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The Worst Episodes of ScreenPlay

Every episode of ScreenPlay ranked from worst to best. Explore the Worst Episodes of ScreenPlay!

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 Worst Episode
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    ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 1 - All Together Now
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    #1 - All Together Now

    S1:E1

    The weekly brass band rehearsal is an enjoyable, light-hearted occasion. Then Mathew, the conductor, introduces James, a newcomer to the village, who is an enthusiastic bandsman from the north, where they do these things properly.

    Director:David Attwood
    Writer:Peter Buckman

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  2. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 2 - Daylight Robbery
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    #2 - Daylight Robbery

    S1:E2

    Neglected by her family, kept apart from her grandchildren, desperately short of money, Bea begins to gamble - at first for small stakes, but ultimately for the highest stake of all: revenge for the past.

    Director:Chris Goddard
    Writer:Rose Tremain

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  3. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 3 - Brick Is Beautiful
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    #3 - Brick Is Beautiful

    S1:E3

    'Bricks have a future, Mr Clark - you can count on that. They're out there waiting to be taken!' 'There is one small problem.' 'What's that?' 'Well - they're still attached to buildings, most of them, aren't they?' Steve thinks there is a fortune in reclaimed bricks. But how will his ambition affect his girlfriend, Maureen, and his mates, Brad, Dez and Snapper?

    Director:David Wheatley
    Writer:Andy Armitage

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  4. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 4 - Knowing the Score
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    #4 - Knowing the Score

    S1:E4

    Graeme has musical talent and is struggling to be allowed to express it. Lois is being pushed by her mother into solo parts in the girls' choir. Together they have to perform at a competitive concert while parents and supporters keep score.

    Director:Brian Parker
    Writer:Alma Cullen

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  5. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 5 - Drums Along Balmoral Drive
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    #5 - Drums Along Balmoral Drive

    S1:E5

    'I don't think at first I thought at all. I had a nice house, lovely kids. I didn't think about blacks at all. I should've done, but I didn't. They were just there.'

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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  6. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 6 - Asinamali
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    #6 - Asinamali

    S1:E6

    Five blacks in South Africa end up in jail - for crimes which range from shooting a security policeman to sleeping with a white boss's wife. What they all share is the conviction that the 'Day of Reckoning' is at hand.

    Director:Ross Devenish
    Writer:Mbongeni Ngema

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  7. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 7 - In Traction
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    #7 - In Traction

    S1:E7

    Matters are bad enough when Mr Gentle tries to commit suicide. They are even worse when the attempt fails. Worst of all is being confined to a hospital bed when a bunch of juvenile delinquents are sent to visit you.

    Director:David Wickham
    Writer:Stuart Paterson

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  8. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 8 - The Mozart Inquest
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    #8 - The Mozart Inquest

    S1:E8

    Mozart's death in 1791 is surrounded by mystery. What are the secrets of his burial in an unmarked grave? Was he poisoned or did he die of natural causes? Now, almost 200 years later, an inquest is convened to examine the evidence both original and new. A team of real barristers confronts key witnesses from the period, in this unscripted spontaneous event. You and the invited studio jury will decide the outcome.

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Simon Whitworth

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  9. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 9 - The Marlowe Inquest
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    #9 - The Marlowe Inquest

    S1:E9

    In an unscripted inquest, three practicing barristers interrogate actors portraying relevant figures of the 16th century in order to determine what really happened to the playwright and poet, Christopher Marlowe.

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Simon Whitworth

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  10. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 10 - Blood, Sweat and Tears
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    #10 - Blood, Sweat and Tears

    S1:E10

    'Is this the judo place?' 'Dojo, yeh.' 'Wants a chuffin' coat of paint, if you ask me.' 'What is it you want?' 'Self-defence thingy.' That's all judo is to Louise and hundreds like her. It doesn't take long to change her mind. And then there's the small matter of a black belt..

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:John Godber

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  11. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 11 - Shift Work
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    #11 - Shift Work

    S1:E11

    Julie, a cab driver, collects a fare from the local airport one evening. Unfortunately he dies of a suspected heart attack on his way home in her taxi and Julie has to decide how best to handle the situation.......

    Director:Angela Pope
    Writers:Angela Pope, Lesley Bruce

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  12. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 12 - Paying Guests - Part 1
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    #12 - Paying Guests - Part 1

    S1:E12

    Spend some time in the company of the guests at 'Wentworth' - all taking the waters except for the Colonel and Miss Howard, who has some leisure for the beginnings of a late romance. Gossip, bicycle rides, rounds of golf, bridge in the evenings and preparations for the charity concert all make time pass most pleasantly - don't they?

