 Burgess was co-writer of the script for the TV series "Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson" (1980).The film treatments he produced include "Amundsen", "Attila", "The Black Prince", "Cyrus the Great", "Dawn Chorus", "The Dirty Tricks of Bertoldo", "Eternal Life", "Onassis", "Puma", "Samson and Delilah", "Schreber", "The Sexual Habits of the English Middle Class", "Shah", "That Man Freud" and "Uncle Ludwig".Burgess devised a Stone Age language for "La Guerre du Feu" ("Quest for Fire"; Jean-Jacques Annaud, 1981).