Ian Barry (Director)
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Works
Thrills and Nuclear Spills: The Making of 'The Chain Reaction'
Release Date2005-08-24
Charactersd Self
The Flying Doctors
The Flying Doctors is an Australian drama series produced by Crawford Productions that revolved around the everyday lifesaving efforts of the real Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia. It was initially a 1985 mini-series based in the fictional outback town of Cooper's Crossing starring Andrew McFarlane as the newly arrived Dr. Tom Callaghan. The success of the mini series led to its return the following year as an on-going series with McFarlane being joined by a new doctor, Chris Randall, played by Liz Burch. McFarlane left during the first season and actor Robert Grubb came in as new doctor Geoff Standish. The series' episodes were mostly self-contained but also featured ongoing storylines, such as Dr. Standish's romance with Sister Kate Wellings. Other major characters included pilot Sam Patterson, mechanic Emma Plimpton, local policeman Sgt. Jack Carruthers and Vic and Nancy Buckley, who ran the local pub/hotel, The Majestic. Andrew McFarlane also later returned to the series, resuming his role as Dr. Callaghan. The popular series ran for nine seasons and was successfully screened internationally.
Release Date1986-05-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count14
Farscape
A freak accident during an experimental space mission catapults Astronaut John Crichton across a thousand galaxies to an alien battlefield.
Release Date1999-03-19
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count549
The Doctor Blake Mysteries
Dr Lucien Blake left Ballarat as a young man. But now he finds himself returning to take over not only his dead father's medical practice, but also his on-call role as the town's police surgeon, only to find change is afoot, nothing is sacred, and no one is safe.
Release Date2013-02-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count45
Police Rescue
Police Rescue was an Australian television series The series dealt with the New South Wales Police Rescue Squad based in Sydney and their work attending to various incidents from road accidents to train crashes.
Release Date1991-02-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count11
Early Edition
Gary Hobson thinks he may even be losing his mind when tomorrow's newspaper mysteriously arrives today giving him a disconcerting look into the future. What will he do with tomorrow's news?
Release Date1996-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count151
Rescue: Special Ops
Rescue: Special Ops is an Australian television drama series that first screened on the Nine Network in 2009. Filmed in and around Sydney, the program is produced by Southern Star Group with the assistance of Screen Australia and the New South Wales Government. This drama series focuses on a team of experienced professional paramedics who specialise in rescue operations. It premiered on Sunday 2 August 2009, and the season finale of the first season aired on Sunday 25 October. A second season screened from 28 June 2010. The third and final season consisting of 22 episodes screened from 30 May 2011. The Nine Network has confirmed it will not be renewing Rescue Special Ops for a fourth season.
Release Date2009-08-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count10
Vote Count11
The Invisible Man
The Invisible Man is a Sci-Fi American television series starring Vincent Ventresca, Paul Ben-Victor, Eddie Jones, Shannon Kenny and Michael McCafferty. Somewhat more successful than previous television series involving invisible secret agents, it aired from June 9, 2000 to February 1, 2002, lasting two seasons. The plot revolves around Darien Fawkes, a thief facing life imprisonment who was recruited by a low-rent spy organization and given the power of invisibility via implantation of a special "Quicksilver gland" in his head. The gland allows Fawkes to secrete a light-bending substance called "Quicksilver" from his pores and follicles. The substance quickly coats his skin, hair, nails and clothes and renders him invisible. He can consciously release the Quicksilver, which then flakes off and disintegrates. However, the Quicksilver gland was sabotaged at its creation by scientist Arnaud DeFehrn to release a neurotoxin that accumulates in the bloodstream and causes intense pain, followed by antisocial behavior and psychosis. The host requires regular doses of "counteragent" to keep him sane and healthy, which is controlled by said government agency. This series lasted for two seasons, before being cancelled due to cost issues and internal bickering between the Sci Fi Channel and its then-parent company, USA Networks. The show's first season ran concurrently in first-run syndication as well as on Sci Fi.
