ScreenPlay
{{short description|British television series}}
{{distinguish|text = the anthology series ScreenPlay Firsts consisting of short films by new directors}}
{{For|information about actual screenplays|Screenplay}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use British English|date=October 2020}}
{{Infobox television
| image = Screenplay Title Card.JPG
| country = United Kingdom
| language = English
| num_series = 8
| num_episodes = 95
| list_episodes = #Plays
| network = BBC2
| company = BBC
| first_aired = {{Start date|1986|7|9|df=y}}
| last_aired = {{End date|1993|10|27|df=y}}
}}
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.{{Cite book|title=British Television Drama: A History|last=Cooke|first=Lez|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|year=2005|isbn=978-1-84457-623-4|edition=2|location=London|pages=28}} 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.{{Cite web|url=http://www.bafta.org/media-centre/transcripts/bafta-bfi-screenwriters-lecture-series-jimmy-mcgovern|title=BAFTA & BFI Screenwriters' Lecture Series: Jimmy McGovern|website=www.bafta.org|date=30 September 2015 |language=en|access-date=2017-07-19}}{{Cite web|url=http://hops.org.mk/en/content/merseyside-skopje-story-about-reduction-drug-related-harms|title=From Merseyside to Skopje – the story about reduction of drug related harms {{!}} hops.org.mk|website=hops.org.mk|language=en|access-date=2017-07-19}} The episode, directed by Gillies MacKinnon, was entitled Needle and featured Sean McKee, Emma Bird, and Pete Postlethwaite.{{Citation|title=Needle (1990)|url=https://letterboxd.com/film/needle-1990-1/|language=en|access-date=2017-07-19}} 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.(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
Plays
{{Series overview
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| link1 = #Series 1 (1986)
| episodes1 = 13
| start1 = {{Start date|1986|7|9|df=y}}
| end1 = {{End date|1986|10|2|df=y}}
| color2 = #FF7B7B
| link2 = #Series 2 (1987)
| episodes2 = 13
| start2 = {{Start date|1987|7|15|df=y}}
| end2 = {{End date|1987|10|7|df=y}}
| color3 = #FFA74F
| link3 = #Series 3 (1988)
| episodes3 = 10
| start3 = {{Start date|1988|7|13|df=y}}
| end3 = {{End date|1988|9|28|df=y}}
| color4 = #FF52A9
| link4 = #Series 4 (1989)
| episodes4 = 11
| start4 = {{Start date|1989|7|5|df=y}}
| end4 = {{End date|1989|9|20|df=y}}
| color5 = #FAFA00
| link5 = #Series 5 (1990)
| episodes5 = 13
| start5 = {{Start date|1990|7|11|df=y}}
| end5 = {{End date|1990|12|29|df=y}}
| color6 = #7BFF7B
| link6 = #Series 6 (1991)
| episodes6 = 15
| start6 = {{Start date|1991|7|3|df=y}}
| end6 = {{End date|1991|9|18|df=y}}
| color7 = #00FAFA
| link7 = #Series 7 (1992)
| episodes7 = 14
| start7 = {{Start date|1992|7|1|df=y}}
| end7 = {{End date|1992|9|30|df=y}}
| color8 = #4FA8FF
| link8 = #Series 8 (1993)
| episodes8 = 6
| start8 = {{Start date|1993|9|22|df=y}}
| end8 = {{End date|1993|10|27|df=y}}
}}
= Series 1 (1986) =
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 1
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|All Together Now}}
| DirectedBy = David Attwood
| WrittenBy = Peter Buckman
| Aux2 = Robin Midgley
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|7|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Colin Farrell, Colin Blumenau, Jerome Davies, Bryan James, Terry Molloy, Colyn Davies, Nick Mercer, Jacqueline Hill, Audrey Leybourne, Lynda Myers, Michael Griffiths, Chrissy Roberts, Alan Starkey, Keith Mansell, Patrick Wilkes and Clive Swift
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 2
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|Daylight Robbery}}
| DirectedBy = Chris Goddard
| WrittenBy = Rose Tremain
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|7|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Joan Hickson, Lynn Farleigh, Michael N. Harbour, Denys Hawthorne, Matthew Long, Gay Baynes, Ed Devereaux, Robert Lang, Tony Meyer, Annie Gurney, Alexander Goodman, David McEwan and David Telfer
| LineColor = E97500
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 3
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Brick Is Beautiful}}
| DirectedBy = David Wheatley
| WrittenBy = Andy Armitage
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|7|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Christopher Wild, Caroline Milmoe, Ian Mercer, Paul Oldham, Terry Sue-Patt, Tommy Boyle, Bert Gaunt, Stephen Boyes, Lottie Ward, Ruth Holden, Wendy Votel, Gilly Coman, Roberta Kerr, Louis Raynes, Anthony Benson, Drew Dawson, Doc O'Brien, Mike Donelan, Joan Campion, Margo Stanley, Ian Bleasdale and John Ryan
| LineColor = E97500
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 4
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|Knowing the Score}}
| DirectedBy = Brian Parker
| WrittenBy = Alma Cullen
| Aux2 = Tom Kinninmont
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|7|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Colette O'Neil, Andrew Keir, Sandra Voe, Katy Hale, Pat Harkins, Anne Myatt, Jan Wilson, Anne Lacey, Martin Heller, Tracey Chapman, Simon Donald, William Armour, Ray Jeffries and Jonathan Battersby
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 5
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Drums Along Balmoral Drive}}
| DirectedBy = Jane Howell
| WrittenBy = Douglas Livingstone
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|8|6|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Colin Blakely, Derek Fuke, Benedict Taylor, Michael Turner, Rowena Cooper, Larrington Walker, Jabu Mbalo, Inez Thorn, Michael Wynne, Anne Carroll, Hugh Quarshie, Eddie Tagoe, Michael Crompton, Femi Taylor, Christopher Asante, Nicholas Grant, Tommy Buson and Thomas Baptiste
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 6
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|Asinamali}}
| DirectedBy = Ross Devenish
| WrittenBy = Mbongeni Ngema
| Aux2 = David M. Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|8|13|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Solomzi Bisholo, Thami Cele, Bongani Hlophe, Bheki Mgadi, Boy Ngema and Mbongeni Ngema
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 7
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|In Traction}}
| DirectedBy = David Wickham
| WrittenBy = Stuart Paterson
| Aux2 = Tom Kinninmont
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|8|20|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} James Kennedy, Patrick Hannaway, Joe Mullaney, Leonard O'Malley, Matthew Hodgman, Caroline Paterson, Angie Murphy, John McGlynn, Una MacNab, Andrew Barr, Stuart Bishop, Robert Paterson
