 After "Cop Shop" ended Orcsik worked as a television scriptwriter, contributing several scripts to the series "Prisoner".He also continued acting and through the 1980s played several roles in television movies and miniseries, including "Harvest of Hate" (1979), "The Hijacking of the Achille Lauro" (1989), "Displaced Persons" (1984), "Dadah Is Death" (1988), "Kokoda Crescent" (1989).Other roles of the 1980s include an appearance in television series "" (1988), and the film "The Edge of Power" (1987).