He appeared in Jack Rosenthal's "Another Sunday and Sweet F.A." (1972), which was part of Granada Television's "Sunday Night Theatre" series. He also appeared in the film "For the Love of Ada" (also 1972), the big screen spin-off of the television series of the same name. He worked alongside his sister (Perrie) again, in Colin Welland's factory drama "Leeds United" (1974) in the BBC's "Play For Today" series. Brown appeared in another "Play For Today", "The Price of Coal", again directed by Ken Loach, and based on the book by Barry Hines.