Adele Rose (8th December 1933 - 28th December 2020) wrote 457 episodes of Coronation Street between 1961 and 1998, four of them co-written with Jack Rosenthal, Eddie Maguire and Alan Hardman.
A Salford-born former secretary, she was encouraged to try to become a writer by Jack Rosenthal (with whom she co-wrote two episodes). She first saw the programme when it began in December 1960 and felt "that perhaps the script needed a woman's touch. They had all those women in the cast, and all the writers were men." Having previously worked at Granada as a secretary, she rang up Harry Kershaw who encouraged her to send in a sample script.
A prolific writer of scripts for other programmes such as The Dustbinmen and Z Cars, she created and wrote the popular BBC children's soap Byker Grove. In 1993 she was one of the joint-winners of the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Award. She was one of the writers who left the show in the wake of Brian Park becoming producer in 1997. One of her final contributions was the story idea for the VHS spin-off Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas!.
Adele was one of the bridesmaids at Patricia Phoenix's wedding to Alan Browning in 1972.
Episodes written by Adele Rose[]
1960s[]
1961 (4 episodes)
- Episode 40 (1st May 1961)
- Episode 67 (2nd August 1961)
- Episode 95 (8th November 1961)
- Episode 104 (11th December 1961) (Co-written with Jack Rosenthal)
1962 (17 episodes)
- Episode 113 (10th January 1962)
- Episode 147 (9th May 1962)
- Episode 151 (23rd May 1962)
- Episode 154 (4th June 1962)
- Episode 161 (27th June 1962)
- Episode 163 (4th July 1962)
- Episode 166 (16th July 1962)
- Episode 173 (8th August 1962)
- Episode 180 (3rd September 1962)
- Episode 185 (19th September 1962)
- Episode 186 (24th September 1962) (Co-written with Jack Rosenthal)
- Episode 193 (17th October 1962)
- Episode 194 (22nd October 1962) (Co-written with Eddie Maguire)
- Episode 198 (5th November 1962)
- Episode 200 (12th November 1962)
- Episode 202 (19th November 1962)
- Episode 210 (17th December 1962)
1963 (16 episodes)
- Episode 220 (21st January 1963)
- Episode 225 (6th February 1963)
- Episode 231 (27th February 1963)
- Episode 237 (20th March 1963)
- Episode 243 (10th April 1963)
- Episode 247 (24th April 1963)
- Episode 254 (20th May 1963)
- Episode 257 (29th May 1963)
- Episode 261 (12th June 1963)
- Episode 272 (22nd July 1963)
- Episode 279 (14th August 1963)
- Episode 287 (11th September 1963)
- Episode 292 (30th September 1963)
- Episode 297 (16th October 1963) (Co-written with Alan Hardman)
- Episode 311 (4th December 1963)
- Episode 314 (16th December 1963)
1964 (12 episodes)
- Episode 330 (10th February 1964)
- Episode 334 (24th February 1964)
- Episode 338 (9th March 1964)
- Episode 364 (8th June 1964)
- Episode 370 (29th June 1964)
- Episode 378 (27th July 1964)
- Episode 384 (17th August 1964)
- Episode 393 (16th September 1964)
- Episode 402 (19th October 1964)
- Episode 409 (11th November 1964)
- Episode 410 (16th November 1964)
- Episode 419 (16th December 1964)
1965 (15 episodes)
- Episode 429 (20th January 1965)
- Episode 433 (3rd February 1965)
- Episode 436 (15th February 1965)
- Episode 439 (24th February 1965)
- Episode 445 (17th March 1965)
- Episode 447 (24th March 1965)
- Episode 456 (26th April 1965)
- Episode 467 (2nd June 1965)
- Episode 471 (16th June 1965)
- Episode 476 (5th July 1965)
- Episode 489 (18th August 1965)
