Scene

Scene is the BBC's long-running and celebrated series of thought-provoking programmes for teenagers, featuring a mix of drama plays, generally 28 minutes each, and documentaries, generally 20-25 minutes each.

The series has tackled a huge range of social issues, such as racism, suicide, addiction, relationships, sexuality & all manner of family difficulties, and at various points has included scenes of violence^[1], swearing^[2], drug abuse^[3], sex^[4] and nudity^[5].

Scene has attracted awards and prestige as well as various controversies over the years. It has been given tremendous exposure to mainstream audiences over the years, as dramas produced for Scene have regularly been rebroadcast for an adult audience, and this has happened from the very beginning as Scene's first play, Last Bus and its sequel Sentence of the Court were both repeated on BBC1 at 11:20pm in December 1968, a few months after they were first shown to a schools audience. Most recently, the 1971 Scene documentary Solo, about the adventurer Robin Knox-Johnston, was re-shown as a straight documentary to an adult audience on BBC4 in 2002.

Scene traditionally produced three complete, new plays every school year^[6] and supplemented these with a wide array of documentary programmes, as well as repeats from previous years. In recent years the documentary content has been dropped and Scene is now considered a powerful drama series^[7].

Scene continued as part of the daytime schools broadcasts on BBC2 until 1999, when programmes for secondary schools were moved to the overnight hours. However this was not the end, as occasional new dramas as still produced under the Scene title, and there are still repeats of the some popular recent programmes such as the dramatisation of the novel Stone Cold.

25th Anniversary

In the summer terms of 1993 and 1994 Scene's 25th anniversary was celebrated with repeats of several classic plays covering the programme's entire history, including black & white episodes from the very early years.

Archive plays were also shown in the evening DEF II programmes on BBC2, along with the premiere of a new play called The Soldier before it was shown to schools.

Scene Scripts

Five books containing scripts from Scene plays and background material on the programmes have been published by Longman under the title Scene Scripts - these are detailed on the Scene Scripts page on this site.

Episodes

This site will eventually build up details about as many of the individual programmes as possible. The table below lists every episode of Scene ever made, all 373 of them.

Titles shown in blue are links to a separate page about that episode, the ultimate aim of this site is to create a page for every episode (there are none yet!). If anybody would like to collaborate in this task and write about any of these episodes, the help would be greatly appreciated - please get in touch by email or on the forum.

It is important to note that many episodes of Scene are produced "to provoke and stimulate discussion and investigation (and) may arouse strong feelings."^[8] They are deliberately open to interpretation. In most cases I have viewed these programmes and written about them without any background knowledge and there will probably be a lot of my own interpretations based on what is on screen.

In this table, highlighted episodes are drama programmes or plays. The remainder are documentaries. Key to symbols & formatting is below the table.

