Vickery’s first television play, KEEP ON RUNNING, dealt with youthful romance and sexual prejudice and appeared as part of the BBC Television Thirty Minute Theatre series. Her second BBC play, MAGNOLIA SUMMER, about civil rights workers in Mississippi, she co-wrote with Clancy Segal and starred Calvin Lockhart. Her third play, also for BBC TV, was KIPPERS AND CURTAINS.

A play commissioned by BBC television, THE CHILDRENS’ TEETH ARE SET ON EDGE, dealt with drug addicts on the streets of London. Vickery worked with the police and spent several days with the drug squad driving around various London drug haunts. After articles appeared in the press about Vickery’s research, the play was censored by the Home Office and the drug squad officers reprimanded.

Among others, she wrote the screenplay A LADY’S LIFE IN THE ROCKY MOUNTAINS, based on the letters of Isabella Bird, an Englishwoman who rode through the Colorado mountains in 1873. There she met an ex Indian Scout called Mountain Jim Nugent and together they climbed Longs Peak.
Recently she adapted her novel THE TESTIMONY OF DANIEL PAGELS for the screen.