John Barrett Movies

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,...

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...

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...

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

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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

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...

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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...

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...

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

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)...

1977: Edgar Parker is about to emigrate to Canada. His wife wants him to stay in London for the Jubilee celebrations.

When Eli and Nellie Pledge's father dies, the duo are left in charge of his pickle empire. The two siblings are complete opposites and Eli wants out,...