Then there’s the Charles Manson mini-series. “I thought I was just going to do one episode,” says Longworth, who came to the figure of Manson through his association with Doris Day’s son Terry Melcher, the record producer and eventual target of Manson’s murder conspiracy. “Then I realised there was a really interesting story there about Hollywood decline. Manson was one of these characters who comes to California to become famous, but in the late 1960s, when Hollywood was basically falling apart.”
