
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.
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