The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 6

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   #1 - Redemption

   S6:E17/3/1991

   After 16 years away Stan Peachey returns to his village. His wife still loves him but his sister wants revenge. What was his crime?

   Director:Malcolm McKay

   Writer:Malcolm McKay

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   Writer:Malcolm McKay
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   #2 - Broke

   S6:E27/10/1991

   A man and his wife, who are proprietors of a struggling window-covering business, agree to install curtains in an exclusive club patronized by a wealthy friend of theirs. After completing the job, the shop owner has great difficulty collecting payment for the job. His "friend" becomes scarce and Spall finds he has no legal foot to stand on since there is no written record of the informal transaction. With the couple's business floundering due to mounting debts, and their former friend's crass attitude towards their predicament, anger and frustration reach the boiling point.

   Director:Alan Dossor

   Writer:Stephen Bill

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   Director:Alan Dossor

   Writer:Stephen Bill
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   #3 - Events at Drimaghleen

   S6:E37/17/1991

   The painful memories of the tragedy that awaited the people of Drimaghleen on 2/11/88 have just begun to fade; Hetty Fortune and her TV documentary team travel there to piece those memories together into a story of horror.

   Director:Robert Cooper

   Writer:William Trevor

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   Director:Robert Cooper

   Writer:William Trevor
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   #4 - The Fallout Guy

   S6:E47/24/1991

   Raymond Gold, a 40-year-old Walter Mitty character from Philadelphia, is recruited to pass secrets of the atom bomb to the Russians in the 1940s. His girlfriend Danica discovers he is a fantasist while the FBI suspect him of spying. His world falls apart, with tragi-comic results.

   Director:Paul Tickell

   Writer:John T. Random

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   Director:Paul Tickell

   Writer:John T. Random
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   #5 - Murder in Oakland

   S6:E57/31/1991

   Oakland, California, is the murder capital of the USA - there were 161 homicides in 1990 in a city the size of Cardiff. Blue and Eric are new additions to the Police Department's five overworked homicide teams. When they investigate a seemingly motiveless prostitute killing, they find themselves drawn into the centre of a fight for survival among Oakland's dangerous drug gangs.

   Director:Karl Francis

   Writer:Karl Francis

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   Writer:Karl Francis
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   #6 - The Hour of the Lynx

   S6:E68/14/1991

   A young murderer in a psychiatric institution is given a cat to care for as part of a controlled experiment. He heaps devotion on it and the experiment seems a great success - until there is a baffling outbreak of violence.

   Director:Stuart Burge

   Writer:Per Olov Enquist

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   Director:Stuart Burge

   Writer:Per Olov Enquist
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   #7 - Clubland

   S6:E78/28/1991

   Sylvie, a Belgian girl living in London, arrives at her local police station. She starts to tell how she was picked up in a nightclub by the handsome Ajay, and the listening DC Judd realises he is onto a most unusual case.

   Director:Laura Sims

   Writer:Nick Perry

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   Director:Laura Sims

   Writer:Nick Perry
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   #8 - Arise and Go Now

   S6:E89/4/1991

   Exploding poets, randy bishops and bungling IRA hoodlums are causing havoc in a small town in Northern Ireland. Kevin, an IRA recruit, and Father Dade, the local priest, try to drive some sanity into their world.

   Director:Danny Boyle

   Writer:Owen O'Neill

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   Director:Danny Boyle

   Writer:Owen O'Neill
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   #9 - Message to Major

   S6:E99/11/1991

   This BBC film written and performed by South African satirist Pieter-Dirk Uys, is a 'video postcard' to the British Prime Minister from one Mrs Evita Bezuidenhout, South African ambassador to the fictitious black homeland of Bapetikosweti. Relishing his opportunities to satirise both the 'new' and the old South Africa, Dirk Uys delivers a lesson in history.

   Director:Francis Gerard

   Writer:Pieter-Dirk Uys

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   Director:Francis Gerard

   Writer:Pieter-Dirk Uys
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    #10 - Journey to Knock

    S6:E109/18/1991

    Journey to Knock humorously follows three disabled men on their pilgrimage from the North of England to Knock shrine in Co. Mayo.

    Director:David Wheatley

    Writer:William Ivory

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    Director:David Wheatley

    Writer:William Ivory