[5] Ken's television credits include soap operas (Radio Waves, Close to Home) as well as episodes in other TV dramas such as Mortimer's Patch.
[4] He also penned Under the Mountain, an 8-episode treatment of the Maurice Gee novel, and wrote the critically well-received Hanlon, a biographical law drama.
The opening episode treating sympathetically the Minnie Dean case received positive ratings and critical reception.
[6][7] In 2004, Catran won the Esther Glen Award, presented by LIANZA, for his book, Jacko Moran, Sniper.
[16] Catran also frequently visits schools and gives advice to young writers on creating novels and short stories.