Patrea Smallacombe (born 1961) is an accomplished Australian-born television writer and story editor. She wrote for numerous soap operas in her native Australia, such as Prisoner: Cell Block H, The Young Doctors and Neighbours before moving to the United Kingdom in 1987. She was actually writing and script editing for The Young Doctors in the 1970s as a teenager. She wrote for Coronation Street forty-nine times between April 1993 and September 1997 during which time she created the character of Norris Cole who she based on her father. She returned to the programme in 2006 penning a further eleven episodes making 60 in total. She has also penned episodes of Brookside, Emmerdale, Peak Practice, The Bill, Family Affairs and rival soap, EastEnders.
As from March 2011, Patrea began penning scripts for Channel 4's early evening soap, Hollyoaks.
Episodes written by Patrea Smallacombe[]
1990s[]
1993 (6 episodes)
- Episode 3527 (12th April 1993)
- Episode 3562 (2nd July 1993)
- Episode 3576 (4th August 1993)
- Episode 3587 (30th August 1993)
- Episode 3597 (22nd September 1993)
- Episode 3625 (26th November 1993)
1994 (11 episodes)
- Episode 3661 (18th February 1994)
- Episode 3668 (7th March 1994)
- Episode 3702 (23rd May 1994)
- Episode 3712 (15th June 1994)
- Episode 3720 (4th July 1994)
- Episode 3735 (8th August 1994)
- Episode 3754 (21st September 1994)
- Episode 3756 (26th September 1994)
- Episode 3775 (9th November 1994)
- Episode 3784 (30th November 1994)
- Episode 3797 (28th December 1994)
1995 (8 episodes)
- Episode 3835 (27th March 1995)
- Episode 3841 (10th April 1995)
- Episode 3862 (29th May 1995)
- Episode 3875 (28th June 1995)
- Episode 3891 (4th August 1995)
- Episode 3907 (11th September 1995)
- Episode 3918 (6th October 1995)
- Episode 3949 (18th December 1995)
1996 (11 episodes)
- Episode 3956 (3rd January 1996)
- Episode 3971 (7th February 1996)
- Episode 3983 (6th March 1996)
- Episode 4006 (29th April 1996)
- Episode 4029 (21st June 1996)
- Episode 4058 (28th August 1996)
- Episode 4066 (16th September 1996)
- Episode 4094 (20th November 1996)
- Episode 4102 (4th December 1996)
- Episode 4108 (15th December 1996)
- Episode 4116 (29th December 1996)
1997 (13 episodes)
- Episode 4131 (24th January 1997)
- Episode 4137 (3rd February 1997)
- Episode 4145 (17th February 1997)
- Episode 4160 (16th March 1997)
- Episode 4181 (21st April 1997)
- Episode 4197 (19th May 1997)
- Episode 4203 (30th May 1997)
- Episode 4213 (16th June 1997)
- Episode 4216 (22nd June 1997)
- Episode 4232 (20th July 1997)
- Episode 4248 (17th August 1997)
- Episode 4257 (1st September 1997)
- Episode 4267 (19th September 1997)
2000s[]
2006 (11 episodes)
- Episode 6204 (11th January 2006)
- Episode 6225 (10th February 2006)
- Episode 6241 (5th March 2006)
- Episode 6295 (19th May 2006)
- Episode 6309 (7th June 2006)
- Episode 6319 (19th June 2006)
- Episode 6350 (4th August 2006)
- Episode 6365 (25th August 2006)
- Episode 6386 (24th September 2006)
- Episode 6422 (12th November 2006)
- Episode 6451 (18th December 2006)