- Episode 495 (8th September 1965)
- Episode 502 (4th October 1965)
- Episode 519 (1st December 1965)
- Episode 522 (13th December 1965)
1966 (14 episodes)
- Episode 529 (5th January 1966)
- Episode 541 (16th February 1966)
- Episode 550 (21st March 1966)
- Episode 559 (20th April 1966)
- Episode 567 (18th May 1966)
- Episode 571 (1st June 1966)
- Episode 582 (11th July 1966)
- Episode 587 (27th July 1966)
- Episode 606 (3rd October 1966)
- Episode 612 (24th October 1966)
- Episode 616 (7th November 1966)
- Episode 623 (30th November 1966)
- Episode 625 (7th December 1966)
- Episode 631 (28th December 1966)
1967 (16 episodes)
- Episode 637 (23rd January 1967)
- Episode 643 (13th February 1967)
- Episode 649 (6th March 1967)
- Episode 656 (29th March 1967)
- Episode 661 (17th April 1967)
- Episode 672 (24th May 1967)
- Episode 681 (26th June 1967)
- Episode 685 (10th July 1967)
- Episode 694 (9th August 1967)
- Episode 697 (21st August 1967)
- Episode 708 (27th September 1967)
- Episode 713 (16th October 1967)
- Episode 717 (30th October 1967)
- Episode 724 (22nd November 1967)
- Episode 729 (11th December 1967)
- Episode 734 (27th December 1967)
1968 (15 episodes)
- Episode 738 (10th January 1968)
- Episode 747 (12th February 1968)
- Episode 753 (4th March 1968)
- Episode 760 (27th March 1968)
- Episode 766 (17th April 1968)
- Episode 772 (8th May 1968)
- Episode 779 (3rd June 1968)
- Episode 785 (24th June 1968)
- Episode 792 (17th July 1968)
- Episode 798 (12th August 1968)
- Episode 809 (23rd September 1968)
- Episode 811 (30th September 1968)
- Episode 820 (30th October 1968)
- Episode 823 (11th November 1968)
- Episode 831 (9th December 1968)
1969 (14 episodes)
- Episode 838 (1st January 1969)
- Episode 854 (26th February 1969)
- Episode 863 (31st March 1969)
- Episode 874 (7th May 1969)
- Episode 880 (28th May 1969)
- Episode 881 (2nd June 1969)
- Episode 887 (23rd June 1969)
- Episode 902 (18th August 1969)
- Episode 907 (3rd September 1969)
- Episode 911 (17th September 1969)
- Episode 921 (22nd October 1969)
- Episode 922 (27th October 1969)
- Episode 933 (3rd December 1969)
- Episode 938 (22nd December 1969)
1970s[]
1970 (2 episodes)
1972 (10 episodes)
- Episode 1173 (12th April 1972)
- Episode 1178 (1st May 1972)
- Episode 1180 (8th May 1972)
- Episode 1186 (29th May 1972)
- Episode 1197 (5th July 1972)
- Episode 1202 (24th July 1972)
- Episode 1205 (2nd August 1972)
- Episode 1206 (7th August 1972)
- Episode 1214 (4th September 1972)
- Episode 1222 (2nd October 1972)
1973 (7 episodes)
- Episode 1253 (17th January 1973)
- Episode 1259 (7th February 1973)
- Episode 1262 (19th February 1973)
- Episode 1309 (1st August 1973)
- Episode 1329 (10th October 1973)
- Episode 1343 (28th November 1973)
- Episode 1349 (19th December 1973)
1974 (9 episodes)
- Episode 1356 (14th January 1974)
- Episode 1393 (22nd May 1974)
- Episode 1397 (5th June 1974)
- Episode 1406 (8th July 1974)
- Episode 1410 (22nd July 1974)
- Episode 1423 (4th September 1974)
- Episode 1434 (14th October 1974)
- Episode 1435 (16th October 1974)
- Episode 1443 (13th November 1974)
1975 (12 episodes)
- Episode 1461 (20th January 1975)
- Episode 1466 (5th February 1975)
- Episode 1479 (24th March 1975)
- Episode 1481 (31st March 1975)
- Episode 1489 (28th April 1975)
- Episode 1496 (21st May 1975)
- Episode 1512 (14th July 1975)
- Episode 1517 (30th July 1975)
- Episode 1526 (1st September 1975)
- Episode 1533 (24th September 1975)