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 8
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Mozart Inquest}}
| DirectedBy = Anthony Garner
| WrittenBy = Simon Whitworth
| Aux2 = Martin Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|8|27|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Elizabeth Garvie, James Griffiths, Clifford Rose, Patrick Stewart, Kate Fahy and Elizabeth Spender
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 9
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Marlowe Inquest}}
| DirectedBy = Anthony Garner
| WrittenBy = Simon Whitworth
| Aux2 = Martin Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|9|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Woodvine, John Savident, Michael Pennington, Nicholas Gecks, Nicholas Le Prevost, Geoffrey Beevers and Matthew Marsh
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 10
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Blood, Sweat and Tears}}
| DirectedBy = Nicholas Renton
| WrittenBy = John Godber
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|9|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jane Clifford, Gillian Tompkins, Michael Callaghan, Liza Sadovy and Steven Brough
| LineColor = E97500
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 11
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|Shift Work}}
| DirectedBy = Angela Pope
| WrittenBy = Lesley Bruce
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|9|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Maureen Lipman, Stephen Dillane, Jeffrey Chiswick, Tony Alleff, Amy Rosenthal, Adam Rosenthal, Max Murray-Barrows, Christopher Chescoe, Treva Etienne, Yolanda Vazquez, Eddie Caswell, Prue Clarke, Angus Kennedy, David Bauckham, Richard Platt, Ian Collier, Lockwood West, Robert Austin and Jim Dunk
| LineColor = E97500
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 12
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = {{visible anchor|Paying Guests: Early Skirmishes}}
| DirectedBy = Michael Simpson
| WrittenBy = E. F. Benson (novel)
Thomas Ellice
| Aux2 = Rosemary Hill
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Robert Hardy, Angela Thorne, Benjamin Whitrow, Judy Cornwell, Joanna David, Annette Crosbie, Richard O'Callaghan, Avril Elgar, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Sylvia Barter, Maryann Turner, David Quilter, Margaretta Scott, Barbara Hicks and Reginald Jessup
| LineColor = E97500
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 13
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = {{visible anchor|Paying Guests: The Final Assent}}
| DirectedBy = Michael Simpson
| WrittenBy = E. F. Benson (novel)
Thomas Ellice
| Aux2 = Rosemary Hill
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1986|10|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Robert Hardy, Angela Thorne, Benjamin Whitrow, Judy Cornwell, Joanna David, Annette Crosbie, Richard O'Callaghan, Avril Elgar, Barbara Leigh-Hunt, Sylvia Barter, Maryann Turner, David Quilter, Margaretta Scott, Barbara Hicks and Reginald Jessup
| LineColor = E97500
}}
}}
= Series 2 (1987) =
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 14
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Trial of Klaus Barbie}}
| DirectedBy = Gareth Jones
| WrittenBy = Ray Jenkins
| Aux2 = Tim Ironside Wood
Dennis Woolf
Claudia Milne
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|7|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Mark Kingston, Maurice Denham, Christian Burgess, Jonathan Adams, Bernard Brown, David De Keyser, James Griffiths, Raad Rawi, John Stride, Colin Welland, David Calder, Charles Simon, Don Fellows, Sheila Raynor, Ronald Herdman, Lila Kaye, Peter Copley, Ray Smith, Tenniel Evans, Peter Woodthorpe, John Boswall, Sheila Burrell, Margery Mason, Margery Withers, Diana Coupland, Peggy Mount, Matyelok Gibbs, Lollie May, Beryl Cooke, Bruce Montague, Paul Anil and Jim McManus
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 15
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|Land}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/08d741830df44f7e85a3b96487e7ad46 BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Land]
| DirectedBy = David Wheatley
| WrittenBy = Barry Collins
| Aux2 = David M. Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|7|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Terry, Fernando Continentino, Rui Polanah, Maria Padilha, Bebeto Baia, Dira Paes and Eduardo Conde
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 16
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Lily My Love}}
| DirectedBy = Adrian Shergold
| WrittenBy = Elisabeth Bond
| Aux2 = David Snodin
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|7|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Bill Paterson, Cindy Holden, David Horovitch, Ian Sharp, Lynne Verrall, Will Tacey and Graeme Kirk
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 17
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{anchor|Cariani and the Courtesans}}Cariani and the Courtesans
| DirectedBy = Leslie Megahey
| WrittenBy = Leslie Megahey
| Aux2 = David M. Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|8|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Paul McGann, Simon Callow, Michael Gough, Diana Quick, Louiza Livingstone, Robert Goodman, Charles Gray, Lucy Hancock, Linda Polan, Caroline England, Teresa Benham, Clive Merrison and Anthony Milner
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 18
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Our Lady Blue}}
| DirectedBy = Robin Midgley
| WrittenBy = Heidi Thomas
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|8|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Patricia Hayes, Doreen Mantle, Eva Griffith, Paul Beringer, Maudie Smith, Mollie Maureen and Graham Aggrey
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 19
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|White Lady}}
| DirectedBy = David Rudkin
| WrittenBy = David Rudkin
| Aux2 = Carol Parks
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|8|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Cornelius Garrett, Sophie Thompson, Jessica Martin and Meg Wynn Owen
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 20
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|Scout}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/423a2aea79e7424799deb26a5413f436 BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: Scout][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq0jg BBC – ScreenPlay – Scout]
| DirectedBy = Danny Boyle
| WrittenBy = Frank McGuinness
