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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
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    Screen Two Season 1 Episode 6 - Lent
    9.0/10(1 votes)

    #1 - Lent

    S1:E6

    It is the Easter holidays at Gorse Park Preparatory School. Everyone has gone home except four elderly members of staff and young Paul Blake, the orphaned son of the former headmaster. The weather is beautiful, the countryside is lovely, but all is far from peaceful as the adults quarrel and Paul grows up.

    Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
    Writer:Michael Wilcox

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  2. Screen Two Season 8 Episode 11 - The Last Romantics
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #2 - The Last Romantics

    S8:E11

    A semi-fictionalized account of the life of writer F.R. Leavis, his mentor Arthur Quiller Couch, and Leavis's own students at Cambridge University.

    Director:Jack Gold
    Writer:Nigel Williams

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  3. Screen Two Season 9 Episode 10 - The Snapper
    8.0/10(1 votes)

    #3 - The Snapper

    S9:E10

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Screen Two Season 8 Episode 8 - Common Pursuit
    7.0/10(1 votes)

    #4 - Common Pursuit

    S8:E8

    British drama following the lives of a group of friends who met at university.

    Director:Christopher Morahan
    Writer:Simon Gray

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  5. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 1 - Contact
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #5 - Contact

    S1:E1

    A platoon of British soldiers aggressively descend upon a car on a Northern Irish border roadside and promptly execute the driver and apprehend the passenger.

    Director:Alan Clarke
    Writer:A.F.N. Clarke

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  6. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 2 - Poppyland
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #6 - Poppyland

    S1:E2

    He is a respectable pillar of London society who yearns for an idyllic existence away from the noise and the smoke. She feels hemmed in by the confines of an isolated fishing village and dreams of the bright lights, and even brighter people, of the great metropolis. On a hot August day in 1883, Clement Scott, the writer, and Louie Jermy, the miller's daughter, meet each other for the first time.

    Director:John Madden
    Writer:William Humble

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  7. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 3 - Unfair Exchanges
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #7 - Unfair Exchanges

    S1:E3

    Mavis's plight will ring a bell in the heart of anyone who ever felt like murdering a telephone. Is some ghoulish mind behind the increasingly mysterious and sinister calls she gets? Is it madness or the system, or a joke that's bigger than all of us?

    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Ken Campbell

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  8. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 4 - Knockback (1)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #8 - Knockback (1)

    S1:E4

    In 1965, at the age of 25, Alan Ackland is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a business associate. In 1971, Sylvia Barker, lonely and depressed after a failed marriage and with two young children to bring up alone, seeks a new direction in her life and applies to become a voluntary prison visitor. Several years later, their paths cross.

    Director:Piers Haggard
    Writer:Unknown

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  9. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 5 - Knockback (2)
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #9 - Knockback (2)

    S1:E5

    Alan and Sylvia fall in love and Alan gains a renewed sense of purpose. He begins to hope for an eventual release on licence. However both he and Sylvia have to face the fact that, for the foreseeable future, they cannot enjoy any physical intimacy. They decide to treat their affair as a long Victorian courtship.

    Director:Piers Haggard
    Writer:Unknown

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  10. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 7 - The Unknown Soldier
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #10 - The Unknown Soldier

    S1:E7

    The soldier in the spinal carriage can neither move nor speak. Who is he? His fellow wounded and officers are intent on finding out.

    Director:Mike Vardy
    Writer:Raymond Hitchcock

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  11. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 8 - The Burston Rebellion
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #11 - The Burston Rebellion

    S1:E8

    On a chilly winter's day in 1911, Kitty and Tom Higdon arrived in the Norfolk village of Burston to take up positions in the village school. Their arrival was to irrevocably change the lives of the villagers and their children.

    Director:Norman Stone
    Writer:Elaine Morgan

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  12. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 9 - Space Station
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #12 - Space Station

    S1:E9

    "It's a city of glass. There are trees and flowers from all over the world. And marble. Acres of it. And in a field, there are cows as still as statues." Maria is taken to a new foster home in a magical city where she becomes sunshine, finds a statue that talks to her and meets a boy. She lives happily in a world of fantasy and imagination until one day something happens to change all that.

    Directors:Leslie Stewart, Colin Rogers
    Writer:Leslie Stewart

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  13. Screen Two Season 1 Episode 10 - In the Secret State
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #13 - In the Secret State

    S1:E10

    A department head within the British secret service uncovers some unpleasant secrets when he investigates the apparent suicide of a colleague.

    Director:Christopher Morahan
    Writers:Robert McCrum, Brian Phelan

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  14. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 1 - The McGuffin
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #14 - The McGuffin

    S2:E1

    From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He sees two men attacking them and Gavin falling to his death. The men were looking for something and believe he has it.

