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ScreenPlay

British television series

British television series

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countryUnited Kingdom
languageEnglish
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networkBBC2
companyBBC
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last_aired

ScreenPlay was a television drama anthology series broadcast on BBC2 between 9 July 1986 and 27 October 1993.

Background

After single-play anthology series went off the air, the BBC introduced several showcases for made-for-television, feature length filmed dramas, including ScreenPlay. Various writers and directors were utilised on the series. Writer Jimmy McGovern was hired by producer George Faber to pen a series five episode based upon the Merseyside needle exchange programme of the 1980s. The episode, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was entitled Needle and featured Sean McKee, Emma Bird, and Pete Postlethwaite*.* The last episode of the series was titled "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" and featured 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.

Plays

Series 1 (1986)

Thomas Ellice Thomas Ellice

Series 2 (1987)

Dennis Woolf Claudia Milne Norman McCandlish Arthur Ellis David M. Thompson

Series 3 (1988)

translated by Gillian Hanna

Series 4 (1989)

Series 5 (1990)

NB: Although not billed as an episode of ScreenPlay in the Radio Times, it was as such - or as a "Screenplay Special" - in some newspaper listings, and started with the contemporary series title sequence

Series 6 (1991)

translated by Kim Dambaek

Series 7 (1992)

Josephine Ward Alex Cox Scott Roberts

Series 8 (1993)

Home media releases

The following episodes of the series were included in separate editions of BBC Video World, a fortnightly subscription-only service – primarily for expatriates – that delivered a three-hour selection of BBC programming on VHS cassettes:

  • Starlings - Vol. 1 No. 1 (April 1989)
  • The Englishman's Wife - Vol. 2 No. 18 (September 1990)
  • Available Light - Vol. 2 No. 22 (October 1990)
  • Afters - Vol. 2 No. 23 (November 1990)

