Barrymore returned to Los Angeles. He announced he made 16 films abroad but "I'm not going to do anything bad any more. I feel I'm straightened out and down the block. Somewhere around the block I lost half my ego, so I don't work for applause." He also said he had started to write scripts. He guest starred on episodes of various television series, including "Gunsmoke", "Rawhide", "Run for Your Life", "Jericho", and "Dundee and the Culhane", and appeared in the 1967 television film "Winchester '73".