John Barry (composer) Minster. Serving in the British Army, Barry spent his national service playing the trumpet. During his army service, he took a correspondence course (with jazz composer Bill Russo); he also worked as an arranger for the Jack Parnell and Ted Heath's Orchestra, and formed his own band in 1957, the John Barry Seven, with whom he had some hit records on EMI's Columbia label. These included "Hit and Miss", the theme tune he composed for the BBC's "Juke Box Jury" programme, a cover of the Johnny Smith song "Walk Don't Run", and a cover of the theme for the United
Hit & Miss farmhouse in Yorkshire. While continuing to work as an assassin, Mia learns to cope with being in a parental role. "Hit & Miss" was commissioned as one of Sky Atlantic's first original series when the channel was launched in February 2011. Series creator Paul Abbott said the show combined separate ideas for "two series that shouldn't automatically fit together". He said there were two projects on his desk: one about a transsexual mother of five, which he had previously tackled in "Mrs In-Betweeny", the other about a hitman. He was having difficulty developing the first one because "the penis became