The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 2

Episode Rankings

1. #1 Fan Favorite
   

   8.4/10(16 votes)

   #1 - The Shutter Falls

   S2:E79/16/1987

   A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls

   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:N.M. MacDonald

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   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:N.M. MacDonald
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   7.9/10(357 votes)

   #2 - Road

   S2:E1010/7/1987

   Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an average night along a derelict Lancashire road in the 1980s.

   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:Jim Cartwright

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   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:Jim Cartwright
3. 

   7.4/10(16 votes)

   #3 - Carianai and the Courtesans

   S2:E48/5/1987

   A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.

   Director:Leslie Megahey

   Writer:Leslie Megahey

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   Director:Leslie Megahey

   Writer:Leslie Megahey
4. 

   7.3/10(341 votes)

   #4 - Christine

   S2:E89/23/1987

   Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writers:Alan Clarke, Arthur Ellis

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   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writers:Alan Clarke, Arthur Ellis
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   6.8/10(7 votes)

   #5 - The Trial of Klaus Barbie

   S2:E17/15/1987

   Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice

   Director:Gareth Jones

   Writer:Ray Jenkins

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   Director:Gareth Jones

   Writer:Ray Jenkins
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   6.6/10(22 votes)

   #6 - White Lady

   S2:E68/26/1987

   In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power.

   Director:David Rudkin

   Writer:David Rudkin

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   Director:David Rudkin

   Writer:David Rudkin
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   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #7 - Land

   S2:E27/22/1987

   The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their priest for help. should they resist the Violence passively - or defy the church's teaching and take up arms? When a stranger on the run arrives in town, the answer becomes clear.

   Director:David Wheatley

   Writer:Barry Collins

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   Director:David Wheatley

   Writer:Barry Collins
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   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #8 - Lily My Love

   S2:E37/29/1987

   Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'

   Director:Adrian Shergold

   Writer:Elisabeth Bond

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   Director:Adrian Shergold

   Writer:Elisabeth Bond
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   0.0/10(0 votes)

   #9 - Our Lady Blue

   S2:E58/12/1987

   In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

   Director:Robin Midgley

   Writer:Heidi Thomas

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   Director:Robin Midgley

   Writer:Heidi Thomas
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    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Interrogation of John

    S2:E99/30/1987

    A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area. Is there a connection? Might the assembled officers have an early result? Not if he refuses to say anything or even give his name.

    Director:Nicholas Renton

    Writer:Malcolm McKay

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    Director:Nicholas Renton

    Writer:Malcolm McKay