- Episode 1550 (19th November 1975)
- Episode 1552 (26th November 1975)
1976 (14 episodes)
- Episode 1562 (5th January 1976)
- Episode 1565 (14th January 1976)
- Episode 1573 (11th February 1976)
- Episode 1578 (1st March 1976)
- Episode 1584 (22nd March 1976)
- Episode 1590 (12th April 1976)
- Episode 1596 (3rd May 1976)
- Episode 1606 (7th June 1976)
- Episode 1609 (16th June 1976)
- Episode 1624 (9th August 1976)
- Episode 1627 (18th August 1976)
- Episode 1632 (6th September 1976)
- Episode 1643 (13th October 1976)
- Episode 1651 (10th November 1976)
1977 (13 episodes)
- Episode 1668 (10th January 1977)
- Episode 1678 (14th February 1977)
- Episode 1682 (28th February 1977)
- Episode 1689 (23rd March 1977)
- Episode 1692 (4th April 1977)
- Episode 1702 (9th May 1977)
- Episode 1707 (25th May 1977)
- Episode 1718 (4th July 1977)
- Episode 1726 (1st August 1977)
- Episode 1737 (7th September 1977)
- Episode 1743 (28th September 1977)
- Episode 1746 (10th October 1977)
- Episode 1765 (14th December 1977)
1978 (12 episodes)
- Episode 1777 (25th January 1978)
- Episode 1782 (13th February 1978)
- Episode 1792 (20th March 1978)
- Episode 1795 (29th March 1978)
- Episode 1800 (17th April 1978)
- Episode 1809 (17th May 1978)
- Episode 1816 (12th June 1978)
- Episode 1828 (24th July 1978)
- Episode 1833 (9th August 1978)
- Episode 1836 (21st August 1978)
- Episode 1851 (11th October 1978)
- Episode 1870 (18th December 1978)
1979 (12 episodes)
- Episode 1881 (29th January 1979)
- Episode 1891 (5th March 1979)
- Episode 1897 (26th March 1979)
- Episode 1902 (11th April 1979)
- Episode 1907 (30th April 1979)
- Episode 1913 (21st May 1979)
- Episode 1920 (13th June 1979)
- Episode 1922 (20th June 1979)
- Episode 1927 (9th July 1979)
- Episode 1932 (30th July 1979)
- Episode 1944 (19th November 1979)
- Episode 1951 (12th December 1979)
1980s[]
1980 (8 episodes)
- Episode 1958 (7th January 1980)
- Episode 1964 (28th January 1980)
- Episode 1972 (25th February 1980)
- Episode 1977 (12th March 1980)
- Episode 1985 (9th April 1980)
- Episode 1988 (21st April 1980)
- Episode 1995 (14th May 1980)
- Episode 2057 (17th December 1980)
1981 (11 episodes)
- Episode 2066 (19th January 1981)
- Episode 2074 (16th February 1981)
- Episode 2081 (11th March 1981)
- Episode 2091 (15th April 1981)
- Episode 2096 (4th May 1981)
- Episode 2102 (25th May 1981)
- Episode 2107 (10th June 1981)
- Episode 2113 (1st July 1981)
- Episode 2126 (17th August 1981)
- Episode 2137 (23rd September 1981)
- Episode 2163 (23rd December 1981)
1982 (14 episodes)
- Episode 2167 (6th January 1982)
- Episode 2176 (8th February 1982)
- Episode 2181 (24th February 1982)
- Episode 2188 (22nd March 1982)
- Episode 2194 (12th April 1982)
- Episode 2199 (28th April 1982)
- Episode 2213 (16th June 1982)
- Episode 2217 (30th June 1982)
- Episode 2223 (21st July 1982)
- Episode 2231 (18th August 1982)
- Episode 2235 (1st September 1982)
- Episode 2241 (22nd September 1982)
- Episode 2250 (25th October 1982)
- Episode 2269 (29th December 1982)
1983 (13 episodes)
- Episode 2270 (3rd January 1983)
- Episode 2277 (26th January 1983)
- Episode 2291 (16th March 1983)
- Episode 2303 (27th April 1983)
- Episode 2306 (9th May 1983)
- Episode 2314 (6th June 1983)
- Episode 2320 (27th June 1983)
- Episode 2328 (25th July 1983)
- Episode 2337 (24th August 1983)
- Episode 2350 (10th October 1983)
- Episode 2359 (9th November 1983)
- Episode 2366 (5th December 1983)
- Episode 2373 (28th December 1983)
