Screenplay (1986)

Name: Screenplay
Genre: Drama
Rating: 6.5

Drama

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 Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.

IMDb rating: 6.5 (109 votes)
Seasons: 7
Language: EN
Type: TV series

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Ratings refreshed Jul 3, 2026 · 7 seasons indexed

Seasons

Season 1 (1986)

7.93 avg 4 episodes 8.0 → 8.6 80 min avg

Season 1 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
3	Brick Is Beautiful	8.0	6
5	Drums Along Balmoral Drive	7.4	6
9	The Marlowe Inquest	7.7	9
11	Shift Work	8.6	6

Season 2 (1987)

7.37 avg 6 episodes 6.8 → 7.9 67 min avg

Season 2 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Trial of Klaus Barbie	6.8	7
4	Cariani and the Courtesans	7.4	16
6	White Lady	6.4	20
7	The Shutter Falls	8.4	16
8	Christine	7.3	335
10	Road	7.9	352

Season 4 (1989)

7.37 avg 3 episodes 6.4 → 6.6 60 min avg

Season 4 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Testimony of a Child	6.4	8
8	The Spirit of Man	9.1	35
10	The Hen House	6.6	15

Season 5 (1990)

7.13 avg 7 episodes 8.1 → 7.8 59 min avg

Season 5 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Amongst Barbarians	8.1	39
2	Antonia and Jane	7.1	354
3	Night Voice	6.6	9
4	The Englishman's Wife	5.3	8
5	The Land of Dreams	6.7	7
9	Wedded	8.3	11
11	Needle	7.8	28

Season 6 (1991)

7.53 avg 4 episodes 7.6 → 8.2 98 min avg

Front-loaded

Season 6 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Redemption	7.6	21
2	Broke	8.3	7
5	Murder in Oakland	6.0	6
10	Journey to Knock	8.2	36

Season 7 (1992)

7.25 avg 8 episodes 7.9 → 7.4 70 min avg

Front-loaded

Season 7 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	The Countess Alice	7.9	85
2	Force of Duty	7.3	14
3	Bad Girl	7.5	25
5	Man to Man	7.7	32
6	Death and the Compass	6.7	9
9	A Little Bit of Lippy	6.5	34
10	Dread Poets Society	7.0	42
13	You, Me & Marley	7.4	176

Season 8 (1993)

7.55 avg 4 episodes 8.2 → 6.7 60 min avg

Bad finale

Season 8 episodes — IMDb ratings
#	Title	Rating	Votes
1	Love Lies Bleeding/L'Inconnue de Belfast	8.2	40
3	The Vision Thing	7.5	15
4	Safe	7.8	169
6	Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles	6.7	26

Screenplay (1986)

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