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'''Janice Hally''' (born March 18, 1959) is a [[Scotland|Scottish]] [[playwright]] and [[television]] [[screenwriter]] who has written more than 300 broadcast hours of prime-time British television drama serials and individual [[screenplay]]s.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html|title=Janice Hally Biography|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> She was co-creator and main screenwriter on the first-ever, long-running Gaelic drama serial [[Machair (TV series)|Machair]].
'''Janice Hally''' (born 18 March 1959) is a Scottish [[playwright]] and [[television]] [[screenwriter]] who has written more than 300 broadcast hours of prime-time British television drama serials and individual [[screenplay]]s.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html|title=Janice Hally Biography|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> She was co-creator and main screenwriter on the first-ever, long-running Gaelic drama serial ''[[Machair (TV series)|Machair]]''.


== Biography==
== Biographical details==
Hally was born in [[Glasgow]] and educated at [[Hillhead High School]]<ref name="HHS">{{cite web|url=http://www.hillheadhigh.ik.org/p_Former_Pupils_Contacts.ikml|title=Hillhead High School Alumni|accessdate=2009-03-05}} {{Dead link|date=October 2010|bot=H3llBot}}</ref> and [[Glasgow University]] where she studied Drama and English Literature. In 1980, the year that she graduated, she won the World Student Drama Trust ISPC award,<ref name="ISPC">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsdf.org.uk/cms2/index.php?page=ispc|title=ISPC World Student Drama Trust Award|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> judged by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] for her play ''Ready or Not''.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html|title=Janice Hally Biography|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> ''Ready or Not'' was subsequently performed professionally at the [[Tron Theatre]] in Glasgow.<ref name="Doollee">{{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html|title=British Playwrights database|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
Hally was born in [[Glasgow]] and educated at [[Hillhead High School]]<ref name="HHS">{{cite web|url=http://www.hillheadhigh.ik.org/p_Former_Pupils_Contacts.ikml |title=Hillhead High School Alumni |accessdate=2009-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20081211055537/http://www.hillheadhigh.ik.org/p_Former_Pupils_Contacts.ikml |archivedate=11 December 2008 }}</ref> and the [[University of Glasgow]] where she studied Drama and English Literature. In 1980, the year that she graduated, she won the World Student Drama Trust ISPC award,<ref name="ISPC">{{cite web|url=http://www.nsdf.org.uk/cms2/index.php?page=ispc|title=ISPC World Student Drama Trust Award|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref><ref name="ISPC2">{{cite web|url=http://www.isplayscript.org/winners.html |title=ISPC World Student Drama Trust Award List of Winners |accessdate=2011-07-10 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110726194236/http://www.isplayscript.org/winners.html |archivedate=26 July 2011 }}</ref> judged by [[Alan Ayckbourn]] for her play ''Ready or Not''.<ref name="bio"/> ''Ready or Not'' was subsequently performed professionally at the [[Tron Theatre]] in Glasgow.<ref name="Doollee">{{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html|title=British Playwrights database|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>


The play was then adapted for television and led to her nomination, at the age of 23 in the category of ''Best New Writer to Television'' at the 1982 PYE television awards.<ref name="Doollee">{{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html|title=British Playwrights database|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
The play was then adapted for television and led to her nomination, at the age of 23, in the category of 'Best New Writer to Television' at the 1982 PYE television awards.<ref name="Doollee"/>


From then on she wrote single plays, children's drama and serial drama for television, garnering more than 650 credits as creator, screenwriter, [[script editor]], storyliner.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html|title=Janice Hally Biography|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
From then on, she wrote single plays, children's drama and serial drama for television, garnering more than 650 credits as creator, screenwriter, [[script editor]], storyliner.<ref name="bio"/>