1984 (11 episodes)
- Episode 2389 (22nd February 1984)
- Episode 2394 (12th March 1984)
- Episode 2396 (19th March 1984)
- Episode 2403 (11th April 1984)
- Episode 2411 (9th May 1984)
- Episode 2417 (30th May 1984)
- Episode 2422 (18th June 1984)
- Episode 2447 (12th September 1984)
- Episode 2452 (1st October 1984)
- Episode 2458 (22nd October 1984)
- Episode 2467 (21st November 1984)
1985 (9 episodes)
- Episode 2487 (30th January 1985)
- Episode 2496 (4th March 1985)
- Episode 2512 (29th April 1985)
- Episode 2520 (27th May 1985)
- Episode 2530 (1st July 1985)
- Episode 2539 (31st July 1985)
- Episode 2554 (23rd September 1985)
- Episode 2562 (21st October 1985)
- Episode 2564 (28th October 1985)
1986 (13 episodes)
- Episode 2584 (6th January 1986)
- Episode 2591 (29th January 1986)
- Episode 2596 (17th February 1986)
- Episode 2606 (24th March 1986)
- Episode 2614 (21st April 1986)
- Episode 2619 (7th May 1986)
- Episode 2632 (23rd June 1986)
- Episode 2638 (14th July 1986)
- Episode 2643 (30th July 1986)
- Episode 2654 (8th September 1986)
- Episode 2669 (29th October 1986)
- Episode 2673 (12th November 1986)
- Episode 2684 (22nd December 1986)
1987 (11 episodes)
- Episode 2700 (16th February 1987)
- Episode 2704 (2nd March 1987)
- Episode 2718 (20th April 1987)
- Episode 2723 (6th May 1987)
- Episode 2727 (20th May 1987)
- Episode 2745 (22nd July 1987)
- Episode 2752 (17th August 1987)
- Episode 2763 (23rd September 1987)
- Episode 2772 (26th October 1987)
- Episode 2775 (4th November 1987)
- Episode 2785 (9th December 1987)
1988 (12 episodes)
- Episode 2801 (1st February 1988)
- Episode 2807 (22nd February 1988)
- Episode 2821 (11th April 1988)
- Episode 2823 (18th April 1988)
- Episode 2831 (16th May 1988)
- Episode 2836 (6th June 1988)
- Episode 2854 (8th August 1988)
- Episode 2864 (12th September 1988)
- Episode 2874 (17th October 1988)
- Episode 2881 (9th November 1988)
- Episode 2886 (28th November 1988)
- Episode 2895 (26th December 1988)
1989 (12 episodes)
- Episode 2904 (25th January 1989)
- Episode 2910 (15th February 1989)
- Episode 2915 (6th March 1989)
- Episode 2921 (27th March 1989)
- Episode 2934 (10th May 1989)
- Episode 2955 (24th July 1989)
- Episode 2959 (7th August 1989)
- Episode 2969 (11th September 1989)
- Episode 2974 (27th September 1989)
- Episode 2988 (6th November 1989)
- Episode 2997 (27th November 1989)
- Episode 3007 (20th December 1989)
1990s[]
1990 (15 episodes)
- Episode 3013 (3rd January 1990)
- Episode 3022 (24th January 1990)
- Episode 3032 (16th February 1990)
- Episode 3043 (14th March 1990)
- Episode 3046 (21st March 1990)
- Episode 3054 (9th April 1990)
- Episode 3068 (11th May 1990)
- Episode 3079 (8th June 1990)
- Episode 3086 (25th June 1990)
- Episode 3097 (20th July 1990)
- Episode 3102 (1st August 1990)
- Episode 3112 (24th August 1990)
- Episode 3136 (19th October 1990)
- Episode 3151 (23rd November 1990)
- Episode 3155 (3rd December 1990)
1991 (15 episodes)
- Episode 3191 (22nd February 1991)
- Episode 3205 (27th March 1991)
- Episode 3215 (19th April 1991)
- Episode 3216 (22nd April 1991)
- Episode 3227 (17th May 1991)
- Episode 3241 (19th June 1991)
- Episode 3250 (10th July 1991)
- Episode 3258 (29th July 1991)
- Episode 3259 (31st July 1991)
- Episode 3265 (14th August 1991)
- Episode 3274 (4th September 1991)
- Episode 3288 (7th October 1991)
- Episode 3292 (16th October 1991)
- Episode 3306 (18th November 1991)
