What is Screen One?
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2019}} {{Use British English|date=December 2019}} {{Infobox television | genre = [[Drama]] | director = Various | writer = Various | starring = Various | language = English | country = United Kingdom | composer = {{Plainlist| * Michael Storey * Bill Connor * [[Ilona Sekacz]] * [[Colin Towns]] et al. }} | num_series = 7 | num_episodes = 60 | list_episodes = #Episodes | producer = {{Plainlist| * Ruth Caleb * Andrée Molyneux et al. }} | executive_producer = {{Plainlist| * Richard Broke * Margaret Matheston et al. }} | cinematography = John McGlashan et al. | editor = Ken Pearce et al. | location = | company = [[BBC Studios]] | runtime = 90 minutes (approx.) | network = [[BBC One|BBC1]] | first_aired = {{start date|1989|9|10|df=yes}} | last_aired = {{end date|1998|2|15|df=yes}} }} '''''Screen One''''' is a [[British television]] [[anthology]] drama series, produced by [[BBC Studios]] and distributed by [[BBC Worldwide]]. It was shown on [[BBC One|BBC1]] between 1991 and 1998.<ref>{{cite web | url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b06nd4qr | title=Screen One | publisher=BBC | access-date=6 August 2019 }}</ref> Sixty films were made over six series. Some were shown as stand-alone specials. The BBC's ''[[Play for Today]]'' ran from 1970 to 1984. After it ended, [[Kenneth Trodd]] was asked to make a new series of one-off television dramas. These became ''[[Screen Two]]''. They were shown on [[BBC Two|BBC2]] in 1985. ''Play for Today'' had often been a studio-based form of theatre on television. ''Screen Two'' was shot entirely on film. In 1989, the series was adapted for more mainstream audiences on BBC1 as ''Screen One''. It followed the lead taken by [[Channel 4]], whose television films