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Screen Two

TV·1985–1998·15 seasons, 168 episodes·BBC Two·Drama

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  1. 01LentS01E06 · 9.0It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The weather is beautiful, the countryside is lovely, but all is far from peaceful as the adults quarrel and Paul grows up.
  2. 02The Last RomanticsS08E11 · 8.0A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.
  3. 03The SnapperS09E10 · 8.0When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight-knit Irish family struggles to cope with the news.

Episodes by season

Season0110Episodes1985Aired 9.0Season avg
  1. S01E01Screen Two S01E01ContactJanuary 6, 1985A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and appreh
  2. S01E02PoppylandJanuary 13, 1985He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by t
  3. S01E03Unfair ExchangesJanuary 20, 1985Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasing
  4. S01E04Knockback (1)January 27, 1985In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lo
  5. S01E05Knockback (2)February 3, 1985Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both h
  6. S01E06LentFebruary 10, 1985 9.0It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake
  7. S01E07The Unknown SoldierFebruary 17, 1985The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.
  8. S01E08The Burston RebellionFebruary 24, 1985On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school.
  9. S01E09Space StationMarch 3, 1985"It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still
  10. S01E10In the Secret StateMarch 10, 1985A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleagu

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season0213Episodes1986AiredSeason avg
  1. S02E01The McGuffinJanuary 12, 1986From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He sees two men attacki
  2. S02E02The Silent TwinsJanuary 19, 1986Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. A
  3. S02E03Time After TimeJanuary 26, 1986The aging Swift family of one brother, Jasper, and three sisters, April, May and June, are forced to live together in the run-down family ma
  4. S02E04Frankie and JohnnieFebruary 2, 1986When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. However, Allan Blakeston, a local
  5. S02E05Honest, Decent and TrueFebruary 9, 1986The launch of Chaser lager could be big for KFS if Alun shows some commitment; if Mike's lifestyle doesn't catch up with him; if the rest of
  6. S02E06Song of ExperienceFebruary 16, 1986As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains,
  7. S02E07Insurance ManFebruary 23, 1986Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to tre
  8. S02E08Screen Two S02E08Hotel du LacMarch 2, 1986An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives at a Swiss hotel and finds her life changing in unexpected ways
  9. S02E09The Russian SoldierMarch 9, 1986What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is ce
  10. S02E10Blood HuntMarch 16, 1986The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills, pursued by Robert'
  11. S02E11ShergarMarch 23, 1986Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoi
  12. S02E12Hard TravellingMarch 30, 1986Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys. Enco
  13. S02E13Double ImageApril 6, 1986This film tells the true-life story of Yuri Nosenko, a top Soviet KGB agent who defected to the West at the height of the Cold War in 1962.

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season0315Episodes1987AiredSeason avg
  1. S03E01Coast to CoastJanuary 4, 1987Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither
  2. S03E02Blunt: The Fourth ManJanuary 11, 1987The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal.
  3. S03E03Will You Love Me TomorrowJanuary 18, 1987Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal: 'What I want most
  4. S03E04After PilkingtonJanuary 25, 1987What's happened to Pilkington? James doesn't much care, he's far more interested in renewing acquaintance with the girl he silently adored a
  5. S03E05Screen Two S03E05East of IpswichFebruary 1, 1987Michael Palin's nostalgic comedy about a family holiday at a Suffolk seaside resort. Richard Burrill, a 17-year-old, is reluctantly dragged
  6. S03E06Naming the NamesFebruary 8, 1987Finn's story seems to begin when Henry Kirk comes into the bookshop where she works. But it goes back a lot further than that.
  7. S03E07Northanger AbbeyFebruary 15, 1987Teenage Catherine enjoys reading Gothic Novels. She visits Bath and meets Henry and his sister Eleanor. Upon returning home, Eleanor invites
  8. S03E08VisitorsFebruary 22, 1987This production for the BBC-2's "Screen Two" series was the last of Dennis Potter's "one-shot, one-slot" plays for television. It had its or
  9. S03E09Heaven on EarthMarch 1, 1987Heaven On Earth follows several children and teens as they are sent from their homes in Wales and England to Canada. Host families await the
  10. S03E10Screen Two S03E10Inappropriate BehaviourMarch 8, 1987Jo teaches 'difficult' children - American style. Young Helen, one of her most rebellious pupils, teaches horse-riding - Cotswold style. Who
  11. S03E11Going HomeMarch 15, 1987After the Great War, thousands of Canadian troops were sent to Kinmel Park Camp in North Wales to await their return as young heroes.
  12. S03E12Screen Two S03E12Quartermaine's TermsMarch 22, 1987St. John Quartermaine, a teacher in an English language college for foreign students, his life revolving around work, seemingly without a so
  13. S03E13On the PalmApril 5, 1987Fledge needs a job. He'll take anything. And when Dawlish gives him strange errands to run, for cash in hand, strictly 'on the palm', it's a
  14. S03E14Hedgehog WeddingApril 17, 1987Mr and Mrs Desmond Howard Jones invite you to the wedding of their daughter Mariella to Dominic Frazer.
  15. S03E15The Children of DynmouthApril 19, 1987Easter holidays in the charming seaside town of Dynmouth. The fair has come to town with roundabouts, the big wheel and a spot-the-talent co

