The Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 1

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   #1 - Contact

   S1:E11/6/1985

   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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   Director:Alan Clarke

   Writer:A.F.N. Clarke
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   #2 - Poppyland

   S1:E21/13/1985

   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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   Director:John Madden

   Writer:William Humble
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   #3 - Unfair Exchanges

   S1:E31/20/1985

   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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   Director:Gavin Millar

   Writer:Ken Campbell
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   #4 - Knockback (1)

   S1:E41/27/1985

   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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   Director:Piers Haggard

   Writer:Unknown
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   #5 - Knockback (2)

   S1:E52/3/1985

   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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   Director:Piers Haggard

   Writer:Unknown
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   #6 - Lent

   S1:E62/10/1985

   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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   Director:Peter Barber-Fleming

   Writer:Michael Wilcox
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   #7 - The Unknown Soldier

   S1:E72/17/1985

   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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   Director:Mike Vardy

   Writer:Raymond Hitchcock
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   #8 - The Burston Rebellion

   S1:E82/24/1985

   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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   Director:Norman Stone

   Writer:Elaine Morgan
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   #9 - Space Station

   S1:E93/3/1985

   "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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   Directors:Leslie Stewart, Colin Rogers

   Writer:Leslie Stewart
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    #10 - In the Secret State

    S1:E103/10/1985

    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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    Director:Christopher Morahan

    Writers:Robert McCrum, Brian Phelan