John Barrett Movies

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,...

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...

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

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...

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...

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.

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

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

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

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)...

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...

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

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...

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 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...

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

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...

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel