Screen Two

Screen Two

Series of single made-for-television dramas.

Drama

Seasons

Contact

1. Contact

Air Date: 1985-01-06

A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and apprehend the passenger.

2. Poppyland

Air Date: 1985-01-13

He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.

3. Unfair Exchanges

Air Date: 1985-01-20

4. Knockback (1)

Air Date: 1985-01-27

5. Knockback (2)

Air Date: 1985-02-03

6. Lent

Air Date: 1985-02-10

It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The weather is beautiful, the countryside is lovely, but all is far from peaceful as the adults quarrel and Paul grows up.

7. The Unknown Soldier

Air Date: 1985-02-17

8. The Burston Rebellion

Air Date: 1985-02-24

9. Space Station

Air Date: 1985-03-03

10. In the Secret State

Air Date: 1985-03-10

1. The McGuffin

Air Date: 1986-01-12

2. The Silent Twins

Air Date: 1986-01-19

3. Time After Time

Air Date: 1986-01-26

4. Frankie and Johnnie

Air Date: 1986-02-02

5. Honest, Decent and True

Air Date: 1986-02-09

6. Song of Experience

Air Date: 1986-02-16

7. Insurance Man

Air Date: 1986-02-23

8. Hotel du Lac

Air Date: 1986-03-02

9. The Russian Soldier

Air Date: 1986-03-09

10. Blood Hunt

Air Date: 1986-03-16

11. Shergar

Air Date: 1986-03-23

Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.

12. Hard Travelling

Air Date: 1986-03-30

13. Double Image

Air Date: 1986-04-06

1. Coast to Coast

Air Date: 1987-01-04

2. Blunt

Air Date: 1987-01-11

3. Will You Love Me Tomorrow

Air Date: 1987-01-18

4. After Pilkington

Air Date: 1987-01-25

What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored as a teenager - but maybe she knows something.

5. East of Ipswich

Air Date: 1987-02-01

6. Naming the Names

Air Date: 1987-02-08

7. Northanger Abbey

Air Date: 1987-02-15

8. Visitors

Air Date: 1987-02-22

9. Heaven on Earth

Air Date: 1987-03-01

10. Inappropriate Behaviour

Air Date: 1987-03-08

11. Going Home

Air Date: 1987-03-15

Quartermaine's Terms

12. Quartermaine's Terms

Air Date: 1987-03-22

St. John Quartermaine, a teacher in an English language college for foreign students, his life revolving around work, seemingly without a social life of his own, is becoming increasingly absent-minded and forgetful.

13. On the Palm

Air Date: 1987-04-05

14. Hedgehog Wedding

Air Date: 1987-04-17

15. The Children of Dynmouth

Air Date: 1987-04-19

1. The Vision

Air Date: 1988-01-09

2. Dead Lucky

Air Date: 1988-01-17

3. Sweet As You Are

Air Date: 1988-01-24

4. Stanley Spencer

Air Date: 1988-01-31

5. Border

Air Date: 1988-02-07

6. Love Birds

Air Date: 1988-03-06

7. Shadow On The Earth

Air Date: 1988-03-13

8. Reasonable Force

Air Date: 1988-03-27

9. The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

Air Date: 1988-04-03

10. Lucky Sunil

Air Date: 1988-04-17

11. Run for the Lifeboat

Air Date: 1988-04-24

1. Death of a Son

Air Date: 1989-01-08

2. Angel Voices

Air Date: 1989-01-15

3. Flying in the Branches

Air Date: 1989-01-22

4. Words of Love

Air Date: 1989-01-29

5. Leaving

Air Date: 1989-02-05

6. Virtuoso

Air Date: 1989-02-12

7. The Picnic

Air Date: 1989-02-19

8. The Firm

Air Date: 1989-02-26

9. Here Is the News

Air Date: 1989-03-03

10. Ice Dance

Air Date: 1989-03-12

11. Sitting Targets

Air Date: 1989-03-19

12. Defrosting the Fridge

Air Date: 1989-03-26

An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

1. Old Flames

Air Date: 1990-01-14

2. The Man from the Pru

Air Date: 1990-01-21

3. Drowning in the Shallow End

Air Date: 1990-01-28

4. Close Relations

Air Date: 1990-02-04

5. The Impossible Spy

Air Date: 1990-02-11

6. He's Asking for Me

Air Date: 1990-02-18

7. Sometime in August

Air Date: 1990-02-25

8. Small Zones

Air Date: 1990-03-04

9. Circles of Deceit

Air Date: 1990-03-11

10. The Lorelei

Air Date: 1990-03-18

A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a colleague.

11. Children Crossing

Air Date: 1990-03-25

12. The Kremlin Farewell

Air Date: 1990-04-01

1. Heading Home

Air Date: 1991-01-13

2. Hallelujah Anyhow

Air Date: 1991-01-27

3. Korczak

Air Date: 1991-02-03

4. Fellow Traveller

Air Date: 1991-02-10

5. 102 Boulevard Haussmann

Air Date: 1991-02-17

6. A Private Life

Air Date: 1991-02-24

7. The Laughter of God

Air Date: 1991-03-03

8. Morphine and Dolly Mixtures

Air Date: 1991-03-10

9. Do Not Disturb

Air Date: 1991-03-17

10. Dreaming

Air Date: 1991-03-24

11. They Never Slept

Air Date: 1991-03-31

12. Aimée

Air Date: 1991-04-07

1. The Grass Arena

Air Date: 1992-01-19

2. Flea Bites

Air Date: 1992-01-26

3. The Count of Solar

Air Date: 1992-02-02

4. The Lost Language of Cranes

Air Date: 1992-02-09

5. The Object of Beauty

Air Date: 1992-02-16

6. My Sister-Wife

Air Date: 1992-02-23

7. Truly Madly Deeply

Air Date: 1992-03-01

8. Common Pursuit

Air Date: 1992-03-08

British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.

