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The Worst Episodes of ScreenPlay

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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 Worst Episode
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    ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 1 - All Together Now
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    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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    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 4 - Knowing the Score
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    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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  4. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 6 - Asinamali
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    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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  5. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 7 - In Traction
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    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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  6. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 8 - The Mozart Inquest
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    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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  7. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 10 - Blood, Sweat and Tears
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    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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  8. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 12 - Paying Guests - Part 1
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    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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  9. ScreenPlay Season 1 Episode 13 - Paying Guests - Part 2
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    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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  10. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 2 - Land
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    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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  11. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 3 - Lily My Love
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    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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  12. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 5 - Our Lady Blue
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    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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  13. ScreenPlay Season 2 Episode 9 - The Interrogation of John
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    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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  14. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 1 - No Further Cause for Concern
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    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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  15. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 2 - A Woman Alone
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    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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  16. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 3 - Burning Ambition
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    S3:E3

    When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're on to a winner - but they soon discover they're on course for disaster.

    Director:Roger Bamford
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 4 - Eskimos Do it
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    S3:E4

    When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.

    Director:Derek Lister
    Writer:Jim Barton

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  18. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 5 - Out Of Love
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    S3:E5

    The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.

    Director:Michael Houldey
    Writer:Unknown

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  19. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 6 - Home Front
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    S3:E6

    'What about us? We have rights too. This is not just any residential home for kids in care. This is Home. You. tell them - they try and close us down, we're gonna fight....'

    Director:Penny Cherns
    Writer:Nick McCarty

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  20. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 7 - Between The Cracks
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    S3:E7

    The performers in this drama are not actors reciting other people's lines. They are who they say they are and they speak from their own real experience. The stories you are about to hear are true.

    Director:Lucy Parker
    Writer:Lucy Parker

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  21. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 9 - The Diary of Rita Patel
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    S3:E9

    It's a new start for teenager Rita Patel and her family - new home, new school, new diary, new life. But their happiness is short-lived when racist skinheads attack the family and their home.

    Director:Michael Jackley
    Writer:Carole Boyer

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  22. ScreenPlay Season 3 Episode 10 - Edvard
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    S3:E10

    Set in 1902, this is the story of the artist Edvard Munch and his stormy affair with Tulla Larsen , the inspiration behind some of his most famous paintings.

    Director:Justin Hardy
    Writer:Unknown

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  23. ScreenPlay Season 4 Episode 2 - A Night on the Tyne
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    S4:E2

    When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.

    Director:Corin Campbell-Hill
    Writer:Bill Gallagher

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  24. ScreenPlay Season 4 Episode 3 - Loving Hazel
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    S4:E3

    Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.

    Director:Peter Smith
    Writer:Les Smith

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  25. ScreenPlay Season 4 Episode 4 - The Attractions
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    S4:E4

    When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which culminates in a new type of exhibit, 'an attraction' for the modern age.

    Director:Anthony Garner
    Writer:Tony Marchant

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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".