Claim: Brian Finch longest relationship was with the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he wrote 120 scripts between 1980 and 1999 and he also helped the development of All Creatures Great and Small, The Tomorrow People, and Heartbeat (a British police drama series).
Evidence: His longest relationship was with the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, for which he wrote 150 scripts between 1970 and 1989. 
Between 1970 and 1989, Finch wrote more than 150 episodes of the ITV1 soap opera, Coronation Street, including the first to feature Deirdre Barlow, he also wrote the first episodes for barmaid Bet Lynch, Mike Baldwin and Jack and Vera Duckworth.