for Lydia and Play of the Month: The Chester Mystery Plays (1976). In 1978 Haggard was hired by producer Kenith Trodd to direct Dennis Potter's BBC drama serial Pennies from Heaven which received a BAFTA.. The following year he directed the science-fiction serial Quatermass, a Euston Films production for Thames Television, which was shown on the ITV network. Returning to the National Theatre in 1981, he directed Tom Taylor’s play, The Ticket-of-Leave Man and the next year, at the Piccadilly Theatre, directed the Norwegian ‘opera-musical’ Which Witch, for which he worked on the libretto. For television, he directed two Alan Bennett plays Marks and Rolling Home (1982), Treasure Island (1985), Dennis Potter's Visitors (1987), and Jack Rosenthal’s Eskimo Day (1996) and Cold Enough for Snow (1997). In 1966, Haggard began his film career working as an interpreter for Michelangelo Antonioni on the British-Italian film Blowup. His feature film debut was Wedding Night (1970). The producers of The Blood on Satan's Claw (1970) attended a screening of Wedding Night and offered the job of director to him. the cinema version of Quatermass (1980); Summer Story (1988); The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu (1980), Peter Sellers' last film; and Venom (1982). Haggard's audio commentary on Venom is well known for its forthrightness, and some hilarious anecdotes on the competitive antics of stars Oliver Reed and Klaus Kinski. Later television work included Mrs Reinhardt (1986); a number of US TV Specials with stars such as Liza Minnelli, Cheryl Ladd, and Judge Reinholdt; the Gerry Anderson science-fiction series Space Precinct (1994); and various one-off TV dramas such as The Hunt (2001). The Canadian prairies-set Conquest (1998) was his last feature film. He directed Academy Award winners Vanessa Redgrave and Maximilian Schell in the 2006 mini-series The Shell Seekers. Haggard campaigned for directors' rights. He was president of The Association of Directors and Producers in 1976; he founded and was first chairman of the Directors Guild of Great Britain (DGGB), formed in 1982 at a meeting of over a hundred film, theatre, and television directors at Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in London. He started the Directors’ and Producers' Rights Society (DPRS, 1987), serving on its board for 20 years, until it transmuted in 2007 into Directors UK, where he served on the board until 2017. He was also vice president and chairman of FERA, the Association of European film directors, from 2010 to 2013.