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A producer is the overall manager in charge of a television production. They have near-total responsibility for the development, budget, casting, style and staging of the production although they almost always are answerable to more senior management and many of the day-to-day duties are delegated to other staffs, principally the director of a given edition or episode of the programme but also casting directors, set designers, costume and make-up designers and production managers. Their liaison with the directors or owners of a television station can often be through an executive producer. In the US, it is often the latter role that manages day-to-day production and in some UK productions, this has been a growing trend.

Coronation Street has had thirty-two individuals who have held the role of producer. Several of these people have held the position on more than one occasion and at times there has been no credited producer and in the interim the role has been carried out by the Executive Producer.

Note: Episode 3340 (3rd February 1992) had David Plowright credited in the role of producer for that one single episode. This was in line with all Granada Television programmes broadcast that day and was a last-minute amendment made by staff in a form of protest at Plowright being forced off the Granada board by new chairman Gerry Robinson. As Plowright did not actually carry out any producing duties on the programme in the strictest sense of the term, he is not included in the list below.

List of producers[]

Producer First episode Last episode Eps Running total
Stuart Latham Episode 1 (9th December 1960) Episode 59 (5th July 1961) 59 59
Derek Granger Episode 60 (10th July 1961) Episode 139 (11th April 1962) 80 80
H.V. Kershaw Episode 140 (16th April 1962) Episode 251 (8th May 1963) 112 112
Margaret Morris Episode 252 (13th May 1963) Episode 329 (5th February 1964) 78 78
Stuart Latham Episode 330 (10th February 1964) Episode 335 (26th February 1964) 6 65
Margaret Morris Episode 336 (2nd March 1964) Episode 356 (11th May 1964) 21 99
Tim Aspinall Episode 357 (13th May 1964) Episode 391 (9th September 1964) 33 33
H.V. Kershaw Episode 392 (14th September 1964) Episode 427 (13th January 1965) 36 148
Richard Everitt Episode 428 (18th January 1965) Episode 435 (10th February 1965) 8 8
H.V. Kershaw Episode 436 (15th February 1965) Episode 457 (28th April 1965) 22 170
Howard Baker Episode 458 (3rd May 1965) Episode 469 (9th June 1965) 12 12
H.V. Kershaw Episode 470 (14th June 1965) Episode 471 (16th June 1965) 2 172
Howard Baker Episode 472 (21st June 1965) Episode 481 (21st July 1965) 10 22
H.V. Kershaw (as executive producer) Episode 482 (26th July 1965) Episode 493 (1st September 1965) 12 184
Howard Baker Episode 494 (6th September 1965) Episode 527 (29th December 1965) 34 56
Peter Eckersley Episode 528 (3rd January 1966) Episode 581 (6th July 1966) 54 54
H.V. Kershaw Episode 582 (11th July 1966) Episode 595 (24th August 1966) 14 198
Margaret Morris Episode 596 (29th August 1966) Episode 599 (7th September 1966) 4 103
H.V. Kershaw Episode 600 (12th September 1966) Episode 674 (31st May 1967) 75 273
Jack Rosenthal Episode 675 (5th June 1967) Episode 724 (22nd November 1967) 50 50
Michael Cox Episode 725 (27th November 1967) Episode 756 (13th March 1968) 32 32
Richard Everitt (as executive producer) Episode 757 (18th March 1968) Episode 778 (29th May 1968) 22 30
Richard Doubleday Episode 779 (3rd June 1968) Episode 818 (23rd October 1968) 40 40
H.V. Kershaw (as executive producer) Episode 819 (28th October 1968) Episode 820 (30th October 1968) 2 275
John Finch Episode 821 (4th November 1968) Episode 854 (26th February 1969) 34 34
H.V. Kershaw (as executive producer) Episode 857 (10th March 1969) Episode 963 (18th March 1970) 109 384
June Howson Episode 964 (23rd March 1970) Episode 1017 (19th October 1970) 53 53
H.V. Kershaw (as executive producer) Episode 1018 (21st October 1970) Episode 1043 (13th January 1971) 25 409
