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In 1969 Barker was able to produce the film Futtocks End which featured no dialogue and only " grumble and grunt "; Barker played General Futtock in the film and also wrote it.

The Ronnie Barker Playhouse had been designed to find a successful idea for a sitcom, and the episode " Ah, There You Are " by Alun Owen, which introduced the bumbling aristocratic character Lord Rustless, was chosen.

The character returned for the 1969-1970 series Hark at Barker as the main character ; Barker wrote for the show under the name Jonathan Cobbald.

As Wiley he wrote the 1971 series Six Dates with Barker.

Despite Barker's success on ITV, LWT's programme controller Stella Richman opted to fire Frost's company Paradine and as Barker was contracted to the company rather than the network, he lost his job, as did Corbett.