John Barrett Movies

The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife)...

Based on James Herriot's books about life as a 1930s veterinarian in Yorkshire, John Alderson plays the kindly doctor who ministers to animals in...

An elderly recluse dies in the process of changing her will. The change would have meant that the servants would continue to live in her house - now...

A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.

Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...

A tough young girl lives with her aging grandfather near a cove on the coast of Cornwall. She supports herself and him by gathering seaweed to sell...

Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.

Grand Challenge pie-eating contest : ' Winner finishes most whole pies off the belt in half-an-hour. Ties decided on a raw cabbage '. The Bedworth...

In Imperial Russia, Anna, wife of the officer Karenin, goes to Moscow to visit her brother. On the way, she meets charming cavalry officer Vronsky,...

A group of Devonport-based Royal Navy ratings, due to sail to America for a six-month NATO exercise, go out on the town on their last night in port,...

An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.

Two incidents in a young actress's life have their effect on each other - a dinner date with a film producer, and attendance at the funeral of a...

Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.

A man abducts a boy after his son is taken from him by social services.

An old man travels to London from the North Country, accompanied by his son, in order to find the truth about his daughter's suicide.

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when...

Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship.

Mr Wyman is an elderly man whose increasingly unreliable memory has landed him in a geriatric ward. Here he is visited by his daughters Val and...

Wally, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel