Screenplay (TV series)

Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC Two between 1986 and 1993.

Background

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. Some scenes were shot at Lennoxlove House in East Lothian and others in the Scottish Borders.^[1]

Anthology titles

See ScreenPlay at BBC Two

Season 1

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title	Notes
S1, Ep1	9 July 1986	All Together Now[2]
S1, Ep2	16 July 1986	Daylight Robbery[3]
S1, Ep3	23 July 1986	Brick Is Beautiful[4]
S1, Ep4	30 July 1986	Knowing the Score[5]
S1, Ep5	6 August 1986	Drums Along Balmoral Drive[6]
S1, Ep6	13 August 1986	Asinamali[7]
S1, Ep7	20 August 1986	In Traction[8]
S1, Ep8	27 August 1986	The Mozart Inquest[9]	Patrick Stewart as Antonio Salieri
S1, Ep9	3 September 1986	The Marlowe Inquest[10]
S1, Ep10	10 September 1986	Blood, Sweat and Tears[11]
S1, Ep11	24 September 1986	Shift Work[12]
S1, Ep12	1 October 1986	Paying Guests - Part 1[13]
S1, Ep13	2 October 1986	Paying Guests - Part 2[14]

Season 2

See Series 2

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title	Notes
S2, Ep1	15 July 1987	The Trial of Klaus Barbie[15]
S2, Ep2	22 July 1987	Land[16]
S2, Ep3	29 July 1987	Lily My Love[17]	Bill Paterson as Colin
S2, Ep4	5 August 1987	Cariani and the Courtesans[18]	Paul McGann as Giovanni Cariani Simon Callow as Raimondi Diana Quick as Tullia
S2, Ep5	12 August 1987	Our Lady Blue[19]
S2	20 August 1987	Roach Motel[20]
S2, Ep6	26 August 1987	White Lady[21]
S2	8 September 1987	Next[22]
S2, Ep7	16 September 1987	The Shutter Falls[23]
S2	21 September 1987	A View from a Window[24]
S2, Ep8	23 September 1987	Christine[25]
S2, Ep9	30 September 1987	The Interrogation of John
S2, Ep10	7 October 1987	Road	Neil Dudgeon as Brink Jane Horrocks as Louise David Thewlis as Joey Lesley Sharp as Valerie

Season 3

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S3, Ep1	13 July 1988	No Further Cause for Concern
S3, Ep2	20 July 1988	A Woman Alone
S3, Ep3	27 July 1988	Burning Ambition
S3, Ep4	3 August 1988	Eskimos Do It
S3, Ep5	10 August 1988	Out of Love
S3, Ep6	24 August 1988	Home Front
S3, Ep7	31 August 1988	Between the Cracks
S3, Ep8	7 September 1988	The Black and Blue Lamp
S3, Ep9	14 September 1988	The Diary of Rita Patel
S3, Ep10	28 September 1988	Starlings

Season 4

See Series 4

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S4, Ep1	5 July 1989	Testimony of a Child
S4, Ep2	12 July 1989	A Night on the Tyne
S4, Ep3	19 Jul 1989	Loving Hazel
S4, Ep4	26 July 1989	The Attractions
S4, Ep5	2 August 1989	Chinese Whispers
S4, Ep6	9 August 1989	The Act
S4, Ep7	16 August 1989	Scout
S4, Ep8	23 August 1989	The Spirit of Man
S4, Ep9	30 August 1989	Beyond the Pale
S4, Ep10	6 September 1989	The Hen House
S4, Ep11	13 September 1989	Seeing in the Dark
S4, Ep12	20 September 1989	A Small Mourning

Season 5

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S5, Ep1	11 July 1990	Amongst Barbarians
S5, Ep2	18 July 1990	Antonia and Jane
S5, Ep3	25 July 1990	Night Voice
S5, Ep4	1 August 1990	The Englishman's Wife
S5, Ep5	8 August 1990	The Land of Dreams[26]
S5, Ep6	15 August 1990	Keeping Tom Nice
S5, Ep7	22 August 1990	A Safe House[27]
S5, Ep8	29 August 1990	Afters
S5, Ep9	29 August 1990	Wedded
S5, Ep10	5 September 1990	Available Light
S5, Ep11	12 September 1990	Needle
S5, Ep12	16 December 1990	Shoot the Revolution
S5, Ep13	29 December 1990	August Saturday