During the 1980s Hally wrote scripts for the Scottish television series [[Take The High Road]], before becoming associate script editor, then storyliner for the show, where she worked as part of an editorial team with [[Peter May (writer)|Peter May]] and Tom Wright.<ref name="tthr">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163499/fullcredits#writersTTHR%20listing|title=Take The High Road Writing Team|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> During this period [[Take The High Road]] achieved its highest audience figures, topping the ratings in Scotland and being broadcast across Britain. May and Hally quit the show in 1989 and were married in 1990.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1633112/bio|title=IMDB bio and spouse details|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
During the 1980s, Hally wrote scripts for the Scottish television series ''[[Take The High Road]]'', before becoming associate script editor, then storyliner for the show, where she worked as part of an editorial team with [[Peter May (writer)|Peter May]] and Tom Wright.<ref name="tthr">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0163499/fullcredits#writersTTHR%20listing|title=Take The High Road Writing Team|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> During this period ''[[Take The High Road]]'' achieved its highest audience figures, topping the ratings in Scotland and being broadcast across Britain. May and Hally quit the show in 1989 and were married in 1990.<ref name="imdb">{{cite web|url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm1633112/bio|title=IMDB bio and spouse details|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>


The couple co-created the Gaelic television drama serial [[Machair (TV series)|Machair]] in the early 1990s<ref name="pde">{{cite web|url=http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/2009/01/29/former-express-man-peter-goes-behind-bars-and-french-lags-give-him-the-nod-87085-22803155/|title=Article in Paisley Daily Express|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> and spent most of that decade on location in the Outer Hebrides making 99 episodes of the Gaelic television drama serial.<ref name="Doollee">{{cite web|url=http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html|title=British Playwrights database|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
The couple co-created the Gaelic television drama serial ''[[Machair (TV series)|Machair]]'' in the early 1990s<ref name="pde">{{cite web|url=http://www.paisleydailyexpress.co.uk/lifestyle/lifestyle-news/2009/01/29/former-express-man-peter-goes-behind-bars-and-french-lags-give-him-the-nod-87085-22803155/|title=Article in Paisley Daily Express|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> and spent most of that decade on location in the Outer Hebrides making 99 episodes of the Gaelic television drama serial.<ref name="Doollee"/>


Early in the new millennium, they set up home in France where May writes thrillers and Hally has written fiction and non-fiction books.<ref name="bio">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html|title=Janice Hally Biography|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref><ref name="openlibrary">{{cite web|url=http://openlibrary.org/a/OL2780906A|title=Open Library entry for Janice Hally|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
Early in the new millennium, they set up home in France where May writes thrillers and Hally has written fiction and non-fiction books.<ref name="bio"/><ref name="openlibrary">{{cite web|url=https://openlibrary.org/a/OL2780906A|title=Open Library entry for Janice Hally|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>


==Machair==
==Machair==
May and Hally took two years researching not only stories, but locations, production staff and actors before presenting their proposal for the first ever long-running Gaelic drama serial to Scottish Television.<ref name="background2">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/machair.html|title=History of Machair|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> May went on to produce the show, leading a cast and crew to the remote Outer Hebrides to shoot the series on location while Hally wrote the stories and the episode outlines of 99 episodes. Hally shared the writing of scripts with fellow Scottish playwright and script writer, [[Ann Marie Di Mambro]]. The scripts were written in English before being translated into Gaelic. The show was anticipated with derision by a sceptical press, but after the first episode was broadcast during peak viewing time, Kenneth Roy, television critic of [[Scotland on Sunday]], described it as ''"A credit to the company (Scottish Television) and a smack in the face to those of us who were doubtful"'' and after a few episodes he revised his opinion, saying ''"It is even better than it looked at first glance quite simply the best thing to have happened to television in Scotland for a long time."''<ref name="background2">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/machair.html|title=History of Machair|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
May and Hally took two years researching not only stories, but locations, production staff and actors before presenting their proposal for the first ever long-running Gaelic drama serial to Scottish Television.<ref name="background2">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/machair.html|title=History of Machair|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> May went on to produce the show, leading a cast and crew to the remote Outer Hebrides to shoot the series on location while Hally wrote the stories and the episode outlines of 99 episodes. Hally shared the writing of scripts with fellow Scottish playwright and script writer, [[Ann Marie Di Mambro]]. The scripts were written in English before being translated into Gaelic. The show was anticipated with derision by a sceptical press, but after the first episode was broadcast during peak viewing time, Kenneth Roy, television critic of ''[[Scotland on Sunday]]'', described it as 'a credit to the company (Scottish Television) and a smack in the face to those of us who were doubtful' and after a few episodes he revised his opinion, saying 'it is even better than it looked at first glance quite simply the best thing to have happened to television in Scotland for a long time'.<ref name="background2"/>


