He wrote the screenplay for the Oscar Nominated Columbia Film, "A King's Story" on the life of the Duke of Windsor Edward VIII. He was chief writer and script editor for 20th Century Fox’s most successful children’s series, "Here Come the Double Deckers". He also wrote films for the Children's Film Foundation, two of which were award winners. Jones contributed a half dozen scripts for the Children's Film Foundation series The Magnificent Six and 1/2 (1968–69), plus nine scripts for "Here Come the Double Deckers" (1970–71), on which he was also script editor, a TV series derived from the CFF films. Jones wrote an episode of "The Gold Robbers" (1969) around the same time.