Other early television work included writing episodes of soap opera Compact, drama series The Saint, and Dixon of Dock Green.
Early screenplays included collaborating with Gerald Kelsey (one of the Joan and Leslie co-writers) on the 1961 comedy film The Golden Rabbit which starred Willoughby Goddard.
Set in a British consulate in an unidentified Latin American country, the series co-starred Joan Sims who had made several guest appearances for Sharples in In Loving Memory.
[3] After writing a 1990 episode of the Thames Television series The Bill, Sharples was contacted by Belgische Radio en Televisie about their proposed re-make of In Loving Memory.
Also in 1990, Sharples published another novel Soap in the Afternoon: The Secret Life of Angie St. Clair, Night Nurse Extraordinary, followed by Getting Even: The Biggest Heist in History in 2007, which is hoped to be made into a major movie.
Sharples has written other novels, Idunno Jenkins and the River of No Return, and Village in Aspic (both were published as ebooks in 2012), along with the autobiographical I Found the Time and Situation Tragedy (both from 2012).