The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 7

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   #1 - The Countess Alice

   S7:E17/1/1992

   A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Grafin von Holzendorf, has agreed to be interviewed. A few questions set the Grafin's daughter, Connie, thinking about her past, and she sets off for her fatherland, now that the Berlin wall is down, to find out where she comes from. But what she finds out may destroy her relationship with her mother.

   Director:Moira Armstrong

   Writer:Allan Cubitt

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   Director:Moira Armstrong

   Writer:Allan Cubitt
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   #2 - Force of Duty

   S7:E27/8/1992

   RUC detective Simpson Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life.

   Director:Pat O'Connor

   Writer:Bill Morrison

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   Director:Pat O'Connor

   Writer:Bill Morrison
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   #3 - Bad Girl

   S7:E37/15/1992

   A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

   Director:George Case

   Writer:Guy Hibbert

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   Director:George Case

   Writer:Guy Hibbert
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   #4 - Bitter Harvest

   S7:E47/22/1992

   A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.

   Director:Simon Cellan Jones

   Writers:Winsome Pinnock, Charles Pattinson

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   Director:Simon Cellan Jones

   Writers:Winsome Pinnock, Charles Pattinson
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   #5 - Man to Man

   S7:E57/29/1992

   A German woman takes on her husband's identity after his death, and spends the next 40 years impersonating him.

   Director:John Maybury

   Writer:Manfred Karge

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   Director:John Maybury

   Writer:Manfred Karge
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   #6 - Death and the Compass

   S7:E68/5/1992

   In the comic book world of a timeless Latin American country, famed policeman Inspector Lonnrot becomes embroiled in a series of murders. Rejecting all obvious solutions to the crime he discovers a more complex set of clues only to find himself enmeshed in a diabolical plot.

   Director:Alex Cox

   Writer:Alex Cox

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   Director:Alex Cox

   Writer:Alex Cox
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   #7 - Dread Poets Society

   S7:E78/12/1992

   Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues.

   Director:Andy Wilson

   Writers:Benjamin Zephaniah, David Stafford

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   Director:Andy Wilson

   Writers:Benjamin Zephaniah, David Stafford
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   #8 - Buying a Landslide

   S7:E89/2/1992

   Republican senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex-Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.

   Director:Simon Curtis

   Writer:David Edgar

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   Director:Simon Curtis

   Writer:David Edgar
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   #9 - Continental Drift

   S7:E99/9/1992

   An eccentric Scottish spinster greets the collapse of communism by snapping up a statue of Lenin on the cheap and towing it home across a bemused or hostile Europe. / Two members of the British fascist movement bring fraternal greetings to their neo-Nazi counterparts in Berlin. / Marijke and Pieter were in love. Now it has gone sour, but they still have to finish their George Formby documentary on location in Lancashire.

   Director:Bernard Rudden

   Writer:Bernard Rudden

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   Director:Bernard Rudden

   Writer:Bernard Rudden
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    #10 - A Little Bit of Lippy

    S7:E109/16/1992

    Cross-dressing husband is unmasked but eventually wins through.

    Director:Chris Bernard

    Writer:Martyn Hesford

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    Director:Chris Bernard

    Writer:Martyn Hesford
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    #11 - Small Metal Jacket

    S7:E119/23/1992

    1969: America is losing the war in South-East Asia. A female officer plans a fresh initiative.

    Director:Steve Hilliker

    Writers:Scott Roberts, Emily Prager

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    Director:Steve Hilliker

    Writers:Scott Roberts, Emily Prager
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    #12 - You, Me and Marley

    S7:E129/30/1992

    A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean, is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley, in an effort to end the mayhem.

    Director:Richard Spence

    Writer:Graham Reid

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    Director:Richard Spence

    Writer:Graham Reid