Barraclough was later to appear in a sitcom, Mother's Ruin (1994), in which he played a bachelor dominated by his belligerent mother (Dora Bryan). He made a guest appearance in Last of the Summer Wine ("Has Anyone Seen A Peruvian Wart? 2005), playing opposite both Bryan and his friend Kathy Staff and appeared in a variety of TV shows including Casualty (1999), Peak Practice (1994, 2001), Funland (2005) and the 1993 series of The Krypton Factor, in which he played Chief Inspector Fred Pilkington in a mini-serial specially shot for the show's Observation Round, and which also starred Annabel Giles as Journalist Julie Webb.