Season 3 ranked & reviewed

Season0411Episodes1988AiredSeason avg
  1. S04E01The VisionJanuary 9, 1988Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the chan
  2. S04E02Dead LuckyJanuary 17, 1988Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his paren
  3. S04E03Screen Two S04E03Sweet As You AreJanuary 24, 1988A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced
  4. S04E04Stanley SpencerJanuary 31, 1988The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard o
  5. S04E05BorderFebruary 7, 1988Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is
  6. S04E06Love BirdsMarch 6, 1988Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, '
  7. S04E07Shadow On The EarthMarch 13, 1988Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by sc
  8. S04E08Reasonable ForceMarch 27, 1988In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator
  9. S04E09The Temptation of Eileen HughesApril 3, 1988The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts th
  10. S04E10Screen Two S04E10Lucky SunilApril 17, 1988Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, t
  11. S04E11Run for the LifeboatApril 24, 1988Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.

Season 4 ranked & reviewed

Season0512Episodes1989AiredSeason avg
  1. S05E01Death of a SonJanuary 8, 1989In 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
  2. S05E02Angel VoicesJanuary 15, 1989It 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
  3. S05E03Flying in the BranchesJanuary 22, 1989Sue 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 We
  4. S05E04Words of LoveJanuary 29, 19892 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolbo
  5. S05E05LeavingFebruary 5, 1989A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different p
  6. S05E06VirtuosoFebruary 12, 1989In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later, he suffers t
  7. S05E07Screen Two S05E07The PicnicFebruary 19, 1989'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon ad
  8. S05E08Screen Two S05E08The FirmFebruary 26, 1989This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championship
  9. S05E09Here Is the NewsMarch 3, 1989Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him
  10. S05E10Ice DanceMarch 12, 1989A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their f
  11. S05E11Sitting TargetsMarch 19, 1989Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things beg
  12. S05E12Defrosting the FridgeMarch 26, 1989An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

Season 5 ranked & reviewed

Season0612Episodes1990AiredSeason avg
  1. S06E01Old FlamesJanuary 14, 1990Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obse
  2. S06E02The Man from the PruJanuary 21, 1990The story of a famous real-life murder case in which an employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was suspected of killing his wife.
  3. S06E03Drowning in the Shallow EndJanuary 28, 1990A young man's personal and professional life falls apart.
  4. S06E04Close RelationsFebruary 4, 1990At a family funeral, Trevor Orwin meets Jenny, the sister he never knew he had. The relationship that develops between them has a dramatic a
  5. S06E05The Impossible SpyFebruary 11, 1990This is the true story of an Israeli civilian who was recruited into Israel's Secret Intelligence Agency to become a spy in Damascus, where
  6. S06E06He's Asking for MeFebruary 18, 1990When the first call comes, Norah thinks it is just an average dirty breather. The next time he asks for her personally and knows all about h
  7. S06E07Sometime in AugustFebruary 25, 1990'Nobody's going to force you to swim.' Neil's beach holiday with the Middleton family turns sour over his refusal to bathe. The situation is
  8. S06E08Small ZonesMarch 4, 1990
  9. S06E09Circles of DeceitMarch 11, 1990Philip, a painter who specialises as a copyist, has always been dominated by strong women with secrets.
  10. S06E10The LoreleiMarch 18, 1990A lonely schoolteacher has a strange experience on her walking holiday. It haunts her and threatens to wreck her growing romance with a coll
  11. S06E11Children CrossingMarch 25, 1990Is Joe really having an affair - or is Rosie imagining it all? A story of sexual jealousy, betrayal and vengeance - an emotional journey whi
  12. S06E12The Kremlin FarewellApril 1, 1990A drama of intrigue and betrayal in Stalin's Russia. Stepan grows up in an orphanage, learning to love Stalin as 'a father to all children'.

