He appeared in many guest roles in TV shows throughout the 1970s, including episodes of "The Professionals", "Dempsey and Makepeace" and "Bergerac" and in the films "Rosie Dixon - Night Nurse" (1978), "Lady Oscar" (1979), "Brush Strokes" and "Buster" (1988), based on the Great Train Robbery of 1963. In 1981 he had a notable role as bent DI in the ITV crime mini-series Wolcott, a performance with marked similarities to his later work in The Bill