In addition to writing several segments of Inspector Morse (1987), he also appeared (as an uncredited extra) in most of these stories, as did the series' original creator, Colin Dexter.
With Ray Davies of The Kinks, co-wrote the teleplay "Arthur, or the Decline
and Fall of the British Empire" for Granada TV. It was never produced,
but the Kinks album that came out of it is regarded as one of the
group's finest.