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The Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 4

Every episode of Screen Two Season 4 ranked from best to worst. Discover the Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 4!

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  1. #1 Fan Favorite
    Screen Two Season 4 Episode 7 - Shadow On The Earth
    8.3/10(48 votes)

    S4:E7

    Two brothers growing up in a small Scottish mining town become convinced the albino man living in their street is an alien. Influenced by science fiction films and the religious bigotry around them, they begin to persecute him, until one day actually get to know him.

    Director:Chris Bernard
    Writer:David Kane

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  2. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 9 - The Temptation of Eileen Hughes
    7.7/10(8 votes)

    S4:E9

    The McAuleys are local celebrities and Eileen Hughes, a young shop assistant, is flattered to be taken under their wing. Then she accepts their invitation to join them for a week's holiday in London ...

    Director:Tristram Powell
    Writer:Brian Moore

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  3. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 2 - Dead Lucky
    7.5/10(27 votes)

    S4:E2

    Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax

    Director:Barbara Rennie
    Writers:Barbara Rennie, Ruth Rendell

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  4. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 1 - The Vision
    7.1/10(72 votes)

    S4:E1

    Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political.

    Director:Norman Stone
    Writer:William Nicholson

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  5. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 3 - Sweet As You Are
    7.1/10(120 votes)

    S4:E3

    A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced to cope with his infidelity and the fact he has put her in danger of contracting the disease herself.

    Director:Angela Pope
    Writer:William Nicholson

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  6. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 10 - Lucky Sunil
    6.9/10(40 votes)

    S4:E10

    Young, handsome and alone in London at the start of a great career. But will Sunil's luck hold out against the seductions of pretty girls, the wiles of con-men and a hundred temptations of the great city?

    Director:Michael Caton-Jones
    Writer:Andrew Davies

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  7. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 5 - Border
    6.4/10(13 votes)

    S4:E5

    Czechoslovakia, 1952. For some, life under the post-war Stalinist regime is hardly worth living and although the escape route to the West is almost suicide, the rewards - prosperity, political freedom, even luxury - make it a risk worth taking.

    Director:Misha Williams
    Writers:Jiří Stanislav, Tim Rose Price

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  8. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 4 - Stanley Spencer
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S4:E4

    The controversial English artist Stanley Spencer scandalised the art world when he painted the Resurrection taking place in the churchyard of Cookham, his home village by the River Thames; and further scandalised the village when he decided that to nourish his imagination, he needed two wives.

    Director:Anna Benson Gyles
    Writer:Elaine Morgan

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  9. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 6 - Love Birds
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S4:E6

    Barbara and Naseem are in the same hospital, having babies. They make friends. But the celebrations of their husbands, Kenny and Quereshi, 'Jimmy', lead to a headlong chase, with crazy mix-ups, collisions and brushes with the law.

    Director:Stephen Whittaker
    Writer:Barry Collins

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  10. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 8 - Reasonable Force
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S4:E8

    In times of civil unrest, crack police units like Inspector Maclntyre's get the job of keeping order on the streets. But when a demonstrator dies after a riot, who will the public - and the Police Force itself - hold accountable?

    Director:Jim Goddard
    Writer:Patrick Malahide

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  11. Screen Two Season 4 Episode 11 - Run for the Lifeboat
    0.0/10(0 votes)

    S4:E11

    Problems of a Welsh coastal village where the lifeboat crew is the main focus.

    Director:Douglas Livingstone
    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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Season 4 Ratings Summary

"Shadow On The Earth" is the best rated episode of "Screen Two" season 4. It scored 8.3/10 based on 48 votes. Directed by Chris Bernard and written by David Kane, it aired on 3/13/1988. This episode is rated 0.6 points higher than the second-best, "The Temptation of Eileen Hughes".