 Brown appeared in another "Play For Today", "The Price of Coal", again directed by Ken Loach, and based on the book by Barry Hines.He then starred in Charlie and the Chocolate Factory film as a foreign reporter 

Brown starred in the short-lived Granada Television comedy series "Take My Wife" (1979) and in the same period also presented the short-lived Saturday morning children's programme "The Mersey Pirate".He had a regular role as laboratory technician Phil Strong in the popular detective series "The Enigma Files" (1980).