John Barrett Movies

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...

A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.

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

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)...

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

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

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...

Jimmy Jewel and Hylda Baker star in this big screen spin-off of one of ITV's most popular comedy series of all time. When the father of Eli and...

Two kids with martial arts training and their black belt father rescue a professor from gangsters who want a stone tablet that she has discovered may...

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

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

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

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.

Liftchick has a problem. As beadle to the synagogue he is responsible for getting ten men together to say Kaddish, but it is holiday-time and the...

Eric Olthwaite is so boring that his family all leave home to escape him. Then one day he is accidentally caught up in a bank robbery and discovers...

When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to...

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

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