Alick Hayes (born "Malcolm Alexander Hayes" on 14th March 1908 in Manchester; died 5th February 1983 in Great Budworth, Cheshire) wrote a single episode of Coronation Street - namely Episode 17 (3rd February 1961). Prior to this, Hayes had written and produced the radio series Just William that ran for thirty-five episodes between 1945 and 1956. Other television work included the Jimmy Clitheroe vehicle Just Jimmy and on radio, he produced and wrote The Will Hay Programme. Hayes was instrumental in bringing the Oxford/Cambridge Boat race to television, devising Rowing Blues in 1938.
An actor for many years, he also appeared on Coronation Street in December 1971 as John Thornley, in attendance at an RLNI charity ball; thereby becoming one of eight people who have both written for and appeared in the programme - the others being Ray H. Dunbobbin, S. Keith James, Bob Mason, Stephen Mallatratt, Martyn Hesford, Jim Cartwright and Ian Kershaw. At the time that Coronation Street began broadcasting, he was also a regular voice to be heard on Granada Television's What The Papers Say along with then-Street regular Daphne Oxenford.