Notable productions

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

References

References

  1. Cooke, Lez. (2005). "British Television Drama: A History". Palgrave Macmillan.
  2. (30 September 2015). "BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series: Jimmy McGovern".
  3. "From Merseyside to Skopje – the story about reduction of drug related harms {{!}} hops.org.mk".
  4. "Needle (1990)".
  5. (2015) [http://www.filmedinburgh.org/filming/filmed_here?fh_PageIndex=11&fh_PageSize=10 Filmed here – 1993, Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles, John Byrne] Film Edinburgh, Retrieved 20 February 2015
  6. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050642/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2f2a49ab19664b8aa769df5e4fa51d2b BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: All Together Now'']
  7. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050627/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/06a6a5192df2499da6937fc43765e8d1 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Daylight Robbery'']
  8. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050633/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/20dc1aeb883341da9e1a0879518f78ec BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Brick is Beautiful'']
  9. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110174827/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c36aeeb0cf2a41d8a5d5b203dd00c5e6 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Knowing the Score'']
  10. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110044838/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2a77f32e48de4461bf96a36fe4bf3ac0 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Drums Along Balmoral Drive'']
  11. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173741/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b7c3410e593742028f97165f45100b8f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Asinamali'']
  12. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110175040/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/5d53ba0e70c24725bb528be116c63175 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: In Traction'']
  13. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110174848/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f867059714044797819738b8d9634413 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Mozart Inquest'']
  14. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110175027/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f86037539487465996dd4cb7789cf28c BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Marlowe Inquest'']
  15. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050644/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/466ac84b3e194a519ef8e8eae5f902b8 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Blood, Sweat and Tears'']
  16. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050637/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3f93b8a41fca4433a12e8a330043d8d5 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Shift Work'']
  17. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050630/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3404238d265f4010908b4b5919ff2447 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Paying Guests: Early Skirmishes'']
  18. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110175029/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/948aa158bc0a43c3bf32941b426bfd4a BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Paying Guests: The Final Assent'']
  19. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173930/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8dbc144bd8e14d3f923ed34b73c35105 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Trial of Klaus Barbie'']
  20. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110114930/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/08d741830df44f7e85a3b96487e7ad46 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Land'']
  21. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173943/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/7e156b16f4ae4e2f9f4c8f9d29f47552 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Lily My Love'']
  22. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109224227/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e6f225d3815b4ad4b9308ba5df02f7ab BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans'']
  23. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110174006/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/887a2752fad242dca711a43d3bfafea7 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Our Lady Blue'']
  24. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110173440/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8ac483a87fbb49bea3ebb81a973e66f2 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: White Lady'']
  25. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110175416/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/423a2aea79e7424799deb26a5413f436 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Next: Scout'']
  26. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq0jg BBC – ScreenPlay – ''Scout'']
  27. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201104095505/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c1551f7fddde49acbbc4b4cb51a67d1b BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Next: The Venus de Milo Instead'']
  28. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq0vm BBC – ScreenPlay – ''The Venus de Milo Instead'']
  29. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220505095315/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2241d09f03e2493b882c7a37fc57cfce BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Next: The Rockingham Shoot'']
  30. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fqy4t BBC – ScreenPlay – ''The Rockingham Shoot'']
  31. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110120246/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0b4e9e4dd3b04b138ca72fdc89da1100 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Shutter Falls'']
  32. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110174707/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/46abe1903a444e4aa5d9dc5b74cd7d7f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Christine'']
  33. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161126004141/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/94a406ce60e24c0b83a2a80df3b15d12 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Interrogation of John'']
  34. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201117005709/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b8e9a0229cda4fdda8f66348988d320d BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: Road'']
  35. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201110132526/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/48b6383c0aed473881cc704e6caebf04 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Road'']
  36. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112211646/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e9a05034cb5544799cd606cdade4cf16 BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: No Further Cause for Concern'']
  37. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201113000338/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fedf6f075e1a48389a023119304b47ea BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: A Woman Alone'']
  38. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201110075427/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/671e320e362442719b37f7289edb786e BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Burning Ambition'']
  39. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116121141/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a47548f7f5714e9eb692a9e1fff9b39d BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Eskimos Do It'']
  40. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201110115817/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8c4263afd32c4b7abbf2dc4dc927ea44 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Out of Love'']
  41. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116130829/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4da89538a0dd4a7c91c0af3103f41d42 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Home Front'']
  42. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116105509/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b0c0fc43c5284ff890199bd515dec5be BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: Between the Cracks'']
  43. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220505092303/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/97831a3d0e94453a831cb04630cccb00 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Black and Blue Lamp'']
  44. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141108181046/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/bfd396b427814d1cb684565cd142b2aa BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Diary of Rita Patel'']
  45. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111003925/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a8d960cebcd3475f9a13bfae983fe347 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Starlings'']
  46. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201117041520/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/95a5a516f5b7496086964c6ed44742fa BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Testimony of a Child'']
  47. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201115215805/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/a0c20527e9234fe3ae78eaf950b3af27 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: A Night on the Tyne'']
  48. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116175045/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/91fd89c7cb2548d19b8f720151c97f74 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Loving Hazel'']
  49. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116132450/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c1f468d6cc1d46c3a6b3206e353b81d1 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Attractions'']
  50. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111142229/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b2139d19cdf84b48b81edb21855136e6 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Chinese Whispers'']
  51. [https://web.archive.org/web/20170711093101/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ce9cf7c1af33478eb776e2c9365f0067 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Act'']