Leslie Duxbury Episode 1044 (18th January 1971) Episode 1059 (10th March 1971) 16 16
H.V. Kershaw (as executive producer) Episode 1060 (15th March 1971) Episode 1131 (17th November 1971) 72 481
Brian Armstrong Episode 1132 (22nd November 1971) Episode 1183 (17th May 1972) 52 52
Eric Prytherch Episode 1184 (22nd May 1972) Episode 1381 (10th April 1974) 198 198
Eric Prytherch and Susi Hush Episode 1382 (15th April 1974) Episode 1385 (24th April 1974) 4 202 (Prytherch)
4 (Hush)
Susi Hush Episode 1386 (29th April 1974) Episode 1415 (7th August 1974) 30 34
Leslie Duxbury Episode 1416 (12th August 1974) Episode 1421 (28th August 1974) 6 22
Susi Hush Episode 1422 (2nd September 1974) Episode 1502 (18th June 1975) 81 111
Eric Prytherch Episode 1506 (23rd June 1975) Episode 1507 (25th June 1975) 2 204
Susi Hush Episode 1508 (30th June 1975) Episode 1527 (3rd September 1975) 20 131
Leslie Duxbury Episode 1528 (8th September 1975) Episode 1534 (29th September 1975) 7 29
Susi Hush Episode 1535 (1st October 1975) Episode 1571 (4th February 1976) 36 167
Bill Podmore Episode 1572 (9th February 1976) Episode 1585 (24th March 1976) 14 14
Susi Hush Episode 1586 (29th March 1976) Episode 1587 (31st March 1976) 2 169
Bill Podmore Episode 1588 (5th April 1976) Episode 1635 (15th September 1976) 48 62
Susi Hush Episode 1636 (20th September 1976) Episode 1637 (22nd September 1976) 2 171
Bill Podmore Episode 1638 (27th September 1976) Episode 1737 (7th September 1977) 100 162
June Howson Episode 1738 (12th September 1977) Episode 1739 (14th September 1977) 2 55
Bill Podmore Episode 1740 (19th September 1977) Episode 1743 (28th September 1977) 4 166
Leslie Duxbury Episode 1744 (3rd October 1977) Episode 1747 (12th October 1977) 4 33
Bill Podmore Episode 1748 (17th October 1977) Episode 2215 (23rd June 1982) 467 633
Bill Podmore and Pauline Shaw Episode 2216 (28th June 1982) Episode 2261 (1st December 1982) 46 689 (Podmore)
46 (Shaw)
Bill Podmore and Mervyn Watson Episode 2262 (6th December 1982) Episode 2269 (29th December 1982) 8 697 (Podmore)
8 (Watson)
Mervyn Watson Episode 2270 (3rd January 1983) Episode 2451 (26th September 1984) 182 190
John G. Temple Episode 2452 (1st October 1984) Episode 2453 (3rd October 1984) 2 2
Mervyn Watson Episode 2454 (8th October 1984) Episode 2495 (27th February 1985) 42 232
John G. Temple Episode 2496 (4th March 1985) Episode 2755 (26th August 1987) 260 262
Bill Podmore Episode 2756 (31st August 1987) Episode 2906 (1st February 1989) 151 848
Mervyn Watson Episode 2907 (6th February 1989) Episode 3327 (3rd January 1992) 421 653
Carolyn Reynolds Episode 3337 (27th January 1992) Episode 3643 (7th January 1994) 307 307
Tony Wood (Credited as "Anthony Wood") Episode 3644 (10th January 1994) Episode 3649 (21st January 1994) 6 6
Sue Pritchard Episode 3650 (24th January 1994) Episode 4159 (14th March 1997) 510 510
Brian Park Episode 4160 (16th March 1997) Episode 4519 (4th December 1998) 360 360
David Hanson Episode 4520 (6th December 1998) Episode 4702 (20th October 1999) 182 182
Jane Macnaught Episode 4703 (22nd October 1999) Episode 4915 (22nd October 2000) 214 214
Jane Macnaught (as executive producer) Episode 4916 (23rd October 2000) Episode 5228 (10th March 2002) 312 526
Kieran Roberts Episode 5229 (11th March 2002) Episode 5722 (28th March 2004) 494 494
Tony Wood Episode 5723 (29th March 2004) Episode 6226 (12th February 2006) 502 508
Steve Frost Episode 6227 (13th February 2006) Episode 6858 (11th July 2008) 594 594
Kim Crowther Episode 6859 (14th July 2008) Episode 7387 (23rd July 2010) 567 567
Phil Collinson Episode 7388 (26th July 2010) Episode 8098 (5th April 2013) 711 711
Stuart Blackburn Episode 8099 (8th April 2013) Episode 8967 (12th August 2016) 869 869
Kate Oates Episode 8968 (15th August 2016) Episode 9635 (10th December 2018) 669 669
Iain MacLeod Episode 9636 (12th December 2018) Present incumbent
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