Colin Bostock-Smith Biography

Fast Facts

• Won a CableACE Award for Writing in a Comedy Series for "Alas Smith & Jones" in 1987
• Began his career as a television writer on the series "The Dawson Watch" in 1979 before moving on to "The Basil Brush Show" that same year
• Started out as a journalist and later worked as the editor of the music newspaper "Top Pops․"
• Some of his other writing credits include "Metal Mickey," "Smith & Jones," and "The Basil Brush Show․"
• Best known as a television comedy writer who created the series "As Time Goes By․"
• During his time as a journalist, he once wrote a review of an early performance by The Beatles that said the band was "not nearly as bad as they might have been․"
• Was a program associate on the series "Big Night" in 1978 and "What's the Problem? With Anne Robinson" in 2005