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 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.
ScreenPlaySeries
Details
- First aired
- 9 Jul 1986
- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes
- 87
- TMDB 6.0
- Last aired
- 27 Oct 1993
- Genres
Drama
- Status
- Ended
- Network
- BBC Two
- Episode runtime
- 1 h 30 min
- Countries
GB
- Original language
- en
- Original title
- ScreenPlay
- Cast
- Writers
William Trevor E.F. Benson Andy Armitage Bill Morrison Arthur Ellis Lucy Gannon Simon Whitworth Martyn Hesford Jim Cartwright Malcolm McKay Allan Cubitt Thomas Ellice Michael Wall N.M. MacDonald Alan Clarke William Ivory Angela Pope Per Olov Enquist Winsome Pinnock Jim Barton Charles Pattinson Holly Chandler Bernard Rudden Bill Gallagher Alex Cox Dave Sheasby Jimmy McGovern Benjamin Zephaniah Peter Flannery Nick Perry Owen O'Neill Polly Teale Emily Prager Carole Boyer Lucy Parker Mbongeni Ngema John Byrne Elisabeth Bond Guy Hibbert Douglas Livingstone Alan Drury Barry Collins Robert Smith Leslie Megahey Maurice Leitch Scott Roberts Rib Davis Dario Fo John Godber Ronan Bennett Ray Jenkins Lesley Bruce Tony Marchant Graham Reid David Edgar Karl Francis Biyi Bandele David Rudkin Alma Cullen Les Smith Al Hunter Ashton Rose Tremain Rob Ritchie Frank McGuinness Peter Buckman Nick McCarty Pieter-Dirk Uys David Stafford Marcy Kahan Richard Langridge Stuart Paterson John T. Random Heidi Thomas Stephen Bill Manfred Karge Peter Barnes
