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Screen Two Season 5 Episode release dates & where to watch

Premiered

Sunday, January 8, 1989

Ended: Sunday, March 26, 1989

When does Screen Two Season 5 come out?

Screen Two Season 5 premiered Sunday, January 8, 1989 on BBC Two and ended Sunday, March 26, 1989. The season has 12 episodes.

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1. Death of a Son

In September 1982, Pauline and Ray Williams were woken with the news that their 19-year-old son John had been found dead. They discovered he had been experimenting with drugs but the inquest verdict was clear: John had been 'unlawfully killed'. Yet no prosecutions followed. Pauline could not accept this decision and spent the next three years taking on the British legal establishment. The outcome of her campaign has now earned her a place in legal history.

Sunday · 37 years ago

2. Angel Voices

It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time.

Sunday · 37 years ago

3. Flying in the Branches

Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the first time, Sue is reminded of things she had tried to forget. Amid the tensions of the sisters' less than joyful reunion, Dana announces that she wants to find a husband.

Sunday · 37 years ago

4. Words of Love

2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolboy models his life on the rock 'n' roll star whose music and untimely death affected the lives of a generation.

Sunday · 37 years ago

5. Leaving

A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.

Sunday · 37 years ago

6. Virtuoso

In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later, he suffers the onset of mental illness that threatens to destroy his playing, marriage and sanity.

Sunday · 37 years ago

7. The Picnic

'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon adjust to having a stepfather her own age, and now a birthday picnic by the river. Why shouldn't Margie be happy?

Sunday · 37 years ago

8. The Firm

This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discussed, the opposing leaders are not happy, as they believe this is a challenge to their authority. This Film shows how football violence has progressed from pure violence to a form of organized crime, to the extent that all the leaders know each others home phone / mobile phone numbers.

Sunday · 37 years ago

9. Here Is the News

Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.

Friday · 37 years ago

10. Ice Dance

A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.

Sunday · 37 years ago

11. Sitting Targets

Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants begin to fight back..

Sunday · 37 years ago

12. Defrosting the Fridge Finale

An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

Sunday · 37 years ago

Screen Two Season 5 guest stars

  • Mark Billingham

    Mark Billingham

    Gary

  • Lynn Redgrave

    Lynn Redgrave

    Pauline Williams

  • Julian Curry

    Julian Curry

    Professor Ray Spector

  • Jerome Willis

    Jerome Willis

    First DPP Official

  • Oliver Ford Davies

    Oliver Ford Davies

    Prosecuting Counsel

  • Neville Phillips

    Neville Phillips

    Coroner

  • Roy Evans

    Undertaker

  • Billie Whitelaw

    Billie Whitelaw

    Margie

  • Iain Glen

    Iain Glen

    Ray

  • Sarah-Jane Holm

    Sarah-Jane Holm

    Della

  • Cassie Stuart

    Cassie Stuart

    Ruth

  • Phil Smeeton

    Mick

  • Brenda Fricker

    Brenda Fricker

    Ray's Mother

  • Jimmy Yuill

    Jimmy Yuill

    Man at Dyke

  • Julie McDonald

    Prostitute

  • Joan Spall

    Registrar

Screen Two Season 5 FAQ

When does Screen Two Season 5 come out?

Screen Two Season 5 premiered Sunday, January 8, 1989 on BBC Two.

How many episodes are in Screen Two Season 5?

Screen Two Season 5 has 12 episodes.

Are new episodes of Screen Two Season 5 released weekly?

New episodes are released weekly.

When is the Screen Two Season 5 finale?

The Screen Two Season 5 finale (Episode 12) aired Sunday, March 26, 1989.

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