---
name: "Barry Purchese"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/barry-purchese"
fi1m_id: "barry-purchese"
imdb_id: "nm0700785"
tmdb_id: 3012150
roles: ["Writer"]
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-23T13:50:06.020605+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# Barry Purchese

## Identity

Barry Purchese

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/barry-purchese
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** barry-purchese
- **IMDb ID:** nm0700785
- **TMDB ID:** 3012150
- **Same entity:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700785/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3012150

Writer.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0700785/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/3012150

## Streaming the US now

- **Apple TV:** [*Midsomer Murders*](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md) (66)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Barry Purchese is a British television writer. He began his career contributing scripts to Grange Hill, writing 53 episodes between 1982 and 1992, and created the spin-off series Tucker's Luck (1983–1984).

He has written episodes for several long-running series, including Minder (1984), The Bill (1994), Casualty (1989) and two episodes of Midsomer Murders (2007–2010). Purchese also wrote the screenplay for the 1999 television film Junk, for which he won a BAFTA award, and adapted The Coral Island (2000).

*Sources: imdb.com, grangehillgold.wordpress.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), Fi1m 66, Writer — [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)

## Complete filmography (11)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Coral Island* (2000), series, Writer
- *Junk* (1999), Writer
- *Midsomer Murders* (1997), series, Writer — Fi1m 66, [page](https://film.one/tv/midsomer-murders.md)
- *The Paradise Club* (1989), series, Writer
- *The Coral Island* (1983), series, Writer
- *Ties* (1982), Writer
- *On Yer Bike!* (1981), Writer
- *The Squad* (1980), series, Writer
- *Minder* (1979), series, Writer
- *Screenplay* (1979), series, Writer
- *The Big Sleep* (1978), as Eddie's Bodyguard (uncredited)

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