Screen One

Screen One is a British television anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and transmitted on BBC1 between 1989 and 1993.

Following the demise of the BBC's Play for Today which ran from 1970 to 1984, producer Kenneth Trodd was asked to formulate a new series of one-off television dramas. However, while Play for Today's style had often been a largely studio-based form of theatre on television, the new series was to follow the lead taken by Channel 4's television films many of which had been released in cinemas. The result was Screen Two which ran from 1985 to 1994 on BBC2.

In 1989 the Screen One strand began broadcasting on the more mainstream BBC1.

The third series' A Question of Attribution adapted from the Alan Bennett play won the 1992 BAFTA TV award for Best Single Drama and Prunella Scales was nominated for Best Actress.

From the fifth series A Foreign Field starring Alec Guinness, Lauren Bacall and Jeanne Moreau and Wide-Eyed and Legless saw a cinema release. Wide-Eyed and Legless starring Julie Walters and Jim Broadbent was renamed The Wedding Gift in America.

Screen One attracted many names familiar to television and film audiences including Alfred Molina, Sean Bean, David Thewlis, Ray Winstone, Alan Bates, Judi Dench, James Fox, Keith Allen, Bob Peck, Alun Armstrong, Marina Sirtis, David Jason, Brenda Blethyn, James Bolam, Adrian Edmondson, Alison Steadman, Timothy West, Clive Russell and Janet McTeer. The fifth series episode Royal Celebration saw the screen debut of Keira Knightley.

By 1993, the prevailing mood within the BBC was to move away from single dramas and concentrate production on series and serials.

Series One

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
10/09/89	One Way Out	Robert Young	Mick Ford	Bob Peck, Denis Lawson, Samantha Bond, Enn Reitel
17/09/89	Nineteen 96	Karl Francis	G. F. Newman	Keith Barron, Alun Armstrong, Keith Allen, Dudley Sutton, Roger Brierley
24/09/89	The Accountant	Les Blair	Geoffrey Case	Alfred Molina, David Graham
01/10/89	Home Run	Nicholas Renton	Andy Armitage	Michael Kitchen, Tom Georgeson, Keith Barron, Dean Harris, Dominic Jephcott, Christine Kavanagh
08/10/89	She's Been Away	Peter Hall	Stephen Poliakoff	Peggy Ashcroft, James Fox, Michael Carter, Rosalie Crutchley, Donald Douglas, David Hargreaves, Geraldine James, Hugh Lloyd, René Zagger
15/10/89	The Mountain and the Molehill	Moira Armstrong	David Reid	Michael Gough, John Carson, Paul Brooke
22/10/89	Blore M.P.	Robert Young		Timothy West, Oscar Quitak, James Warwick, Barry Jackson, Stephen Moore, Ray Winstone, David Jackson
27/12/89	Ball-Trap on the Cote Sauvage

Series Two

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
02/09/90	News Hounds	Les Blair	Les Blair (uncredited)	Adrian Edmonson, Alison Steadman, Steven Mackintosh
09/09/90	Frankenstein's Baby	Robert Bierman	Emma Tennant	Nigel Planer
16/09/90	The Police	Ian Knox	Arthur Ellis	Oliver Ford Davies, Derek Martin
23/09/90	Sweet Nothing	Tony Smith	Vincent O'Connell	Lee Ross, Charlotte Coleman, Simon Cadell, Victor Maddern, Michael Melia
30/09/90	Can You Hear Me Thinking?	Christopher Morahan	Monty Haltrecht & Beverley Marcus	Judi Dench, Michael Williams, Charmian May, Pik-Sen Lim, Cyril Shaps
07/10/90	One Last Chance	Gabrielle Beaumont	Andrew Kazamia	Marina Sirtis, Bernard Spear, Eileen Way
14/10/90	Sticky Wickets	Dewi Humphreys	Fletcher Watkins	Alun Armstrong, James Bolam, Gillian Elisa, George Sewell, William Thomas
21/10/90	Survival of the Fittest	Martyn Friend	Julian Mitchell	Timothy West, Jean Anderson, Nerys Hughes, Elizabeth Spriggs
11/12/90	Dark City
01/01/91	Happy Feet	Michael Bradwell		Phyllis Logan, Jim Broadbent, Chris Jury
20/06/91	Skulduggery

