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ScreenPlay
Genre	Drama anthology
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language	English
No. of series	8
No. of episodes	95 (list of episodes)
Production
Production company	BBC
Original release
Network	BBC2
Release	9 July 1986 (1986-07-09) – 27 October 1993 (1993-10-27)

ScreenPlay is 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 utilized 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)

Series 2 (1987)

Series 3 (1988)

Series 4 (1989)

Series 5 (1990)

Series 6 (1991)

Series 7 (1992)

Series 8 (1993)

Notable productions

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

References

1. Cooke, Lez (2005). British Television Drama: A History (2 ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan. p. 28. ISBN 978-1-84457-623-4.
2. ^ "BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series: Jimmy McGovern". www.bafta.org. 30 September 2015. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
3. "From Merseyside to Skopje – the story about reduction of drug related harms | hops.org.mk". hops.org.mk. Retrieved 19 July 2017.
4. Needle (1990), retrieved 19 July 2017
5. (2015) Filmed here – 1993, Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles, John Byrne Film Edinburgh, Retrieved 20 February 2015
6. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: All Together Now
7. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Daylight Robbery
8. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Brick is Beautiful
9. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Knowing the Score
10. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Drums Along Balmoral Drive
11. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Asinamali
12. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: In Traction
13. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Mozart Inquest
14. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Marlowe Inquest
15. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Blood, Sweat and Tears
16. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Shift Work
17. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Paying Guests: Early Skirmishes
18. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Paying Guests: The Final Assent
19. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Trial of Klaus Barbie
20. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Land
21. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Lily My Love
22. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Cariani and the Courtesans
23. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Our Lady Blue
24. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: White Lady
25. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: Scout
26. BBC – ScreenPlay – Scout
27. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: The Venus de Milo Instead
28. BBC – ScreenPlay – The Venus de Milo Instead
29. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: The Rockingham Shoot
30. BBC – ScreenPlay – The Rockingham Shoot
31. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Shutter Falls
32. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Christine
33. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Interrogation of John
34. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Road
35. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Road
36. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: No Further Cause for Concern
37. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: A Woman Alone
38. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Burning Ambition
39. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Eskimos Do It
40. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Out of Love
41. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Home Front
42. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Between the Cracks
43. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Black and Blue Lamp
44. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Diary of Rita Patel
45. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Starlings
46. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Testimony of a Child
47. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: A Night on the Tyne
48. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Loving Hazel
49. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Attractions
50. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Chinese Whispers
51. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Act
52. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Spirit of Man
53. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Beyond the Pale
54. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Hen House
55. BBC – ScreenPlay – The Hen House
56. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Seeing in the Dark
57. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: A Small Mourning
58. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Amongst Barbarians
59. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Antonia and Jane: A Definitive Annual Report
60. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Night Voice
61. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Englishman's Wife
62. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Land of Dreams
63. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Keeping Tom Nice
64. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: A Safe House
65. ^ BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay Double Bill
66. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Available Light
67. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Needle
68. BBC – Radio Times – Traitors
69. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Shoot the Revolution
70. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: August Saturday
71. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Redemption
72. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Broke
73. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Events at Drimaghleen
74. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Fallout Guy
75. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Murder in Oakland
76. ^ BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: City Shorts Compilation
77. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Hour of the Lynx
78. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Clubland
79. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Arise and Go Now
80. BBC – ScreenPlay – Arise and Go Now
81. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Message to Major
82. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Journey to Knock
83. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Countess Alice
84. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Force of Duty
85. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Bad Girl
86. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Bitter Harvest
87. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Man to Man
88. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Death and the Compass
89. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Buying a Landslide
90. ^ BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Continental Drift
91. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: A Little Bit of Lippy
92. ^ BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay
93. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: You, Me and Marley
94. BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Love Lies Bleeding
95. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: The Merrihill Millionaires
96. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: The Vision Thing
97. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Safe
98. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Not Even God Is Wise Enough
99. BBC – ScreenPlay – Not Even God is Wise Enough
100. BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles
101. BBC – ScreenPlay – Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

External links

• ScreenPlay at BBC Online
• Screenplay on IMDb
• ScreenPlay at BBC Two BBC Programme Index
• BFI Collections - ScreenPlay

• ScreenPlay
• 1986 British television series debuts
• 1993 British television series endings
• 1980s British drama television series
• 1990s British drama television series
• 1980s British anthology television series
• 1990s British anthology television series
• Samuel Johnson
• BBC anthology television shows
• BBC television dramas
• Films shot in the Scottish Borders
• Films shot in East Lothian
• British English-language television shows