Screen One
Screen One | |
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Genre | Drama |
Written by | Various |
Directed by | Various |
Starring | Various |
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Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 7 |
No. of episodes | 60 (list of episodes) |
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Cinematography | John McGlashan et al. |
Editor | Ken Pearce et al. |
Running time | 90 minutes (approx.) |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC1 |
Release | 10 September 1989 15 February 1998 | –
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Transmissions
Series | Episodes | Originally aired | ||
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First aired | Last aired | |||
1 | 8 (7 + 1 Special) | 10 September 1989 | 27 December 1989 | |
2 | 10 (8 + 2 Specials) | 2 September 1990 | 1 January 1991 | |
3 | 10 (8 + 2 Specials) | 20 June 1991 | 1 January 1992 | |
4 | 9 (8 + 1 Special) | 6 September 1992 | 31 October 1992 | |
5 | 8 | 5 September 1993 | 24 October 1993 | |
6 | 7 (6 + 1 Special) | 6 February 1994 | 16 October 1994 | |
7 | 8 (8 Specials) | 20 January 1995 | 15 February 1998 |
Episodes
Series 1 (1989)
Series 2 (1990—1991)
Episode | Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | |
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1 | "News Hounds" | Les Blair (uncredited) | Les Blair | 2 September 1990 | |
Starring Adrian Edmondson, Alison Steadman, Steven Mackintosh, Edwina Currie, Paul Kember and Nigel Pegram | |||||
2 | "Frankenstein's Baby" | Emma Tennant | Robert Bierman | 9 September 1990 | |
Starring Nigel Planer, Kate Buffery and Elizabeth Carling | |||||
3 | "The Police" | Arthur Ellis | Ian Knox | 16 September 1990 | |
Starring Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Martin, Arbel Jones and Paul Collins | |||||
4 | "Sweet Nothing" | Vincent O'Connell | Tony Smith | 23 September 1990 | |
Starring Lee Ross, Charlotte Coleman, Simon Cadell, Victor Maddern and Michael Melia | |||||
5 | "Can You Hear Me Thinking?" | Monty Haltrecht & Beverley Marcus | Christopher Morahan | 30 September 1990 | |
Starring Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Richard Henders, Charmian May, Pik-Sen Lim, Cyril Shaps, Sally Bretton and Christopher Burgess
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6 | "One Last Chance" | Andrew Kazamia | Gabrielle Beaumont | 7 October 1990 | |
Starring Marina Sirtis, Bernard Spear and Eileen Way | |||||
7 | "Sticky Wickets" | Fletcher Watkins | Dewi Humphreys | 14 October 1990 | |
Starring Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Gillian Elisa, George Sewell and William Thomas | |||||
8 | "Survival of the Fittest" | Julian Mitchell | Martyn Friend | 21 October 1990 | |
Starring Timothy West, Jean Anderson, Nerys Hughes and Elizabeth Spriggs | |||||
9 | "Dark City" | David Lan | Chris Curling | 11 December 1990 | |
Special. Starring Sello Maake Ka-Ncube, Vusi Dibakwane and Thapelo Mafokeng | |||||
10 | "Happy Feet" | Michael Bradwell | Michael Bradwell | 1 January 1991 | |
Special. Starring Phyllis Logan, Jim Broadbent, Derrick O'Connor and Chris Jury |
Series 3 (1991—1992)
Episode | Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | |
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1 | "Skulduggery" | Phil Davis | Phil Davis | 20 June 1991 | |
Special. Starring David Thewlis, Robin Weaver, Patsy Palmer, Charlie Creed-Miles, Jake Wood and Robert Pugh | |||||
2 | "Hancock" | William Humble | Tony Smith | 1 September 1991 | |
Starring Alfred Molina, Frances Barber, Clive Russell, Paul Brooke, Kenneth Gilbert and Nick Burnell[3] | |||||
3 | "Tell Me That You Love Me" | Adrian Hodges | Bruce MacDonald | 8 September 1991 | |
Starring Judith Scott, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Michael Cochrane and Barbara Ward | |||||
4 | "Filipina Dreamgirls" | Andrew Davies | Les Blair | 15 September 1991 | |
Starring Bill Maynard, Charlie Drake, David Thewlis, Geoffrey Hutchings and Lee Cornes | |||||
5 | "Dancin' Thru the Dark" | Willy Russell | Mike Ockrent | 22 September 1991 | |
