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ScreenPlay Season 5 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, July 11, 1990

Ended: Saturday, December 29, 1990

When does ScreenPlay Season 5 come out?

ScreenPlay Season 5 premiered Wednesday, July 11, 1990 on BBC Two and ended Saturday, December 29, 1990. The season has 13 episodes.

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ScreenPlay Season 5 episode release dates
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1. Amongst Barbarians

Two teenage boys, Ralph and Bryan, are in a jail in Malaysia, awaiting death. They have been found guilty of smuggling drugs. 48 hours before their execution, their parents arrive to visit them.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

2. Antonia and Jane

Plain Jane Hartman hates her life. She's goofy, boring and only has sex if she reads Iris Murdoch novels out loud to her loopy boyfriend. Her oldest friend Antonia McGill knows about everything. She orders the right food; she can complain and get results. She's beautiful and has a brilliant career. Is it any wonder that they hate each other's guts?

Wednesday · 36 years ago

3. Night Voice

Clarence Flamer hosts a late-night talk show on regional radio station North Star Sound. A phone call he takes one night leads to his discovering a mortgage scam being run by a group of estate agents. His attempts to delve deeper have tragic consequences.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

4. The Englishman's Wife

A woman and her daughter are stranded in a rambling old house deep in the countryside of County Tyrone. Their economic circumstances are hopeless, but it is friends and former business associates who pose the greatest threat to their happiness.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

5. The Land of Dreams

Joseph Mnwana arrives at Heathrow on a flight from Johannesburg and asks for political asylum. But what is he fleeing from? The authorities are suspicious, and Joseph has an uncertain future in store.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

6. Keeping Tom Nice

Doug and Winnie have tried hard to keep their disabled son Tom 'nice', but when Stephen, a young social worker, takes a professional interest it has tragic consequences.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

7. A Safe House

In the aftermath of the Guildford and Woolwich pub bombings, a large number of people of Irish descent were rounded up for questioning by the police in London. Most were subsequently released. But for the Maguire family, 3 December 1974 was the start of a nightmare that is only now ending.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

8. Afters

A man discovers his love for his wife as he prepares to face life without her.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

9. Wedded

A husband drives throughout the night on a voyage of self-discovery, while his wife waits at home, raking over the ashes of their marriage as their child sleeps in the next room.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

10. Available Light

A mercenary art dealer and his beguiling young assistant pay a visit to a once-famous artist. In his isolated house, they discover disturbing paintings depicting the course of a passionate love affair. But the paintings also seem to reveal startling evidence of a murder. The visitors begin to fear for their lives.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

11. Needle

Danny and Paula are a young married couple with a baby. They are moving up in the world, leaving their high-rise for a house of their own. The future of their marriage is threatened by only one thing: Danny is a heroin addict.

Wednesday · 36 years ago

12. Shoot the Revolution

During the Romanian Revolution in December 1989, a young girl is shot in the head by Tudor Barbu, a member of the Securitate. His brother Octavian was the girl's teacher who "filled her head with the ideas of truth." The question is not how did she die, but why?

Sunday · 35 years ago

13. August Saturday Finale

Grania did something 15 years ago that brought her great happiness but also great pain. The events of that day have been a heavy secret to bear that, if discovered, would devastate those closest to her.

Saturday · 35 years ago

ScreenPlay Season 5 guest stars

  • Josephine Welcome

    Katie

  • David Jason

    David Jason

    George

  • Con O'Neill

    Con O'Neill

    Ralph

  • Lee Ross

    Lee Ross

    Bryan

  • Kathy Burke

    Kathy Burke

    Lily

  • Rowena Cooper

    Rowena Cooper

    Wendy

  • Saskia Reeves

    Saskia Reeves

    Antonia McGill

  • Imelda Staunton

    Imelda Staunton

    Jane Hartman

  • Patricia Leventon

    Rosa Gluberman

  • Maria Charles

    Maria Charles

    Sylvia Pinker

  • Iain Cuthbertson

    Iain Cuthbertson

    Edgar

  • Michael Ignatieff

    Michael Ignatieff

    Michael Ignatieff

  • Alexei Sayle

    Alexei Sayle

    Clarence Flamer

  • Kevin Whately

    Kevin Whately

    Neil Baldwin

  • Lesley Sharp

    Lesley Sharp

    Marion Parkin

  • Neil Dudgeon

    Neil Dudgeon

    Crowson

ScreenPlay Season 5 FAQ

When does ScreenPlay Season 5 come out?

ScreenPlay Season 5 premiered Wednesday, July 11, 1990 on BBC Two.

How many episodes are in ScreenPlay Season 5?

ScreenPlay Season 5 has 13 episodes.

Are new episodes of ScreenPlay Season 5 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the ScreenPlay Season 5 finale?

The ScreenPlay Season 5 finale (Episode 13) aired Saturday, December 29, 1990.

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