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The Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 7

Every episode of ScreenPlay Season 7 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of ScreenPlay Season 7!

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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 7 Episode 1 - The Countess Alice
    7.9/10(86 votes)

    S7:E1

    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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  2. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 5 - Man to Man
    7.7/10(32 votes)

    S7:E5

    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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  3. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 3 - Bad Girl
    7.5/10(25 votes)

    S7:E3

    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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  4. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 2 - Force of Duty
    7.3/10(14 votes)

    S7:E2

    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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  5. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 10 - A Little Bit of Lippy
    7.0/10(42 votes)

    S7:E10

    Cross-dressing husband is unmasked but eventually wins through.

    Director:Chris Bernard
    Writer:Martyn Hesford

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  6. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 6 - Death and the Compass
    6.7/10(9 votes)

    S7:E6

    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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  7. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 9 - Continental Drift
    6.5/10(34 votes)

    S7:E9

    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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  8. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 4 - Bitter Harvest
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E4

    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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  9. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 7 - Dread Poets Society
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E7

    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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  10. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 8 - Buying a Landslide
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E8

    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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  11. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 11 - Small Metal Jacket
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E11

    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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  12. ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode 12 - You, Me and Marley
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S7:E12

    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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Season 7 Ratings Summary

"The Countess Alice" is the best rated episode of "ScreenPlay" season 7. It scored 7.9/10 based on 86 votes. Directed by Moira Armstrong and written by Allan Cubitt, it aired on 7/1/1992. This episode is rated 0.2 points higher than the second-best, "Man to Man".