Rochdale born John Barrett was a veteran of over 100 films and various TV programmes in a career that stretched twenty five years from 1958 to his death in 1983.
Movies1 1979 HD
Comedians is a TV movie/play by Trevor Griffiths, set in a Manchester evening class for aspiring working-class comedians.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Bill Fraser
Movies6 1976 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Alderton
Movies6.708 1979 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Ronnie Barker
Movies6.5 1961 HD
Anna, the wife of government minister Alexis Karenin, visits Moscow to help straighten out a family quarrel. There, Count Alexis Vronsky falls in...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Claire Bloom
Movies4.8 1982 HD
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,...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Gary Oldman
Movies6.866 1967 HD
Bathsheba Everdine, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and becomes romantically involved with three widely...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julie Christie
Movies6.43 1981 HD
In this story-within-a-story, Anna is an actress starring opposite Mike in a period piece about the forbidden love between their respective...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Meryl Streep
Movies1 1970 HD
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)...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Ray Davies
Movies6 1966 HD
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...
Genre: Horror
Cast: Joan Fontaine
Movies1 1974 HD
Three children rejuvenate an old traction engine and enter it for the County Championship.
Genre: Family
Cast: Kay Humblestone
Movies1 1975 HD
When Lady Sheila Boothroyd hears that the planning authorities are determined to drive a road through her grounds, she announces her intention to...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Roland Culver
Movies6.9 1972 HD
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...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Hylda Baker
Movies5.9 1959 HD
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.
Genre: Mystery
Cast: Lee Patterson
Movies5.625 1982 HD
In 1905, after 10 years of missionary work in Africa, the Rev. Charles Fortesque is recalled to England, where his bishop gives him his new...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Michael Palin
Movies4.857 1965 HD
A chance discovery leads American mining engineer Ben Harris and acquaintance Harold to discover a lost city under the sea while searching for their...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Vincent Price
Movies6.5 1966 HD
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...
Genre: Crime
Cast: Stewart Granger
Movies7.009 1979 HD
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Nastassja Kinski
Movies3.8 1972 HD
A funny thing happened to Lurkalot, serf to Sir Coward de Custard, on the way to Custard Castle. Lurkalot sells lusty love potions and rusty chastity...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Frankie Howerd
Movies6.3 1976 HD
Robin Hood, aging none too gracefully, returns exhausted from the Crusades to woo and win Maid Marian one last time.
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Sean Connery
Movies6.591 1976 HD
When the Nazi high command learns in late 1943 that Winston Churchill will be spending time at a country estate in Norfolk, it hatches an audacious...
Genre: Adventure
Cast: Michael Caine
Movies6.796 1973 HD
This sprawling, surrealist comedy serves as an allegory for the pitfalls of capitalism, as it follows the adventures of a young coffee salesman in...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Malcolm McDowell
Movies6.981 1960 HD
A 22-year-old factory worker lets loose on the weekends: drinking, brawling, and dating two women, one of whom is older and married.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Albert Finney
Movies1 1974 HD
An adaptation of Winifred Holtby's classic novel
Genre:
Cast: Dorothy Tutin
Movies1 1971 HD
Billy is his own boss. But Darkly has plans for him ...
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Barrett
Movies6.3 1973 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Donald Pleasence
Movies1 1965 HD
Early adaption of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty-Four as part of the Theatre 625 series.
Genre: Romance
Cast: David Buck
Movies1 1976 HD
Ben Packman leaves an old people's home to return to the Welsh mountains.
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Cast: John Barrett
Movies1 1980 HD
Wallie, a caretaker in a block of flats, loses his job when the flats are used to rehouse Bhengali families.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Larrington Walker
Movies6.8 1962 HD
A criminal gang sets out to pull off the heist of a large army payroll.
Genre: Crime
Cast: Stanley Baker
Movies1 1968 HD
A skiving bin gang are on high alert when their new inspector takes an interest.
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Jack MacGowran
Movies1 1964 HD
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...
Genre: Science Fiction
Cast: Harry Andrews
Movies1 1973 HD
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...
Genre:
Cast: Warren Clarke
Movies1 1977 HD
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...
Genre:
Cast: Ivor Roberts
Movies1 1974 HD
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.
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Barrett
Movies7.041 1968 HD
Gertrude Lawrence rises to stage stardom at the cost of happiness.
Genre: Drama
Cast: Julie Andrews
Movies1 1970 HD
An army deserter hides out on a country estate but falls foul of the gamekeeper.
Genre: TV Movie
Cast: Robert Powell
Movies1 1970 HD
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...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Susan Jameson
Movies1 1978 HD
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...
Genre:
Cast: John Barrett
Movies1 1960 HD
A dramatised documentary about the lives and work of the performers and administrators of a local orchestra. With the BBC Northern Symphony Orchestra.
Genre: Music
Cast: Nigel Stock
S3 E46 1975 HD
Not On Your Nellie is a British sitcom that ran from 1974-75. It starred veteran actress Hylda Baker as Nellie Pickersgill, a Bolton woman who moves...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Wendy Richard
S3 E74.5 1970 HD
The Dustbinmen is a British television sitcom made by Granada Television for ITV, which starred Bryan Pringle, Trevor Bannister, Graham Haberfield,...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Trevor Bannister
S31 E67.135 2010 HD
Unencumbered by wives, jobs or any other responsibilities, three senior citizens who've never really grown up explore their world in the Yorkshire...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Peter Sallis
S1 E116.5 1976 HD
Following the death of the sitting Labour Party Member of Parliament, Bill Brand is selected as Labour candidate for a Lancashire textile...
Genre: Drama
Cast: Jack Shepherd
S1 E135.5 1973 HD
Sixteen-year-old Terry Connor is sent, along with a few of his friends, to an Outward Bound centre. On his first day at the centre Terry is taken...
Genre: Mystery
Cast: David Bradley
S1 E61 1982 HD
A series of plays written by Alan Bennett.
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Cast:
S2 E137 1979 HD
The Famous Five is a British television series based on the children's books of the same name by Enid Blyton. It was broadcast on ITV over two series...
Genre: Family
Cast: Gary Russell
S7 E127.622 1990 HD
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Lynda Bellingham
S6 E207.291 1969 HD
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those...
Genre: Action & Adventure
Cast: Roger Moore
S7 E127.622 1990 HD
All Creatures Great and Small is a British television series, based on the books of the British veterinary surgeon Alf Wight, who wrote under the...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Lynda Bellingham
S2 E147.529 1974 HD
Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? is a British sitcom which was broadcast between 9 January 1973 and 9 April 1974 on BBC1. It was the colour...
Genre: Comedy
Cast: Rodney Bewes
S1 E247 1979 HD
Follow the swashbuckling exploits of Simon Templar, a modern-day Robin Hood of sorts.
Genre: Action & Adventure
Cast: Ian Ogilvy