    Director:Colin Bucksey
    Writers:John Bowen, Michael Thomas

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  15. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 2 - The Silent Twins
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #15 - The Silent Twins

    S2:E2

    Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. After 14 years in Broadmoor Psychiatric Institution, freedom visits them in a mysterious way.

    Director:Jon Amiel
    Writer:Marjorie Wallace

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  16. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 3 - Time After Time
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #16 - Time After Time

    S2:E3

    The aging Swift family of one brother, Jasper, and three sisters, April, May and June, are forced to live together in the run-down family mansion and they all get on each others nerves. One-eyed Jasper is the only one who does the cooking and he has occasional meetings with a monk from the nearby monastery. April was left some money when her husband died and is now practically deaf. May is a spinster who gives talks on flower arranging and also steals ornaments. The youngest, still called Baby June, was an avid horsewoman, but now relies on her farmhand Christy Lucey to train and ride her horse. One day, to their surprise, cousin Leda comes to visit and elicits various embarrassing family secrets. Leda, who is half Jewish and used to live in Vienna, stayed with the family when she was a teenager, but they thought she died in a concentration camp in the war.

    Director:Bill Hays
    Writers:Andrew Davies, Molly Keane

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  17. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 4 - Frankie and Johnnie
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #17 - Frankie and Johnnie

    S2:E4

    When two teenagers commit suicide the police and the press assume the motive to be some kind of love pact. However, Allan Blakeston, a local reporter, has too many unanswered questions. As he digs deeper into the case, he learns why the kids really died and his knowledge puts his own life at risk.

    Director:Martin Campbell
    Writer:Paula Milne

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  18. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 5 - Honest, Decent and True
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #18 - Honest, Decent and True

    S2:E5

    The launch of Chaser lager could be big for KFS if Alun shows some commitment; if Mike's lifestyle doesn't catch up with him; if the rest of the team concern themselves more with the product's image and less with their own - they might just have a winner on their hands.

    Director:Les Blair
    Writer:Les Blair

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  19. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 6 - Song of Experience
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #19 - Song of Experience

    S2:E6

    As the Lady Chatterley court case puts its seal on the 1950s, three boys set out for a day's train-spotting. They see more than just trains, though, on a day when innocence and illusion are lost.

    Director:Stephen Frears
    Writer:Martin Allen

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  20. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 7 - Insurance Man
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #20 - Insurance Man

    S2:E7

    Franz, a young man, works in a dye factory in Prague. One day he notices a skin-rash, like eczema, growing on his hands. All attempts to treat it with ointment fail, and the rash gradually spreads over his body. After complaining to the management he is laid off work; his relationship with his fiancee is affected. In an attempt to get compensation from his former employers he goes to insurance firm Assicurazion Generali, where he encounters an enigmatic clerk called Kafka

    Director:Richard Eyre
    Writer:Alan Bennett

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  21. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 8 - Hotel du Lac
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #21 - Hotel du Lac

    S2:E8

    An authoress, whose career is more successful than her private life, arrives at a Swiss hotel and finds her life changing in unexpected ways.

    Director:Giles Foster
    Writers:Christopher Hampton, Anita Brookner

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  22. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 9 - The Russian Soldier
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #22 - The Russian Soldier

    S2:E9

    What is it that Edgar Garrett sees, or thinks he sees, on his farm one morning in the mists of early spring? Whatever it is, one thing is certain. Life will never be the same again for him and his family.

    Director:Gavin Millar
    Writer:Brian Phelan

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  23. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 10 - Blood Hunt
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #23 - Blood Hunt

    S2:E10

    The Highlands of Scotland. A fight outside the village hall. Robert Menzies lies dead and Allan Innes flees to the hills, pursued by Robert's brother. An old friend, Sandy Ross, tries to prevent the inevitable blood hunt.

    Director:Peter Barber-Fleming
    Writers:Neil M. Gunn, Stewart Conn

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  24. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 11 - Shergar
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #24 - Shergar

    S2:E11

    Malachy: "Who do you kidnap? You can't touch children, women, no sons of Irish mothers. What's left?" When Frankie is released from Portlaoise Prison, his old comrades are expecting some action. He hits on a plan for raising £2 million, but his plan goes wrong.

    Director:Nigel Finch
    Writer:Bill Morrison

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  25. Screen Two Season 2 Episode 12 - Hard Travelling
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    #25 - Hard Travelling

    S2:E12

    Jessica's promising debut as a young artist is shattered by a sudden violent death. She escapes into a restless succession of journeys. Encounters on the way bring humour, some comfort, but also danger.

    Director:Colin Gregg
    Writer:Hugh Stoddart

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Best Episodes Summary

"Lent" is the best rated episode of "Screen Two". It scored 9/10 based on 1 votes. Directed by Peter Barber-Fleming and written by Michael Wilcox, it aired on 2/10/1985. This episode scored 1.0 points higher than the second highest rated, "The Last Romantics".