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Ray McAnally, Stephen Rea, Colin Connor, Michael Liebman, Gerard O'Hare, Lloyd Hutchinson, Jeremy Chapman and Paul Ryder
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 21
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Venus de Milo Instead}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c1551f7fddde49acbbc4b4cb51a67d1b BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: The Venus de Milo Instead][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq0vm BBC – ScreenPlay – The Venus de Milo Instead]
| DirectedBy = Danny Boyle
| WrittenBy = Anne Devlin
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jeananne Crowley, Lorcan Cranitch, Iain Cuthbertson, Ruth McGuigan, Ann Hasson, Trudy Kelly, Aine McCartney, Leila Webster, Bridget Erin Bates, B J Hogg, Mark Mulholland, Brenda Winter, Jean Claude Deret, Sylvie Fevre, Tony Doyle
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 22
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Rockingham Shoot}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/2241d09f03e2493b882c7a37fc57cfce BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Next: The Rockingham Shoot][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04fqy4t BBC – ScreenPlay – The Rockingham Shoot]
| DirectedBy = Kieran Hickey
| WrittenBy = John McGahern
| Aux2 = Danny Boyle
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Bosco Hogan, Niall Toibin, Tony Rohr, Marie Kean, Oliver Maguire, Ian McElhinney, Hilary Reynolds, John Olohan, Gerard McSorley, Libby Smyth, Carmel McDonnell, Ronan Wilmot, Dick Holland, William Walker, John Keyes, Tony Coleman, Michael Gormley and Lucie Jamieson
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 23
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Shutter Falls}}
| DirectedBy = Peter Barber-Fleming
| WrittenBy = Norman Malcolm MacDonald
| Aux2 = Tom Kinninmont
Norman McCandlish
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Anthony Higgins, Emer Gillespie, Stella Gonet, Mary McInnes, Ewan Stewart, Billy Riddoch, Joan Scott, Hugh Martin, Gerry Slevin, Leonard Maguire, Iain Glass, Madelaine Taylor, Lloret McKenna and Robert Urquhart
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 24
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|Christine}}
| DirectedBy = Alan Clarke
| WrittenBy = Alan Clarke
Arthur Ellis
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Vicky Murdock, Kelly George, Joanne Mapp, Mark Harvey and Anthony Smith
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 25
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Interrogation of John}}
| DirectedBy = Nicholas Renton
| WrittenBy = Malcolm McKay
| Aux2 = David Snodin
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|9|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Dennis Quilley, Bill Paterson, Michael Fitzgerald, Andrew Seear, Jimmy Yuill, Dean Harris, Sean Caffrey, Richard Cordery, Patrick Godfrey, David Quilter, Kenny Ireland, Niall Padden, Penny Leatherbarrow, Trevor Penton, Jonty Stephens, David Adair, Bill Thomas, John Ramm and Ian Arthur
| LineColor = FF7B7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 26
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = {{anchor|Road}}Road
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/b8e9a0229cda4fdda8f66348988d320d BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Road]
| DirectedBy = Alan Clarke
| WrittenBy = Jim Cartwright
| Aux2 = Andrée Molyneux
David M. Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1987|10|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jane Horrocks, Mossie Smith, Neil Dudgeon, William Armstrong, Susan Brown, David Thewlis, Moya Brady, Alan David, Lesley Sharp, Barbara Keogh, Tim Dantay, Andrew Wilde and Willy Ross {{hr}} {{Italics colon|Awards}} Winner of the Best Television Drama Prize at the Monte Carlo Television Festival[https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/48b6383c0aed473881cc704e6caebf04 BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Road]
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= Series 3 (1988) =
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 27
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|No Further Cause for Concern}}
| DirectedBy = John Bruce
| WrittenBy = Rib Davis
| Aux2 = Graham Massey
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|13|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sean Chapman, Rod Culbertson, John Benfield, John Tamms, Garrie J Lammin, David Hargreaves, Tony Melody, Roland Oliver, Edwin Brown, Ivor Roberts, Shaughan Seymour, Celia Bannerman, Trevor Cooper, John Sterland, David Arlen, Neil Todd, Terry Bamber and Terence Plummer
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 28
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|A Woman Alone}}
| DirectedBy = Sharon Miller
| WrittenBy = Dario Fo and Franca Rame
translated by Gillian Hanna
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|20|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Lynn Redgrave, Nicholas Teare and Anthony Best
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 29
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Burning Ambition}}
| DirectedBy = Roger Bamford
| WrittenBy = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|7|27|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Simon McBurney, Marcello Magni, Richard Hope, Clive Mendus, Tim Barlow, Linda Kerr Scott, Rose English, Mick Barnfather, Jos Houben, Celia Gore Booth, Jean Campbell Dallas and Annabel Arden
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 30
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|Eskimos Do It}}
| DirectedBy = Derek Lister
| WrittenBy = Jim Barton
| Aux2 = Richard Langridge
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|8|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jean Boht, Liz Fraser, Ian Brimble, Neil Pearson, Ania Marson, Francis Low, Oscar Quitak, Jo Unwin, Cheryl Maiker and Catrin Menna
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 31
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Out of Love}}
| DirectedBy = Michael Houldey
| WrittenBy = Tom Clarke
| Aux2 = Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|8|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Juliet Stevenson, Dafydd Hywel, Emrys James, Cadfan Roberts, Robert Gwilym, Robin Griffith, Gwenllian Vies, John Henry-Hughes, Eluned Jones, Huw Neville and Meirion Morris
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 32
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|Home Front}}
| DirectedBy = Penny Cherns
| WrittenBy = Nick McCarty