Series Three

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
01/09/91	Hancock	Tony Smith	William Humble	Alfred Molina, Frances Barber, Clive Russell, Paul Brooke
08/09/91	Tell Me That You Love Me	Bruce MacDonald	Adrian Hodges	Judith Scott, Sean Bean, James Wilby, Michael Cochrane
15/09/91	Filipina Dreamgirls	Les Blair	Andrew Davies	Bill Maynard, Charlie Drake, David Thewlis, Geoffrey Hutchings, Lee Cornes
29/09/91	Ex	Paul Seed	William Humble	Griff Rhys Jones, Geraldine James, Penny Downie, Dermot Crowley, Mary Jo Randle, Bruce Montague, Colin Douglas
06/10/91	Prince	David Wheatley	Julie Burchill	Sean Bean, Janet McTeer
13/10/91	Alive and Kicking	Robert Young	Al Hunter Ashton	Lenny Henry, Robbie Coltrane, Jane Horrocks, Paul Barber
20/10/91	A Question of Attribution	John Schlesinger	Alan Bennett	James Fox, Prunella Scales, Geoffrey Palmer, David Calder, John Cater, Edward de Souza
01/01/92	Adam Bede			Patsy Kensit, Julia McKenzie, Jean Marsh, Freddie Jones, Paul Brooke, Patsy Byrne, Roy Evans, Edward Jewesbury, Michael Robbins

Series Four

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
06/09/92	A Very Polish Practice	David Tucker	Andrew Davies	Peter Davison, David Troughton, Joanna Kanska, Alfred Molina, Gertan Klauber
20/09/92	Born Kicking	Mandie Fletcher	Barry Hines	John Abineri, Nicholas Courtney, Norman Bird, Thomas Craig, George Irving, Terry Wogan, David McAlister, Sheila Ruskin, Garfield Morgan, Norman Mitchell
27/09/92	Black and Blue	David Hayman	G. F. Newman	Linus Roache, Martin Shaw, Iain Glen, Ray Winstone, David Morrissey, Don Henderson, David Thewlis, Madhav Sharma, Colin McFarlane
04/10/92	Seconds Out	Bruce MacDonald	Lynda La Plante	Steven Waddington, Tom Bell, Derek Newark, Jack Watson, Nick Brimble, Frank Mills, Thomas Craig, Tim Barlow, Eric Mason
11/10/92	Running Late	Udayan Prasad	Simon Gray	Peter Bowles, Michael Byrne, James Fleet, Jim McManus, Ian McNeice, Roshan Seth
18/10/92	Losing Track	Jim Lee	Roger Eldridge	Alan Bates, Geraldine James, Michael Culver
25/10/92	Trust Me	Tony Dow	Tony Sarchet	Alfred Molina, Hywel Bennett, Jill Gascoine, Roger Lloyd-Pack, Edna Doré, Harry Towb, Derek Benfield, David Simeon
31/10/92	Ghostwatch	Lesley Manning	Stephen Volk	Michael Parkinson, Sarah Greene, Mike Smith, Craig Charles

Series Five

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
05/09/93	Wide-Eyed and Legless	Richard Loncraine	Deric Longden & Jack Rosenthal	Julie Walters, Jim Broadbent, Thora Hird, Moya Brady
10/09/93	A Foreign Field	Charles Sturridge	Roy Clarke	Alec Guinness, Leo McKern, Geraldine Chaplin, Lauren Bacall, Jeanne Moreau
19/09/93	Down Among the Big Boys	Charles Gormley	Peter McDougall	Billy Connolly, Maggie Bell, Ashley Jensen
26/09/93	Royal Celebration	Ferdinand Fairfax	William Humble	Kenneth Cranham, Minnie Driver, Rupert Graves, Leslie Phillips, Keira Knightley, Gordon Salkilld
03/10/93	Tender Loving Care	Dewi Humphreys	Lucy Gannon	Dawn French, Rosemary Leach, Joan Sims, Peter Jones, Llewellyn Rees
10/10/93	Money for Nothing	Mike Ockrent	Tim Firth	Julian Glover, Martin Short, Christien Anholt, Paul Reynolds, Tim Preece, Wolf Kahler
17/10/93	Wall of Silence	Philip Saville	Maurice Gran & Laurence Marks	Bill Paterson, Warren Mitchell, Timothy Busfield, John Bowe, Brigitte Kahn
24/10/93	The Bullion Boys	Christopher Morahan	Jim Hitchmough	David Jason, Tim Pigott-Smith, Gorden Kaye, Brenda Blethyn, Geoffrey Hutchings, Paul Angelis

Series Six

TX Date	Title	Director	Writer	Main cast
02/10/94	Murder in Mind			Cathryn Harrison, Trevor Eve, Anna Massey, Steven Mackintosh, Bruce Alexander, Christopher Owen
16/10/94	Doggin' Around	Desmond Davis	Alan Plater	Elliott Gould, Geraldine James, Alun Armstrong, Ewan McGregor, Liz Smith, Ronnie Scott, Anthony Etherton, Neil McCaul, Stephen Marcus, Jamie Foreman, Larry Lamb, Judy Flynn, Nicky Goldie, Ruth Woods, Paddy Navin, Georgia Allen

External links

• Screen One at IMDb