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Num	Title	1st Broadcast	Archive
1.	The Dark Immigrants Programme 1: Sorry No Coloureds!	27 Sep 1968	BBC
2.	The Dark Immigrants Programme 2: Asian Communities	03 Oct 1968	BBC
3.	Last Bus	10 Oct 1968	BBC
4.	The Sentence of the Court	17 Oct 1968	BBC
5.	The American Scene 1968 Programme 1: Electing A President	24 Oct 1968	BBC
6.	The American Scene 1968 Programme 2: The Buck Stops Here	07 Nov 1968
7.	It's Me, Eileen	14 Nov 1968
8.	Children in Care	21 Nov 1968	BBC
9.	Community Service	28 Nov 1968	BBC
10.	War Minus The Shooting ("A Topical Programme")	05 Dec 1968	BBC
11.	Flashpoint Middle East Programme 1: The Promised Land	16 Jan 1969	BBC
12.	Flashpoint Middle East Programme 2: The Arab States	23 Jan 1969
13.	Terry	30 Jan 1969	BBC
14.	Being Happy, That's What Counts	06 Feb 1969
15.	Out Beyond Earth Programme 1	13 Feb 1969
16.	Out Beyond Earth Programme 2	20 Feb 1969
17.	Time Hurries On	06 Mar 1969
18.	Getting Married	13 Mar 1969
19.	The Beauty Business	20 Mar 1969
20.	The Handicapped Child	27 Mar 1969	BBC
21.	(unknown documentary, might be in the list later as a repeat)	25 Sep 1969
22.	Which Way Forward?	02 Oct 1969
23.	Money in Your Pocket	23 Oct 1969
24.	Money in the Bank	06 Nov 1969	BBC
25.	Two-Way Traffic	13 Nov 1969
26.	What's It Like To Be Old?	20 Nov 1969
27.	Personal View: Jimmy Savile	27 Nov 1969	BBC
28.	(a topical programme, might be in the list later as a repeat)	15 Jan 1970
29.	Let There Be Light	22 Jan 1970	Recovered
30.	The March Issue	12 Feb 1970	BBC
31.	Coffee Campaign	19 Feb 1970	BBC
32.	Hero In The Dust	26 Feb 1970
33.	Because There's Nothing Else to Do	05 Mar 1970	BBC
34.	Being Welsh	12 Mar 1970
35.	One Man's Meat - Factory Farming	24 Sep 1970	BBC
36.	Member of Parliament	01 Oct 1970	NFA
37.	Not Our Custom	22 Oct 1970	BBC
38.	"£60 Single, £100 Return"	05 Nov 1970	BBC
39.	Men Against Mountains	12 Nov 1970	BBC
40.	United Nations At Work	19 Nov 1970	BBC
41.	Ours To Save	03 Dec 1970
42.	What Sort Of Radio?	14 Jan 1971	BBC
43.	Los Angeles, USA Programme 1	11 Feb 1971	BBC
44.	Los Angeles, USA Programme 2	18 Feb 1971	BBC
45.	Clean Sweep	04 Mar 1971	BBC
46.	Hi-Jack	11 Mar 1971	BBC
47.	Solo	25 Mar 1971	BBC
48.	A Woman's Place	23 Sep 1971	BBC
49.	Shop Around	30 Sep 1971	BBC
50.	Are You Certain?	07 Oct 1971	BBC
51.	Mates	11 Nov 1971	BBC
52.	What Do I Like About Tommy?	18 Nov 1971	BBC
53.	Just Love	25 Nov 1971	BBC
54.	It's a Tough Life Programme 1: Apprentice Footballers	13 Jan 1972	BBC
55.	It's a Tough Life Programme 2: Every Day We Dance	20 Jan 1972	BBC
56.	The Monarchy	03 Feb 1972
57.	A Grim Job	10 Feb 1972	BBC
58.	Sent Away From Home	24 Feb 1972	BBC
59.	Bank Holiday	02 Mar 1972	BBC
60.	The Police and You	09 Mar 1972	BBC
61.	What Shall I Wear?	23 Mar 1972	BBC
62.	On The Right Tracks	21 Sep 1972	BBC
63.	There's a Motorway at the Bottom of the Garden	28 Sep 1972	BBC
64.	Quiet Afternoon	05 Oct 1972	BBC
65.	The More We Are Together Programme 1: Thamesmead	12 Oct 1972	BBC
66.	The More We Are Together Programme 2: The Isle of Scalpay	19 Oct 1972	BBC
67.	Sonia And The Olympic Games	26 Oct 1972	BBC
68.	Morecambe And Wise	18 Jan 1973	BBC
69.	The Lawbreakers	08 Feb 1973	BBC
70.	The French Scene	15 Feb 1973
71.	Europe and You	01 Mar 1973
72.	"A Mug's Game?"	08 Mar 1973	BBC
