As of July 2026, Screen Two Season 5 aired in 1989 with 12 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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Screen Two Season 5

1989 12 Episodes Drama ⭐ 7/10

Screen Two Season 5 is currently streaming on major platforms, and it rewards the patience it asks of you. A compact run that never overstays its welcome. With 7 viewer ratings on TMDB, this is not a title flying under the radar. The cast brings a seriousness the material deserves. Put it on tonight and see for yourself.

Screen Two Season 5 is not trying to be everything to everyone, and that focus is exactly what makes it work. Screen Two Season 5 takes its time building the world its characters inhabit, and the patience pays off. Season 5 of Screen Two includes 12 episodes. It aired from January 1989 to March 1989. Episodes include "Death of a Son", "Angel Voices", "Flying in the Branches". It was aired in 1989. The writing trusts the audience to sit with ambiguity rather than wrapping everything up in a tidy conclusion — it is the approach that separates good drama from great. It knows exactly what it is, and does not try to be anything else.

Viewers drawn to character-driven storytelling will find plenty to sit with in Screen Two Season 5. It does not lean on comparisons to make its case. Best experienced as a single, sustained watch if your schedule allows. The writing gives every character enough weight that no single performance has to do the heavy lifting. It makes everything else feel thin by comparison.

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🎬 Screen Two Season 5 — Episode Guide

E1
Death of a Son
1989-01-08
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 ...
E2
Angel Voices
1989-01-15
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.
E3
Flying in the Branches
1989-01-22
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 wa...
E4
Words of Love
1989-01-29
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.
E5
Leaving
1989-02-05
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.
E6
Virtuoso
1989-02-12
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.
E7
The Picnic
1989-02-19
'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?
E8
The Firm
1989-02-26
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 foot...
E9
Here Is the News
1989-03-03
Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.
E10
Ice Dance
1989-03-12
A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.
E11
Sitting Targets
1989-03-19
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..
E12
Defrosting the Fridge
1989-03-26
An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.

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