[2] Funeral Games followed the general format of the other plays by other writers in the series, in that viewers were expected to decide which virtue they were witnessing before the answer was revealed in the closing credits.

[4] The Funeral Games script eventually passed to Yorkshire Television, which produced it - along with an adaptation Entertaining Mr Sloane - as contributions to the Playhouse series.

It displays Orton's hallmarks of black humour, outrageous characters, deliberate bad taste, and surreal situations.

Cult leader, preacher, and con-artist Pringle hires thuggish criminal Caulfield to investigate an anonymous report that his wife Tess is having an affair with a defrocked Catholic priest.

Orton wrote Funeral Games in several drafts between July and November 1966, a period of intense productivity for him.