73.	I Don't Know Where to Turn	22 Mar 1973	BBC
74.	Getaway - Maps and Compasses	29 Mar 1973	BBC
75.	Blackout	04 Oct 1973
76.	Member of the Union	11 Oct 1973	BBC
77.	The Ballad of Ben Bagot	08 Nov 1973	BBC
78.	That's Life, I Suppose...	15 Nov 1973	BBC
79.	How Good a Parent...?	22 Nov 1973	BBC
80.	Ugandan Asians, British Asians?	29 Nov 1973	BBC
81.	A Child of the Jago Programme 1	07 Feb 1974	BBC
82.	A Child of the Jago Programme 2	14 Feb 1974	BBC
83.	All That Glitters Programme 1: The Sweet	28 Feb 1974	BBC
84.	All That Glitters Programme 2: Renia	07 Mar 1974	BBC
85.	They Don't All Open Men's Boutiques #	21 Mar 1974
86.	Sportsmen or Politicians	28 Mar 1974
87.	A First Class Friend	03 Oct 1974	BBC
88.	What Does Money Matter?	17 Oct 1974	BBC
89.	The Disappearing Act	24 Oct 1974	BBC
90.	What They Did Then	05 Dec 1974	BBC
91.	Looking for a Fight	16 Jan 1975	BBC
92.	Mum - Where Are You?	30 Jan 1975	BBC
93.	A Different Sort of Family	06 Feb 1975	BBC
94.	To Stand and Stare	13 Feb 1975	BBC
95.	James Is Our Brother - Mental Handicap	20 Feb 1975	BBC
96.	Because I Say So	25 Sep 1975	BBC
97.	The Hospital	02 Oct 1975	BBC
98.	Break In	06 Nov 1975	BBC
99.	A Sober and Industrious Life	13 Nov 1975	BBC
100.	Access To Television (We're Not Blind, But...; Young, Black and British)	20 Nov 1975	BBC
101.	It's Not Like This Where I Come From	27 Nov 1975	BBC
102.	Alone on the Moors	04 Dec 1975	BBC
103.	Gulpin	29 Jan 1976	BBC
104.	Why Don't You Remember?	26 Feb 1976	BBC
105.	Let's Do It Ourselves!	25 Mar 1976	BBC
106.	Motorcycle Man	29 Apr 1976	BBC
107.	Hello!...And What Then?	06 May 1976	BBC
108.	I Want to be Like You	13 May 1976	BBC
109.	What a Waste	20 May 1976	BBC
110.	Choices #	17 Jun 1976	BBC
111.	It's Only Rock 'n' Roll	24 Jun 1976	BBC
112.	A Collier's Friday Night Part 1	30 Sep 1976	BBC
113.	A Collier's Friday Night Part 2	07 Oct 1976	BBC
114.	Changing Roles For Women?	14 Oct 1976	BBC
115.	Personal View: John Curry, OBE	04 Nov 1976	BBC
116.	Rights and Responsibilities	11 Nov 1976	BBC
117.	Newsworthy - The Girl Who Saw A Tiger	18 Nov 1976	BBC
118.	The Story of the News	25 Nov 1976	BBC
119.	And They All Lived Happily Together	13 Jan 1977	BBC
120.	Wanted, Work	27 Jan 1977	BBC
121.	Teenage Magazines	10 Feb 1977	BBC
122.	The Law of Life	03 Mar 1977	BBC
123.	The Life of a Social Worker	05 May 1977	BBC
124.	Anatomy of a Gang	02 Jun 1977	BBC
125.	In Spite of Their Deafness	03 Jun 1977	BBC
126.	Laura #	16 Jun 1977	BBC
127.	The Elastic Human Body	29 Sep 1977	BBC
128.	Violence in Entertainment	20 Oct 1977	BBC
129.	Crime and Punishment	27 Oct 1977	BBC
130.	Consequences Part 1	10 Nov 1977	BBC
131.	Consequences Part 2	17 Nov 1977	BBC
132.	A Village in Africa	19 Jan 1978	BBC
133.	Young Marriage	26 Jan 1978	BBC
134.	Diver	02 Feb 1978	BBC
135.	Religion Today	09 Feb 1978	BBC
136.	Try Again	16 Feb 1978	BBC
137.	Loyalties	23 Feb 1978	BBC
138.	The Travellers	20 Apr 1978	BBC
139.	Access To Television (1978)	27 Apr 1978	BBC
140.	Jackie Mccafferty's Romance	05 Oct 1978	BBC
141.	The Future	12 Oct 1978	BBC
142.	Lies Part 1	09 Nov 1978	BBC
143.	Lies Part 2	16 Nov 1978	BBC
144.	Reggae Roots	23 Nov 1978	BBC
145.	A Chinese Family	18 Jan 1979	BBC
146.	The Story of the News	25 Jan 1979	BBC
147.	Justice - Uncle Sangi	01 Feb 1979	BBC
148.	Sonia Lannaman	15 Feb 1979	BBC
149.	Two's Company	22 Mar 1979	BBC
