Myra Taylor (1934 – 22 March 2012) was a British television scriptwriter. Although her writing career was not particularly extensive, she did play a significant role in two of the more popular British TV comedies of the 1970s. Taylor was born as Myra Green in

Liverpool Liverpool is a port City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. It is situated on the eastern side of the River Mersey, Mersey Estuary, near the Irish Sea, north-west of London. With a population ...

in early 1934. She married Harold Taylor in 1954 in Liverpool. She jointly-created ''

The Liver Birds ''The Liver Birds'' is a British sitcom, set in Liverpool, North West England, which aired on BBC1 from April 1969 to December 1978, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had me ...

'' with

Carla Lane Romana Barrack (5 August 1928 – 31 May 2016), better known as Carla Lane, was an English screenwriter who became known for creating or co-creating successful British sitcoms such as ''The Liver Birds'' (1969–1979), ''Butterflies'' (1978–19 ...

(whom she met at a writers' club), although she only wrote a few of the early episodes before going her own way at the end of the second series. She was one of a team of scriptwriters on '' Bless This House'' and wrote her own short lived series ''Divided We Stand'' (1987). Taylor and Lane would often meet at the Adelphi Hotel in Liverpool to write together. She died in March 2012 at the age of 78.Probate Search: Myra Taylor, Liverpool
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