July and August 2000 saw Bardock play the role of Danny Weir in the short-lived TV comedy Pay and Display.
His character was developed and he began a relationship with PC Honey Harman and later married her, though the marriage was short-lived after it was discovered that he had murdered his first wife.
He also appeared in Prime Suspect as the sadistic pornographer Jason Reynolds as well as the Channel 4 series No Angels, in which he played registrar Peter Compton.
Bardock re-joined the BBC television series Casualty as paramedic Jeff Collier in February 2007 for three months, before returning to the programme in September of that year.
[1] Between 31 July and 27 September 2014, he appeared in comedy play My Night With Reg at the Donmar Warehouse theatre in the West End.