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The Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 10

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Screen Two Season 10 Episode 16 - In the Cold Light of Day
    8.4/10(30 votes)

    S10:E16

    It is the late 1930s and some British households still eagerly await the arrival of electricity. When a pylon is erected in the garden, Morris's mother can't wait to show off her Swedish lumbago belt and toaster. But Morris is gripped by a deeper passion that will change his life - one that will not be illuminated for 50 years.

    Director:Richard Monks
    Writer:Richard Monks

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  2. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 2 - Skallagrigg
    8.3/10(81 votes)

    S10:E2

    Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend.

    Director:Richard Spence
    Writers:Nigel Williams, William Horwood

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  3. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 14 - Sarafina
    8.2/10(30 votes)

    S10:E14

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    Director:Unknown
    Writer:Unknown

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  4. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 6 - Dirtysomething
    7.9/10(85 votes)

    S10:E6

    A comedy that pits the hippy ideals of the New Age against the yuppy aspirations of suburbia. Dog and Becca meet at the Glastonbury Festival and trade life on the road for the relative security of a squat. But the squat becomes a home, and a home demands improvements -- and an income to support them. Can Dog and Becca remain true to their roots, or will colour charts and shelving units get the better of them?

    Director:Carl Prechezer
    Writers:Peter Salmi, Carl Prechezer

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  5. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 3 - All Things Bright and Beautiful
    7.4/10(85 votes)

    S10:E3

    A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's.

    Director:Barry Devlin
    Writer:Barry Devlin

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  6. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 1 - Genghis Cohn
    7.3/10(8 votes)

    S10:E1

    A former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII.

    Director:Elijah Moshinsky
    Writers:Stanley Price, Romain Gary

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  7. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 4 - The Reflecting Skin
    7.0/10(11 votes)

    S10:E4

    In the 1950s, a young boy living with his troublesome family in rural USA fantasizes that a neighbouring widow is actually a vampire, responsible for a number of disappearances in the area.

    Director:Philip Ridley
    Writer:Philip Ridley

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  8. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 17 - Criminal
    6.7/10(75 votes)

    S10:E17

    Teenager Simon Willerton's suicide in 1990 brought to six the number of young prisoners who hanged themselves in British prisons in just over six months. It prompted a public debate over conditions in remand prisons and Armley in particular, where overcrowding had reached such a level that prison officers refused to admit any new inmates. Simon faced a burglary charge over the theft of a hot-water bottle from an unoccupied flat.

    Director:Corin Campbell-Hill
    Writer:Vincent O'Connell

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  9. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 12 - Sin Bin
    6.5/10(24 votes)

    S10:E12

    When a psychiatric patient dies after a violent assault, a nurse is forced to choose between self-preservation and justice.

    Director:George Case
    Writer:Catherine Johnson

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  10. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 5 - O Mary This London
    6.4/10(20 votes)

    S10:E5

    Three young Dubliners go to London in search of fun, fortune and, in the case of 17-year-old Mary Kelly, an abortion. Homeless and jobless, their adventures quickly turn sour.

    Director:Suri Krishnamma
    Writer:Shane Connaughton

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  11. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 10 - Ethan Frome
    6.4/10(7 votes)

    S10:E10

    A new pastor arrives in a stark Vermont village and is intrigued by crippled, misshapen Ethan Frome living on an isolated, hardscrabble farm with his sickly wife Zeena.

    Director:John Madden
    Writers:Edith Wharton, Richard Nelson

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  12. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 8 - Henri
    6.0/10(14 votes)

    S10:E8

    A ten year old Protestant girl travels to Belfast to take part in a music festival, and is billetted with a Catholic family.

    Director:Simon Shore
    Writer:John Forte

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  13. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 13 - Men of the Month
    6.0/10(8 votes)

    S10:E13

    Tracey, a hyperactive, inarticulate bicycle courier who unsuccessfully woos his girlfriend, watches Star Trek (1966) videos and delivers packages for a women's erotic magazine, "Bad and Beautiful". As the female staff produce their new issue, they are watched by builders restoring their crumbling off ice block - each of them with an interest in the women within.

    Director:Jean Stewart
    Writer:Rona Munro

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  14. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 18 - Midnight Movie
    5.9/10(21 votes)

    S10:E18

    American producer James Boyce and his airhead wife Amber rent an English country mansion where the British horror flick "Smoke Rings" was filmed twenty years previous. Amber's mother was model-actress Mandy Mason, who died mysteriously after her appearance in "Smoke Rings." The property rental to Boyce was arranged by middle-aged lawyer Henry Harris, who continues to live with his lovesick memories of the late actress. Boyce invites Harris to dinner, and "Smoke Rings" airs on TV that same evening. During the following days, Harris observes Amber's schizophrenic behaviour veering parallel to events once experienced by her mother and also to the movie's plotline.

    Director:Renny Rye
    Writers:Dennis Potter, Rosalind Ashe

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  15. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 7 - Return to Blood River
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E7

    Douglas Livingstone has direct experience of the tensions in South Africa. On a research visit there in the summer of 1993, he was mugged within 24 hours of arriving in Johannesburg. Over the following week. the East Rand riots claimed 600 lives.

    Director:Jane Howell
    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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  16. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 9 - Zinky Boys Go Underground
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E9

    In Moscow, veterans of the Afghanistan war live on the margin. Their leader is Andrei, their former sergeant, blind from drinking wood alcohol there, and attended in a wheelchair by his younger sister, Lena. Andrei and his pals have a black-market stall, paying off both the city's Mafia (Oblov comes by regularly to collect) and the cops. The cops are looking for a subway slasher; Andrei is in love with Oriolo, a stylish African; unbeknownst to Andrei, Oriolo is saving to leave for Paris; and, Lena wants to protect her brother. When new cops trash their stall, Andrei loses control of his gang; Oblov makes off with Oriolo, and the subway becomes the scene of a final showdown.

    Director:Paul Tickell
    Writer:Unknown

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  17. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 11 - Hope in the Year Two
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E11

    In April 1794, Georges Danton, the hero of the French Revolution, is imprisoned in a Paris jail, awaiting his morning appointment with La Guillotine. His accusers are so afraid of the strength of his popular support that they have imprisoned a decoy to frustrate any attempt to rescue him. A young guard must decide if his prisoner is the real Danton - and whether it is too risky to help him.

    Director:Elijah Moshinsky
    Writer:Trevor Griffiths

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  18. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 15 - A Landing on the Sun
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E15

    By special request of the Prime Minister, civil servant Stephen Summerchild and philosopher Elizabeth Serafin are given the unusual brief of finding the true meaning of happiness. Twenty years after Summerchild's mysterious death, a Cabinet officer investigates, and uncovers a secret world high in a Whitehall attic and a curious romance that disturbed Summerchild's superiors.

    Director:Nicholas Renton
    Writer:Michael Frayn

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  19. Screen Two Season 10 Episode 19 - The Blue Boy
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S10:E19

    A couple expecting their first baby spend a few days in the Highlands, hoping to make a fresh start to their relationship - only for the past to creep up on the present with devastating results.

    Director:Paul Murton
    Writer:Paul Murton

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Season 10 Ratings Summary

"In the Cold Light of Day" is the best rated episode of "Screen Two" season 10. It scored 8.4/10 based on 30 votes. Directed by Richard Monks and written by Richard Monks, it aired on 6/15/1994. This episode is rated 0.1 points higher than the second-best, "Skallagrigg".