| Aux2 = Graham Massey
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|8|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Stephen McGann, Jason Cunliffe, Wilbert Johnson, Simon Vaughan, Jan Ruppe, Cathy Sandford, Nick Stringer, Patty Hannock, Michael Bray, Tina Marian, Tom Hutchinson, Geff Francis, Ursula Jones, Nicholas Day, Stafford Gordon, Kate O'Connell, Tim Brown, Maurice Kaufmann, Frankie Cosgrave and Tim Gatti
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 33
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|Between the Cracks}}
| DirectedBy = Lucy Parker
| WrittenBy = Lennie James and Lucy Parker
| Aux2 = Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|8|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Leah Adeola, Richard Bench, Giselle Glasman, Kevin Gopie, Lennie James, Anthony Lennon, Simon McNally, Cliff Parisi, Baron Philip, Michael Quain, Gerald Simms and Richard Taylor
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 34
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Black and Blue Lamp}}
| DirectedBy = Guy Slater
| WrittenBy = Arthur Ellis
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|9|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sean Chapman, Ian Brimble, Karl Johnson, John Woodvine, Nick Stringer, Peter Lovstrom, Kenneth Cranham, Ralph Brown, Barry Woolgar, Jonathan Chater, Paddy Ryan and Anthony Smee
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 35
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Diary of Rita Patel}}
| DirectedBy = Michael Jackley
| WrittenBy = Carole Boyer
| Aux2 = Carolyn Montagu
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|9|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Cheryl Miller, Tony Wredden, Indira Joshi, Assam Mamodeally, Malcolm Scates, David Adair, Kumall Grewal, Dev Sagoo, Lyndam Gregory, Ian Arthur, Michael Mulkerrin, Jon Strickland, Melissa Wilson, Maiser Asghar, Sam Smart, Chis Pitt, Howard Shannon, Cy Town, Tony Calvert, Lee MacDonald, Martin Phillips and Ozzie Stevens
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 36
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Starlings}}
| DirectedBy = David Wheatley
| WrittenBy = Andy Armitage
| Aux2 = Brenda Reid
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1988|9|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Michael Maloney, Lynsey Baxter, David Ryall, Jane Downs, Frank Mills, Derek Newark, Wendy Seely, Tim Dantay, Lottie Ward, Ann Aris, Tommy Boyle, Robert Addie, Ralph Watson, Nicholas Fry, Guy Manning, Richard Lintern, Lucy Aston, Charmian Gradwell, Miles Richardson, Joshua Le Touzel, Ysanne Churchman, Pippa Vickers, Daphne Neville, Michael McStay, Alister Cameron and Anthony Benson
| LineColor = FFA74F
}}
}}
= Series 4 (1989) =
{{Episode table |background=#FF52A9 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=25 |director=15 |writer=18 |aux2=17 |airdate=15 |aux2T=Producer |episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 37
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|Testimony of a Child}}
| DirectedBy = Peter Smith
| WrittenBy = Lucy Gannon
| Aux2 = Louise Panton and Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|7|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Bowe, Jill Baker, Jonathan Leigh, Victoria Shalet, Heather Tobias, Paul Copley, Dermot Crowley, Ann Curthoys, Anthony Smee, Lucy Foxwell, Kate Lonergan, Marlene Sidaway and Deborah Winckles
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 38
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|A Night on the Tyne}}
| DirectedBy = Corin Campbell-Hill
| WrittenBy = Bill Gallagher
| Aux2 = Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|7|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Bryan Pringle, Alun Armstrong, Leslie Schofield, Robson Green, Melanie Hill, George Irving, Ralph Watson, Jimmy Swan, Rosalind Bailey, Eric Nicholson, Joe Ging and Steve Sutton
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 39
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Loving Hazel}}
| DirectedBy = Peter Smith
| WrittenBy = Les Smith
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|7|19|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Hugh Quarshie, Susan Brown, Gemma Darungton, Stephen Bent, Doña Croll, Sheila Kelley, Valerie Lilley, Arti Prashar, Andy Hockley, Ellie Haddington and Alan Cooke
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 40
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Attractions}}
| DirectedBy = Anthony Garner
| WrittenBy = Tony Marchant
| Aux2 = Richard Langridge
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|7|26|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Benjamin Whitrow, Reece Dinsdale and Ethna Roddy
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 41
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{anchor|Chinese Whispers}}Chinese Whispers
| DirectedBy = Stuart Burge
| WrittenBy = Maurice Leitch
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|8|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Niall Buggy, Gary Waldhorn, Martin Wenner, Annette Badland, Niall Cusack, Liam de Staic, Renny Krupinski, Breffni McKenna, Tony Rohr, George Shane, Daragh O'Malley, Trudy Kelly, Trevor Moore and Mel Austin
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 42
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Act}}
| DirectedBy = Roy Battersby
| WrittenBy = Richard Langridge
| Aux2 = Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|8|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jack Shepherd, Barry Jackson, Kenneth Haigh, Andy de la Tour, Sally Dexter, Dominic Muldowney, Andrew Findon and Terry Seymour
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 43
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Spirit of Man}}
| DirectedBy = Peter Barnes
| WrittenBy = Peter Barnes
| Aux2 = Richard Langridge
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|8|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Peter Bayliss, Dilys Laye, Clive Merrison, John Turner, Eleanor David, Nigel Hawthorne, Alan Rickman, Iain Cuthbertson, Harold Innocent and Peter Jeffrey
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 44
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|Beyond the Pale}}
| DirectedBy = Diarmuid Lawrence
| WrittenBy = William Trevor
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|8|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Prunella Scales, Annette Crosbie, Robert Lang, Ronald Hines, Jeff Rawle, James Greene, Doreen Hepburn, Barbara Adair and Ann Forsythe
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 45