Release Date2000-06-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count51
Sea Patrol
Sea Patrol is an Australian television drama set on board HMAS Hammersley, a fictional patrol boat of the Royal Australian Navy. The series focuses on the ship and the lives of its crew members.
Release Date2007-07-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count14
Vote Count22
Time Trax
Time Trax is an American/Australian co-produced science fiction television series that first aired in 1993. A police officer, sent through time into the past, has to track down and return convicted criminals who have escaped prison in the future. This was the last new production from Lorimar Television.
Release Date1993-01-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count1
Vote Count28
The Strip
The Strip is an Australian television drama series that screened on the Nine Network. The series premiered on the Nine Network at 8:30pm on 4 September 2008 but was moved to a later 10:30pm timeslot from 13 November 2008. The show did not return for a second season, due to disappointing ratings. The Strip was released on DVD on 4 July 2009.
Release Date2008-09-04
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count3
Bodysurfer
Bodysurfer charts the odyssey of David Lang. Searching beyond mid-life crisis, David finds unanswered questions of his childhood can lead him toward a state of maturity. He realises it is his last hope for reconstructing his fractured family
Release Date1989-08-09
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Ring of Scorpio
Three women plot revenge against a drug dealer who scammed them into working in his operations.
Release Date1991-04-24
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Episode Count2
Vote Count2
Stone
After one of its members witnesses a political assassination, an outlaw motorbike gang becomes the target of a string of murders, prompting a cop to join their ranks to determine who is responsible.
Release Date1974-01-02
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Vote Count36
Joey
Billy is a boy who is trying to save a baby kangaroo called Joey when it is caught and taken to Sydney. Linda, the young daughter of the U.S. Ambassador is helping Billy in his task.
Release Date1997-12-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
The Chain Reaction
Contaminated by a nuclear-plant spill, an Australian worker hides with a woman and tries to warn the public.
Release Date1980-09-25
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count51
The Diamond of Jeru
Based on Louis L'Amour novel, The Diamond of Jeru tells the story of an American scientist and his wife who hire an ex-pat war veteren to act as a guide on a journey up an unchartered Borneo river in search of diamonds.
Release Date2001-11-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count8
Hostage
Set in 1980's Australia, this is the true story of a woman whose husband eventually reveals to her that he is an active member of the Nazi party. A real nightmare begins for her.
Release Date1983-05-03
DepartmentWriting
JobScript Consultant
Vote Count11
Minnamurra
Underrated leading man Jeff Fahey carries most of the dramatic weight of the Australian Wrangler. Fahey plays a handsome, athletic businessman who vies for the hand of rancher's daughter Tushika Bergen. Our hero must not only contend with his romantic rival, a dashing but dangerous cattleman, but also with a villainous creditor who craves the land left to Bergen by her late father. By nature of its plotline and setting, Wrangler can't help but invite comparisons to the popular The Man From Snowy River. Still, the stars and director Ian Barry keep up the appearances of freshness and originality
Release Date1989-08-17
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count7
The Blake Mysteries: Ghost Stories
Follows Jean Blake as she takes on the mantle of her husband, police surgeon Lucien Blake, as a solver of mysteries following his disappearance 18 months after their marriage.
Release Date2018-11-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Inferno
When a huge fireball hurtles towards the Earth the authorities have only hours to react before temperatures soar beyond human tolerance.
Release Date1998-10-29
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count6
CrimeBroker
High court judge Holly McPhee devises blueprints for criminal operations and offers them for sale to the crime world. Her scrupulous operation falls apart when she takes part in a multi-million dollar bank robbery and becomes an accessory to murder.
Release Date1993-07-01
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Doctor Blake Mysteries: Family Portrait
Three murders, two weddings and a funeral... life's never been straightforward for Doctor Lucien Blake and Jean. So why would anything change now?