- Episode 3314 (6th December 1991)
1992 (16 episodes)
- Episode 3326 (1st January 1992)
- Episode 3332 (15th January 1992)
- Episode 3338 (29th January 1992)
- Episode 3349 (24th February 1992)
- Episode 3359 (18th March 1992)
- Episode 3365 (1st April 1992)
- Episode 3387 (22nd May 1992)
- Episode 3404 (1st July 1992)
- Episode 3415 (24th July 1992)
- Episode 3425 (17th August 1992)
- Episode 3431 (31st August 1992)
- Episode 3444 (30th September 1992)
- Episode 3454 (23rd October 1992)
- Episode 3461 (9th November 1992)
- Episode 3474 (9th December 1992)
- Episode 3482 (28th December 1992)
1993 (15 episodes)
- Episode 3493 (22nd January 1993)
- Episode 3501 (10th February 1993)
- Episode 3517 (19th March 1993)
- Episode 3524 (5th April 1993)
- Episode 3534 (28th April 1993)
- Episode 3540 (12th May 1993)
- Episode 3553 (11th June 1993)
- Episode 3563 (5th July 1993)
- Episode 3568 (16th July 1993)
- Episode 3579 (11th August 1993)
- Episode 3585 (25th August 1993)
- Episode 3601 (1st October 1993)
- Episode 3602 (4th October 1993)
- Episode 3624 (24th November 1993)
- Episode 3631 (10th December 1993)
1994 (15 episodes)
- Episode 3645 (12th January 1994)
- Episode 3652 (28th January 1994)
- Episode 3657 (9th February 1994)
- Episode 3672 (16th March 1994)
- Episode 3688 (20th April 1994)
- Episode 3698 (13th May 1994)
- Episode 3716 (24th June 1994)
- Episode 3725 (15th July 1994)
- Episode 3732 (1st August 1994)
- Episode 3742 (24th August 1994)
- Episode 3752 (16th September 1994)
- Episode 3768 (24th October 1994)
- Episode 3782 (25th November 1994)
- Episode 3791 (16th December 1994)
- Episode 3792 (19th December 1994)
1995 (15 episodes)
- Episode 3810 (27th January 1995)
- Episode 3816 (10th February 1995)
- Episode 3826 (6th March 1995)
- Episode 3837 (31st March 1995)
- Episode 3844 (17th April 1995)
- Episode 3851 (3rd May 1995)
- Episode 3860 (24th May 1995)
- Episode 3866 (7th June 1995)
- Episode 3881 (12th July 1995)
- Episode 3890 (2nd August 1995)
- Episode 3894 (11th August 1995)
- Episode 3920 (11th October 1995)
- Episode 3936 (17th November 1995)
- Episode 3938 (22nd November 1995)
- Episode 3947 (13th December 1995)
1996 (17 episodes)
- Episode 3966 (26th January 1996)
- Episode 3980 (28th February 1996)
- Episode 3985 (11th March 1996)
- Episode 3992 (27th March 1996)
- Episode 4001 (17th April 1996)
- Episode 4016 (22nd May 1996)
- Episode 4026 (14th June 1996)
- Episode 4030 (24th June 1996)
- Episode 4037 (10th July 1996)
- Episode 4052 (14th August 1996)
- Episode 4062 (6th September 1996)
- Episode 4064 (11th September 1996)
- Episode 4076 (9th October 1996)
- Episode 4084 (28th October 1996)
- Episode 4092 (15th November 1996)
- Episode 4099 (29th November 1996)
- Episode 4105 (9th December 1996)
1997 (18 episodes)
- Episode 4130 (22nd January 1997)
- Episode 4142 (12th February 1997)
- Episode 4146 (19th February 1997)
- Episode 4154 (5th March 1997)
- Episode 4163 (21st March 1997)
- Episode 4174 (9th April 1997)
- Episode 4180 (20th April 1997)
- Episode 4185 (28th April 1997)
- Episode 4200 (25th May 1997)
- Episode 4218 (25th June 1997)
- Episode 4234 (23rd July 1997)
- Episode 4241 (4th August 1997)
- Episode 4259 (5th September 1997)
- Episode 4265 (15th September 1997)
- Episode 4282 (15th October 1997)
- Episode 4288 (26th October 1997)
- Episode 4298 (12th November 1997)
- Episode 4310 (3rd December 1997)
1998 (3 episodes)
[]
- Coronation Street: Viva Las Vegas! (1997 - story idea)