ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

Drama

Seasons

1. All Together Now

Air Date: 1986-07-09

The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who is an enthusiastic bandsman from the north, where they do these things properly.

2. Daylight Robbery

Air Date: 1986-07-16

3. Brick Is Beautiful

Air Date: 1986-07-23

4. Knowing the Score

Air Date: 1986-07-30

5. Drums Along Balmoral Drive

Air Date: 1986-08-06

6. Asinamali

Air Date: 1986-08-13

7. In Traction

Air Date: 1986-08-20

8. The Mozart Inquest

Air Date: 1986-08-27

9. The Marlowe Inquest

Air Date: 1986-09-03

10. Blood, Sweat and Tears

Air Date: 1986-09-10

11. Shift Work

Air Date: 1986-09-24

12. Paying Guests - Part 1

Air Date: 1986-10-01

13. Paying Guests - Part 2

Air Date: 1986-10-02

1. The Trial of Klaus Barbie

Air Date: 1987-07-15

2. Land

Air Date: 1987-07-22

3. Lily My Love

Air Date: 1987-07-29

4. Carianai and the Courtesans

Air Date: 1987-08-05

5. Our Lady Blue

Air Date: 1987-08-12

6. White lady

Air Date: 1987-08-26

7. The Shutter Falls

Air Date: 1987-09-16

8. Christine

Air Date: 1987-09-23

9. The Interrogation of John

Air Date: 1987-09-30

10. Road

Air Date: 1987-10-07

1. No Further Cause for Concern

Air Date: 1988-07-13

'I'm doing 15 years, three years at a time, and when I come out I'm going to be the same man as when I came in. The same man!' But even hard man Danny Monk can't foresee the consequences when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with a prison officer as hostage.

2. A Woman Alone

Air Date: 1988-07-20

A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lecherous invalid brother-in-law. In spite of the impressive battery of mod cons in her home, she feels that love and marriage are not all they are cracked up to be.

3. Burning Ambition

Air Date: 1988-07-27

When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're on to a winner - but they soon discover they're on course for disaster.

4. Eskimos Do it

Air Date: 1988-08-03

When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.

5. Out Of Love

Air Date: 1988-08-10

The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.

6. Home Front

Air Date: 1988-08-24

'What about us? We have rights too. This is not just any residential home for kids in care. This is Home. You. tell them - they try and close us down, we're gonna fight....'

7. Between The Cracks

Air Date: 1988-08-31

The performers in this drama are not actors reciting other people's lines. They are who they say they are and they speak from their own real experience. The stories you are about to hear are true.

8. The Black and Blue Lamp

Air Date: 1988-09-07

In 1949, Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station, he is mysteriously transported into an episode of "The Filth", a 1988 police series where the hard men rule.

9. The Diary of Rita Patel

Air Date: 1988-09-14

It's a new start for teenager Rita Patel and her family - new home, new school, new diary, new life. But their happiness is short-lived when racist skinheads attack the family and their home.

10. Edvard

Air Date: 1988-09-20

Set in 1902, this is the story of the artist Edvard Munch and his stormy affair with Tulla Larsen , the inspiration behind some of his most famous paintings.

11. Starlings

Air Date: 1988-09-28

Gary Wilson loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and under the patronage of a wealthy young woman finds success in the City.

1. Testimony of a Child

Air Date: 1989-07-05

2. A Night on the Tyne

Air Date: 1989-07-12

3. Loving Hazel

Air Date: 1989-07-19

4. The Attractions

Air Date: 1989-07-26

5. Chinese Whispers

Air Date: 1989-08-02

6. The Act

Air Date: 1989-08-09

7. Scout

Air Date: 1989-08-16

8. The Spirit of Man

Air Date: 1989-08-23

9. Beyond the Pale

Air Date: 1989-08-30

10. The Hen House

Air Date: 1989-09-06

11. Seeing in the Dark

Air Date: 1989-09-13

12. A Small Mourning

Air Date: 1989-09-20

1. Amongst Barbarians

Air Date: 1990-07-11

2. Antonia and Jane

Air Date: 1990-07-18

3. Night Voice

Air Date: 1990-07-25

4. The Englishman's Wife

Air Date: 1990-08-01

5. The Land of Dreams

Air Date: 1990-08-08

6. Keeping Tom Nice

Air Date: 1990-08-15

7. A Safe House

Air Date: 1990-08-22

8. Afters

Air Date: 1990-08-29

9. Wedded

Air Date: 1990-08-29

10. Available Light

Air Date: 1990-09-05

11. Needle

Air Date: 1990-09-12

12. Shoot the Revolution

Air Date: 1990-12-16

13. August Saturday

Air Date: 1990-12-29

1. Redemption

Air Date: 1991-07-03

2. Broke

Air Date: 1991-07-10

3. Events at Drimaghleen

Air Date: 1991-07-17

4. The Fallout Guy

Air Date: 1991-07-24

5. Murder in Oakland

Air Date: 1991-07-31

6. The Hour of the Lynx

Air Date: 1991-08-14

7. Clubland

Air Date: 1991-08-28

8. Arise and Go Now

Air Date: 1991-09-04

9. Message to Major

Air Date: 1991-09-11

10. Journey to Knock

Air Date: 1991-09-18

1. The Countess Alice

Air Date: 1992-07-01

2. Force of Duty

Air Date: 1992-07-08

3. Bad Girl

Air Date: 1992-07-15

4. Bitter Harvest

Air Date: 1992-07-22

5. Man to Man

Air Date: 1992-07-29

6. Death and the Compass

Air Date: 1992-08-05

7. Dread Poets Society

Air Date: 1992-08-12

8. Buying a Landslide

Air Date: 1992-09-02

9. Continental Drift

Air Date: 1992-09-09

10. A Little Bit of Lippy

Air Date: 1992-09-16

11. Small Metal Jacket

Air Date: 1992-09-23

12. You, Me and Marley

Air Date: 1992-09-30

1. Love Lies Bleeding/L'Inconnue de Belfast

Air Date: 1993-09-22

2. The Merrihill Millionaires

Air Date: 1993-09-29

3. The Vision Thing

Air Date: 1993-10-06

4. Safe

Air Date: 1993-10-13

5. Not Even God Is Wise Enough

Air Date: 1993-10-20

6. Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

Air Date: 1993-10-27

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Rating

6.0/10

Release Date

1986-07-09

Episodes

87 (8 seasons)

Status

Returning Series

Cast