Brian Finch (25th July, 1936 - 27th June, 2007) was a BAFTA award-winning television screenwriter who penned 149 episodes of Coronation Street between January 1970 and July 1978 and a second stint in the role between January 1987 and January 1989, two of the episodes being co-written with Susan Pleat and Leslie Duxbury. Prior to beginning work as a script-writer on the programme, he was a regular contributor to TV Times with many articles on Coronation Street being credited to him in the 1960s.