Season 6

See Series 6

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S6, Ep1	3 July 1991	Redemption
S6, Ep2	10 July 1991	Broke[28]
S6, Ep3	17 July 1991	Events at Drimaghleen
S6, Ep4	24 July 1991	The Fallout Guy[29]
S6, Ep5	31 July 1991	Murder in Oakland
S6, Ep6	14 August 1991	The Hour of the Lynx
S6, Ep7	28 August 1991	Clubland[30]
S6, Ep8	4 September 1991	Arise and Go Now'[31]
S6, Ep9	11 September 1991	Message to Major
S6, Ep10	18 September 1991	Journey to Knock

Season 7

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S7, Ep1	1 July 1992	The Countess Alice[32]
S7, Ep2	8 July 1992	Force of Duty
S7, Ep3	15 July 1992	Bad Girl
S7, Ep4	22 July 1992	Bitter Harvest
S7, Ep5	29 July 1992	Man to Man: Another Night of Rubbish on the Telly
S7, Ep6	5 August 1992	Death and the Compass
S7, Ep7	2 September 1992	Buying a Landslide
S7, Ep8	9 September 1992	Continental Drift[33]
S7, Ep9	16 September 1992	A Little Bit of Lippy
S7, Ep10	23 September 1992	Dread Poets' Society
S7, Ep11		Small Metal Jacket
S7, Ep12	30 September 1992	You, Me & Marley

Season 8

See Series 8

Season, Episode	Airdate	Title
S8, Ep1	22 September 1993	Love Lies Bleeding
S8, Ep2	29 September 1993	The Merrihill Millionaires
S8, Ep3	6 October 1993	The Vision Thing
S8, Ep4	13 October 1993	Safe
S8, Ep5	20 October 1993	Not Even God Is Wise Enough
S8, Ep6	27 October 1993	Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles[34]

Notable productions

• Cariani and the Courtesans (1987)
• You, Me & Marley (1992)

See also

• Category:BBC Two Screenplay anthology TV series

References

1. (2015) Filmed here - 1993, Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles, John Byrne Film Edinburgh, Retrieved 20 February 2015
2. "ScreenPlay: All Together Now". BBC Two. 9 July 1986.
3. "ScreenPlay: Daylight Robbery". BBC Two. 16 July 1986.
4. "ScreenPlay: Brick is Beautiful". BBC Two. 23 July 1986.
5. "ScreenPlay: Knowing the Score". BBC Two. 30 July 1986.
6. "ScreenPlay: Drums Along Balmoral Drive". BBC Two. 6 August 1986.
7. "ScreenPlay: Asinamall". BBC Two. 13 August 1986.
8. "ScreenPlay: In Traction". BBC Two. 20 August 1986.
9. "ScreenPlay: The Mozart Inquest". BBC Two. 27 August 1986.
10. "ScreenPlay: The Marlowe Inquest". BBC Two. 3 September 1986.
11. "ScreenPlay: Blood, Sweat and Tears". BBC Two. 10 September 1986.
12. "ScreenPlay: Shift Work". BBC Two. 24 September 1986.
13. "ScreenPlay: Paying Guests". BBC Two. 1 October 1986.
14. "ScreenPlay: Paying Guests". BBC Two. 2 October 1986.
15. "ScreenPlay: The Trial of Klaus Barbie". BBC Two. 15 July 1987.
16. "ScreenPlay: Land". BBC Two. 22 July 1987.
17. "ScreenPlay: Lily My Love". BBC Two. 29 July 1987.
18. "ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans". BBC Two. 5 August 1987.
19. "ScreenPlay: Our Lady Blue". BBC Two. 12 August 1987.
20. "ScreenPlay Firsts: Roach Motel". BBC Two. 20 August 1987.
21. "ScreenPlay Firsts: White Lady". BBC Two. 26 August 1987.
22. "ScreenPlay: Next". BBC Two. 8 September 1987.
23. "ScreenPlay: The Shutter Falls". BBC Two. 16 September 1987.
24. "ScreenPlay Firsts: A View from a Window". BBC Two. 21 September 1987.
25. "ScreenPlay: Christine". BBC Two. 23 September 1987.
26. "ScreenPlay: The Land of Dreams". BBC Two. 13 March 1991.
27. "ScreenPlay: A Safe House". BBC Two. 22 August 1990.
28. "ScreenPlay: Broke". BBC Two. 10 July 1991.
29. "ScreenPlay: The Fallout Guy". BBC Two. 24 July 1991.
30. "ScreenPlay: Clubland". BBC Two. 28 August 1991.
31. "ScreenPlay: Arise and Go Now". BBC Two. 4 September 1991.
32. "ScreenPlay: The Countess Alice". BBC Two. 1 July 1992.
33. "ScreenPlay: Continental Drift". BBC Two. 9 September 1992.
34. "Screenplay: Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles". BBC Two. 27 October 1993.

External links

• Screenplay at the Internet Movie Database
• ScreenPlay at BBC Two Genome Project