Screen Two: Series 5
Season 5 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Screen Two Season 4.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 5 Progress Shield
Death of a Son
Jan 8, 1989
In September 1982, Pauline and Ray Williams were woken with the news that their 19-year-old son John had been found dead. They discovered he had been experimenting with drugs but t
Angel Voices
Jan 15, 1989
It is the summer of 1963: the year of the Beatles and wild dances like the Hully Gully. Tommy Bray's choirboys set off on their annual trip to Blackpool, but Tommy Bray fears that
Flying in the Branches
Jan 22, 1989
Sue hasn't seen her family in Prague since she became a refugee in London in 1968. When her younger sister, Dana, is allowed to visit the West for the first time, Sue is reminded o
Words of Love
Jan 29, 1989
2 February 1959. The Winter Dance party, Clear Lake, Iowa - another date on Buddy Holly's whistle-stop tour. Across the Atlantic, a schoolboy models his life on the rock 'n' roll s
Leaving
Feb 5, 1989
A moving, comic tale of three boys about to leave a grim Catholic School in Greenock, Scotland, who find they must each choose a different path in life as they face the future.
Virtuoso
Feb 12, 1989
In 1962, the young pianist, John Ogdon wins international success in Moscow and embarks on a whirlwind career. Ten years later, he suffers the onset of mental illness that threaten
The Picnic
Feb 19, 1989 · 82 min
'I, Margie Starling, am perfectly, perfectly happy, right now!'... and why not? An adoring young husband, a grown-up daughter who'll soon adjust to having a stepfather her own age,
The Firm
Feb 26, 1989
This is the story of rival "Firms" of football (soccer) supporters, and how one man has a wish to team them up for the European Championships of 1988. However, when this is discuss
Here Is the News
Mar 3, 1989
Freelance journalist David Dunhill stumbles onto the biggest story of his career - but his personal eccentricities seem likely to thwart him.
Ice Dance
Mar 12, 1989
A pair of teenagers are determined to achieve their ambition and become professional ice skaters, alternately helped and hindered by their families and friends.
Sitting Targets
Mar 19, 1989
Who has bought the house which is the home for a dozen flat dwellers? When the heating fails and a flat is violently repossessed, things begin to look hopeless. But the tenants beg
Defrosting the Fridge
Mar 26, 1989 · 93 min
An American football coach takes over the running of a no-hope English soccer team.