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Hen House}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/03ba93636e3145f8a12671579240e31c BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: The Hen House][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cpzfb BBC – ScreenPlay – The Hen House]
| DirectedBy = Danny Boyle
| WrittenBy = Frank McGuinness
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|9|6|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sinead Cusack, Tony Doyle, Barry Birch, Pat Leavy, Eleanor Methven, Nathan Carr, Darryl Carr, Maria McDermottroe, Colm Carlin, Domhnall Carlin and Noel Magee
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 46
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Seeing in the Dark}}
| DirectedBy = Gareth Jones
| WrittenBy = Allen Drury
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|9|13|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} David Threlfall, Sylvestra Le Touzel, Greg Hicks, Jane Bertish, Maurice Denham, Janet Steel, Stewart Bevan, Sam Howard, Symond Lawes and Giles Newington
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 47
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|A Small Mourning}}
| DirectedBy = Chris Bernard
| WrittenBy = Martyn Hesford
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1989|9|20|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Alison Steadman, Stratford Johns, Ian Deam, Catherine Ivie, Elizabeth Bradley, Tina Earl, Pauline Yates, Dinah Handley, Celia Gore-Booth, Alan Bird, Elizabeth Crawford, Pat Mills and Sheldon Goodinson
| LineColor = FF52A9
}}
}}
= Series 5 (1990) =
{{Episode table |background=#FAFA00 |overall=5 |series=5 |title=25 |director=15 |writer=18 |aux2=17 |airdate=15 |aux2T=Producer |episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 48
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{anchor|Amongst Barbarians}}Amongst Barbarians
| DirectedBy = Jane Howell
| WrittenBy = Michael Wall
| Aux2 = Richard Langridge
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|7|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} David Jason, Rowena Cooper, Anne Carroll, Lee Ross, Con O'Neill, Kathy Burke, Josephine Welcome, Madhav Sharma, Ricardo Sibelo and Anthony Smee
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 49
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{anchor|Antonia and Jane}}Antonia and Jane
| DirectedBy = Beeban Kidron
| WrittenBy = Marcy Kahan
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|7|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Imelda Staunton, Saskia Reeves, Brenda Bruce, Bill Nighy, Ian Redford, Allan Corduner, Richard Hope and Iain Cuthbertson
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 50
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Night Voice}}
| DirectedBy = Richard Spence
| WrittenBy = Dave Sheasby
| Aux2 = John Chapman
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|7|25|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Alexei Sayle, Kevin Whately, Ruth Sheen, Leslie Sharp, Ian Mercer, Neil Dudgeon, Tim Barker, Sam Kelly, Rachel Bell, Gary Beadle, Barbara Hicks, Danny Schiller, Shirley Stelfox, Noreen Kershaw, Ingrid Wells, Stefan Escreet, David Boyce, Darren Scott, Tom Craig, Jan Alphonse, Chris Hargreaves, Sharon Muircroft, Kelly Breakell, Ray Ashcroft, Kathy Jamieson and Dinah Handley
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 51
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Englishman's Wife}}
| DirectedBy = Robert Cooper
| WrittenBy = Holly Chandler
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Imelda Staunton, Adrian Dunbar, Denys Hawthorne, Laura Hill, Trevor Moore, Alan Devlin, Shane Connaughton, Gary Walker, Louis Rolston, Chris Samsworth, Conleth Hill, Sean Doherty and Michael Doherty
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 52
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Land of Dreams}}
| DirectedBy = Diarmuid Lawrence
| WrittenBy = Allan Cubitt
| Aux2 = Colin Ludlow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Antony Sher, Patrick Shai, Rudi Davies, Ian Bartholomew, Tamara Hinchco, Antony Carrick, Nathan Dambuza Mdledle, Ewen Cummins, Jude Akuwudike, Chris Stanton and Joe Wenbourne
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 53
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|Keeping Tom Nice}}
| DirectedBy = Louise Panton
| WrittenBy = Lucy Gannon
| Aux2 = Ruth Caleb
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Alderton, Gwen Taylor, Linus Roache, Henrietta Bess, Sean Chapman and Ann Curthoys
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 54
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|A Safe House}}
| DirectedBy = Moira Armstrong
| WrittenBy = Bill Morrison
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Maggie Shevlin, Gary Lilburn, James Coyle, Dan Gordon, Niall Cusack, Gerard O'Hare, Patrick O'Kane, James Matthews, Peter Ferdinando, P J Nicholas, Scott Riley, Annatt Bass, Lousie Kattenhorn, Lauren Martin, Victoria Aked, Fleur Fekkes, Christian Robinson, Mia Callow, Jonathan Stratt, Jeffrey Robert, Ian Thompson, Harold Saks, Tony Stephens, Michael Dalton, Barrie Ewart, Tony O'Callaghan, Al Gregg, Richard Pescud, Christopher Driscoll, Mark Shelley, Nicholas Jeune, Derek Anders and Sarah Whitlock
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 55
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|Afters}}
| DirectedBy = Malcolm McKay
| WrittenBy = Polly Teale
| Aux2 = Paul Uster
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jimmy Jewel, Constance Chapman and Natasha Williams
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 56
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|Wedded}}
| DirectedBy = Malcolm McKay
| WrittenBy = Jim Cartwright
| Aux2 = Paul Uster
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|8|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sean Bean, Lesley Sharp and Melanie Thaw
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 57
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Available Light}}
| DirectedBy = Bob Bentley
| WrittenBy = Robert Smith
| Aux2 = Tatiana Kennedy
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|9|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Tom Bell, Joely Richardson, David Morrissey, Tiga Adams and Louisa Wooff
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 58
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|Needle}}
| DirectedBy = Gillies MacKinnon
| WrittenBy = Jimmy McGovern
