Wally K. Daly

Wally K. Daly
Born	(1940-11-13)13 November 1940 Grangetown,Middlesbrough,England
Died	30 April 2020(2020-04-30)(aged 79)

Wally K. Daly(13 November 1940 – 30 April 2020)was an English writer for television and radio and one-time chairman of theWriters' Guild of Great Britain.He was born inGrangetown,Middlesbrough.

Television

As well as some minor acting roles includingZ-Cars,his writing credits includeJuliet Bravo,CasualtyandByker Grove.He also wrote the 1984 radio seriesAnything LegalfeaturingDonald HewlettandMichael Knowles.

Daly also wrote a story forDoctor WhocalledThe Ultimate Evilbut due to its hiatus, the story was cancelled but was published in the popular range ofDoctor Whobooks, then later adapted into aBig Finishaudio story as a part of theirLost Storiesaudio range.

Theatre

In the early 1980s, three of his stage plays were performed at theQueen's Theatre, Hornchurch-The Miracle Shirker,Vaughan Street(both 1980) and a stage adaptation of his radio and television playButterflies Don't Count(1982).

Radio plays

• Whistling Wally(1974)
• Everybody's Got A Quid(1975)
• Priest(1975)
• Confessor(1975)
• Give Or Take The Odd Thousand(1977)
• Before The Screaming Begins (BTSB Part I)(1978)
• What's Stigmata?(1978)
• The Silent Scream (BTSB Part II)(1979)
• Burglar's Bargains(1979)
• It's A Wise Child(1979)
• Only the Lonely(1979)
• Give or Take(1981)
• A Right Royal Rip-Off(1982)
• Time Slip(1983)
• Anything Legal(1984)
• With A Whimper To The Grave (BTSB Part III)(1984)
• Welcome Sister Death(1984)
• The Bigger They Are(1985)
• A Plague of Goodness(1986)
• Without Fire(1986)
• Mary's(1987)
• The Giftie(1988)
• Cripplehead(1988)
• Nightmare World(1989;R4 1990)
• Focus(1990) Adapted from theArthur Millernovel of the same name.
• Orphans in Waiting(1990)
• Fair Exchange(1992)
• Butterflies Don't Count(1992)
• The Broken Butterfly(1992)
• 2004(1995)
• Rasputin - Almost the Truth(1996)
• Death of an Unimportant Pope(1997)
• 625Y(1999)
• For I Have Sinned(2001)
• The Adventures of Robin Hood (2001)|The Prioress's Story(2001)
• Yesterday's Dreams(2002)
• With This Ring(2003)
• Suffer Little Children(2003)
• The Children of Witchwood(2005)

Before the Screaming Begins(1978), the first part of a science fiction trilogy in three thirty-minute episodes for BBC Radio, featuredJames Laurenson,Donald HewlettandPatrick Troughton.Part two was entitledThe Silent Scream.It too featured James Laurenson and Donald Hewlett and alsoHannah Gordon.Originally broadcast as a 90-minute play in 1979, it was re-broadcast in March and December 2008 as three thirty-minute episodes made from an off-air recording by Wally K. Daly as the original mastertape had been lost.The third part was entitledWith a Whimper to the Grave.John Shrapnelreplaced James Laurenson andMaureen O'Brienreplaced Hannah Gordon. It also featuredDonald Hewlett,Angela Thorne,Patrick TroughtonandTimothy West.As with the first two parts it was re-broadcast on BBC Radio 7 in March and December 2008 in three thirty-minute episodes made from an off-aircassette recordingby Wally K. Daly.

He was also a presenter forBBC Radio 2on a brief early Saturday morning stint in the summer of 1994.

Bibliography

• Butterflies Don't Count(Play for Today), 1978,ISBN978-0-413-45660-1
• The Ultimate Evil(Doctor Who), 1989ISBN978-0-426-20338-4
• Love Without Hope(Byker Grove), 1991,ISBN978-0-563-36261-6
• Fighting Back(Byker Grove), 1991,ISBN978-0-563-36271-5
• Temptation(Byker Grove), 1992,ISBN978-0-563-36483-2

External links

• Wally K. DalyatIMDb
• Wally K Daly radio plays, Diversity entry