ScreenPlay — Season 4

All 12 episodes in airing order, with first-run dates and viewer ratings.

  1. 01

    July 5, 1989

    Testimony of a Child

    Being accused of child abuse is a nightmare every family dreads. The Taylors are an ordinary happy family, but Paul and Jill are worried about their 11-year-old son Mark, who is not eating. The family GP has diagnosed 'failure to thrive', and Mark is sent to the hospital for a check-up.

  2. 02

    July 12, 1989

    A Night on the Tyne

    When four shipbuilders are made redundant they decide that as a protest they will launch the ship they have been working on.

  3. 03

    July 19, 1989

    Loving Hazel

    Mike and his ex-wife have an 8-year-old daughter, Hazel. She calls her new mother's boyfriend 'daddy', which Mike goes along with until his access to Hazel is limited.

  4. 04

    July 26, 1989

    The Attractions

    When Danny, 'one of Maggie's wandering minstrels', visits a seaside horror museum, he is rather disappointed. 'It's all about victims. Now people are interested in who done it, not who it got done to ...' So begins a process of disintegration which culminates in a new type of exhibit, 'an attraction' for the modern age.

  5. 05

    August 2, 1989

    Chinese Whispers

    Kenny's work as a nurse in a psychiatric hospital isn't just a job, it's a vocation. His special group of patients are his friends - his only friends. When a strange young man is introduced to the group, he threatens the love, discipline and respect that have been the very basis of Kenny's authority, and all that surrounds the institution is scant protection from the madness of the world beyond.

  6. 06

    August 9, 1989

    The Act

    Eastern Europe, February 1944: Johann Frink and Otto Hansen, once famous Berlin cabaret artists, are summoned to take part in a special 'entertainment', devised by a mysterious Nazi captain. When they discover where they are to perform, they find themselves with an appalling dilemma.

  7. 07

    August 16, 1989

    Scout

    Man United's scout for many generations of young footballers, sending across the water the best Irish talent regardless of background. As six more hopefuls gather at his isolated cottage for a weekend trial, their dreams of following George Best's path from Belfast are shattered by the violent return of a past graduate.

  8. 08

    August 23, 1989

    The Spirit of Man

    In pursuit of faith, God and the Devil, spells are cast, buckets of water thrown and men with black beards dance and sing.

  9. 09

    August 30, 1989

    Beyond the Pale

    Milly and her friends have been going on holiday together ever since they've known each other. This summer they return to one of their favourite haunts, a beautiful Irish country hotel. It's a place full of fond memories for all of them, but on this occasion their sense of ease and comfort is destroyed when a terrible secret is revealed.

  10. 10

    September 6, 1989

    The Hen House

    Lily lives on a remote smallholding in County Donegal. She keeps herself to herself. But a game of hide-and-seek exposes a secret.

  11. 11

    September 13, 1989

    Seeing in the Dark

    Tony has begun to panic that life may be passing him by. As his friends forge ahead, he feels stuck in a dead end job and trapped by his relationship with Judith. One day, he starts to be plagued by a series of mysterious phone calls and letters. Tony becomes haunted by a growing premonition of catastrophe.

  12. 12

    September 20, 1989

    A Small Mourning

    When Marjorie's husband of 20 years dies of a brain tumour, she's hit financially as well as emotionally. The money she makes packing tights in a factory isn't enough to cover her rent, and her TV is repossessed. Soon after the funeral she meets Arnold, a wealthy pub landlord, who squires her to the local Conservative Club ball in an effort to cheer her up. Life with Arnold promises not only companionship but undreamt-of luxury, but Marjorie's friends and family do not necessarily approve.

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