Screen One
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 (1970) and the introduction of the new BBC anthology movie series, this show and Screen Two (1985), with Trodd's supervision of the initial group of titles in 1985.
- 1985-2002
- 9 seasons
- Comedy, Suspense, Drama, Action & Adventure
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 (1970) and the introduction of the new BBC anthology movie series, this show and Screen Two (1985), with Trodd's supervision of the initial group of titles in 1985.
Season 6 Episode Guide
7 Episodes 1994
Episode 1
Bambino Mio
84 mins
A woman's fight to adopt a war baby from the Third World after becoming unable to conceive.
Episode 2
A Breed of Heroes
In 1971, fresh-faced, eager for heroics, the young officers arrive in Belfast. Pelted with rocks by kids, sniped at by the IRA, they take refuge in sex, black humour and the weird rituals of the officers' mess.
Episode 3
Pat and Margaret
84 mins
Unexpected events occur over a long weekend when Pat, a glamorous British-born star of American soaps, returns home to plug her autobiography on television and meets, for the first time since they were teenagers, her plain, fat, frumpy younger sister Margaret. The meeting is painful for both sister, highlighting the vast differences in their lives and resurrecting painful memories of their unhappy childhood with their uncaring mother. The tabloid press smell a juicy story and a race ensues to trace the current whereabouts of the long-lost errant mother.
Episode 4
Two Golden Balls
70 mins
A repressed anti-porn campaigner meets a glamorous American porn actress who changes her outlook on life.
Episode 5
Meat
87 mins
Myra is a teen prostitute and Charlie a recently released young offender. Together they begin an affair "amid the sleaze of London street-life". Myras' jealous pimp, Frank is not amused.
Episode 6
Murder in Mind
A body is found face down in a tank. Detective Inspector Iverson, investigating what seems like a routine case of suicide, becomes involved with the mesmerizing psychotherapist who was helping the dead woman find her true self. Gradually their roles are reversed as her probing uncovers the detective's own deeper motives and needs, until the knife-edge between suicide and murder is exposed.
Episode 7
Doggin' Around
90 mins
An American jazz musician finds himself traveling around the North of England in distinctly eccentric company.
