Screen Two
Series of single made-for-television dramas.
Seasons
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
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