Release Date2017-11-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count9
Secret Santa
Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she accepts again to be the bachelor on duty in the Christmas season, and write the annual romantic non-news feel good-story, once more about the elusive Secret Santa in small-town Hamden, where the Christmas spirit it said to last all year. Bad luck follows her from Indianapolis: her car breaks down, she can only get lodgings in a home for the elderly without Internet, and nobody wants to help her unmask the secret Santa. Soon she guesses it must be the only rich philanthropist, but the popular Mr. John Martin Carter doesn't grant her an interview and isn't tricked either, in fact meets her at the worst repeatedly without her knowing him...
Release Date2003-12-14
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Mermaids
Mermaid sisters hunt down their father's human killer... and deal with their own personal relationships with the humans.
Release Date2003-11-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count22
Robo Warriors
The year is 2036 and Earth has been invaded: hope lies with the last Robo Warrior - a towering fighting machine.
Release Date1997-01-15
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count14
Going Home
A daughter must choose between her career as a book editor at a high powered New York firm, or return home to care for her aging father whose mental state is deteriorating.
Release Date2000-03-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count3
The Seventh Floor
Kate Fletcher has the perfect apartment. Everything is computer controlled. It is the home of her dreams until a psychotic man begins to execute the violent orders he hears from his long dead sister.
Release Date1994-09-30
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count2
The Christmas Secret
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas.
Release Date2000-12-12
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count13
Cody: A Family Affair
Cody and Fiorelli try to catch diamond smugglers, but the gems are not where they were supposed to be. Cody embarks to infiltrate the dealers who brought the diamonds in from South Africa. He also searches for a missing teenager.
Release Date1994-06-05
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
The Christmas Wish
Returning to his home town after the death of the grandfather who raised him, slick and cynical Wall Street trader Will Martin feels decidedly out of place, and not at all in tune with the Christmas preparations being made by the local citizenry. But Will isn't really taking a sentimental journey at all: He's merely in town to modernize and streamline his family's real-estate company. While going through his grandfather's effects, Will and his grandmother come across the old man's diary--which reveals a lengthy relationship with a woman named Lillian.
Release Date1998-12-06
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count17
Tapak Dewata - Path of the Gods: Java and Bali
A 1979 documentary on Java and Bali, written and directed by Phillip Noyce. The end credits say this film was produced for QANTAS Airways, which suggests it was used as some sort of promotional piece for travel to these particular locations.
Release Date1978-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Airtight
Set in the nuclear war-torn world of 2040, a congested city is shrouded in a deadly smog, where breathable air is obtainable only through labyrinth shafts that transport the precious gas from high in the atmosphere. These passages are kept functioning by an elite 'Air Force'. The team risk annihilation to expose a deadly blackmail scheme.
Release Date1999-11-26
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count5
The Sparks Obituary
Release Date1978-01-02
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Blackwater Trail
A US criminal profiler (of sorts) is sent over to Queensland to help catch a serial slayer, who leaves biblical scriptures behind at the scene of his crimes.
Release Date1997-05-20
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Miss Lettie and Me
Life does a 180-degree turn for bitter spinster Lettie (Mary Tyler Moore) when she takes in her 9-year-old grandniece, Travis (Holliston Coleman), in this Emmy Award-winning movie. Confused by her aunt's cold treatment, Travis attempts to uncover the reason for Lettie's self-imposed seclusion by befriending farmhand Isaiah (Charles Robinson) and Lettie's former beau Sam (Burt Reynolds). Can the three reawaken Lettie's long-gone love of life?
Release Date2002-12-08
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector
Vote Count4
Ghan to Alice
A father and son, both rodeo riders, travel by train from Marree in South Australia to the Alice Springs Rodeo, in the Northern Territory. They travel on a unique railway - The Ghan - which runs through the heart of Australia. It's an overnight trip through spectacular country, pausing briefly at towns along the way, as the men look forward to their final destination, a bull-riding contest between the best rough-riders in the region.
Release Date1978-01-01
DepartmentEditing
JobEditor
Whose Baby
The story about a baby swap in 1945.
Release Date1986-09-28
DepartmentDirecting
JobDirector