Richard Everitt, extreme right at the programme's 20th birthday party in 1980 with, from left, Derek Granger, H.V. Kershaw, Stuart "Harry" Latham, Bill Podmore and Howard Baker.
Richard Everitt began his association with Coronation Street by acting as floor manager on Episode 1, before moving on to direct the programme in June 1961 and to produce it in 1965. In 1967 he scaled the next stage of his rapid promotion when he became the programme's executive producer, a post he filled for six months during which time he was responsible for the move of the wooden street set itself to Grape Street. In total he directed 47 episodes of the programme, all but one in the 1960s.
Other directing credits include The Odd Man (alongside Eric Price, Gerard Dynevor, and Derek Bennett, and written by other such Coronation Street alumni as Harry Driver, Jack Rosenthal, and H.V. Kershaw), Crown Court and Noddy.
As a producer Everitt worked on several television programmes including Jack Rosenthal's The Dustbinmen, The XYY man, its sequel Bulman, and latterly Lovejoy.
He was born in Cambridgeshire on the 28th July 1933 and died in Manchester on 1st September, 2004.
Episodes directed by Richard Everitt[]
1960s[]
1961 (12 episodes)
- Episode 50 (5th June 1961)
- Episode 51 (7th June 1961)
- Episode 56 (26th June 1961)
- Episode 57 (28th June 1961)
- Episode 64 (24th July 1961)
- Episode 65 (26th July 1961)
- Episode 68 (7th August 1961)
- Episode 69 (9th August 1961)
- Episode 74 (28th August 1961)
- Episode 75 (30th August 1961)
- Episode 80 (18th September 1961)
- Episode 81 (20th September 1961)
1962 (29 episodes)
- Episode 114 (15th January 1962)
- Episode 115 (17th January 1962)
- Episode 122 (12th February 1962)
- Episode 123 (14th February 1962)
- Episode 130 (12th March 1962)
- Episode 131 (14th March 1962)
- Episode 144 (30th April 1962)
- Episode 145 (2nd May 1962)
- Episode 150 (21st May 1962)
- Episode 151 (23rd May 1962)
- Episode 156 (11th June 1962)
- Episode 157 (13th June 1962)
- Episode 160 (25th June 1962)
- Episode 161 (27th June 1962)
- Episode 166 (16th July 1962)
- Episode 167 (18th July 1962)
- Episode 176 (20th August 1962)
- Episode 177 (22nd August 1962)
- Episode 180 (3rd September 1962)
- Episode 181 (5th September 1962)
- Episode 186 (24th September 1962)
- Episode 187 (26th September 1962)
- Episode 192 (15th October 1962)
- Episode 193 (17th October 1962)
- Episode 200 (12th November 1962)
- Episode 201 (14th November 1962)
- Episode 208 (10th December 1962)
- Episode 209 (12th December 1962)
- Episode 214 (31st December 1962)
1963 (3 episodes)
1964 (2 episodes)
1970s[]
1975 (1 episode)