Movies by Barry Shear

Short Walk to Daylight

Short Walk to Daylight

Eight people have to find their way out of a New York subway after being trapped following an earthquake.

Around the World with Nellie Bly

Around the World with Nellie Bly

Made-for-TV musical inspired by the real-life travels of a celebrated 1800s female newspaper columnist.

Punch and Jody

Punch and Jody

When a woman dies in a car accident, her former husband (a traveling circus worker) learns that his wife was pregnant when she divorced him many years earlier. The now teen-aged daughter enters his life. Can they form a relationship?

Starsky & Hutch

Starsky & Hutch

A young couple in a car exactly like Starsky's is killed by hitmen and word is out on the street that there's a contract out on Starsky and Hutch. This is a TV-pilot that was an ABC Movie of the Week and later turned into the TV-series.

Strike Force

Strike Force

A New York City detective teams up with a federal agent and a state trooper to bust up a drug ring.

The Billion Dollar Threat

The Billion Dollar Threat

A James Bondish superspy is assigned to thwart the devious plans of a master agent who is threatening to destroy the planet unless he is paid one billion dollars within 48 hours.

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

The Day They Hanged Kid Curry

Hayes visits con-artist Silky O'Sullivan at his San Francisco mansion and discovers that Kid Curry is on trial for murder in Colorado. Heyes rushes to the town and sees Curry in the audience; the man on trial is an impostor who didn't commit the murder he's accused of. Originally a longer duration episode of the TV series Alias Smith and Jones (1971). It occasionally appeared in syndication as a TV movie, under its own name, with the series title bluntly edited out of the regular series' opening credits.

The Karate Killers

The Karate Killers

International spies Napoleon Solo (Robert Vaughn) and Illya Kuryakin (David McCallum) travel around the globe in an effort to track down a secret formula that was divided into four parts and left by a dying scientist with his four of five daughters, all of whom live in different countries. His widow, Amanda, is murdered at the beginning by the counter-spies of the organization THRUSH. Evil THRUSH agent Randolph also wants the formula, and is aided by his karate-chopping henchmen.

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Ellery Queen: Don't Look Behind You

Detective Ellery Queen has to solve a series of murders where the victims were killed in numerically descending ages, the male victims were strangled with blue cords and the female victims with pink ones.

Night Gallery

Night Gallery

This anthology telefilm aired on NBC on November 8, 1969, and tells three strange tales: "The Cemetery," directed by Boris Sagal; "Eyes," directed by Steven Spielberg; and "The Escape Route," directed by Barry Shear. This film also served as a backdoor pilot for the TV series of the same name, which premiered on December 16, 1970.

Jarrett

Jarrett

A private investigator specializing in fine arts tries to track down some missing rare Biblical scrolls.