You get to Hollywood and you are in the land of big money where they don't like to see only one screenwriter's name. It's much better if you've got four or five.

" It was also included in the British Film Institute's "TV 100" list in 2000 where it was praised for the themes and subtexts it explored. Similarly in 1995 Kneale scripted a four-part adaptation of one of Kerr's sequels to the book A Small Person Far Away but this also went unproduced.

He was most active in television joining BBC Television in 1951 ; his final script was transmitted on ITV in 1997. ". G.