After completing his education at Marist Brothers College in Randwick, Roberts worked in advertising and sales promotion before commencing his career as a freelance writer for television and film.
Ted Roberts began his career in television in the 1960s, writing early episodes of Skippy the Bush Kangaroo.
"[1] He won four Australian Awgies and a Henry Lawson Festival Award for his writing, and received AFI and Logie nominations.
He won the 1974 Australian Writers' Guild in the Original Television Drama Category for Three Men of the City.
In come the dollars and in come the cents To replace the pounds and the shillings and the pence Be prepared for change when the coins begin to mix On the fourteenth of February 1966.