ScreenPlay(1986)

series - first aired/released 1986-07-09 - audience 6.0

Drama

Directed by Adrian Shergold, Alan Clarke, Alan Dossor, Alex Cox, Andy Wilson, Angela Pope, Anthony Garner , Antonia Bird, Beeban Kidron, Bernard Rudden, Bob Bentley, Brian Parker, Chris Bernard, Chris Goddard, Corin Campbell-Hill, Danny Boyle, David Attwood, David Rudkin, David Wheatley, David Wickham, Derek Lister, Diarmuid Lawrence, Francis Gerard, Gareth Jones, Geoff Feld, George Case, Gillies MacKinnon, Guy Slater, Jane Howell, John Bruce, John Byrne, John Maybury, Justin Hardy, Karl Francis, Laura Sims, Les Blair, Leslie Megahey, Louise Panton, Lucy Parker, Malcolm McKay, Michael Houldey, Michael Jackley, Michael Simpson, Michael Winterbottom, Moira Armstrong, Nicholas Renton, Pat O'Connor, Paul Tickell, Pedr James, Penny Cherns, Peter Barber-Fleming, Peter Barnes, Peter Smith, Richard Spence, Robert Cooper, Robin Midgley, Roger Bamford, Ross Devenish, Roy Battersby, Sharon Miller, Simon Cellan Jones, Simon Curtis, Steve Hilliker, Stuart Burge

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.