150.	The Daily Express: A Newspaper At Work	24 May 1979	BBC
151.	The Police	07 Jun 1979	BBC
152.	The Life of a Stand-Up Comic	21 Jun 1979	BBC
153.	This Sporting Life	11 Oct 1979	BBC
154.	Victim	18 Oct 1979	BBC
155.	Personal View: Claire Rayner	22 Nov 1979	BBC
156.	Fact, Myth or Superstition?	29 Nov 1979	BBC
157.	The 'Sally Ann'	17 Jan 1980	BBC
158.	Coins Against The Wall	07 Feb 1980	BBC
159.	Why Prejudice?	06 Mar 1980	BBC
160.	Fan Phenomenon	13 Mar 1980	BBC
161.	If Only	20 Mar 1980	BBC
162.	Scene In Northern Ireland	27 Mar 1980	BBC
163.	The Kids are Okay Part 1	24 Apr 1980	BBC
164.	The Kids are Okay Part 2	01 May 1980	BBC
165.	After The Gold Rush #	22 May 1980	BBC
166.	Access To Television (1980)	05 Jun 1980	BBC
167.	And Mum Came Too	09 Oct 1980	BBC
168.	Booze	16 Oct 1980	BBC
169.	Faulty Towers	29 Jan 1981	BBC
170.	On Yer Bike!	05 Feb 1981	BBC
171.	Friends and Friendship	12 Feb 1981	BBC
172.	Consumer Rights	19 Feb 1981	BBC
173.	Fido: Friend or Foe?	19 Mar 1981	BBC
174.	What a Way to Run a School!	26 Mar 1981	BBC
175.	On Holiday	02 Apr 1981	BBC
176.	Personal View: Ian Dury	07 May 1981	BBC
177.	Judo Champ	14 May 1981	BBC
178.	Food, Glorious Food	24 Sep 1981	BBC
179.	Patty Fatty	01 Oct 1981	BBC
180.	Girl in Brazil	08 Oct 1981	BBC
181.	Funny People	03 Dec 1981	BBC
182.	May All Your Troubles Be Little Ones	28 Jan 1982	BBC
183.	Ties	11 Feb 1982	BBC
184.	Britain's Nuclear Defence	18 Feb 1982	BBC
185.	Troubled Minds? That's a Lousy Title!	18 Mar 1982	BBC
186.	Don't Shoot the Ref	25 Mar 1982	BBC
187.	To Turn a Blind Eye	29 Apr 1982	BBC
188.	A Question of Class	06 May 1982	BBC
189.	Access To Television (1982)	13 May 1982	BBC
190.	Enrico - An Unsolved Killing	11 Nov 1982	BBC
191.	Simulation Exercise	18 Nov 1982	BBC
192.	We are Jewish	25 Nov 1982	BBC
193.	Who Are You Looking At?	27 Jan 1983	BBC
194.	The Cage	03 Feb 1983	BBC
195.	How Did You Learn About It?	17 Mar 1983	BBC
196.	Andy Capp: Fact or Fiction?	24 Mar 1983	BBC
197.	A Visitor From Outer Space	28 Apr 1983	BBC
198.	The Biggest Epidemic of Our Time #	05 May 1983	BBC
199.	The National Health	12 May 1983	BBC
200.	The Fort George Volunteers	26 May 1983	BBC
201.	I Am Libra, What Are You?	29 Sep 1983	BBC
202.	Time for a Commercial	03 Nov 1983	BBC
203.	The Gang, Where Are They Now?	10 Nov 1983	BBC
204.	The Breakaway	01 Dec 1983	BBC
205.	Scene In New York	01 Mar 1984	BBC
206.	Wide Games	08 Mar 1984	BBC
207.	Name, Rank and Number	15 Mar 1984	BBC
208.	What Is It Like To Be Old?	29 Mar 1984	BBC
209.	Keep Your Cool	10 May 1984	BBC
210.	What Are You Afraid Of?	17 May 1984	BBC
211.	What Does Money Matter?	24 May 1984	BBC
212.	The Hunt Saboteurs #	07 Jun 1984	BBC
213.	Good Neighbours	14 Jun 1984	BBC
214.	A Guide To Armageddon	21 Jun 1984	BBC
215.	Somewhere To Call My Own	18 Oct 1984	BBC
216.	Not To Be Sniffed At	15 Nov 1984	BBC
217.	Just Deserts	22 Nov 1984	BBC
218.	Your Place or Mine?	17 Jan 1985	BBC
219.	Sexual Harassment	14 Feb 1985	BBC
220.	Death in the Family	07 Mar 1985	BBC
221.	Take Away Family	14 Mar 1985	BBC
222.	Boxing on the Ropes	28 Mar 1985	BBC
223.	Baby I Love You	02 May 1985	BBC
224.	Personal View: Victoria Wood	09 May 1985	BBC
225.	Teenagers Make Their Own Films	06 Jun 1985	BBC
226.	Football Fans Abroad	13 Jun 1985	BBC
227.	After Brussels: Football Fans Abroad?	20 Jun 1985	BBC
