Michael Beckham (27th April 1938 - 23rd March 2017) directed 34 episodes of Coronation Street between September 1963 and August 1965. After university, he worked for Granada Television for twenty-five years but his main contribution to the output of the company was in the field of current affairs and documentaries. He directed and produced eighty editions of World in Action, Charter 77, Television, Disappearing World and Who Bombed Birmingham. After turning freelance, he continued to produce and direct series such as Undercover Britain, To the Ends of the Earth, Danube Blues, War in the Falklands, Secrets of the Parthenon. Attack on the USS Cole and The Hunt for Adolf Eichmann.
He won various awards for his work including the Royal Television Society, Emmy and three gold medals from the New York Film Festival.
Episodes directed by Michael Beckham[]
1963 (10 episodes)
- Episode 292 (30th September 1963)
- Episode 293 (2nd October 1963)
- Episode 298 (21st October 1963)
- Episode 299 (23rd October 1963)
- Episode 304 (11th November 1963)
- Episode 305 (13th November 1963)
- Episode 310 (2nd December 1963)
- Episode 311 (4th December 1963)
- Episode 316 (23rd December 1963)
- Episode 317 (25th December 1963)
1964 (20 episodes)
- Episode 322 (13th January 1964)
- Episode 323 (15th January 1964)
- Episode 328 (3rd February 1964)
- Episode 329 (5th February 1964)
- Episode 334 (24th February 1964)
- Episode 335 (26th February 1964)
- Episode 340 (16th March 1964)
- Episode 341 (18th March 1964)
- Episode 346 (6th April 1964)
- Episode 347 (8th April 1964)
- Episode 352 (27th April 1964)
- Episode 353 (29th April 1964)
- Episode 358 (18th May 1964)
- Episode 359 (20th May 1964)
- Episode 364 (8th June 1964)
- Episode 365 (10th June 1964)
- Episode 370 (29th June 1964)
- Episode 371 (8th July 1964)
- Episode 382 (10th August 1964)
- Episode 383 (12th August 1964)
1965 (4 episodes)