Season 6 ranked & reviewed

Season0712Episodes1991AiredSeason avg
  1. S07E01Heading HomeJanuary 13, 1991A story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London.
  2. S07E02Hallelujah AnyhowJanuary 27, 1991When local pastor Adlyn meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between h
  3. S07E03KorczakFebruary 3, 1991The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the War
  4. S07E04Fellow TravellerFebruary 10, 19911950s Hollywood: the McCarthy senate committee is conducting a witch-hunt for supposed communists in the entertainment industry and betrayal
  5. S07E05102 Boulevard HaussmannFebruary 17, 1991In 1916 author Marcel Proust is leading a reclusive life in Paris. He hires a quartet of musicians and befriends one of them, a wounded serv
  6. S07E06A Private LifeFebruary 24, 1991Jack and Stella were unable to marry in South Africa because she was classified as coloured. They persevere by living together in a mixed ne
  7. S07E07The Laughter of GodMarch 3, 1991Husband and wife are stuck in a loveless marriage because of their kids. They cheat and fantasize about murdering each-other. When an ancien
  8. S07E08Morphine and Dolly MixturesMarch 10, 1991A girl's childhood in the 1950s with her brutal alcoholic father.
  9. S07E09Do Not DisturbMarch 17, 1991When Jenny and Bruce Coldfield bring a curious party of enthusiasts to a remote Norfolk village to visit the hidden world of ghost story wri
  10. S07E10DreamingMarch 24, 1991McIlvanney's reworking of his short story, from "Walking Wounded" (Hodder and Stoughton, 1989). Sammy Nelson envisions 'alternatives' to the
  11. S07E11They Never SleptMarch 31, 1991When plucky Corporal Pru Merriman reports to her superiors, she is catapulted into the murky world of the French Resistance.
  12. S07E12AiméeApril 7, 1991A white Mercedes, the English countryside, a cathedral city, a haunted figure at the wheel with an overnight bag in the boot. Frank Summers

Season 7 ranked & reviewed

Season0813Episodes1992Aired 7.5Season avg
  1. S08E01The Grass ArenaJanuary 19, 1992
  2. S08E02Flea BitesJanuary 26, 1992
  3. S08E03The Count of SolarFebruary 2, 1992
  4. S08E04Screen Two S08E04The Lost Language of CranesFebruary 9, 1992
  5. S08E05The Object of BeautyFebruary 16, 1992
  6. S08E06My Sister-WifeFebruary 23, 1992
  7. S08E07Truly Madly DeeplyMarch 1, 1992
  8. S08E08Common PursuitMarch 8, 1992 7.0British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.
  9. S08E09UtzMarch 15, 1992
  10. S08E10The Law LordMarch 22, 1992
  11. S08E11The Last RomanticsMarch 29, 1992 8.0A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge Univ
  12. S08E12Screen Two S08E12Enchanted AprilApril 5, 1992
  13. S08E13Screen Two S08E13Memento MoriApril 19, 1992

Season 8 ranked & reviewed

Season0913Episodes1993–92Aired 8.0Season avg
  1. S09E01Screen Two S09E01The Clothes in the WardrobeDecember 23, 1993Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can be
  2. S09E02Edward IIDecember 30, 1993In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands t
  3. S09E03The Long RoadsJanuary 31, 1993An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children
  4. S09E04Femme FataleFebruary 7, 1993The tantalizing beauty and vivacity of the irresistible Maddalena has a devastating effect on nearly every man she meets - sometimes with un
  5. S09E05Dead RomanticFebruary 14, 1993Madeleine Severn is a teacher and a virgin in a small town searching for Mr. Right. She falls in love with Bernard, a fellow teacher but is
  6. S09E06The CormorantFebruary 21, 1993Inheriting a remote house in Snowdonia seems like a dream come true. But the dream becomes a nightmare for a family who discover it's not th
  7. S09E07PragueFebruary 28, 1993Alexander (Alan Cumming) is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scat
  8. S09E08Voices in the GardenMarch 7, 1993Sir Archie and Cuckoo Peveril have lived in elegant splendour on Cap Ferrat since the end of the war. But the heady days of extravagant soci
  9. S09E09Maria's ChildMarch 28, 1993Maria is a dancer who becomes pregnant, unexpectedly, and has to decide whether or not to keep the baby. When her live-in boyfriend, who is
  10. S09E10The SnapperApril 2, 1993 8.0When 20 years old Sharon announces that she is pregnant but refuses to tell who the father is, her tight-knit Irish family struggles to cope
  11. S09E11Screen Two S09E11The TrialDecember 19, 1993Harold Pinter's screen adaptation of Franz Kafka's enigmatic masterpiece. The story of a man who gets drawn into a world of lies and corrupt
  12. S09E12The Railway Station ManDecember 30, 1993A Northern Irish artist, widowed by an IRA bomb, embarks on a new life on the coast with her teenaged son. Romance slowly blossoms when she
  13. S09E99DeleteApril 12, 1992