Linda is out on her hen night, while her fiance is out on his stag night. Linda is having major doubts about getting married. When both groups arrive at a club, they find the band fronted by her ex-boyfriend—and the love of her life—Peter. Linda has to decide: does she stay and settle down, like her friends want her to, or does she chuck it all in and run away with Peter? Starring Claire Hackett, Con O'Neill, Julia Deakin, Simon O'Brien and Mark Womack
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6 | "Ex" | William Humble | Paul Seed | 29 September 1991 | |
Starring Griff Rhys Jones, Geraldine James, Penny Downie, Dermot Crowley, Mary Jo Randle, Bruce Montague and Colin Douglas | |||||
7 | "Prince" | Julie Burchill | David Wheatley | 6 October 1991 | |
Starring Sean Bean, Janet McTeer, Celia Montague and Jackie McGuire | |||||
8 | "Alive and Kicking" | Al Hunter Ashton | Robert Young | 13 October 1991 | |
Stevie "Smudger" Smith is a heroin dealer and an addict. His wife Marie is also an addict, and when their baby, Jason, is born he is addicted too. When Jason is taken into care, Marie leaves Smudger to get clean and win Jason back, with the help-of unorthodox drug counsellor Liam Kane. Stevie and Liam are soon at loggerheads as Stevie wants his wife and son back, but realises he can only do this if he also gets clean. In trouble with his old gang and his rivals, he does so, but has no interest in the conventional rehabilitation on offer. He decides to form a football team of recovering addicts, helped by his old coach, Earl.[5] Starring Lenny Henry, Robbie Coltrane, Jane Horrocks, Paul Barber, Annabelle Apsion, Imogen Boorman, Geff Francis, Jillie Meers and Sakuntala Ramanee | |||||
9 | "A Question of Attribution" | Alan Bennett | John Schlesinger | 20 October 1991 | |
Starring James Fox, Prunella Scales, Geoffrey Palmer, David Calder, John Cater and Edward de Souza
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10 | "Adam Bede" | Maggie Wadey | Giles Foster | 1 January 1992 | |
Special. Starring Patsy Kensit, Julia McKenzie, Jean Marsh, Freddie Jones, Paul Brooke, Patsy Byrne, Roy Evans, Edward Jewesbury and Michael Robbins
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Series 4 (1992)
Series 5 (1993)
Episode | Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | |
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1 | "Wide-Eyed and Legless" | Deric Longden & Jack Rosenthal | Richard Loncraine | 5 September 1993 | |
Starring Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Thora Hird and Moya Brady
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2 | "A Foreign Field" | Roy Clarke | Charles Sturridge | 12 September 1993 | |
Starring Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau and Dorothy Grumbar
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3 | "Down Among the Big Boys" | Peter McDougall | Charles Gormley | 19 September 1993 | |
Louie, the Glasgow detective son of a policeman, is about to marry the daughter of the accomplished robbery chief JoJo. Louie is placed in charge of investigating a mystery thief before his wedding. Jojo comes to realize that Louie is looking for him and wrestles with how to handle this. Starring Douglas Henshall, Billy Connolly, John Murtagh, Ewan Stewart, Maggie Bell and Ashley Jensen
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4 | "Royal Celebration" | William Humble | Ferdinand Fairfax | 26 September 1993 | |
Starring Kenneth Cranham, Minnie Driver, Rupert Graves, Leslie Phillips, Keira Knightley and Gordon Salkilld. This was Knightley's first screen appearance. | |||||
5 | "Tender Loving Care" | Lucy Gannon | Dewi Humphreys | 3 October 1993 | |
Starring Dawn French, Rosemary Leach, Joan Sims, Peter Jones and Llewellyn Rees | |||||
6 | "Money for Nothing" | Tim Firth | Mike Ockrent | 10 October 1993 | |
Starring Julian Glover, Martin Short, Christien Anholt, Paul Reynolds, Tim Preece, Wolf Kahler and Sean Baker | |||||
7 | "Wall of Silence" | Maurice Gran & Laurence Marks | Philip Saville | 17 October 1993 | |
Starring Bill Paterson, Warren Mitchell, Timothy Busfield, John Bowe and Brigitte Kahn | |||||
8 | "The Bullion Boys" | Jim Hitchmough | Christopher Morahan | 24 October 1993 | |
The true story of how Britain's gold reserve was secretly transferred to Second World War .
