The Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 9

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1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   6.4/10(480 votes)

   #1 - The Clothes in the Wardrobe

   S9:E112/23/1993

   Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can be done?

   Director:Waris Hussein

   Writers:Martin Sherman, Alice Thomas Ellis

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   Director:Waris Hussein

   Writers:Martin Sherman, Alice Thomas Ellis
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   7.8/10(9 votes)

   #2 - Edward II

   S9:E212/30/1993

   In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favour in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon.

   Director:Derek Jarman

   Writers:Ken Butler, Derek Jarman, Christopher Marlowe

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   Director:Derek Jarman

   Writers:Ken Butler, Derek Jarman, Christopher Marlowe
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   6.9/10(37 votes)

   #3 - The Long Roads

   S9:E31/31/1993

   An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other.

   Director:Tristram Powell

   Writer:John McGrath

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   Director:Tristram Powell

   Writer:John McGrath
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   6.3/10(26 votes)

   #4 - Femme Fatale

   S9:E42/7/1993

   The tantalizing beauty and vivacity of the irresistible Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets - sometimes with unfortunate fatal results for those concerned. Everywhere she goes, Maddalena leaves a trail of bodies behind her, but it's not her fault really - it's just that men find it very, very, easy to fall in love (or lust) with her.

   Director:Udayan Prasad

   Writer:Simon Gray

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   Director:Udayan Prasad

   Writer:Simon Gray
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   7.3/10(43 votes)

   #5 - Dead Romantic

   S9:E52/14/1993

   Madeleine Severn is a teacher and a virgin in a small town searching for Mr. Right. She falls in love with Bernard, a fellow teacher but is being stalked by Paul, a student. Is he the serial killer on the loose in London and who will be his next victim? The tension mounts in this murder mystery with a real twist in its tail.

   Director:Patrick Lau

   Writers:Simon Brett, Jan Ashdown

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   Director:Patrick Lau

   Writers:Simon Brett, Jan Ashdown
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   6.1/10(153 votes)

   #6 - The Cormorant

   S9:E62/21/1993

   Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true. But the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not the cormorant that comes with the house, but vice versa.

   Director:Peter Markham

   Writers:Peter Ransley, Stephen Gregory

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   Director:Peter Markham

   Writers:Peter Ransley, Stephen Gregory
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   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #7 - Prague

   S9:E72/28/1993

   Alexander (Alan Cumming) is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track down a piece of film that contains the only existing footage of his family.

   Director:Ian Sellar

   Writer:Ian Sellar

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   Director:Ian Sellar

   Writer:Ian Sellar
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   6.5/10(29 votes)

   #8 - Voices in the Garden

   S9:E83/7/1993

   Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant socialising have gradually dwindled, and for Cuckoo the villa has become a prison. Then an attractive young couple arrive, resurrecting the tensions and sexual rivalry between Archie and Cuckoo, and forcing all four to learn about themselves.

   Director:Pierre Boutron

   Writers:Lee Langley, Dirk Bogarde

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   Director:Pierre Boutron

   Writers:Lee Langley, Dirk Bogarde
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   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #9 - Maria's Child

   S9:E93/28/1993

   Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is not the father, admits to cheating on her, she kicks him out. Still unable to decide what to do, she imagines a dialogue with the fetus.

   Director:Malcolm McKay

   Writer:Malcolm McKay

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   Director:Malcolm McKay

   Writer:Malcolm McKay
10. 

    7.2/10(6619 votes)

    #10 - The Snapper

    S9:E104/2/1993

    When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight-knit Irish family struggles to cope with the news.

    Director:Stephen Frears

    Writer:Roddy Doyle

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    Director:Stephen Frears

    Writer:Roddy Doyle
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    6.2/10(24 votes)

    #11 - The Trial

    S9:E1112/19/1993

    Harold Pinter's screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's enigmatic masterpiece. The story of a man who gets drawn into a world of lies and corruption as he seeks to prove his innocence.

    Director:David Hugh Jones

    Writer:Unknown

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    Director:David Hugh Jones

    Writer:Unknown
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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - The Railway Station Man

    S9:E1212/30/1993

    A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she meets a mysterious American, but then her son gets involved with a violent political group.

    Director:Michael Whyte

    Writers:Jennifer Johnston, Shelagh Delaney

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    Director:Michael Whyte

    Writers:Jennifer Johnston, Shelagh Delaney
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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - Delete

    S9:E994/12/1992

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    Director:Unknown

    Writer:Unknown

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