Dr. John Charles Wilsher (credited as J.C. Wilsher) is an English

England

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 television writer best known for dramas relating to the police

Police

The police is a personification of the state designated to put in practice the enforced law, protect property and reduce civil disorder in civilian matters. Their powers include the legitimized use of force...

 and law enforcement. His highest profile work was as creator of Between the Lines, which screened in the UK between 1992 and 1994. He was a researcher at Lancaster University

Lancaster University

Lancaster University, officially The University of Lancaster, is a leading research-intensive British university in Lancaster, Lancashire, England. The university was established by Royal Charter in 1964 and initially based in St Leonard's Gate until moving to a purpose-built 300 acre campus at...

 before taking up his writing career, which began by writing for radio. Wilsher is also a Past President and Deputy Chair of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain

Writers' Guild of Great Britain

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 (WGGB).

Radio Plays

• The Ghosts of the British Museum
  British Museum
  The British Museum is a museum of human history and culture in London. Its collections, which number more than seven million objects, are amongst the largest and most comprehensive in the world and originate from all continents, illustrating and documenting the story of human culture from its...
  
   (1978)
• The Fruit of the Vine (1978)
• Interval (1978)
• Microcosm (1979)
• Militaria (1980)
• Summer School Blues (1980)
• A Fair Hearing (1980)
• A Victim of the Aurora (adaptation of Thomas Keneally
  Thomas Keneally
  Thomas Michael Keneally, AO is an Australian novelist, playwright and author of non-fiction. He is best known for writing Schindler's Ark, the Booker Prize-winning novel of 1982 which was inspired by the efforts of Poldek Pfefferberg, a Holocaust survivor...
  
  's novel) (1980)
• Sunrise Over Baldness (1981)
• The Grey Area (1982)
• A Pillar of The Society (1983)
• Orbital Decay (1984)
• Defensible Space (1984)
• A Box of Tricks (1985)
• A Status Passage (1985)
• Fade to black (1987)
• In-Flight Entertainment (1991)

Television Screenplays

• The Quiz Kid (1979)
• Sin with Our Permission (episode of "ITV Playhouse
  ITV Playhouse
  ITV Playhouse was a UK comedy-drama TV series that ran from 1967 to 1983, which featured contributions from playwrights such as Dennis Potter, Rhys Adrian and Alan Sharp. The series began in black and white, but was later shot in colour and was produced by various companies for the ITV network, a...
  
  ") (1981)
• Between the Lines (1992 - 1994) (WGGB Awards for "Original Drama Series", 1993 & 1995; Royal Television Society & Broadcasting Press Guild Awards for "Best Drama Series", 1993; BAFTA Award for "Best Original Drama Series" 1994 )
• Silent Witness
  Silent Witness
  Silent Witness is a BBC crime thriller series focusing on a team of forensic pathology experts and their investigations into various crimes. First broadcast in February 1996, the series is still airing to the present day, with a fifteenth series expected to air in January 2012. The series was...
  
   (episodes) (1996)
• Call Red
  Call Red
  Call Red is a British drama television series created by J. C. Wilsher. The series premiered 8 January 1996, on ITV.-Cast:*Allie Byrne as Alyson Butler*Michael Carter as Phillip Tulloch*Vincent Regan as Captain Ray Sidley*Seamus Gubbins as Sean...
  
   (1996)
• The Vice (Four episodes) (1999 - 2000)
• The Bill
  The Bill
  The Bill is a police procedural television series that ran from October 1984 to August 2010. It focused on the lives and work of one shift of police officers, rather than on any particular aspect of police work...
  
   (53 episodes) (1989 - 2001)
• Disposal (episode of "Murder in Mind") (2002)
• The Dinosaur Hunters (2002)
• Favours (episode of "Murder in Mind") (2003)
• If… Drugs Were Legalised (2005)
• Dust Thou Art, Parts 1 & 2 (episodes of Dalziel & Pascoe
  Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)
  Dalziel and Pascoe is a popular British television crime drama based on the Dalziel and Pascoe books by Reginald Hill, which was first broadcast in March 1996. It is set in Yorkshire, and is about two detectives...
  
  ) (2005)
• New Tricks (Seven episodes, (2006-2011) one of which, Diamond Geezers (2006), was co-nominated for the WGGB Award for "Best Soap or Series (Television)".
• Torchwood
  Torchwood
  Torchwood is a British science fiction television programme created by Russell T Davies. The series is a spin-off from Davies's 2005 revival of the long-running science fiction programme Doctor Who. The show has shifted its broadcast channel each series to reflect its growing audience, moving from...
  
   (episode "Reset
  Reset (Torchwood)
  "Reset" is the sixth episode of the second series of British science fiction television series Torchwood, which was first broadcast by BBC Three on 13 February 2008, immediately after the broadcast of "Adam" on BBC Two...
  
  ")
• Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders
  Midsomer Murders is a British television detective drama that has aired on ITV since 1997. The show is based on the books by Caroline Graham, as originally adapted by Anthony Horowitz. The lead character is DCI Tom Barnaby who works for Causton CID. When Nettles left the show in 2011 he was...
  
  (episode: Not In My Backyard)