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 City status in the United Kingdom, city and metropolitan borough in Merseyside, England. With a population of in 2019, it is the List of English districts by population, 10th largest English district by population and its E ...
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 January 1979, and again in 1996. The show was created by Carla Lane and Myra Taylor. The two Liverpudlian housewives had met ...
'' with
Carla Lane
Romana Barrack (5 August 1928 – 31 May 2016), known professionally as Carla Lane, was an English television writer responsible for several successful British sitcoms, including ''The Liver Birds'' (co-creator, 1969–1979), ''Butterflies'' (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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1934 births
2012 deaths
British women television writers
Writers from Liverpool
British television writers
20th-century British screenwriters
20th-century British women writers
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