  52. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116132452/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cfce5074a61149739ee16c59b5fad55f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Spirit of Man'']
  53. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111160359/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/d59b87b75ade406a8eb79175411de8e6 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Beyond the Pale'']
  54. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111123046/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/03ba93636e3145f8a12671579240e31c BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Hen House'']
  55. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cpzfb BBC – ScreenPlay – ''The Hen House'']
  56. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201118153036/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6103a1d9d41543bf8f08c7b86d42c34a BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Seeing in the Dark'']
  57. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201111152239/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fb2ac44615ec4631a712134b06a8330f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: A Small Mourning'']
  58. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023181315/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/63d0ae1601d54a0793a16f842cd14dba BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Amongst Barbarians'']
  59. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023234642/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ca3c3ab30c7c4ac99f98f0f38c9b1ed0 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Antonia and Jane: A Definitive Annual Report'']
  60. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024053003/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/31655cf19d1d47629eb32ac37c3aea8e BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Night Voice'']
  61. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024062626/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/e0d4528a7fcf478282087beeda77e6a3 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Englishman's Wife'']
  62. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023205802/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/78a66d7ae4d44433b3469b1c2f697242 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Land of Dreams'']
  63. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023214104/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3caa104af78d40b6b54dc12746692334 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Keeping Tom Nice'']
  64. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024031456/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c7badd72aa52408caa3465c898661f97 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: A Safe House'']
  65. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023175310/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/58aaf1bd882d47028d87bcee93214648 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay Double Bill'']
  66. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024044546/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ea5f08cdee4b478a8371a2e8610cf964 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Available Light'']
  67. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023234329/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/768a25abbd6d484bbfc1f78a8fed54d2 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Needle'']
  68. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024090626/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f9069374afd44c15a5751699d5e88588 BBC – Radio Times – ''Traitors'']
  69. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141024065055/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0fc492c13bbd492b84b2c1ff513ef40c BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Shoot the Revolution'']
  70. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141023170721/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/ca8297c9b22242cea9e2addaa7e6558f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: August Saturday'']
  71. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112185622/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b8bbeb2277014792999eb295aa19daaa BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Redemption'']
  72. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109225048/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8c31098b76534c8c8cd27660354c29be BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Broke'']
  73. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112190851/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/991d806dde794e5eb397aec3a1e4e7e7 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Events at Drimaghleen'']
  74. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109223906/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3fb70276b663487981b7517f7b98e397 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Fallout Guy'']
  75. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201118085059/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/db60c297dad74bb8a28e6efae77f6e4f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Murder in Oakland'']
  76. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201112195250/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/63db327950ae4e65a4910db2f9f2d1cd BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: City Shorts Compilation'']
  77. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201113071300/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8dccb8cfe717481195dff1c15a5b2b5e BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Hour of the Lynx'']
  78. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109224712/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/0d672de659d44b38b7711cec4144bc67 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Clubland'']
  79. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161109224047/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6e357baf774748aa967a4028c9798a18 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Arise and Go Now'']
  80. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq1p5 BBC – ScreenPlay – ''Arise and Go Now'']
  81. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201113054145/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c04f0b0aae9246949a61e556f622b346 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Message to Major'']
  82. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201119091358/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/1b2c5a64a5d04b3ab297c5736db73948 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Journey to Knock'']
  83. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141206164659/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cb0d87221cf74bbb87ac188ef85fc0e3 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: The Countess Alice'']
  84. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201113145931/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/4123bd132360407f8205fbeaedeba330 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Force of Duty'']
  85. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220505092300/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2f573da4f1ee4d9da4ec82e248a9a591 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Bad Girl'']
  86. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201115231257/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f8066f63197349f59ee29657983ae001 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Bitter Harvest'']
  87. [https://web.archive.org/web/20220505092301/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/87e60e49e1d14c2898936868ba8bc9fd BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Man to Man'']
  88. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201115211053/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/27f0d859ade94e6a9ba8344cab843a86 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Death and the Compass'']
  89. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201115211051/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/69011359cc844402a9bfbd4beef2763f BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Buying a Landslide'']
  90. [https://web.archive.org/web/20161110050646/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/fbc31e2a9a1b4fc78627a3054ccf55b1 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Continental Drift'']
  91. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201116023516/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6e065ddfd2664c5c939e1b1e27789453 BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: A Little Bit of Lippy'']
  92. [https://web.archive.org/web/20201117025847/https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f0cb2230afd843cc9a9bd4522c1005ae BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: You, Me and Marley'']
  93. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020140910/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/cb148df4ecfe4bb1885708773bcd5abb BBC – Radio Times – ''ScreenPlay: Love Lies Bleeding'']
  94. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020112955/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/feac12dd4d00472f9b6f5a1e362cce6c BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: The Merrihill Millionaires'']
  95. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020051727/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f95a1fc4d166423a9854240fe7d00c0b BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: The Vision Thing'']
  96. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020122242/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c269dd0fd1c94d4eae50805e0e634e1b BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: Safe'']
  97. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020101428/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f6af533d98cc411d8baf4b80d17abd18 BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: Not Even God Is Wise Enough'']
  98. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq160 BBC – ScreenPlay – ''Not Even God is Wise Enough'']
  99. [https://web.archive.org/web/20141020102302/http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3599c536d45f4586bd0c59716be19102 BBC – Radio Times – ''Screenplay: Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles'']
  100. [https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwft8 BBC – ScreenPlay – ''Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles'']
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