Pickrell worked as set designer on the comedy 1941 (1979, with fellow set designer William Ladd Skinner), the comedy Nine to Five (1980), the drama Cannery Row (1982), the comedy My Favorite Year (1982), the comedy The Toy (1982), the science fiction film Twilight Zone: The Movie (1983), the action film Against All Odds (1984, costume design by Michael Kaplan), and the science fiction film 2010 (1984, with makeup supervisor Michael Westmore).