An early opponent of the 'Clean-Up TV' founder Mary Whitehouse, Turner interrupted the initial meeting at Birmingham Town Hall in April 1964 as an audience member.
[4] In Swizzlewick (BBC 1964), a twice weekly comedy drama he created, Turner wrote a series' episode featuring possibly the earliest parody of the morality campaigner.
[5] Critic John Russell Taylor thought Turner had "revivified the Jonsonian [Ben Jonson's] comedy of humours".
A five-part version of Germinal, from the 1885 novel by Émile Zola, was transmitted early in 1970 and The Roads to Freedom (also 1970) was a thirteen-part adaptation of the novel of that name by Jean-Paul Sartre.
[7] He also wrote versions of Stella Gibbons' Cold Comfort Farm (1968) based on her comic classic and North and South (1975) from the 1855 novel by Elizabeth Gaskell.