Screen One

Screen One

Anthology drama series.

Drama

Seasons

One Way Out

1. One Way Out

Air Date: 1989-09-10

James Carlisle is a successful architect who sees his children every weekend following his divorce from Lyn. When Lyn falls in love with the unstable Bernard, James is forced to take drastic action.

2. 1996

Air Date: 1989-09-17

3. The Accountant

Air Date: 1989-09-24

Alfred Molina stars as accountant Lionel Ellerman, baffled by the mafia's interest in his son's barmitzvah.

4. Home Run

Air Date: 1989-10-01

She's Been Away

5. She's Been Away

Air Date: 1989-10-08

An unexpected pact develops between two women, one of whom has been away in a 'home' since she was a rebellious girl half a century ago.

6. The Mountain and the Molehill

Air Date: 1989-10-15

7. Blore M.P.

Air Date: 1989-10-22

Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

8. Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage

Air Date: 1989-12-27

Comedy drama set on a camp site in southern France, featuring a diverse assortment of characters.

1. News Hounds

Air Date: 1990-09-02

2. Frankenstein's Baby

Air Date: 1990-09-09

3. The Police

Air Date: 1990-09-16

4. Sweet Nothing

Air Date: 1990-09-23

5. Can You Hear Me Thinking?

Air Date: 1990-09-30

When Danny, the adolescent son of Kevin and Anne Harris, first shows signs of disturbance, no one seems too concerned. But the situation gets dramatically out of control.

6. One Last Chance

Air Date: 1990-10-07

7. Sticky Wickets

Air Date: 1990-10-14

8. Survival of the Fittest

Air Date: 1990-10-21

9. Dark City

Air Date: 1990-12-11

A political thriller written by David Lan , is inspired by events in the townships of South Africa. At the same time as protesters weave through the shanty town of 'Dark City', the mayor's home is burgled. These two apparently unconnected events lead to the death of a councillor. Seven people are put on trial and only one person can prove their innocence.

10. Happy Feet

Air Date: 1991-01-01

The pupils of the Dora Jackson School of Dancing compete in the 1960 Classical Dance Festival in Scarborough. Fifties rock 'n' roll meets classical ballet with the arrival of Dora's ex-boyfriend Clifford and a mysterious ghost.

1. Hancock

Air Date: 1991-09-01

A portrayal of the last years in the life of the comedian Tony Hancock. His refusal to accept the limitations of his own genius destroys his two marriages and, eventually, himself.

2. Tell Me That You Love Me

Air Date: 1991-09-08

Filipina Dreamgirls

3. Filipina Dreamgirls

Air Date: 1991-09-15

Five men from Wales book a package tour to the Philippines, hoping for romance and possible marriage with Filipina women.

4. Dancin' Thru the Dark

Air Date: 1991-09-22

5. Ex

Air Date: 1991-09-29

6. Prince

Air Date: 1991-10-06

7. Alive and Kicking

Air Date: 1991-10-13

A black comedy which takes an unflinching look at drug addiction. Smudger is a dealer and Liam is a counsellor who tries to break him.

A Question of Attribution

8. A Question of Attribution

Air Date: 1991-10-20

A drama about the double life led by Sir Anthony Blunt, Soviet agent and Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures.

Adam Bede

9. Adam Bede

Air Date: 1992-01-01

This first film adaptation of George Eliot 's classic novel was written by Maggie Wadey , who wrote the much-praised adaptation of Precious Bane. Two young men, the carpenter Adam Bede and the squire Arthur Donnithorne , find themselves competing for the love of the beautiful dairymaid Hetty Sorrel. It is a triangle which eventually leads to tragedy for all of them. When Adam Bede was published in 1859 it was greeted as the work of a major new talent. Charles Dickens was sure the author was a woman. He was right, for George Eliot was the pseudonym of Mary Ann Evans , a country girl who told her publisher that Adam Bede would be full of "the breath of cows and the scent of hay".

A Very Polish Practice

1. A Very Polish Practice

Air Date: 1992-09-06

Spin-off film from the series A Very Peculiar Practice set in a Polish hospital. Dr Dakar and his wife are happy in Warsaw until two figures from the past complicate matters.

2. Disaster at Valdez

Air Date: 1992-09-13

3. Born Kicking

Air Date: 1992-09-20

4. Black and Blue

Air Date: 1992-09-27

When a local black politician is murdered an undercover police officer unveils a web of police corruption which puts lives at risk and threatens the whole community.

5. Seconds Out

Air Date: 1992-10-04

6. Running Late

Air Date: 1992-10-11

George Grant is a television interviewer renowned for his ability to get the truth. Now he must find the truth about his wife's disappearance.

7. Losing Track

Air Date: 1992-10-18

8. Trust Me

Air Date: 1992-10-25

9. Ghostwatch

Air Date: 1992-10-31

Special drama for Hallowe'en by Stephen Volk, starring Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith, Craig Charles. Ghosts no longer inhabit stately homes and rattle chains. They live in ordinary council houses like that of Mrs Pamela Early. For months she's suffered strange noises, awful smells and bent cutlery, but is hers really the most haunted house in Britain? BBC TV turns the cameras on ghoulies, ghosties and things that go bump in the night.

10. The Hummingbird Tree

Air Date: 1992-12-20

Alan, a 12-year-old white boy, is facing disapproval from his parents over his friendship with Jaillin, their Indian kitchen girl. But their concern turns to alarm when the relationship threatens to become more than a childhood crush. With the island's first free elections looming, the children find themselves trapped in a conflict of class, caste and prejudice.

1. Wide-Eyed and Legless

Air Date: 1993-09-05

A Foreign Field

2. A Foreign Field

Air Date: 1993-09-12

Two veterans of the Normandy landings return to France to visit the grave of their wartime buddy, sparking memories of an old girlfriend.

3. Down Among the Big Boys

Air Date: 1993-09-19

Set in Glasgow, Louie, the detective son of an upright police sergeant, is about to marry. His intended is the daughter of JoJo, a wealthy and compulsive thief who attempts a spectacular robbery. Louie is put in charge of the investigation of JoJo's latest enterprise.

4. Royal Celebration

Air Date: 1993-09-26

Drama about a street party held to mark the 1981 royal wedding. The spirit of rejoicing fires already-high emotions, and passions spill over changing lives forever.

5. Tender Loving Care

Air Date: 1993-10-03

6. Money for Nothing

Air Date: 1993-10-10

7. Wall of Silence

Air Date: 1993-10-17

8. The Bullion Boys

Air Date: 1993-10-24

1. Bambino Mio

Air Date: 1994-02-06

A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.

2. A Breed of Heroes

Air Date: 1994-09-04

Pat and Margaret

3. Pat and Margaret

Air Date: 1994-09-11

A Lancashire-born American soap star who, returning to Britain, is reunited on live television with her sister Margaret—a motorway cafeteria waitress.

4. Two Golden Balls

Air Date: 1994-09-18

5. Meat

Air Date: 1994-09-25

Charlie Dyce, an ex-young offender, works in a seedy London café and meets Myra, a prostitute. Her pimp begins to cause trouble when she becomes pregnant.

6. Murder in Mind

Air Date: 1994-10-02

7. Doggin' Around

Air Date: 1994-10-16

The past catches up with an ageing American jazz pianist when he returns to the clubs of Lancashire and Yorkshire that he last visited 10 years previously.

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Rating

7.0/10

Release Date

1989-09-10

Episodes

52 (6 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast