Biography
John Maynard was an English television writer and script editor. He was born on 29 November 1936 in Colchester, Essex, and died on 2 February 2008 in London.
He began working in television script departments in the 1960s after submitting a play to the BBC. His credits as a writer include episodes of The Indian Tales of Rudyard Kipling (1964), R3 (1965), Z Cars (1972–1973) and EastEnders (1987–1990). As a script editor he worked on Dr. Finlay's Casebook, Brett, Quiller and The Sullivans.
Maynard served as script editor on 163 episodes of EastEnders from 1987 to 1989, including a period as series script editor, and later held the same role on the soap Eldorado (1992).
