Morse's first television series was "Presenting Barry Morse", which aired for 13 weeks in the summer of 1960 on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Some of his best-known television roles included: Lt Philip Gerard on the 1960s series "The Fugitive" with David Janssen; Prof. Victor Bergman in the 1975-76 season of "Space: 1999" with Martin Landau, Barbara Bain, and Zienia Merton; Mr Parminter in "The Adventurer" with Gene Barry; and Alec "the Tiger" Marlowe in "The Zoo Gang" with Sir John Mills, Lilli Palmer, and Brian Keith. In 1982, he played the Reaganesque U.S. President Johnny Cyclops in the satirical sitcom "Whoops Apocalypse" in the UK and hosted the series "Strange But True" for the Global and the BBC.