Screen Two

Season 2 - Series 2 (13 Episodes)

15 Seasons 1986 TV-14 2h 00m 6.3

Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making movies for television and theatrical release. The result was a transition from the earlier...

Producer Kenith Trodd was part of a 1984 team brought together to study how the BBC should respond to Channel Four's pioneering efforts in making movies for television and theatrical release. The result was a transition from the earlier concept of studio-made plays, such as "Play for Today" and the introduction of the new BBC anthology movie series, "Screen One" and "Screen Two", with Trodd's supervision of the initial group of titles in 1985.

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Season 2 Episodes:

Episode 1 The McGuffin

1. The McGuffin

Aired: Jan 12, 1986

From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthi...

Episode 2 The Silent Twins

2. The Silent Twins

Aired: Jan 19, 1986

Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of the...

Episode 3 Time After Time

3. Time After Time

Aired: Jan 26, 1986

The aging Swift family of one brother, Jasper, and three sisters, April, May ...

Episode 4 Frankie and Johnnie

4. Frankie and Johnnie

Aired: Feb 2, 1986

When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive ...

Episode 6 Song of Experience

6. Song of Experience

Aired: Feb 16, 1986

As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set ...

Episode 7 The Insurance Man

7. The Insurance Man

Aired: Feb 23, 1986

Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a sk...

Episode 8 Hotel du Lac

8. Hotel du Lac

Aired: Mar 2, 1986

An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives ...

Episode 9 The Russian Soldier

9. The Russian Soldier

Aired: Mar 9, 1986

What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one mornin...

Episode 10 Blood Hunt

10. Blood Hunt

Aired: Mar 16, 1986

The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies l...

Episode 11 Shergar

11. Shergar

Aired: Mar 23, 1986

Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Iris...

Episode 12 Hard Travelling

12. Hard Travelling

Aired: Mar 30, 1986

Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden violent ...

Episode 13 Double Image

13. Double Image

Aired: Apr 6, 1986

This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent w...

Info about Screen Two

Current Status: Ended

Network: BBC Two

Production Country: United Kingdom

Genres: Drama