He worked with former Python Graham Chapman writing scripts and sketches for abortive projects (among them a show for Ringo Starr which contained the germ of Starship Titanic) and with writer-producer John Lloyd (they pitched a series called Snow Seven and the White Dwarfs, a comedy about two astronomers in an observatory on Mt. Everest—“The idea for that was minimum casting, minimum set, and we’d just try to sell the series on cheapness”).
