 On return to the UK, from 1948 he attended the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art, but drifted through a number of different jobs, never really finding his niche.In 1957 he was appointed a stage manager with Associated-Rediffusion, which then held the ITV franchise for London.Attached to the children's programming section, he thought he could do better with the relatively low budgets of the then black and white television productions.