ScreenPlay
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.
Top cast
John Kavanagh
Sean Kerrigan
Benjamin Whitrow
Mr. Kemp
Annette Crosbie
Mrs. Holders
Sean Chapman
Stephen
Lesley Sharp
Marion Parkin
Iain Cuthbertson
Julian Vlad
Tony Doyle
Geordie Wilson
Kenneth Cranham
Dick Naughton
Patrick Stewart
Self - Narrator
Robert Hardy
Colonel Chase
Angela Thorne
Miss Howard
Judy Cornwell
Mrs. Bliss
Joanna David
Florence Kemp
Bill Paterson
Colin
Hugh Quarshie
Wallace
Details
- Status
- Ended
- First air date
- July 9, 1986
- Last air date
- October 27, 1993
- Seasons
- 8
- Episodes
- 87
- Episode runtime
- 1h 30m
- Network
- BBC Two
- Original language
- EN
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