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|9|12|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sean McKee, Emma Bird, Pete Postlethwaite, Anna Keaveney, John Bennett, Paul Barber, Gary Mavers, Stephen Walters, Arthur Kelly, Andrew Schofield, John Conteh, Carleen Ann Lundon, Thomas Branch, Paul Broughton, Tim Barlow, Vincent Maguire, Ina Clough and Chris Darwin
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 59
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = {{visible anchor|Traitors}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f9069374afd44c15a5751699d5e88588 BBC – Radio Times – Traitors]
| DirectedBy = Malcolm McKay
| WrittenBy = Jimmy McGovern
| Aux2 = Simon Passmore
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|11|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Anton Lesser, Geoffrey Hutchings, Tim Woodward, Jonathan Phillips, David Sibley, Cyril Shaps, Ian Brimble, John Southworth, David Foxxe, Gerrard McArthur, David Chittenden, Paraic Cullen, Metin Marlow, and David Cooper
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
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 60
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = {{visible anchor|Shoot the Revolution}}
| DirectedBy = Jane Howell
| WrittenBy = Peter Flannery
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Bernard Hill, Bob Peck, Freddie Jones, Sorcha Cusack, Iain Cuthbertson, Dido Miles, Trevor Peacock, Matyelok Gibbs, Ralph Nossek, Pauline Letts, Roland Oliver, Lee Ross, Jonathan Firth, Morris Perry, Michael Graham Cox and David Graham
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 61
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = {{visible anchor|August Saturday}}
| DirectedBy = Diarmuid Lawrence
| WrittenBy = William Trevor
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1990|12|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Sorcha Cusack, Tim McInnerny, Barry McGovern, John Kavanagh, Bairbre Ni Chaoimh, Peter Caffrey, Martina Stanley, Bosco Hogan, Rynagh O'Grady, Tony Rohr, Stephanie Fayerman, Maria McDermottroe, John Grillo, Brigid Erin Bates, Tom Hickey, Fidelma O'Dowda, Garvan McGrath, Karen O'Shea, Noel McGee and Carmel McDonnell
| LineColor = FAFA00
}}
}}
= Series 6 (1991) =
{{Episode table |background=#7BFF7B |overall=5 |series=5 |title=25 |director=15 |writer=18 |aux2=17 |airdate=15 |aux2T=Producer |episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 62
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|Redemption}}
| DirectedBy = Malcolm McKay
| WrittenBy = Malcolm McKay
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|7|3|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Tom Courtenay, Malcolm Storry, Lindsay Duncan, Miranda Richardson, Nick Moran, Liza Walker, Chloe Bates, Oliver Cotton, Trevor Cooper, Frank Mills and John Southworth
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 63
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|Broke}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/8c31098b76534c8c8cd27660354c29be BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Broke]
| DirectedBy = Alan Dossor
| WrittenBy = Stephen Bill
| Aux2 = Barry Hanson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|7|10|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Timothy Spall, Sheila Kelley, Larry Lamb, Susan Wooldridge, Leo Bill, Rosie Bill, Laura Dixon, Arthur Whybrow, Hilda Fenemore, Thomas Wheatley, Carole Harrison, Graham Weston, Peter Wear, Pauline Cory, Davyd Harries, Bharti Patel, Kenneth Hadley, Brian Portsmouth, Kathryn Hurlbutt and Shahnaz Pakravan
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 64
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Events at Drimaghleen}}
| DirectedBy = Robert Cooper
| WrittenBy = William Trevor
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|7|17|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} T. P. McKenna, Sophie Ward, Hugh Fraser, Nick Dunning, Kate Binchy, Pat Laffan, John Kavanagh, Maeve Connelly, Gary Walker and Barbara Adair
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 65
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Fallout Guy}}
| DirectedBy = Paul Tickell
| WrittenBy = John Random
| Aux2 = Caroline Oulton
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|7|24|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Lou Hirsch, Amanda Boxer, Eugene Lipinski, Maria Charles, Joe Melia, Lex Van Delden, Nicolas Colicos, Mitch Webb and James Tillitt
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 66
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Murder in Oakland}}
| DirectedBy = Karl Francis
| WrittenBy = Karl Francis
| Aux2 = Peter Goodchild and Ruth Kenley-Letts
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|7|31|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Ving Rhames, Lili Bernard, Lonnie Ford, Algin Ford, Brenda Callahan, Eriq La Salle, Mollie McAllister, Carol Little, Hansford Prince, Michael McFall, Edmond Johnson, Kenneth Crow, James Brooks, Deborah Garrett and Kevin Hope
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 67
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|Came Out, It Rained, Went Back in Again}}
| DirectedBy = Betsan Morris Evans
| WrittenBy = Claire Dowie
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jane Horrocks, Gwen Taylor, Janine Duvitski and Serena Evans
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 68
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|Oranges and Lemons}}
| DirectedBy = David Yates
| WrittenBy = Kay Adshead
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Olusola Oyeleye
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 69
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Missing Finger}}
| DirectedBy = Simon Cellan Jones
| WrittenBy = Nick Stafford
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Treva Etienne and Adjuna Andoh
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 70
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{visible anchor|One Day}}
| DirectedBy = Ian Potts
| WrittenBy = Helen Edmundson
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Kate Byers
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 71
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Paint}}
| DirectedBy = Laura Sims
| WrittenBy = Kathy Page
| Aux2 = {{TableTBA|N/A}}
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|7|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Ray Winstone and Jenny Jules
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 72
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Hour of the Lynx}}
| DirectedBy = Stuart Burge
| WrittenBy = Per Olov Enquist
translated by Kim Dambaek