Viewers agreed, and the show managed to get a 30% audience share, making it into the Top Ten of programmes viewed in Scotland. With fewer than 2% of the Scottish population able to speak Gaelic, the vast majority of viewers were dependent on the shows subtitles.<ref name="background2">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/machair.html|title=History of Machair|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref> It was nominated for awards for production and writing from ''The Celtic Film Festival'' and [[Writers Guild of Great Britain]]<ref name="background2">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/machair.html|title=History of Machair|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
Viewers agreed, and the show managed to get a 30% audience share, making it into the Top Ten of programmes viewed in Scotland. With fewer than 2% of the Scottish population able to speak Gaelic, the vast majority of viewers were dependent on the shows subtitles.<ref name="background2"/> It was nominated for awards for production and writing from [[The Celtic Film Festival]] and [[Writers Guild of Great Britain]]<ref name="background2"/>


==Writing==
==Writing==
* ''The Killing Room (Les Disparues)'' feature film screenplay with [[Peter May (writer)|Peter May]], scheduled for production January 2012 with The French Connection (French film production company)<ref>{{cite web|title=The French Connection, French film producers' website|url=http://www.thefrench.fr/lesnuitsrouges/CV/filmo_thefrench.htm|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref>
* ''Ask No Questions'' (2011) novella, Editions Didier Hachette (publishers, Paris, France)<ref>{{cite web|title=author website|url=http://www.janicehally.com|accessdate=29 December 2011}}</ref>
* ''The Killing Room (Les Disparues)'' feature film screenplay with [[Peter May (writer)|Peter May]], scheduled for production January 2012 with The French Connection (French film production company)<ref>{{cite web|title=The French Connection, French film producers' website|url=http://www.thefrench.fr/lesnuitsrouges/CV/filmo_thefrench.htm|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref>
* ''Distant Echo'' (2010) novella, Editions Didier Hachette (publishers, Paris, France)<ref>{{cite web|title=author website|url=http://www.janicehally.com|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref>
* ''Distant Echo'' (2010) novella, Editions Didier Hachette (publishers, Paris, France)<ref>{{cite web|title=author website|url=http://www.janicehally.com|accessdate=10 February 2011}}</ref>
* ''The Firemaker'' (2008) feature film screenplay treatment, KUIV (French film production company).<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''The Firemaker'' (2008) feature film screenplay treatment, KUIV (French film production company).<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Modelling and Acting for Kids'' (2004) non-fiction book, [[A&C Black]] (publishers, London, UK)<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref><ref name="ACBlack">{{cite web|url=http://www.acblack.com/Catalogue/details.asp?sku=1421353&dept_id=7|title=A & C Black publisher's listing|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Modelling and Acting for Kids'' (2004) non-fiction book, [[A&C Black]] (publishers, London, UK)<ref name="credits"/><ref name="ACBlack">{{cite web|url=http://www.acblack.com/Catalogue/details.asp?sku=1421353&dept_id=7 |title=A & C Black publisher's listing |accessdate=2009-03-05 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120213160135/http://www.acblack.com/Catalogue/details.asp?sku=1421353&dept_id=7 |archivedate=13 February 2012 }}</ref>
* ''Looking for the Zee'' (2002) novel, Miramont Media (publishers, California USA)<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Looking for the Zee'' (2002) novel, Miramont Media (publishers, California USA)<ref name="credits"/>
* ''[[Machair (TV series)|Machair]]'' (1990 - 1996) drama serial, Scottish Television
* ''[[Machair (TV series)|Machair]]'' (1990–1996) drama serial, Scottish Television. Co-Creator, storylined and script edited the first 99 episodes, and wrote the scripts for more than 50 episodes.<ref name="credits"/>
* ''[[Take The High Road]]'' (1983–1989) drama serial, Scottish Television. Screenwriter and Story Editor. Wrote more than 50 episodes, Associate Script Editor on 208 episodes, storyliner of 240 episodes<ref name="credits"/>
Co-Creator, storylined and script edited the first 99 episodes, and wrote the scripts for more than 50 episodes.<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Private Eye'' (1985) individual screenplay, ITV ([[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]])<ref name="credits"/>
* ''[[Take The High Road]]'' (1983-1989) drama serial, Scottish Television
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* ''My Mum's A Courgette'' (1984) individual screenplay, ITV ([[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]])<ref name="credits"/>
Screenwriter and Story Editor
* ''D'You Get Paid For Doing This?'' (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television<ref name="credits"/>
Wrote more than 50 episodes, Associate Script Editor on 208 episodes, storyliner of 240 episodes<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Private Eye'' (1985) individual screenplay, ITV ([[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]])<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Ladies First'' (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television & Channel Four<ref name="credits"/>
* ''Ready Or Not'' (1982) individual screenplay, Scottish Television<ref name="credits"/>
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* ''My Mum's A Courgette'' (1984) individual screenplay, ITV ([[Dramarama (TV series)|Dramarama]])<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Ready Or Not'' (1982) Theatre Play, [[Tron Theatre]], Glasgow<ref name="credits"/>
* ''D'You Get Paid For Doing This?'' (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Ladies First'' (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television & Channel Four<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Ready Or Not'' (1982) individual screenplay, Scottish Television<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>
* ''Ready Or Not'' (1982) Theatre Play, [[Tron Theatre]], Glasgow<ref name="credits">{{cite web|url=http://pagesperso-orange.fr/peter.may/janice.hally/biog.html#anchor227580|title=Official website, list writing credits|accessdate=2009-03-05}}</ref>


