Anthony Hayward

Actor who was in productions by Franco Zeffirelli and Peter Brook and spent 10 years as Don Brennan in Coronation Street

Writer of many popular children’s TV programmes including Danger Mouse and Chorlton and the Wheelies

Scriptwriter who co-created Sorry!, worked with the Two Ronnies and collaborated with Dave Allen

Actor who made a highly publicised exit in 1955 from the role of Grace Archer in the BBC radio soap The Archers

American actor best known for his roles in the TV police series Hill Street Blues and the medical sitcom Doogie Howser, MD

A former head of BBC current affairs and Panorama producer who went on to make documentaries for Channel 4 in the 1980s

Composer whose TV theme tunes included music for well-loved shows such as The Avengers, Animal Magic and This Is Your Life

Television presenter best known for the Channel 4 property show A Place in the Sun and the BBC’s Escape to the Country

Television scriptwriter and playwright who created Pie in the Sky – ‘a cop show that was anti-cop shows’

Radical TV director known for Leeds – United!, a 1974 Play for Today, and his later work on Between the Lines and Cracker