| Aux2 = Colin Ludlow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|14|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Simon Donald, Sylvestra Le Touzel and Eleanor Bron
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 73
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = {{visible anchor|Clubland}}
| DirectedBy = Laura Sims
| WrittenBy = Nick Perry
| Aux2 = Chris Parr
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|8|28|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Paul Bhattacharjee, David Morrissey, Ruth Sheen, Daniel Webb, Laura Favali, Laurence Cote, Al Fiorentini, Laurence Bouvard, Kristin Zachariassen and Sarah Martin
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 74
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = {{visible anchor|Arise and Go Now}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/6e357baf774748aa967a4028c9798a18 BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay: Arise and Go Now][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq1p5 BBC – ScreenPlay – Arise and Go Now]
| DirectedBy = Danny Boyle
| WrittenBy = Owen O'Neill
| Aux2 = Paul Lister
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|9|4|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Kavanagh, Michael Liebmann, Tony Doyle, Jim Norton, Ian Bannen, Peter Caffrey, Sean Caffrey and Birdy Sweeney
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 75
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = {{visible anchor|Message to Major}}
| DirectedBy = Francis Gerard
| WrittenBy = Pieter-Dirk Uys
| Aux2 = Francis Gerard
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|9|11|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Pieter-Dirk Uys
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 76
| EpisodeNumber2 = 15
| Title = {{visible anchor|Journey to Knock}}
| DirectedBy = David Wheatley
| WrittenBy = William Ivory
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1991|9|18|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} John Hurt, David Thewlis, Charles Simon, Mal Whyte, Patrick Laffan, Geraldine Plunkett, Joan O'Hara and Birdy Sweeney
| LineColor = 7BFF7B
}}
}}
= Series 7 (1992) =
{{Episode table |background=#00FAFA |overall=5 |series=5 |title=25 |director=15 |writer=18 |aux2=17 |airdate=15 |aux2T=Producer |episodes=
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 77
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{anchor|The Countess Alice}}The Countess Alice
| DirectedBy = Moira Armstrong
| WrittenBy = Allan Cubitt
| Aux2 = Colin Ludlow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|1|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Wendy Hiller, Zoë Wanamaker, Duncan Bell, Patricia Quinn, Lucinda Fisher, Sylvia Barter, Madge Ryan, Chris Stanton, Martin Wimbush, Hannah Cresswell, Terence Donovan, Sarah Crowden and Jane van Hool
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 78
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|Force of Duty}}
| DirectedBy = Pat O'Connor
| WrittenBy = Bill Morrison and Chris Ryder
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|8|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Donal McCann, Adrian Dunbar, Patrick Malahide, Ingrid Craigie, John Linehan, Michelle Fairley, Jim Corry, Catherine Brennan, Michael McKnight, Tim Loane, Carol Brown, Kristin Neely, Barry Birch, Sean Caffrey, Ethna Roddy, Paula McFetridge, BJ Hogg, Dan Gordon and Eileen Pollock
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 79
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|Bad Girl}}
| DirectedBy = George Case
| WrittenBy = Guy Hibbert
| Aux2 = David Thompson
Josephine Ward
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|15|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Jane Horrocks, Lesley Manville, Nicholas Woodeson, Tom Beard, Todd Boyce, David Bradley and Carol MacReady
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 80
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|Bitter Harvest}}
| DirectedBy = Simon Cellan Jones
| WrittenBy = Charles Pattinson and Winsome Pinnock
| Aux2 = Charles Pattinson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Josette Simon, Sue Johnston, Yul Vazquez, Rudolph Walker, Tomas Milian, Juan M Almonte and Juanita Ageh
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 81
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Man to Man}}
| DirectedBy = John Maybury
| WrittenBy = Manfred Karge
| Aux2 = James Mackay
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|7|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Tilda Swinton
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 82
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{anchor|Death and the Compass}}Death and the Compass
| DirectedBy = Alex Cox
| WrittenBy = Jorge Luis Borges (story)
Alex Cox
| Aux2 = Karl H Braun
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|8|5|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Peter Boyle, Miguel Sandoval, Christopher Eccleston, Pedro Armendariz and Alonso Echanove
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 83
| EpisodeNumber2 = 7
| Title = {{visible anchor|Buying a Landslide}}
| DirectedBy = Simon Curtis
| WrittenBy = David Edgar
| Aux2 = Chris Parr
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|2|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Griffin Dunne, John Mahoney, Ron Vawter, Lisa Arrindell, Peter Gallagher, Mason Adams, Ron Rifkin and Christine Baranski
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 84
| EpisodeNumber2 = 8
| Title = {{visible anchor|Springing Lenin}}
| DirectedBy = Andrei Nekrasov
| WrittenBy = Patricia Hannah
| Aux2 = Tatiana Kennedy
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Geraldine McEwan
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 85
| EpisodeNumber2 = 9
| Title = {{anchor|Business with Friends}}Business with Friends
| DirectedBy = Uwe Janson
| WrittenBy = David Spencer
| Aux2 = Tatiana Kennedy
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Christopher Eccleston and Adie Allen
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 86
| EpisodeNumber2 = 10
| Title = {{visible anchor|Can't Stop Me Dreaming}}
| DirectedBy = Bernard Rudden
| WrittenBy = Bernard Rudden
| Aux2 = Tatiana Kennedy
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|9|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Marion van Thyn and Walter van Dyk
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 87
| EpisodeNumber2 = 11
| Title = {{visible anchor|A Little Bit of Lippy}}
| DirectedBy = Chris Bernard
| WrittenBy = Martyn Hesford
| Aux2 = George Faber