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writers:Thomas Ellice, E.F. Benson

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  13. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 13 - Paying Guests - Part 2
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    #13 - Paying Guests - Part 2

    S1:E13

    Miss Howard's exhibition of water-colours at the Green Salon falters but then takes off. The season at 'Wentworth' is now drawing to a close, peoples' plans for the winter unfold. Florence, for the first time in her life, refuses to go off with her selfish old father. Miss Howard has some momentous news, and the Colonel must make a very brisk about-turn.

    Director:Michael Simpson
    Writers:Thomas Ellice, E.F. Benson

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  14. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 1 - The Trial of Klaus Barbie
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    #14 - The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    S2:E1

    Decades after the end of World War II, escaped war criminal Klaus Barbie is brought to justice

    Director:Gareth Jones
    Writer:Ray Jenkins

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  15. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 2 - Land
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    #15 - Land

    S2:E2

    The Amazonian jungle, Brazil, 1987. Ruthless landowners are hiring gunslingers to evict peasants from their land. The peasants look to their priest for help. should they resist the Violence passively - or defy the church's teaching and take up arms? When a stranger on the run arrives in town, the answer becomes clear.

    Director:David Wheatley
    Writer:Barry Collins

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  16. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 3 - Lily My Love
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    #16 - Lily My Love

    S2:E3

    Lily is 13, Colin is 39 and a vagrant. They run away together. 'One and a half to the English Lakes, single, because we're never coming back, we're going on.'

    Director:Adrian Shergold
    Writer:Elisabeth Bond

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  17. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 4 - Carianai and the Courtesans
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    #17 - Carianai and the Courtesans

    S2:E4

    A painter falls in love with a woman whom he suspects may be a thief and a prostitute.

    Director:Leslie Megahey
    Writer:Leslie Megahey

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  18. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 5 - Our Lady Blue
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    #18 - Our Lady Blue

    S2:E5

    In a Liverpool convent a touching and unusual friendship is forged between Rachel, a young volunteer, Paul, doing 100 hours of community service, and Sheila, a dying prostitute. It results in a strange and forbidden journey to Lourdes.

    Director:Robin Midgley
    Writer:Heidi Thomas

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  19. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 6 - White Lady
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    #19 - White Lady

    S2:E6

    In a derelict farmhouse, deep in the English countryside, Gil struggles alone to bring up his little daughters 'to need very little. - strong against all harm'. But unknown to any of them, in the surrounding fields of wheat and barley, and in the nodding branches of the fruit trees, there lurks a deathly power.

    Director:David Rudkin
    Writer:David Rudkin

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  20. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 7 - The Shutter Falls
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    #20 - The Shutter Falls

    S2:E7

    A 19th Century photographer travels to the North of Scotland to document the fishing industry, where he falls in love with one of the Gaelic-speaking fish gutting girls

    Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
    Writer:N.M. MacDonald

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  21. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 8 - Christine
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    #21 - Christine

    S2:E8

    Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writers:Alan Clarke, Arthur Ellis

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  22. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 9 - The Interrogation of John
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    #22 - The Interrogation of John

    S2:E9

    A man is brought into a small London police station and charged with gross indecency. A terrible murder has also been committed in the area. Is there a connection? Might the assembled officers have an early result? Not if he refuses to say anything or even give his name.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Malcolm McKay

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  23. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 10 - Road
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    #23 - Road

    S2:E10

    Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Prepare yourself for the experience of your lifetime as he shows you an average night along a derelict Lancashire road in the 1980s.

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:Jim Cartwright

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  24. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 1 - No Further Cause for Concern
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    #24 - No Further Cause for Concern

    S3:E1

    'I'm doing 15 years, three years at a time, and when I come out I'm going to be the same man as when I came in. The same man!' But even hard man Danny Monk can't foresee the consequences when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with a prison officer as hostage.

    Director:John Bruce
    Writer:Rib Davis

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  25. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 2 - A Woman Alone
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    #25 - A Woman Alone

    S3:E2

    A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lecherous invalid brother-in-law. In spite of the impressive battery of mod cons in her home, she feels that love and marriage are not all they are cracked up to be.

    Director:Sharon Miller
    Writer:Dario Fo

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Worst Episodes Summary

"All Together Now" is the worst rated episode of "ScreenPlay". It scored /10 based on 0 votes. Directed by David Attwood and written by Peter Buckman, it aired on 7/9/1986. This episode scored 0.0 points lower than the second lowest rated, "Daylight Robbery".