ScreenPlay (1986)

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.

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Seasons

Season 1

Season 1

Season 2

Season 2

Season 3

Season 3

Season 4

Season 4

Season 5

Season 5

Season 6

Season 6

Season 7

Season 7

Season 8

Season 8

Episodes season 1

  • 1x1

    All together now

  • 1x2

    Daylight robbery

  • 1x3

    Brick is beautiful

  • 1x4

    Knowing the score

  • 1x5

    Drums along balmoral drive

  • 1x6

    Asinamali

  • 1x7

    In traction

  • 1x8

    The mozart inquest

  • 1x9

    The marlowe inquest

  • 1x10

    Blood, sweat and tears

  • 1x11

    Shift work

  • 1x12

    Paying guests - part 1

  • 1x13

    Paying guests - part 2

Episodes season 2

  • 2x1

    The trial of klaus barbie

  • 2x2

    Land

  • 2x3

    Lily my love

  • 2x4

    Carianai and the courtesans

  • 2x5

    Our lady blue

  • 2x6

    White lady

  • 2x7

    The shutter falls

  • 2x8

    Christine

  • 2x9

    The interrogation of john

  • 2x10

    Road

Episodes season 3

  • 3x1

    No further cause for concern

  • 3x2

    A woman alone

  • 3x3

    Burning ambition

  • 3x4

    Eskimos do it

  • 3x5

    Out of love

  • 3x6

    Home front

  • 3x7

    Between the cracks

  • 3x8

    The black and blue lamp

  • 3x9

    The diary of rita patel

  • 3x10

    Edvard

  • 3x11

    Starlings

Episodes season 4

  • 4x1

    Testimony of a child

  • 4x2

    A night on the tyne

  • 4x3

    Loving hazel

  • 4x4

    The attractions

  • 4x5

    Chinese whispers

  • 4x6

    The act

  • 4x7

    Scout

  • 4x8

    The spirit of man

  • 4x9

    Beyond the pale

  • 4x10

    The hen house

  • 4x11

    Seeing in the dark

  • 4x12

    A small mourning

Episodes season 5

  • 5x1

    Amongst barbarians

  • 5x2

    Antonia and jane

  • 5x3

    Night voice

  • 5x4

    The englishman's wife

  • 5x5

    The land of dreams

  • 5x6

    Keeping tom nice

  • 5x7

    A safe house

  • 5x8

    Afters

  • 5x9

    Wedded

  • 5x10

    Available light

  • 5x11

    Needle

  • 5x12

    Shoot the revolution

  • 5x13

    August saturday

Episodes season 6

  • 6x1

    Redemption

  • 6x2

    Broke

  • 6x3

    Events at drimaghleen

  • 6x4

    The fallout guy

  • 6x5

    Murder in oakland

  • 6x6

    The hour of the lynx

  • 6x7

    Clubland

  • 6x8

    Arise and go now

  • 6x9

    Message to major

  • 6x10

    Journey to knock

Episodes season 7

  • 7x1

    The countess alice

  • 7x2

    Force of duty

  • 7x3

    Bad girl

  • 7x4

    Bitter harvest

  • 7x5

    Man to man

  • 7x6

    Death and the compass

  • 7x7

    Dread poets society

  • 7x8

    Buying a landslide

  • 7x9

    Continental drift

  • 7x10

    A little bit of lippy

  • 7x11

    Small metal jacket

  • 7x12

    You, me and marley

Episodes season 8

  • 8x1

    Love lies bleeding/l'inconnue de belfast

  • 8x2

    The merrihill millionaires

  • 8x3

    The vision thing

  • 8x4

    Safe

  • 8x5

    Not even god is wise enough

  • 8x6

    Boswell & johnson's tour of the western isles

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