Richard Harris (born 1934) is a prolific
British television writer, most active from the early 1960s to the mid-1990s. He writes primarily for the
crime and
detective genres, having contributed episodes of series like
The Avengers,
The Saint,
The Sweeney,
Armchair Mystery Theatre, and
Target. He has helped to create several standout programmes of the genre, including
Adam Adamant Lives!,
Man in a Suitcase, and
Shoestring. Despite a career which has been largely spent writing for the crime and detective genre, in 1994 he won the prize for best situation comedy from the
Writers' Guild of Great Britain for
Outside Edge, a programme he had originated as a
stage play. Indeed, though the majority of his work has been for television, a substantial amount of his output has been for the
stage.