[1] At the start of his career, Free wrote for the theatre, notably Hamlet in Shadow, which was performed in Sydney in 1954 with a cast featuring Moya O'Sullivan.
[4] He was most frequently associated with ABC-TV where he developed the original treatment for the popular soap opera Bellbird, created the adventure series Delta, and served as script editor on the historical miniseries Rush and Ben Hall.
Leslie Rees called him: An author of remarkable facility and flexibility of mind" who in his stage plays "showed a rich gift for words in dramatic and lyrical contiguity, a derisive sense of characterization, a volatile and inventive calling-up of scene both past and present, and what Alexander Archdale described as “‘Pirandellian ingenuity”—all this without quite being able to draw his reins together and spin the horse past the winning-post, meanwhile murmuring in its ear something really striking.
Similar qualities of flair, energy, but inadequate clearness of line marked some of Free’s ever-ranging, elusive contributions to a further A.B.C.
series, Delta, illustrating the investigations of a young group of itinerant scientists into dubious practices around the countryside.