The Onedin Line played "Charlotte Onedin" in "Month of the Albatross", "A Clear Conscience" and "Undercurrent". There are six novels based on the series. The first five are all by the series creator, Cyril Abraham: The books are not straightforward novelisations of the television episodes, since the author introduced additional material and also changed a number of details, though dialogue from the series that Abraham had penned himself is utilised. In print, Elizabeth's child is conceived in a private room above a restaurant, not on the "Charlotte Rhodes"; George Callon lasted considerably longer and died in bed after suffering a stroke, not in
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