during his career, bastable produced and presented many one-off programmes, including historical documentaries and current affairs programmes, and presented and commentated on many outside and sporting events. he presented two series of "problems" (1976-77), a programme on sexual difficulties, screened late, and with claire rayner in the first series, and jenny conway and paul brown for the entire run. for thames he presented the "drive-in" programme with shaw taylor from 1973 to 1978, and also its successor "wheels" from 1980 to 1981. in 1976 he presented "miss thames television"; he also wrote and presented "1776", the itv programme on the us bicentenary, and he provided the commentaries for the award-winning historical series "english garden", which were delivered by sir john gielgud. for nine years bastable presented the consumer protection series "money-go-round", and also presented shows such as "mind over matter", a programme he devised with kit pedler that investigated the paranormal, and the computing series "database" as well as "4 computer buffs". in addition, he was a panellist on radio shows and he narrated the channel 4 nature programme "profiles of nature".