==References==
==References==
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==External links==
==External links==
* {{imdb name|1633112}}
* {{IMDb name|1633112}}
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html Janice Hally's entry on British Playwrights' Database]
* [http://www.doollee.com/PlaywrightsH/hally-janice.html Janice Hally's entry on British Playwrights' Database]
* [http://www.janicehally.com Janice Hally official website]
* [http://www.janicehally.com Janice Hally official website]
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* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/dearjohn/dj0011.php Book recommendation in The Stage #1]
* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/dearjohn/dj0011.php Book recommendation in The Stage #1]
* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/dearjohn/dj0051.php Book recommendation in The Stage #2]
* [http://www.thestage.co.uk/connect/dearjohn/dj0051.php Book recommendation in The Stage #2]
* [http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article431765.ece Article quoting Hally in The London Times online]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20110615185445/http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/families/article431765.ece Article quoting Hally in The Times online]
* [http://www.webcitation.org/query?url=http://www.geocities.com/uk_soaps/Machair&date=2009-10-25+23:27:43 Machair background]
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20090830222033/http://geocities.com/uk_soaps/Machair/ Machair background]

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Janice Hally
Born (1959-03-18) 18 March 1959 (age 65)
Glasgow, Scotland
OccupationPlaywright, Screenwriter, Novelist
NationalityScottish
Period1980–present
GenreTelevision drama
Notable worksMachair, Take the High Road
Notable awardsISPC
1980 best unperformed script
SpousePeter May
Website
www.janicehally.com

Janice Hally (born 18 March 1959) is a Scottish playwright and television screenwriter who has written more than 300 broadcast hours of prime-time British television drama serials and individual screenplays.[1] She was co-creator and main screenwriter on the first-ever, long-running Gaelic drama serial Machair.

Biography

[edit]

Hally was born in Glasgow and educated at Hillhead High School[2] and the University of Glasgow where she studied Drama and English Literature. In 1980, the year that she graduated, she won the World Student Drama Trust ISPC award,[3][4] judged by Alan Ayckbourn for her play Ready or Not.[1] Ready or Not was subsequently performed professionally at the Tron Theatre in Glasgow.[5]

The play was then adapted for television and led to her nomination, at the age of 23, in the category of 'Best New Writer to Television' at the 1982 PYE television awards.[5]

From then on, she wrote single plays, children's drama and serial drama for television, garnering more than 650 credits as creator, screenwriter, script editor, storyliner.[1]

During the 1980s, Hally wrote scripts for the Scottish television series Take The High Road, before becoming associate script editor, then storyliner for the show, where she worked as part of an editorial team with Peter May and Tom Wright.[6] During this period Take The High Road achieved its highest audience figures, topping the ratings in Scotland and being broadcast across Britain. May and Hally quit the show in 1989 and were married in 1990.[7]

