John Barrett Movies

Times are hard for habitual guest of Her Majesty Norman Stanley Fletcher. The new prison officer, Beale, makes MacKay look soft and what's more, an...

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...

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...

Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.

A Scotland Yard detective is investigating a string of robberies and a murder, and the information he uncovers leads him to the estate of a wealthy...

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...

A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.

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

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

Episode of The Frighteners: It was meant to be a great day out for three veterans and the male nurse. But their uneasy friendship soon became savage...

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...

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

A megalomaniac dictator, in charge of a former colony, installs a nuclear bomb in its London Embassy. He threatens to set it off, unless a huge...

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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...

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

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...

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

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

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