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ScreenPlay (1986) is a drama web series in English. On New MovieLinkBD: full story, cast, ratings, season & episode guide, official trailer and where to watch ScreenPlay online in HD.

ScreenPlay — Storyline

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.

Cast & Crew

ScreenPlay — Series Details

ScreenPlay — Episode Guide

Series 1

• E1: All Together Now (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 fr
• E2: Daylight Robbery (1986-07-16) — Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble – at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of al
• E3: Brick Is Beautiful (1986-07-23) — 'Bricks have a future, Mr Clark – you can count on that. They're out there waiting to be taken!' 'There is one small problem.' 'What's that?' 'Well – they're still attached to buil
• E4: Knowing the Score (1986-07-30) — Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' choir. Together they have to perform at a
• E5: Drums Along Balmoral Drive (1986-08-06) — 'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'
• E6: Asinamali (1986-08-13) — Five blacks in South Africa end up in jail – for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What they all share is the conviction t
• E7: In Traction (1986-08-20) — Matters are bad enough when Mr Gentle tries to commit suicide. They are even worse when the attempt fails. Worst of all is being confined to a hospital bed when a bunch of juvenile
• E8: The Mozart Inquest (1986-08-27) — Mozart's death in 1791 is surrounded by mystery. What are the secrets of his burial in an unmarked grave? Was he poisoned or did he die of natural causes? Now, almost 200 years lat
• E9: The Marlowe Inquest (1986-09-03) — In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwrigh
• E10: Blood, Sweat and Tears (1986-09-10) — 'Is this the judo place?' 'Dojo, yeh.' 'Wants a chuffin' coat of paint, if you ask me.' 'What is it you want?' 'Self-defence thingy.' That's all judo is to Louise and hundreds like
• E11: Shift Work (1986-09-24) — Julie, a cab driver, collects a fare from the local airport one evening. Unfortunately he dies of a suspected heart attack on his way home in her taxi and Julie has to decide how b
• E12: Paying Guests – Part 1 (1986-10-01) — Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' – all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romanc
• E13: Paying Guests – Part 2 (1986-10-02) — Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold.

Series 2

• E1: The Trial of Klaus Barbie (1987-07-15) — Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice
• E2: Land (1987-07-22) — The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their priest for help. should they resist the
• E3: Lily My Love (1987-07-29) — Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'
• E4: Carianai and the Courtesans (1987-08-05) — A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.
• E5: Our Lady Blue (1987-08-12) — In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It
• E6: White Lady (1987-08-26) — In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. – strong against all harm'. But unknown to any
• E7: The Shutter Falls (1987-09-16) — A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls
• E8: Christine (1987-09-23) — Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.
• E9: The Interrogation of John (1987-09-30) — A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area. Is there a connection? Might the assemb
• E10: Road (1987-10-07) — Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an average night along a derelict Lancashire

Series 3

• E1: No Further Cause for Concern (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 conseq
• E2: A Woman Alone (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 t
• E3: Burning Ambition (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
• E4: Eskimos Do it (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.
• E5: Out Of Love (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 pass
• E6: Home Front (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….'
• E7: Between The Cracks (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 t
• E8: The Black and Blue Lamp (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 p
• E9: The Diary of Rita Patel (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
• E10: Edvard (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.
• E11: Starlings (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.

Series 4

• E1: Testimony of a Child (1989-07-05) — Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is no
• E2: A Night on the Tyne (1989-07-12) — When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.
• E3: Loving Hazel (1989-07-19) — Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.
• E4: The Attractions (1989-07-26) — When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not
• E5: Chinese Whispers (1989-08-02) — Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends – his only friends. When a strange young man is i
• E6: The Act (1989-08-09) — Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Naz
• E7: Scout (1989-08-16) — Man United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As six more hopefuls gather at his isolated c
• E8: The Spirit of Man (1989-08-23) — In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.
• E9: Beyond the Pale (1989-08-30) — Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country h
• E10: The Hen House (1989-09-06) — Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.
• E11: Seeing in the Dark (1989-09-13) — Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he start
• E12: A Small Mourning (1989-09-20) — When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her

Series 5

• E1: Amongst Barbarians (1990-07-11) — Two teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours before their execution, their parents arrive
• E2: Antonia and Jane (1990-07-18) — Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows abo
• E3: Night Voice (1990-07-25) — Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a gro
• E4: The Englishman's Wife (1990-08-01) — A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former busi
• E5: The Land of Dreams (1990-08-08) — Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncert
• E6: Keeping Tom Nice (1990-08-15) — Doug and Winnie have tried hard to keep their disabled son Tom 'nice', but when Stephen, a young social worker, takes a professional interest it has tragic consequences.
• E7: A Safe House (1990-08-22) — In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by the police in London. Most were subsequent
• E8: Afters (1990-08-29) — A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to face life without her.
• E9: Wedded (1990-08-29) — A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.
• E10: Available Light (1990-09-05) — A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a pa
• E11: Needle (1990-09-12) — Danny and Paula are a young married couple with a baby. They are moving up in the world, leaving their high-rise for a house of their own. The future of their marriage is threatene
• E12: Shoot the Revolution (1990-12-16) — During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "fille
• E13: August Saturday (1990-12-29) — Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that, if discovered, would devastate

Series 6

• E1: Redemption (1991-07-03) — After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?
• E2: Broke (1991-07-10) — A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After com
• E3: Events at Drimaghleen (1991-07-17) — The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those
• E4: The Fallout Guy (1991-07-24) — Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s. His girlfriend Danica discovers he
• E5: Murder in Oakland (1991-07-31) — Oakland, California, is the murder capital of the USA – there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the Police Department's f
• E6: The Hour of the Lynx (1991-08-14) — A young murderer in a psychiatric institution is given a cat to care for as part of a controlled experiment. He heaps devotion on it and the experiment seems a great success – unti
• E7: Clubland (1991-08-28) — Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome Ajay, and the listening DC Jud
• E8: Arise and Go Now (1991-09-04) — Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to dri
• E9: Message to Major (1991-09-11) — This BBC film written and performed by South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, is a 'video postcard' to the British Prime Minister from one Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, South African am
• E10: Journey to Knock (1991-09-18) — Journey to Knock humorously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

Frequently Asked Questions

How many seasons does ScreenPlay have? 8 season(s) with 87 episodes.

Where can I watch ScreenPlay? See the Where to Watch section above for current streaming options.