Alongside his success with Benny Hill, he contributed to sketch-based programmes such as "The Ted Ray Show" (1955–59), and "Great Scott - It's Maynard!" (starring the comedy duo Terry Scott and Bill Maynard, 1955–56). In 1955 he joined Associated London Scripts, an agency representing the leading comedy and television writers of the 1950s and 1960s. There he teamed up with John Junkin and Terry Nation to write two series for Elsie and Doris Waters, Gert and Daisy. He then went on to contribute sketches to Spike Milligan's "The Idiot Weekly, Price 2d" (1956) starring Peter Sellers, the first successful attempt to transform the comedy of "The Goon Show" from radio to television.