From 1972, he was one of the main performers in the television series "Who Do You Do?" and a regular on the TV panel show "Jokers Wild". A first attempt at his own series, "Ready Freddie Starr" (1974), was reduced to a single special programme because Starr had disputes with the production team at London Weekend Television (LWT). He later starred in his own BBC series in 1976. His wit, wrote Mark Lawson, "relied on broad punchlines and silly slapstick". Stuart Jeffries in his "Guardian" obituary of Starr wrote that his act was "pre-cerebral, unrepentantly sexist, often racist comedy that was rendered overwhelmingly obsolete by the late 1980s".