 While Wood remained active in the theatre, a string of television dramas followed in the 1970s.The first of these was also perhaps the strangest.The Emergence of Anthony Purdy Esq, Farmer’s Labourer was an experimental piece starring Freddie Jones and Judy Matheson, about which little else is known, bar that it was made by Harlech, the ITV company for the South Wales and Western England region, and was ITV’s drama entry at the Monte Carlo TV festival.27 It was not widely networked, which is perhaps unsurprising in light of the comment by The Guardian’s critic Nancy Banks-Smith that it was “completely incomprehensible to anyone east of Somerset”28 
Because Wood lived in Bristol as his writing career was starting, many of his early works were written about Bristol and also staged there.