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ScreenPlay Season 7 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Wednesday, July 1, 1992

Ended: Wednesday, September 30, 1992

When does ScreenPlay Season 7 come out?

ScreenPlay Season 7 premiered Wednesday, July 1, 1992 on BBC Two and ended Wednesday, September 30, 1992. The season has 12 episodes.

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1. The Countess Alice

A reporter is assigned a then-and-now piece on a 50-year old photospread of three society beauties. One of them, Lady Alice Munroe, now the widowed Grafin von Holzendorf, has agreed to be interviewed. A few questions set the Grafin's daughter, Connie, thinking about her past, and she sets off for her fatherland, now that the Berlin wall is down, to find out where she comes from. But what she finds out may destroy her relationship with her mother.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

2. Force of Duty

RUC detective Simpson Gabby is consumed by guilt after he fails to act decisively in a moment of terror. As the pressure on him builds, Gabby gradually loses control of his life.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

3. Bad Girl

A young single mother has to convince the authorities that she is a fit parent.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

4. Bitter Harvest

A young black British woman goes to the Dominican Republic as an aid worker. When she goes missing, her parents make an emotional journey to piece together her story.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

5. Man to Man

A German woman takes on her husband's identity after his death, and spends the next 40 years impersonating him.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

6. Death and the Compass

In the comic book world of a timeless Latin American country, famed policeman Inspector Lonnrot becomes embroiled in a series of murders. Rejecting all obvious solutions to the crime he discovers a more complex set of clues only to find himself enmeshed in a diabolical plot.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

7. Dread Poets Society

Benjamin Zephaniah, renowned Rastafarian poet/rapper is traveling by train from Birmingham to Cambridge to receive his Creative Arts Fellowship sharing a carriage with a racist and philistine car spares salesman; by chance the poets Keats, Byron, Shelley and writer Mary Shelley are transported from a séance they are conducting in The Villa Como by a freak electrical storm. A battle of wits, drug taking and poetry performance ensues.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

8. Buying a Landslide

Republican senator Walter Partin trails Democrat Philip Kautsky in the polls and will shortly face him in a televised debate. Drafted to play Kautsky in rehearsals is Michael Tyne, ex-Democrat turned Republican. But Tyne is alarmed by an unexpected twist in the Partin campaign and reacts in devastating fashion.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

9. Continental Drift

An eccentric Scottish spinster greets the collapse of communism by snapping up a statue of Lenin on the cheap and towing it home across a bemused or hostile Europe. / Two members of the British fascist movement bring fraternal greetings to their neo-Nazi counterparts in Berlin. / Marijke and Pieter were in love. Now it has gone sour, but they still have to finish their George Formby documentary on location in Lancashire.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

10. A Little Bit of Lippy

Cross-dressing husband is unmasked but eventually wins through.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

11. Small Metal Jacket

1969: America is losing the war in South-East Asia. A female officer plans a fresh initiative.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

12. You, Me and Marley Finale

A group of bored Roman Catholic teens from Belfast, Northern Ireland, United Kingdom, steal cars and joyride around the city, causing havoc among the nearby Protestants and local Irish Republican Army members, all of who are outraged by the youths' nihilism. The gang, led by ace thief Sean, is connected with the IRA but couldn't care less about the group's politics. But things turn serious when an IRA member captures one of the boys, Marley, in an effort to end the mayhem.

Wednesday · 34 years ago

ScreenPlay Season 7 guest stars

  • Martin Wimbush

    Martin Wimbush

    Jeremy

  • Wendy Hiller

    Wendy Hiller

    Countess Alice von Holzendorf

  • Zoë Wanamaker

    Zoë Wanamaker

    Connie

  • Patricia Quinn

    Patricia Quinn

    Margot

  • Madge Ryan

    Beattie

  • Donal McCann

    Donal McCann

    Det Insp Simpson Gabby

  • Adrian Dunbar

    Adrian Dunbar

    Det Sgt Billy McCourbrey

  • Patrick Malahide

    Patrick Malahide

    Chief Insp Miller Smith

  • Michelle Fairley

    Michelle Fairley

    Jenny

  • Jane Horrocks

    Jane Horrocks

    Maggie Hunt

  • Lesley Manville

    Lesley Manville

    Penny Armitage

  • Nicholas Woodeson

    Nicholas Woodeson

    Geoff Harris

  • Raymond Trickitt

    Raymond Trickitt

    Phil

  • Josette Simon

    Josette Simon

    Vivienne Johnson

  • Sue Johnston

    Sue Johnston

    Miriam Johnson

  • Rudolph Walker

    Rudolph Walker

    John Johnson

ScreenPlay Season 7 FAQ

When does ScreenPlay Season 7 come out?

ScreenPlay Season 7 premiered Wednesday, July 1, 1992 on BBC Two.

How many episodes are in ScreenPlay Season 7?

ScreenPlay Season 7 has 12 episodes.

Are new episodes of ScreenPlay Season 7 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the ScreenPlay Season 7 finale?

The ScreenPlay Season 7 finale (Episode 12) aired Wednesday, September 30, 1992.

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