John Barrett Filmes

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)...

Following a nervous breakdown, Gwen takes up the job of head teacher in the small village of Haddaby. There she can benefit from the tranquillity and...

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

Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.

A serial killer is murdering women in the Whitechapel district of London. An American policeman is brought in to help Scotland Yard solve the case.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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

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...

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...

An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel

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

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

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

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...

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

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