An ex-Coronation Street producer, John Goldie Temple, died aged 84.
He was a television producer and writer by 1970 become a writer on Coronation Street and then its producer in the 1980s.
He was responsible for some of the soap’s biggest storylines including the fire at the Rovers Return
and the marriage of Alec and Bet.
After moving between Manchester and Scotland a couple of times between jobs at Granada and STV, in 1970 John was offered work as a storyline writer for the Street, “on a three-month contract putting it all at risk to see if I could hack it.”
Coronation Street shaped John’s career. He said: “Those years working as a storyliner were the most beneficial period of my entire working life. The discipline of churning out storylines day in day out, 52 weeks of the year is an unbelievable learning curve.”
Reflecting on becoming producer in 1985-‘87 he said: “I’d had years of experience of producing sit-coms by then” and he felt at home on the Street as he knew it inside out. He famously burned down the Rovers Return - “It began with the need to revamp the pub and it became a big story - it got an audience of 24.5million”.
Other stories during his time at the helm included the breakdown in the Tilsley marriage and the wedding of Kevin and Sally. He sent Bet Lynch to Torremolinos (because Julie Goodyear needed compassionate leave), and he engineered the marriage of Bet and Alec played by Roy Barraclough.
You can read John Temple's full obituary in The Herald.
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