Career
He also directed the direct to video Doctor Who spin-off Downtime in 1995. Barry"s work on Doctor Who covered the longest span of any director during the original run of the series, having overseen episodes from 1963 until 1979. Among Barry"s other television credits were episodes of Compact (1962), Paul Temple (1970-1971), Z-Cars (1971-1978), Poldark (1975), The Onedin Lincolnshire (1977), All Creatures Great and Small (1978-1980), Juliet Bravo (1980) and Dramarama (1983).
His other science-fiction credits were for Out of the Unknown (1969), Moonbase 3 (1973) and The Tripods (1984).
He appeared in a feature covering his life"s work on the Digital Video Disc release of the Doctor Who serial The Creature from the Pit, released in May 2010. Barry lived in Oxfordshire in his retirement.
He died following an escalator fall in a shopping centre in Banbury on 7 February 2014. An inquest into his death is due to be held on 5 June 2014.
The Daleks – episodes 1, 2, 4 and 5 (1963-1964)
The Rescue (1965)
The Romans (1965)
The Savages (1966)
The Power of the Daleks (1966)
The Dæmons (1971)
The Mutants (1972)
Robot (1974)
The Brain of Morbius (1976)
The Creature from the Pit (1979)
Downtime (1995).