9. Utz

Air Date: 1992-03-15

10. The Law Lord

Air Date: 1992-03-22

11. The Last Romantics

Air Date: 1992-03-29

A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

12. Enchanted April

Air Date: 1992-04-05

13. Memento Mori

Air Date: 1992-04-19

1. The Clothes in the Wardrobe

Air Date: 1993-12-23

2. Edward II

Air Date: 1993-12-30

3. The Long Roads

Air Date: 1993-01-31

4. Femme Fatale

Air Date: 1993-02-07

5. Dead Romantic

Air Date: 1993-02-14

6. The Cormorant

Air Date: 1993-02-21

7. Prague

Air Date: 1993-02-28

8. Voices in the Garden

Air Date: 1993-03-07

9. Maria's Child

Air Date: 1993-03-28

10. The Snapper

Air Date: 1993-04-02

11. The Trial

Air Date: 1993-12-19

12. The Railway Station Man

Air Date: 1993-12-30

99. Delete

Air Date: 1992-04-12

1. Genghis Cohn

Air Date: 1994-03-02

2. Skallagrigg

Air Date: 1994-03-09

Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend.

3. All Things Bright and Beautiful

Air Date: 1994-03-16

4. The Reflecting Skin

Air Date: 1994-03-23

5. O Mary This London

Air Date: 1994-03-30

6. Dirtysomething

Air Date: 1994-04-06

7. Return to Blood River

Air Date: 1994-04-13

8. Henri

Air Date: 1994-04-20

9. Zinky Boys Go Underground

Air Date: 1994-04-27

10. Ethan Frome

Air Date: 1994-05-04

11. Hope in the Year Two

Air Date: 1994-05-11

12. Sin Bin

Air Date: 1994-05-18

13. Men of the Month

Air Date: 1994-05-25

14. Sarafina

Air Date: 1994-06-01

15. A Landing on the Sun

Air Date: 1994-06-08

16. In the Cold Light of Day

Air Date: 1994-06-15

17. Criminal

Air Date: 1994-06-22

18. Midnight Movie

Air Date: 1994-12-26

19. The Blue Boy

Air Date: 1996-01-02

1. A Very Open Prison

Air Date: 1995-03-26

2. Life After Life

Air Date: 1995-04-02

3. Persuasion

Air Date: 1995-04-16

Based on the novel by Jane Austen, this period movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, spinster daughter of a British nobleman. Anne is unduly influenced by her society-oriented family's preference for a gentleman match and turns away a love interest, only to cross paths with him again seven years later. The movie explores societal conventions around marriage and class in 19th century England.

4. Crazy for a Kiss

Air Date: 1995-04-23

5. The Absence of War

Air Date: 1995-05-18

6. Mrs. Hartley and the Growth Centre

Air Date: 1995-05-21

7. Black Easter

Air Date: 1995-06-04

8. Bliss

Air Date: 1995-06-11

9. Nervous Energy

Air Date: 1995-06-18

1. Great Moments in Aviation

Air Date: 1995-11-11

2. Priest

Air Date: 1995-11-18

3. Streetlife

Air Date: 1995-11-25

4. Dernier voyage a Glasgow

Air Date: 1995-12-02

5. Saigon Baby

Air Date: 1995-12-16

6. The Hawk

Air Date: 1995-12-24

7. The Hour of the Pig

Air Date: 1995-12-26

8. Return of the Native

Air Date: 1995-12-31

9. Half the Picture

Air Date: 1996-02-18

1. Captives

Air Date: 1996-05-11

2. A Man of No Importance

Air Date: 1996-05-18

3. The Cement Garden

Air Date: 1996-05-25

4. Bad Boy Blues

Air Date: 1996-06-01

5. The Precious Blood

Air Date: 1996-06-08

6. Century

Air Date: 1996-06-15

1. Crossing the Floor

Air Date: 1996-10-05

Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat.

2. Deadly Voyage

Air Date: 1996-10-12

3. Loving

Air Date: 1996-10-19

4. Flowers of the Forest

Air Date: 1996-10-26

5. Look Me in the Eye

Air Date: 1996-11-02

6. Dallas Doll

Air Date: 1996-11-16

7. Burn Your Phone

Air Date: 1996-12-31

1. Stonewall

Air Date: 1997-05-17

2. I.D.

Air Date: 1997-06-01

3. Stone, Scissors, Paper

Air Date: 1997-06-07

4. Butterfly Kiss

Air Date: 1997-06-14

5. Brothers in Trouble

Air Date: 1997-06-21

6. Mothertime

Air Date: 1997-12-28

7. Small Faces

Air Date: 1998-01-01

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Rating

6.8/10

Release Date

1985-01-06

Episodes

168 (15 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast

Production Companies

BBC

BBC