Screen One

A season of new BBC films starts with this sequel to Andrew Davies 's highly acclaimed series A Very Peculiar Practice, starring Peter Davison. Stephen and his wife Grete are now living in Warsaw. Despite the chaos caused by the disintegration of communism, Stephen is happy working as a hospital doctor. Then Bob Buzzard turns up.

This powerful and moving documentary drama, written by Michael Baker , reveals the strange and disturbing events following the grounding of the oil tanker Exxon Valdez off the coast of Alaska, in 1989. Christopher Lloyd starred in Back to the Future and The Addams Family, John Heard in Home Alone and Awakenings.

A football fairy-story written by Barry Hines and starring Eve Barker Denis Lawson A player emerges as the best young prospect since George Best - 18 years old, tall, strong, physical and with natural ball skills. There's just one problem: this player is a girl. Producer Tony Garnett was responsible for some of the most famous TV dramas ever made, including Cathy Come Home. His work with Barry Hines includes the film Kes.

Powerful police drama written by G F Newman, this year's winner of the Bafta Writer's Award. When a black politician is murdered, an inexperienced black police officer from Devon is brought in to investigate. He uncovers a web of police corruption. With cameo appearances by lain Glen, Martin Shaw and Don Henderson.

Powerful emotional drama by Lynda La Plante , writer of Prime Suspect and Civvies. Starring Steven Waddington Tom Bell. Boxer Murray Ritchie is training for a vital match when he crosses rival promoter Tony Farrington. Soon Murray is fighting for his life as he slides towards the unlicensed circuit.

This wry comedy by Simon Gray is the story of one man's obsession with the truth. Starring Peter Bowles. Television interviewer George Grant , renowned for his ability to get at the truth, is at the peak of his career. But when he receives a message at his office that his wife needs to see him urgently - a matter of life and death - his life is irreversibly altered. And so the frantic search begins for George Grant 's truth - and his wife.

This study of human relationships, by new writer Roger Eldridge , begins with civil servant Henry Sitchell being recalled from India to post-war Wales for the funeral of his wife. Here he confronts his 12-year-old son Clive for the first time in five years, and a process of painful readjustment begins. Henry, a man out of his time, epitomises the breed which flourished under the British Raj. Clive is a sensitive, lonely boy who lives in a world apart. Their troubled relationship reaches a dramatic climax which forces both to confront their pain and grief. Newcomer Ben Holden , who plays Clive, is the son of author Anthony Holden , and was chosen from among 300 hopefuls.

The Screen One season concludes with a fast-moving comedy thriller written by Tony Sarchet, and starring Alfred Molina. Harry plays hoaxes on gullible tabloid journalists. But when he gets ambitious and tries to sell the faked memoirs of a contract killer to a publisher, things start to go seriously wrong. Among the fine cast are Hywel Bennett, Jill Gascoine, Jack Shepherd and Roger Lloyd Pack.