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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 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.

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  1. Play The Trial of Klaus Barbie
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    The Trial of Klaus Barbie

    1987-07-15

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

  2. Play Land
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    Land

    1987-07-22

    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.

  3. Play Lily My Love
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    Lily My Love

    1987-07-29

    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.'

  4. Play Carianai and the Courtesans
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    Carianai and the Courtesans

    1987-08-05

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

  5. Play Our Lady Blue
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    Our Lady Blue

    1987-08-12

    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.

  6. Play White Lady
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    White Lady

    1987-08-26

    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.

  7. Play The Shutter Falls
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    The Shutter Falls

    1987-09-16

    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

  8. Play Christine
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    Christine

    1987-09-23

    Depiction of the everyday life of a teenage heroin addict.

  9. Play The Interrogation of John
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    The Interrogation of John

    1987-09-30

    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.

  10. Play Road
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    Road

    1987-10-07

    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.

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