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  1. #1 Worst Episode
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    Screen Two Season 1 Episode 7 - The Unknown Soldier
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    #1 - The Unknown Soldier

    S1:E7

    The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

    Director:Mike Vardy
    Writer:Raymond Hitchcock

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  2. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 10 - Blood Hunt
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    #2 - Blood Hunt

    S2:E10

    The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills, pursued by Robert's brother. An old friend, Sandy Ross, tries to prevent the inevitable blood hunt.

    Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
    Writers:Neil M. Gunn, Stewart Conn

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  3. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 12 - Hard Travelling
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    #3 - Hard Travelling

    S2:E12

    Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys. Encounters on the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.

    Director:Colin Gregg
    Writer:Hugh Stoddart

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  4. Screen Two Season 3 Episode 13 - On the Palm
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    #4 - On the Palm

    S3:E13

    Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a welcome change from the dole. Until he finds himself digging dirt on an old friend.

    Director:Michael Whyte
    Writer:Dave Sheasby

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  5. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 4 - Stanley Spencer
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    #5 - Stanley Spencer

    S4:E4

    The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination, he needed two wives.

    Director:Anna Benson Gyles
    Writer:Elaine Morgan

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  6. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 6 - Love Birds
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    #6 - Love Birds

    S4:E6

    Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy mix-ups, collisions and brushes with the law.

    Director:Stephen Whittaker
    Writer:Barry Collins

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  7. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 8 - Reasonable Force
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    #7 - Reasonable Force

    S4:E8

    In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

    Director:Jim Goddard
    Writer:Patrick Malahide

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  8. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 11 - Run for the Lifeboat
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    #8 - Run for the Lifeboat

    S4:E11

    Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.

    Director:Douglas Livingstone
    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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  9. Screen Two Season 5 Episode 3 - Flying in the Branches
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    #9 - Flying in the Branches

    S5:E3

    Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the first time, Sue is reminded of things she had tried to forget. Amid the tensions of the sisters' less than joyful reunion, Dana announces that she wants to find a husband.

    Director:Eva Kolouchova
    Writer:Anna Fodorova

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  10. Screen Two Season 5 Episode 9 - Here Is the News
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    #10 - Here Is the News

    S5:E9

    Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.

    Director:Udayan Prasad
    Writer:G.F. Newman

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  11. Screen Two Season 5 Episode 11 - Sitting Targets
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    #11 - Sitting Targets

    S5:E11

    Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back..

    Director:Jenny Wilkes
    Writer:Peter Ransley

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  12. Screen Two Season 6 Episode 5 - The Impossible Spy
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    #12 - The Impossible Spy

    S6:E5

    This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where he spent years infiltrating the Syrian political establishment. Israel's national hero, Eli Cohen, successfully entered the upper echelons of the Syrian government as a double-agent. The secrets he obtained became crucial in Israel's victory in the 1967 Six Day War.

    Director:Jim Goddard
    Writers:Douglas Livingstone, Marty Ross

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  13. Screen Two Season 6 Episode 9 - Circles of Deceit
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    #13 - Circles of Deceit

    S6:E9

    Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.

    Director:Stuart Burge
    Writers:Stephen Wakelam, Nina Bawden

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  14. Screen Two Season 7 Episode 2 - Hallelujah Anyhow
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    #14 - Hallelujah Anyhow

    S7:E2

    When local pastor Adlyn meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart.

    Director:Matthew Jacobs
    Writers:Matthew Jacobs, Jean Breeze

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  15. Screen Two Season 7 Episode 3 - Korczak
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    #15 - Korczak

    S7:E3

    The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto.

    Director:Andrzej Wajda
    Writer:Agnieszka Holland

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  16. Screen Two Season 8 Episode 9 - Utz
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    #16 - Utz

    S8:E9

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Screen Two Season 9 Episode 7 - Prague
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    #17 - Prague

    S9:E7

    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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  18. Screen Two Season 9 Episode 9 - Maria's Child
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    #18 - Maria's Child

    S9:E9

    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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  19. Screen Two Season 9 Episode 12 - The Railway Station Man
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    #19 - The Railway Station Man

    S9:E12

    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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  20. Screen Two Season 9 Episode 99 - Delete
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    #20 - Delete

    S9:E99

    No description available

    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  21. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 7 - Return to Blood River
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    #21 - Return to Blood River

    S10:E7

    Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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  22. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 9 - Zinky Boys Go Underground
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    #22 - Zinky Boys Go Underground

    S10:E9

    In Moscow, veterans of the Afghanistan war live on the margin. Their leader is Andrei, their former sergeant, blind from drinking wood alcohol there, and attended in a wheelchair by his younger sister, Lena. Andrei and his pals have a black-market stall, paying off both the city's Mafia (Oblov comes by regularly to collect) and the cops. The cops are looking for a subway slasher; Andrei is in love with Oriolo, a stylish African; unbeknownst to Andrei, Oriolo is saving to leave for Paris; and, Lena wants to protect her brother. When new cops trash their stall, Andrei loses control of his gang; Oblov makes off with Oriolo, and the subway becomes the scene of a final showdown.

    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 11 - Hope in the Year Two
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    #23 - Hope in the Year Two

    S10:E11

    In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.

    Director:Elijah Moshinsky
    Writer:Trevor Griffiths

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  24. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 15 - A Landing on the Sun
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    #24 - A Landing on the Sun

    S10:E15

    By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given the unusual brief of finding the true meaning of happiness. Twenty years after Summerchild's mysterious death, a Cabinet officer investigates, and uncovers a secret world high in a Whitehall attic and a curious romance that disturbed Summerchild's superiors.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Michael Frayn

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  25. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 19 - The Blue Boy
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    #25 - The Blue Boy

    S10:E19

    A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationship - only for the past to creep up on the present with devastating results.

    Director:Paul Murton
    Writer:Paul Murton

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Worst Episodes Summary

"The Unknown Soldier" is the worst rated episode of "Screen Two". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by Mike Vardy and written by Raymond Hitchcock, it aired on 2/17/1985. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Blood Hunt".