As of June 2026, ScreenPlay Season 3 aired in 1988 with 11 episodes. Full episode guide and where to watch below.
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ScreenPlay Season 3

1988 11 Episodes Drama ⭐ 6/10

ScreenPlay Season 3 ran from 1988 and built the kind of audience that still talks about it — a 6/10 TMDB score is the lasting evidence. Streaming catalogues shift constantly, so use TV Butler below to find out exactly where it's available in your region right now.

British production values give ScreenPlay Season 3 a feel distinct from American and international alternatives. Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie. It aired in 1988.

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🎬 ScreenPlay Season 3 — Episode Guide

E1
No Further Cause for Concern
1988-07-13
'I'm doing 15 years, three years at a time, and when I come out I'm going to be the same man as when I came in. The same man!' But even hard man Danny Monk can't foresee the consequences when he barricades himself in a cell during a prison riot with a prison officer as hostage.
E2
A Woman Alone
1988-07-20
A housewife confides to her neighbour about the troubles she has been having with her possessive husband, her romantic lover and her lecherous invalid brother-in-law. In spite of the impressive battery of mod cons in her home, she feels that love and marriage are not all they are cracked up to be.
E3
Burning Ambition
1988-07-27
When the luckless Martin and Renato have the bright idea of starting up a guided coach tour of the M25, London's orbital motorway, they think they're on to a winner - but they soon discover they're on course for disaster.
E4
Eskimos Do it
1988-08-03
When the widowed Mrs Bing goes into hospital for a routine operation, she little realises she will soon make a dramatic bid for the most essential freedom of all.
E5
Out Of Love
1988-08-10
The shy, hard-working farmer Thomas Price, whose life is dominated by his father Emrys, is strongly attracted to the independent Englishwoman Ruth and they become drawn into a passionate love affair.
E6
Home Front
1988-08-24
'What about us? We have rights too. This is not just any residential home for kids in care. This is Home. You. tell them - they try and close us down, we're gonna fight....'
E7
Between The Cracks
1988-08-31
The performers in this drama are not actors reciting other people's lines. They are who they say they are and they speak from their own real experience. The stories you are about to hear are true.
E8
The Black and Blue Lamp
1988-09-07
In 1949, Tom Riley is arrested for the murder of PC George Dixon. As he awaits interrogation at the station, he is mysteriously transported into an episode of "The Filth", a 1988 police series where the hard men rule.
E9
The Diary of Rita Patel
1988-09-14
It's a new start for teenager Rita Patel and her family - new home, new school, new diary, new life. But their happiness is short-lived when racist skinheads attack the family and their home.
E10
Edvard
1988-09-20
Set in 1902, this is the story of the artist Edvard Munch and his stormy affair with Tulla Larsen , the inspiration behind some of his most famous paintings.
E11
Starlings
1988-09-28
Gary Wilson loses his factory job, retrains as a butler and under the patronage of a wealthy young woman finds success in the City.

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