After "Rank," Richardson toured with a band in Italy and also helped run drama courses for children at his parents’ house in Devon. One of the dramas produced from these courses became a show called "The Wild Boys", based on the book by William Burroughs. Richardson performed this show at the ICA in London as well as touring the show with the group Furious Pig. Through this, Richardson first met Michael White, with whom he planned to take the show into the West End, although this came to nothing. He worked as an extra on Michael Palin's Ripping Yarns' second series in 1979, appearing as a German spy pretending to be a Cornish fisherman, in Whinfrey's Last Case.