The couple co-created the Gaelic television drama serial Machair in the early 1990s[8] and spent most of that decade on location in the Outer Hebrides making 99 episodes of the Gaelic television drama serial.[5]

Early in the new millennium, they set up home in France where May writes thrillers and Hally has written fiction and non-fiction books.[1][9]

Machair

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May and Hally took two years researching not only stories, but locations, production staff and actors before presenting their proposal for the first ever long-running Gaelic drama serial to Scottish Television.[10] May went on to produce the show, leading a cast and crew to the remote Outer Hebrides to shoot the series on location while Hally wrote the stories and the episode outlines of 99 episodes. Hally shared the writing of scripts with fellow Scottish playwright and script writer, Ann Marie Di Mambro. The scripts were written in English before being translated into Gaelic. The show was anticipated with derision by a sceptical press, but after the first episode was broadcast during peak viewing time, Kenneth Roy, television critic of Scotland on Sunday, described it as 'a credit to the company (Scottish Television) and a smack in the face to those of us who were doubtful' and after a few episodes he revised his opinion, saying 'it is even better than it looked at first glance quite simply the best thing to have happened to television in Scotland for a long time'.[10]

Viewers agreed, and the show managed to get a 30% audience share, making it into the Top Ten of programmes viewed in Scotland. With fewer than 2% of the Scottish population able to speak Gaelic, the vast majority of viewers were dependent on the shows subtitles.[10] It was nominated for awards for production and writing from The Celtic Film Festival and Writers Guild of Great Britain[10]

Writing

[edit]
  • Ask No Questions (2011) novella, Editions Didier Hachette (publishers, Paris, France)[11]
  • The Killing Room (Les Disparues) feature film screenplay with Peter May, scheduled for production January 2012 with The French Connection (French film production company)[12]
  • Distant Echo (2010) novella, Editions Didier Hachette (publishers, Paris, France)[13]
  • The Firemaker (2008) feature film screenplay treatment, KUIV (French film production company).[14]
  • Modelling and Acting for Kids (2004) non-fiction book, A&C Black (publishers, London, UK)[14][15]
  • Looking for the Zee (2002) novel, Miramont Media (publishers, California USA)[14]
  • Machair (1990–1996) drama serial, Scottish Television. Co-Creator, storylined and script edited the first 99 episodes, and wrote the scripts for more than 50 episodes.[14]
  • Take The High Road (1983–1989) drama serial, Scottish Television. Screenwriter and Story Editor. Wrote more than 50 episodes, Associate Script Editor on 208 episodes, storyliner of 240 episodes[14]
  • Private Eye (1985) individual screenplay, ITV (Dramarama)[14]
  • My Mum's A Courgette (1984) individual screenplay, ITV (Dramarama)[14]
  • D'You Get Paid For Doing This? (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television[14]
  • Ladies First (1983) individual screenplay, Scottish Television & Channel Four[14]
  • Ready Or Not (1982) individual screenplay, Scottish Television[14]
  • Ready Or Not (1982) Theatre Play, Tron Theatre, Glasgow[14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Janice Hally Biography". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  2. ^ "Hillhead High School Alumni". Archived from the original on 11 December 2008. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  3. ^ "ISPC World Student Drama Trust Award". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  4. ^ "ISPC World Student Drama Trust Award List of Winners". Archived from the original on 26 July 2011. Retrieved 10 July 2011.
  5. ^ a b c "British Playwrights database". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  6. ^ "Take The High Road Writing Team". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  7. ^ "IMDB bio and spouse details". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  8. ^ "Article in Paisley Daily Express". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  9. ^ "Open Library entry for Janice Hally". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  10. ^ a b c d "History of Machair". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  11. ^ "author website". Retrieved 29 December 2011.
  12. ^ "The French Connection, French film producers' website". Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  13. ^ "author website". Retrieved 10 February 2011.
  14. ^ a b c d e f g h i j k "Official website, list writing credits". Retrieved 5 March 2009.
  15. ^ "A & C Black publisher's listing". Archived from the original on 13 February 2012. Retrieved 5 March 2009.
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