The Best Episodes of Screen Two Season 4

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   #1 - The Vision

   S4:E11/9/1988

   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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   Director:Norman Stone

   Writer:William Nicholson
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   #2 - Dead Lucky

   S4:E21/17/1988

   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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   Director:Barbara Rennie

   Writers:Barbara Rennie, Ruth Rendell
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   #3 - Sweet As You Are

   S4:E31/24/1988

   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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   Director:Angela Pope

   Writer:William Nicholson
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   #4 - Stanley Spencer

   S4:E41/31/1988

   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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   Director:Anna Benson Gyles

   Writer:Elaine Morgan
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   #5 - Border

   S4:E52/7/1988

   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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   Director:Misha Williams

   Writers:Jiří Stanislav, Tim Rose Price
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   #6 - Love Birds

   S4:E63/6/1988

   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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   Director:Stephen Whittaker

   Writer:Barry Collins
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   #7 - Shadow On The Earth

   S4:E73/13/1988

   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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   Director:Chris Bernard

   Writer:David Kane
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   #8 - Reasonable Force

   S4:E83/27/1988

   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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   Director:Jim Goddard

   Writer:Patrick Malahide
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   #9 - The Temptation of Eileen Hughes

   S4:E94/3/1988

   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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   Director:Tristram Powell

   Writer:Brian Moore
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    #10 - Lucky Sunil

    S4:E104/17/1988

    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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    Director:Michael Caton-Jones

    Writer:Andrew Davies
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    #11 - Run for the Lifeboat

    S4:E114/24/1988

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

    Director:Douglas Livingstone

    Writer:Douglas Livingstone

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    Director:Douglas Livingstone

    Writer:Douglas Livingstone