He returned to acting in 1981 with the publication of his autobiography "Sparks Fly Upward", claiming he was bored. Granger spent the last decade of his life appearing on stage and television including playing Prince Philip in "The Royal Romance of Charles and Diana" (1982), a guest role in the TV series in "The Fall Guy" starring Lee Majors, and as a suspect in "Murder She Wrote" in 1985. He even starred in a German soap-opera titled "Das Erbe der Guldenburgs" (The Guldenburg Heritage) (1987).