 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.Darlow also directed a stage production of "Look Back in Anger at the Derby Playhouse".He directed two episodes of the comprehensive 26-part documentary series "The World at War" (1974), narrated by Laurence Olivier and produced by Thames Television.