 After spending six months in the Broadway production of Arnold Wesker's "Chips with Everything", Noakes moved back to the UK to work in rep in Surrey where he met his wife-to-be, Vicky.Noakes recreated his role as Whitey Richardson in the 1963 BBC television adaptation of "Chips with Everything".He followed this with the role of Anselme Popinot in mini-series "The Rise and Fall of César Birotteau" on BBC2, a four-part dramatisation broadcast in June 1965.