforcement dramas.

He worked as a researcher at Lancaster University before beginning his writing career in radio. Over more than forty years in television he contributed scripts to series including *The Bill* (53 episodes, 1989–2001), for which he is credited as creator of the spin-off *Between the Lines* (1992–1994). He also wrote episodes of *Torchwood* (2008), *New Tricks*, *Midsomer Murders*, *Silent Witness*, *The Vice*, *Death in Paradise* and others.

Wilsher served as Past President and Deputy Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain. *Between the Lines* received WGGB Awards for Original Drama Series in 1993 and 1995, as well as BAFTA, Royal Television Society and Broadcasting Press Guild awards.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Torchwood* (2006), Fi1m 73, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/torchwood.md)

## Also credited on (not yet reviewed)

- *Between the Lines* (1992), Writer

## Also known for

- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), Writer
- *The Bill* (1984), Writer

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