Season 9 ranked & reviewed

Season1019Episodes1994–96AiredSeason avg
  1. S10E01Genghis CohnMarch 2, 1994A former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII.
  2. S10E02SkallagriggMarch 9, 1994Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could sta
  3. S10E03All Things Bright and BeautifulMarch 16, 1994A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an
  4. S10E04The Reflecting SkinMarch 23, 1994In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighbouring widow is actually a vampire, respon
  5. S10E05O Mary This LondonMarch 30, 1994Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless,
  6. S10E06DirtysomethingApril 6, 1994A comedy that pits the hippy ideals of the New Age against the yuppy aspirations of suburbia. Dog and Becca meet at the Glastonbury Festival
  7. S10E07Return to Blood RiverApril 13, 1994Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged wi
  8. S10E08HenriApril 20, 1994A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.
  9. S10E09Zinky Boys Go UndergroundApril 27, 1994In Moscow, veterans of the Afghanistan war live on the margin. Their leader is Andrei, their former sergeant, blind from drinking wood alcoh
  10. S10E10Ethan FromeMay 4, 1994A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm
  11. S10E11Hope in the Year TwoMay 11, 1994In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Gu
  12. S10E12Sin BinMay 18, 1994When a psychiatric patient dies after a violent assault, a nurse is forced to choose between self-preservation and justice.
  13. S10E13Men of the MonthMay 25, 1994Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek (1966) videos and delivers pac
  14. S10E14SarafinaJune 1, 1994
  15. S10E15A Landing on the SunJune 8, 1994By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given the unusual brief of
  16. S10E16In the Cold Light of DayJune 15, 1994It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morr
  17. S10E17CriminalJune 22, 1994Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just ove
  18. S10E18Midnight MovieDecember 26, 1994American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was fi
  19. S10E19Screen Two S10E19The Blue BoyJanuary 2, 1996A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationship - only for the pas

Season 10 ranked & reviewed

Season119Episodes1995AiredSeason avg
  1. S11E01A Very Open PrisonMarch 26, 1995Three prisoners ruin the Home Secretary's week, and provide the catalyst that threatens to topple the Government, by breaking out of a newly
  2. S11E02Screen Two S11E02Life After LifeApril 2, 1995Leo Doyle, in his mid-30s and single, is released into ceasefire Belfast after serving a life sentence for an IRA murder. Desperate for a ne
  3. S11E03PersuasionApril 16, 1995Based on the novel by Jane Austen, this period movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, spinster daughter of a British nobleman. Anne is unduly
  4. S11E04Crazy for a KissApril 23, 1995This movie tells the story of the life of a young boy in Kansas who is committed by his parents to a mental institution for teenagers. In it
  5. S11E05Screen Two S11E05The Absence of WarMay 18, 1995Political drama written by David Hare and starring John Thaw. Labour leader George Jones battles with his party on the campaign trail of a g
  6. S11E06Mrs. Hartley and the Growth CentreMay 21, 1995When a shy young man arrives on her doorstep, Alice Hartley grabs the chance to escape from her loveless marriage. She and Michael open a Gr
  7. S11E07Black EasterJune 4, 1995Germany, March 2000: Detective Alex Fischer investigates the murder of a young Danish woman whose body has been slashed from head to foot. O
  8. S11E08BlissJune 11, 1995Life for shy, romantic civil servant Leslie would be pure bliss if only he could get together with Julia, the new love of his life. Saffron
  9. S11E09Nervous EnergyJune 18, 1995

Season 11 ranked & reviewed

Season129Episodes1995–96AiredSeason avg
  1. S12E01Great Moments in AviationNovember 11, 1995Desire turns deadly as an intricate web of lies and betrayal unfolds on a voyage aboard a luxurious ocean liner. The journey begins when a n
  2. S12E02PriestNovember 18, 1995A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how t
  3. S12E03StreetlifeNovember 25, 1995Single mother Jo, in the middle of a tempestuous love affair with a married man, is pregnant. When he starts to mess her around and her moth
  4. S12E04Nervous EnergyDecember 2, 1995Tom is a young man with AIDS living in London with his lover Ira. The disease has exaggerated Toms nervous energy and in his manic state he
  5. S12E05Saigon BabyDecember 16, 1995A childless couple's obsession with becoming parents draws them into the shadowy world of baby trafficking.
  6. S12E06The HawkDecember 24, 1995A housewife with a history of mental illness grows increasingly suspicious that her husband may be a notorious serial killer. As she investi
  7. S12E07The Hour of the PigDecember 26, 1995In medieval France, young lawyer Richard Courtois leaves Paris for the simpler life in the country. However, he is soon drawn into amorous a
  8. S12E08Return of the NativeDecember 31, 1995Set in 1842, it tells the turbulent story of mysterious Eustacia Vye, who longs for the excitement of a world beyond the constraints of vill
  9. S12E09Half the PictureFebruary 18, 1996A dramatized account of the Scott Inquiry about the sales of arms to Iraq.

