 He later recalled that a Johnny Cash concert in San Diego “felt like a neo-Nazi racist rally.” After filming the Cash documentary, he parted ways with Granada Films owing to creative differences, although he would later work again with the company on individual projects.In the 1960s he also directed episodes of the TV series Coronation Street.During the early 1970s he directed "The Hero of My Life", a TV movie about Charles Dickens, as well as TV documentaries about filmmakers Denis Mitchell and François Truffaut and the painter J. M. W. Turner.