Bill Lyons

Bill Lyons wrote 60 episodes of EastEnders between February 1985 and June 1989 and was appointed story editor in 1988, a position he remained for one consecutive year.

Bill began his career as an actor but has been writing extensively for TV and radio for over fifty years. Excluding EastEnders, he has written for some major BBC tv series - Z Cars, Angels, Doctor Who, Blake's Seven and Juliet Bravo. His ITV work includes Marked Personal and Rooms for Thames TV, Crossroads (ATV) and Emmerdale. He has contributed to Scene, Going to Work and many more BBC schools and continuing education programmes and won the 1973 Writers' Guild Award for his work in that field. He has also written scripts for Waggoners Walk and numerous single plays for BBC radio.

Episodes written by Bill Lyons

1980s

1985

1. 28 February 1985
2. 9 April 1985
3. 18 April 1985
4. 2 May 1985
5. 21 May 1985
6. 28 May 1985
7. 11 June 1985
8. 11 July 1985
9. 13 August 1985
10. 10 September 1985
11. 19 September 1985
12. 1 October 1985
13. 31 October 1985
14. 10 December 1985
15. 31 December 1985

1986

1. 2 January 1986
2. 28 January 1986
3. 11 February 1986
4. 6 March 1986
5. 8 April 1986
6. 6 May 1986
7. 5 June 1986
8. 1 July 1986
9. 7 August 1986
10. 4 September 1986
11. 18 September 1986
12. 23 September 1986
13. 9 October 1986
14. 23 October 1986
15. 13 November 1986
16. 23 December 1986

1987

1. 13 January 1987
2. 12 February 1987
3. 17 March 1987
4. 14 April 1987
5. 21 April 1987
6. 7 May 1987
7. 30 June 1987
8. 16 July 1987
9. 30 July 1987
10. 25 August 1987
11. 29 September 1987
12. 3 November 1987
13. 26 November 1987
14. 1 December 1987
15. 29 December 1987

1988

1. 5 January 1988
2. 28 January 1988
3. 3 March 1988
4. 10 May 1988
5. 16 August 1988
6. 8 September 1988
7. 13 September 1988
8. 4 October 1988
9. 8 November 1988
10. 15 December 1988

1989

1. 19 January 1989
2. 16 February 1989
3. 21 February 1989
4. 13 June 1989

Prison Storylines Segments

Between 1988-1989 episodes featured Prison Storylines segments of Den Watts in Dickens Hill Prison theses were written separated from a normal episode. All segments were written by Bill Lyons and Tony Holland.

1988

1. 13 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 15 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 20 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 22 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
5. 27 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
6. 29 September 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)

1. 4 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 6 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 11 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 13 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
5. 18 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
6. 20 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
7. 25 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
8. 27 October 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)

1. 1 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 3 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 8 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 10 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
5. 15 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
6. 17 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
7. 22 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
8. 24 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
9. 29 November 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)

1. 1 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 6 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 8 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 13 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
5. 15 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
6. 20 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
7. 22 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
8. 27 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
9. 29 December 1988 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)

1989

1. 3 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 5 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 19 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 24 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
5. 26 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
6. 31 January 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)

1. 2 February 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
2. 9 February 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
3. 14 February 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)
4. 16 February 1989 - (Co-written by Tony Holland)