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ScreenPlay (1986–1993)

Screenplay

8 seasons87 episodes90 min per episode★ 6.5 · 111 votes

• Drama

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.

First aired

July 9, 1986

Last episode

October 27, 1993

Network

BBC Two

Country of origin

United Kingdom