ScreenPlay

ScreenPlay

1986 · 8 seasons · 87 eps · ★ 6.0 · Drama

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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.

Directed by David Wheatley · Written by William Trevor

Network: BBC Two

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Cast

John Kavanagh Father Dade
Benjamin Whitrow Mr. Kemp
Annette Crosbie Mrs. Holders
Lesley Sharp Woman
Sean Chapman Tom Riley
Iain Cuthbertson Seer of Lublin
Tony Doyle The chief
Kenneth Cranham Reggie Titherington
Patrick Stewart Antonio Salieri
Robert Hardy Colonel Chase
Angela Thorne Miss Howard
Judy Cornwell Mrs. Bliss

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