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|16|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Kenneth Cranham, Rachel Davies, Alison Swann, Danny Cunningham, Elizabeth Bradley, Bette Bourne, Tina Earl and Cliff Howells
| LineColor = 00FAFA
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 88
| EpisodeNumber2 = 12
| Title = {{visible anchor|Dread Poets' Society}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/84d68cbc29f348e4867a5c125efd3b09 BBC – Radio Times – ScreenPlay]
| DirectedBy = Andy Wilson
| WrittenBy = David Stafford and Benjamin Zephaniah
| Aux2 = Estelle Daniel
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Benjamin Zephaniah, Timothy Spall, Alex Jennings, Alan Cumming, Emma Fielding and Dexter Fletcher
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 89
| EpisodeNumber2 = 13
| Title = {{visible anchor|Small Metal Jacket}}
| DirectedBy = Steve Hilliker
| WrittenBy = Emily Prager (story)
Scott Roberts
| Aux2 = Caroline Oulton
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|23|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Debora Weston, Toshie Ogura, Marie Theodore, Jana Shelden, Tracy Thorne, Laurel Lefkow, Abigail Canton, Benedict Wong, Vincent Wong, Basil Ho-Yen, Kris Emmerson and Peter Banks
| LineColor = 00FAFA
}}
{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 90
| EpisodeNumber2 = 14
| Title = {{anchor|You, Me and Marley}}You, Me and Marley
| DirectedBy = Richard Spence
| WrittenBy = Graham Reid
| Aux2 = Chris Parr
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1992|9|30|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Marc Oshea, Bronagh Gallagher, Michael Liebmann, Emma Moylan, Marie Jones, Catherine Brennan, Stella McCusker, Frank Grimes, Lorcan Cranitch, James Greene, Ian McElhinney, John Keegan, George Shane, BJ Hogg, Peter Ferris and Peter Taggart {{hr}} {{Italics colon|Awards}} Michael Powell Award for best British film at Edinburgh International Film Festival 1992
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}}
= Series 8 (1993) =
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 91
| EpisodeNumber2 = 1
| Title = {{visible anchor|Love Lies Bleeding}}
| DirectedBy = Michael Winterbottom
| WrittenBy = Ronan Bennett
| Aux2 = Robert Cooper
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|9|22|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Mark Rylance, Elizabeth Bourgine, John Kavanagh, Brendan Gleeson, Tony Doyle, Robert Patterson, George Shane, James Nesbitt, Emma Jordan, Stuart Graham, Tim Loane, James Durrell, Michael Liebmann, Bosco Hogan, Margaret D'Arcy, Paula Hamilton and Victoria Jameson
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 92
| EpisodeNumber2 = 2
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Merrihill Millionaires}}
| DirectedBy = Les Blair
| WrittenBy = Rob Ritchie
| Aux2 = Lynn Horsford
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|9|29|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Stephen Rea, John Bowler, John McGlynn, Steve Huison, Glenn Cunningham, Simon Ashley, Elizabeth Mickery, Barbara Horne, Shelagh Fraser, William Ivory, Steve Halliwell, Ian Dunn, Kerrie Plowman, Julia Ford, Jon Croft, Philip David, Chris Collings and Al T Kossy
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 93
| EpisodeNumber2 = 3
| Title = {{visible anchor|The Vision Thing}}
| DirectedBy = Pedr James
| WrittenBy = Mark Lawson
| Aux2 = Charles Pattinson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|10|6|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Richard Wilson, Derek Jacobi, Nathaniel Parker, Kenneth Cranham, Catherine Russell, Nicholas Farrell, Clive Russell, Phyllida Sewell, Liz Kettle, Christopher Fulford, Albie Woodington, Lennox Greaves, Gerald Sim, Lisa Bowerman, Dale Rapley, Marilyn Finlay, Anne Marie Marriott, Richard Dixon, Alastair Campbell, Martin Young and Hamish McColl
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 94
| EpisodeNumber2 = 4
| Title = {{visible anchor|Safe}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/c269dd0fd1c94d4eae50805e0e634e1b BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Safe]
| DirectedBy = Antonia Bird
| WrittenBy = Al Ashton
| Aux2 = David M Thompson
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|10|13|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Kate Hardie, Aidan Gillen, George Costigan, Andrew Tiernan, Steven Mackintosh, Robert Carlyle, Carol Leader, Neil Smals, Cheryl Maiker, Marc O'Shea, Kevin Walsh and Louise Heaney
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 95
| EpisodeNumber2 = 5
| Title = {{visible anchor|Not Even God Is Wise Enough}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/f6af533d98cc411d8baf4b80d17abd18 BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Not Even God Is Wise Enough][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p04cq160 BBC – ScreenPlay – Not Even God is Wise Enough]
| DirectedBy = Danny Boyle
| WrittenBy = Biyi Bandele-Thomas
| Aux2 = Colin Ludlow
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|10|20|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Paterson Joseph, Vivienne McKone, Ellen Thomas, Mona Hammond, Doyle Richmond, Mark Strong, Trevor Bowen, Kevin Allen and Ben Thomas
| LineColor = 4FA8FF
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{{Episode list
| EpisodeNumber = 96
| EpisodeNumber2 = 6
| Title = {{visible anchor|Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles}}
| RTitle = [https://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/3599c536d45f4586bd0c59716be19102 BBC – Radio Times – Screenplay: Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles][https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00mwft8 BBC – ScreenPlay – Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles]
| DirectedBy = John Byrne
| WrittenBy = John Byrne
| Aux2 = Nick Barton
| OriginalAirDate = {{Start date|1993|10|27|df=y}}
| ShortSummary = {{Episode cast|hr=n}} Robbie Coltrane, John Sessions, Leo Sho-Silva, Celia Imrie, Tony Halfpenny, Alan David, Carol MacReady, Joanne Thirsk, Penelope McGhie, Mark Anstee, Ian Dury and Donald MacNeill
| LineColor = 4FA8FF
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}}
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
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External links
- {{BBC programme}}
- [https://s.media-imdb.com/title/tt1049304 Screenplay] on IMDb
- [http://genome.ch.bbc.co.uk/search/0/20?adv=1&q=ScreenPlay&media=tv&yf=1986&yt=1993&mf=1&mt=12&tf=00%3A00&tt=00%3A00#search ScreenPlay] at BBC Two BBC Programme Index
- [https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150787531 BFI Collections - ScreenPlay]
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