Eric Chappell
Eric Chappell (born 1933, Grantham, Lincolnshire) is an English comedy writer who wrote and co-wrote a number of the UK's biggest sitcom hits during the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s. His successes include The Squirrels, Rising Damp, Only When I Laugh, The Bounder, Duty Free, Singles, Haggard, Home to Roost and Fiddlers Three.

He also wrote the stage plays The Banana Box (later turned into the sitcom Rising Damp); Only When I Laugh (based on the earlier sitcom); Natural Causes; Theft and Dead Reckoning.

External links
 Eric Chappell Productions website
 Detailed biography at official Rising Damp web site