Starring David Jason, Tim Pigott-Smith, Gorden Kaye, Brenda Blethyn, Geoffrey Hutchings and Paul Angelis
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Series 6 (1994)
Episode | Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | |
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1 | "Bambino Mio" | Colin Welland | Edward Bennett | 6 February 1994 | |
Special. Starring Julie Walters, Georges Corraface, John McArdle and Orlando Urdaneta
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2 | "A Breed of Heroes" | Charles Wood | Diarmuid Lawrence | 4 September 1994 | |
Starring Samuel West, Robert Bathurst, Alexander Armstrong, Daniel Flynn, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Jonathan Firth, Richard Griffiths and Shaun Dingwall | |||||
3 | "Pat and Margaret" | Victoria Wood | Gavin Millar | 11 September 1994 | |
Starring Victoria Wood, Julie Walters, Celia Imrie, Don Henderson, Duncan Preston, Thora Hird, Julie Hesmondhalgh, Shirley Stelfox, Roger Brierley, Tenniel Evans and Charles Pemberton
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4 | "Two Golden Balls" | Maureen Chadwick | Anya Camilleri | 18 September 1994 | |
Starring Christopher Ellison, Rowena King and Leslie Phillips | |||||
5 | "Meat" | Daniel Boyle | John Madden | 25 September 1994 | |
Starring Jonny Lee Miller, Sarah-Jane Potts, Peter Wight and John Simm | |||||
6 | "Murder in Mind" | Jenny Diski | Robert Bierman | 2 October 1994 | |
Starring Cathryn Harrison, Trevor Eve, Anna Massey, Steven Mackintosh, Bruce Alexander and Christopher Owen | |||||
7 | "Doggin' Around" | Alan Plater | Desmond Davis | 16 October 1994 | |
Starring Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong, Ewan McGregor, Liz Smith, Ronnie Scott, Stephen Marcus, Jamie Foreman, Larry Lamb, Judy Flynn and Tony Caunter |
Specials (1995–1998)
Episode | Title | Written by | Directed by | Original airdate | |
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1 | "The Plant" | Jonathan Lewis | Jonathan Lewis | 20 January 1995 | |
Starring Joanna Roth, Valentine Pelka, Eoin McCarthy, Sally Dexter and Ian Burfield | |||||
2 | "Trip Trap" | Lucy Gannon | Danny Hiller | 9 March 1996 | |
Starring Kevin Whately, Stella Gonet, Sue Roderick and Helen Griffin | |||||
3 | "Killing Me Softly" | Rebecca Frayn | Stephen Whittaker | 7 July 1996 | |
Starring Maggie O'Neill, Peter Howitt, Julian Kerridge and Annabelle Apsion | |||||
4 | "Truth or Dare" | TBA | John Madden | 31 August 1996 | |
Starring John Hannah, Helen Baxendale, Susan Lynch, Ben Daniels, John Fraser and John Michie | |||||
5 | "Gobble" | Ian Hislop & Nick Newman | Jimmy Mulville | 15 February 1997 | |
Starring Kevin Whately, Keith Barron, Jack Dee and Peter Egan | |||||
6 | "Deacon Brodie" | Simon Donald | Philip Saville | 8 March 1997 | |
Starring Billy Connolly, Patrick Malahide, Catherine McCormack, Lorcan Cranitch and Siobhan Redmond | |||||
7 | "Hostile Waters" | Troy Kennedy-Martin | David Drury | 26 July 1997 | |
Starring
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8 | "Our Boy" | Tony Grounds | David Evans | 15 February 1998 | |
Starring Ray Winstone, Pauline Quirke, Neil Dudgeon and Philip Jackson |
References
- ^ "Screen One". BBC. Retrieved 6 August 2019.
- ^ "The Judi Dench Collection". Amazon. 5 November 2007.
- ^ "BBC One – Screen One, Series 3, Hancock".
- ^ "Dancin' Thru the Dark". Amazon. 26 March 2012.
- ^ 2015 review by Mark Cunliffe at letterbox.com; retrieved 24 January 2018
- ^ "Alan Bennett at the BBC". Amazon. 26 October 2009.
- ^ "Adam Bede". Amazon.
- ^ "Ghostwatch". Amazon. 25 November 2002.
- ^ "The Wedding Gift". Amazon. 17 May 2011.
- ^ "A Foreign Field". Amazon. 3 March 2008.
- ^ "Down Among the Big Boys". Amazon. 25 September 2006.
- ^ "Martins at War – The Bullion boys". Martinsbank.co.uk. 22 May 1940. Retrieved 5 April 2013.
- ^ "Bambino Mio". Amazon. February 1999.
- ^ "Pat & Margaret". Amazon. 21 May 2007.
External links
- Screen One at BBC Online
- Screen One at IMDb
- Ball Trap on the Cote Sauvage at IMDb
- Skulduggery at IMDb