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ScreenPlay

1986–1993
8 Seasons
87 Episodes

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.

CAST
John KavanaghSean KerriganBenjamin WhitrowMr. KempAnnette CrosbieMrs. HoldersSean ChapmanStephenLesley SharpWomanIain CuthbertsonJulian VladTony DoyleThe chiefKenneth CranhamDick NaughtonPatrick StewartSelf - Narrator
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GENRES
Drama
STATUSEnded
RATING
6.0
NETWORK
BBC Two
EPISODES
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