The Onedin Line a slanging match between Elizabeth and Sarah, who each disparage the circumstances of the other's wedding day until Leonora intervenes to restore peace. Cyril Abraham had planned to write a whole series of novels about the Onedin Line, but he died in 1979 after completing the fifth book, "The White Ships". The story was eventually to have seen James and Elizabeth as two wizened old autocrats, both determined not to relinquish their hold on the shipping business. James would have died as a very old man, leaving the family divided over control of the company. Cyril Abraham had intended the
The Misfit (TV series) The Misfit (TV series) The Misfit was an ATV sitcom series written by Roy Clarke and was broadcast from 1970 to 1971 on ITV. Basil Allenby-Johnson ("Badger" for short) returned from a colonial life in Malaya to an England he no longer recognised. Each episode explored Badger's response to a different aspect of modern life in a Britain which had just emerged from the Swinging Sixties. The 1970 Writers Guild Award for the best writer of a British TV series went to Roy Clarke for this series. The character of Badger originated a couple of years earlier in an episode