Jim O'Hanlon (born 3rd November, 1970 in Dublin) started his Coronation Street career as a storyliner (then termed a "story associate") for 252 episodes in seven stints from January 1997 to July 1998.
During this period, he was also a story editor for 16 episodes from May 1998 to July 1998.
He then wrote one episode - Episode 4460 (23rd August 1998) - of Coronation Street. He moved on to become one of the programme's directors with 26 episodes to his credit from July 1998 to March 1999, three with Michael Kerrigan. Uniquely, he is the only person who has both written for and directed the programme.
He has also directed episodes of Casualty, Bad Girls, Wild At Heart, Shameless, Quirke, A Touch Of Cloth, In the Flesh and Chasing Shadows.
Episodes storylined by Jim O'Hanlon[]
1997 (179 episodes)
- All episodes between Episode 4128 (19th January 1997) to Episode 4279 (10th October 1997)
- All episodes between Episode 4288 (26th October 1997) to Episode 4303 (21st November 1997)
- All episodes between Episode 4316 (14th December 1997) to Episode 4326 (31st December 1997)
1998 (73 episodes)
- All episodes between Episode 4327 (2nd January 1998) to Episode 4367 (13th March 1998)
- All episodes between Episode 4392 (26th April 1998) to Episode 4399 (8th May 1998)
- All episodes between Episode 4408 (24th May 1998) to Episode 4423 (19th June 1998)
- All episodes between Episode 4432 (5th July 1998) to Episode 4439 (17th July 1998)
Episodes story edited by Jim O'Hanlon[]
1998 (16 episodes)
- All episodes between Episode 4400 (10th May 1998) to Episode 4407 (22nd May 1998)
- All episodes between Episode 4424 (21st June 1998) to Episode 4431 (3rd July 1998)
Episodes directed by Jim O'Hanlon[]
1998 (18 episodes)
- Episode 4437 (13th July 1998)
- Episode 4456 (16th August 1998)
- Episode 4457 (17th August 1998)
- Episode 4465 (31st August 1998) (Uncredited, with Michael Kerrigan)
- Episode 4466 (2nd September 1998) (Co-credited with Michael Kerrigan)
- Episode 4467 (4th September 1998) (Uncredited, with Michael Kerrigan)
- Episode 4476 (20th September 1998)
- Episode 4477 (21st September 1998)
- Episode 4478 (23rd September 1998)
- Episode 4479 (25th September 1998)
- Episode 4496 (25th October 1998)
- Episode 4497 (26th October 1998)
- Episode 4498 (28th October 1998)
- Episode 4499 (30th October 1998)
- Episode 4516 (29th November 1998)
- Episode 4517 (30th November 1998)
- Episode 4518 (2nd December 1998)
- Episode 4519 (4th December 1998)
1999 (8 episodes)