TV Series

ScreenPlay (1986–1993)

Name: ScreenPlay
Genre: Drama
Cast: John Kavanagh, Benjamin Whitrow, Annette Crosbie, Lesley Sharp, Sean Chapman

First aired July 9, 1986
8 seasons · 87 episodes
1h 30m / episode

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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.

Starring: John Kavanagh, Benjamin Whitrow, Annette Crosbie

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Season 8 · Episode 6 · October 27, 1993

Boswell & Johnson's Tour of the Western Isles

In the autumn of 1773, the English writer Samuel Johnson visits the Hebrides, or Western Isles, off the North-West coast of Scotland. With him are his friend, the Scotsman James Boswell, and his black servant Francis...