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The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 5

Every episode of ScreenPlay Season 5 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 5!

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Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 9 - Wedded
    8.3/10(11 votes)

    S5:E9

    A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

    Director:Malcolm McKay
    Writer:Jim Cartwright

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  2. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 1 - Amongst Barbarians
    8.1/10(42 votes)

    S5:E1

    Two teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours before their execution, their parents arrive to visit them.

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Michael Wall

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  3. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 11 - Needle
    7.8/10(29 votes)

    S5:E11

    Danny and Paula are a young married couple with a baby. They are moving up in the world, leaving their high-rise for a house of their own. The future of their marriage is threatened by only one thing: Danny is a heroin addict.

    Director:Gillies MacKinnon
    Writer:Jimmy McGovern

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  4. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 2 - Antonia and Jane
    7.1/10(360 votes)

    S5:E2

    Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

    Director:Beeban Kidron
    Writer:Marcy Kahan

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  5. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 5 - The Land of Dreams
    6.7/10(7 votes)

    S5:E5

    Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.

    Director:Diarmuid Lawrence
    Writer:Allan Cubitt

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  6. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 3 - Night Voice
    6.6/10(9 votes)

    S5:E3

    Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

    Director:Richard Spence
    Writer:Dave Sheasby

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  7. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 4 - The Englishman's Wife
    5.3/10(8 votes)

    S5:E4

    A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.

    Director:Robert Cooper
    Writer:Holly Chandler

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  8. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 6 - Keeping Tom Nice
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E6

    Doug and Winnie have tried hard to keep their disabled son Tom 'nice', but when Stephen, a young social worker, takes a professional interest it has tragic consequences.

    Director:Louise Panton
    Writer:Lucy Gannon

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  9. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 7 - A Safe House
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E7

    In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by the police in London. Most were subsequently released. But for the Maguire family, 3 December 1974 was the start of a nightmare that is only now ending.

    Director:Moira Armstrong
    Writer:Bill Morrison

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  10. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 8 - Afters
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E8

    A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to face life without her.

    Director:Malcolm McKay
    Writer:Polly Teale

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  11. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 10 - Available Light
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E10

    A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.

    Director:Bob Bentley
    Writer:Robert Smith

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  12. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 12 - Shoot the Revolution
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E12

    During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth." The question is not how did she die, but why?

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Peter Flannery

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  13. ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode 13 - August Saturday
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S5:E13

    Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that, if discovered, would devastate those closest to her.

    Director:Diarmuid Lawrence
    Writer:William Trevor

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Season 5 Ratings Summary

"Wedded" is the best rated episode of "ScreenPlay" season 5. It scored 8.3/10 based on 11 votes. Directed by Malcolm McKay and written by Jim Cartwright, it aired on 8/29/1990. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Amongst Barbarians".