[1][2] His early work for BBC television, beginning in 1937, included a regular slot in Cecil Madden's "Picture Page", a magazine programme of general and topical interest.
[2] Morley added television drama to his responsibilities, and produced or directed abbreviated versions of plays by Shakespeare, Wilde, Ibsen, John Webster, J.B. Priestley and P.G.
[3] When BBC television returned after the war, Morley resumed his pre-war responsibilities, producing "Picture Page" and a wide range of drama, both classic, such as Pygmalion and King Lear, and modern works by Thornton Wilder, Eugene O'Neill, Luigi Pirandello, Jean Cocteau and others.
The BBC was interested in recruiting potential directors from people with a theatrical background, and among those who comprised what became known as "Morley's Army" were Kenneth Tynan, Tony Richardson and Peter Cotes.
[1] As well as his television work, Morley directed Pirandello's play, Six Characters in Search of an Author at the Arts Theatre in 1954,[8] and the 1961 cinema film, Attempt to Kill, based on an Edgar Wallace detective story.