Season 12 ranked & reviewed

Season136Episodes1996AiredSeason avg
  1. S13E01CaptivesMay 11, 1996A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriag
  2. S13E02A Man of No ImportanceMay 18, 1996A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus.
  3. S13E03The Cement GardenMay 25, 1996Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin t
  4. S13E04Bad Boy BluesJune 1, 1996Two boyhood friends end up on different sides of the law. How will each react when they meet up for the first time since school?
  5. S13E05Screen Two S13E05The Precious BloodJune 8, 1996Drama set in Belfast that asks if it is possible to have peace with justice. Rosie Williams is haunted by the murder of her husband 12 year
  6. S13E06CenturyJune 15, 1996Paul Reisner, a young doctor, becomes a researcher in a prestigious medical institute. He feels he has a chance to be part of a movement of

Season 13 ranked & reviewed

Season147Episodes1996AiredSeason avg
  1. S14E01Crossing the FloorOctober 5, 1996Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join
  2. S14E02Deadly VoyageOctober 12, 1996When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they h
  3. S14E03LovingOctober 19, 1996An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dyi
  4. S14E04Flowers of the ForestOctober 26, 1996Two young children are brought to Janet Hinton, a social worker in the Scottish Highlands. When both she and an independent expert become co
  5. S14E05Look Me in the EyeNovember 2, 1996A newlywed woman becomes embroiled in an erotic world of sexual fantasy.
  6. S14E06Dallas DollNovember 16, 1996Dallas Adair, an American golf guru, comes to live with a middle-class family in suburban Australia. With her riotous antics and her capacit
  7. S14E07Screen Two S14E07Burn Your PhoneDecember 31, 1996During a normal day of answering calls, telephone operator Andy begins to hear from someone who knows things that only Andy himself could kn

Season 14 ranked & reviewed

Season157Episodes1997–98AiredSeason avg
  1. S15E01Screen Two S15E01StonewallMay 17, 1997A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights move
  2. S15E02I.D.June 1, 1997When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side.
  3. S15E03Stone, Scissors, PaperJune 7, 1997Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she f
  4. S15E04Butterfly KissJune 14, 1997Eunice searches for Judith, her love, at highway gas stations. Her dangerous behaviour frightens cashiers. Miriam, a hard-of-hearing woman,
  5. S15E05Screen Two S15E05Brothers in TroubleJune 21, 1997A Pakistani immigrant works illegally in 1960s England, sharing cramped housing while sending money home. Movies offer escape as he faces de
  6. S15E06MothertimeDecember 28, 1997A drunken woman's children lock her in the sauna in an attempt to cure her of her alcoholism.
  7. S15E07Small FacesJanuary 1, 1998Glaswegian teenager Lex is torn between the artistic life of middle brother Alan and the thuggish world of elder brother Bobby.

Season 15 ranked & reviewed

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  2. 02Drama·Crime·ThrillerTrue Detective2014–presentStreaming on HBO MaxTouch darkness and darkness touches you back.8.1Compare
  3. 03Drama·Action·Science-FictionThe Flash2014–2023·The CWStreaming on NetflixAfter a particle accelerator causes a freak storm, CSI Investigator Barry Allen is struck by lightning and falls into a coma.7.5Compare
  4. 04Drama·Action·SupernaturalSupernatural2005–2020·The CWStreaming on Amazon Prime VideoThis haunting series follows the Winchester brothers as they crisscross the lonely and mysterious back roads of the country in their '67 Chevy Impala, hunting down every evil supernatural force they encounter along the…8.3Compare
  5. 05Drama·Comedy·CrimeFargo2014·FXStreaming on HuluFargo is a seasonal anthology crime drama with some dark comical elements, inspired by the film Fargo written by the Coen brothers.8.6Compare
  6. 06Drama·CrimeChicago P.D.2014–present·NBCStreaming on Amazon Prime VideoDistrict 21 of the Chicago Police Department is made up of two distinctly different groups.8.0Compare

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