 Kneale had returned to writing for television with the BBC for the first time since Quatermass and the Pit when his play The Road was broadcast in September 1963 . The play concerned the population of an 18th @-@ century village who become haunted by visions of a future nuclear war , and was followed by several further one @-@ off dramas for the BBC over the following decade , including two entries into BBC1 's The Wednesday Play anthology strand . During this period he was regarded as one of the finest writers working for the BBC . Kneale did his first work for the ITV network during this time , writing one @-@ off play The Crunch for the ATV company in 1964 . 
