He moved into television, first on the factual series "This Week", before acting as story consultant and contributing to multiple episodes of ITC's "Court Martial" (1966), and then joining "Danger Man" as story consultant for the last black-and-white episode (1966), then story editor for the two episodes which were made in colour (1967). Around this time he also wrote four episodes for Rediffusion's children's drama series "Send Foster" (1967), and worked on the script for Peter Yates's "Robbery" (1967), a fictionalised feature film based on the 1963 Great Train Robbery.