show
ScreenPlay
TMDBJul 9, 1986
TMDB6
Runtime
1h 30m/ep
Status
Ended
Network
BBC Two
Episodes
8 seasons · 87 eps
Language
English
Country
United Kingdom
Screenplay was a drama anthology television series, broadcast on BBC between 1986 and 1993. Numerous episodes were produced including one named "Boswell and Johnson's Tour of the Western Islands" starring Robbie Coltrane as English writer Samuel Johnson who in the autumn of 1773, visits the Hebrides off the north-west coast of Scotland. That episode was directed by John Byrne and co-starred John Sessions and Celia Imrie.