 He also played Billy in the "Incident In a Small Jail" segment of the television film "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (1985), and played scheming businessman Wally Butler in the 1986 TV film "Return to Mayberry".Lineback appeared as Al LeFauve in the world premiere stage production of "Baby Dance", co-starring Linda Purl and Stephanie Zimbalist, at the Pasadena Playhouse, and was nominated for the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Best Actor for his performance.He later reprised the role at the Williamstown Theatre Festival in Massachusetts, and the Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven.