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The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 6

Every episode of ScreenPlay Season 6 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 6!

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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 6 Episode 2 - Broke
    8.3/10(7 votes)

    S6:E2

    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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  2. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 10 - Journey to Knock
    8.2/10(36 votes)

    S6:E10

    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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  3. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 1 - Redemption
    7.6/10(21 votes)

    S6:E1

    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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  4. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 5 - Murder in Oakland
    6.0/10(6 votes)

    S6:E5

    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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  5. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 3 - Events at Drimaghleen
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E3

    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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  6. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 4 - The Fallout Guy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E4

    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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  7. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 6 - The Hour of the Lynx
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E6

    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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  8. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 7 - Clubland
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E7

    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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  9. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 8 - Arise and Go Now
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E8

    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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  10. ScreenPlay Season 6 Episode 9 - Message to Major
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S6:E9

    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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Season 6 Ratings Summary

"Broke" is the best rated episode of "ScreenPlay" season 6. It scored 8.3/10 based on 7 votes. Directed by Alan Dossor and written by Stephen Bill, it aired on 7/10/1991. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Journey to Knock".