228.	Stunts and Daredevils	02 Oct 1985	BBC
229.	Salt on a Snake's Tail #	09 Oct 1985	BBC
230.	Every Night We Draw The Shutters	16 Oct 1985	BBC
231.	Why Are You So Shy?	04 Dec 1985	BBC
232.	Ungentlemanly Conduct?	29 Jan 1986	BBC
233.	The Roadie's Tale	05 Feb 1986	BBC
234.	It's a Wheelchair Not A Pram	26 Feb 1986	BBC
235.	Too Young To Have A Baby?	12 Mar 1986	BBC
236.	Who Will My Parents Be?	19 Mar 1986	BBC
237.	Another Little Drink Won't Do Us Any Harm #	30 Apr 1986	BBC
238.	Too Nice By Half!	07 May 1986	BBC
239.	Juvenile Court	14 May 1986	BBC
240.	School Trip To The Trenches	21 May 1986	BBC
241.	Mad About Motors	23 Oct 1986	BBC
242.	Nobody Here Knows	13 Nov 1986	BBC
243.	Nuclear Power - Do We Have A Choice?	20 Nov 1986	BBC
244.	A Mixed Experience	12 Mar 1987	BBC
245.	Why Can't We Live Together?	26 Mar 1987	BBC
246.	Janna, Where Are You?	14 May 1987	BBC
247.	New Age Gypsies	21 May 1987	BBC
248.	Personal View: Paul Gambaccini	04 Jun 1987	BBC
249.	AIDS Special	08 Oct 1987	BBC
250.	Girls' Gang	22 Oct 1987	BBC
251.	Dreams and Nightmares	05 Nov 1987	BBC
252.	This Year's Model	03 Dec 1987	BBC
253.	Sentence of the Court	28 Jan 1988	BBC
254.	Getting In Part 1	04 Feb 1988	BBC
255.	Getting In Part 2	11 Feb 1988	BBC
256.	Fame	18 Feb 1988	BBC
257.	Kick Boxer	17 Mar 1988	BBC
258.	Competition	24 Mar 1988	BBC
259.	QPR Askey is Dead	28 Apr 1988	BBC
260.	Young Police	12 May 1988	BBC
261.	The Crossing	22 Sep 1988	BBC
262.	South Africa Special	29 Sep 1988	BBC
263.	For Glory and Gold?	06 Oct 1988	BBC
264.	Young Vietnam	17 Nov 1988	BBC
265.	Refugees - You Leave Because You Have To	24 Nov 1988	BBC
266.	Love Is...?	01 Dec 1988	BBC
267.	Young Hungarians	12 Jan 1989	BBC
268.	Grandad's Gone Daft	19 Jan 1989	BBC
269.	Other People's Families	09 Feb 1989	BBC
270.	Believe It Or Not	23 Feb 1989	BBC
271.	My Brother David	02 Mar 1989	BBC
272.	British Youth Today	18 May 1989	BBC
273.	Mother's Day	25 May 1989	BBC
274.	Together Forever	29 Sep 1989	BBC
275.	I Like It Here	06 Oct 1989	BBC
276.	Arguments	03 Nov 1989	BBC
277.	Fitting Images	17 Nov 1989	BBC
278.	Truants	24 Nov 1989	BBC
279.	Two of Us Part 1	02 Feb 1990	BBC
280.	Two of Us Part 2	09 Feb 1990	BBC
281.	Vandals	16 Feb 1990	BBC
282.	Doing Your Own Thing	16 Mar 1990	BBC
283.	Sweet Seventeen Part 1	23 Mar 1990	BBC
284.	Sweet Seventeen Part 2	30 Mar 1990	BBC
285.	Rose's Tree	04 May 1990	BBC
286.	Party, Party	25 May 1990	BBC
287.	Body Language	02 Nov 1990	BBC
288.	That Green Stuff	09 Nov 1990	BBC
289.	Bandit Disease	16 Nov 1990	BBC
290.	Proud To Be Muslim	23 Nov 1990	BBC
291.	Hype	30 Nov 1990	BBC
292.	Money, Breeding... or What?	15 Mar 1991	BBC
293.	Animal Rights	22 Mar 1991	BBC
294.	Collision Course Part 1	24 May 1991	BBC
295.	Collision Course Part 2	07 Jun 1991	BBC
296.	Soweto	14 Jun 1991	BBC
297.	War	21 Jun 1991	BBC
298.	Kicks and Insults	08 Nov 1991	BBC
299.	Grey Areas	15 Nov 1991	BBC
300.	Heroes and Hero Worship	22 Nov 1991	BBC
301.	Tell Them The Truth	29 Nov 1991	BBC
302.	Examinations: The Stress Factor	06 Mar 1992	BBC
303.	Bhangra Girls	20 Mar 1992	BBC
304.	Partners	29 May 1992	BBC
305.	The Journey	05 Jun 1992	BBC
306.	Twin Peaks, Twin Piques	19 Jun 1992	BBC
307.	That Burning Question #	18 Sep 1992	BBC
308.	Written Off #	25 Sep 1992	BBC
309.	Say Goodbye	02 Oct 1992	BBC
310.	Terraces	15 Jan 1993	BBC
311.	Thin Ice	22 Jan 1993	BBC
312.	Mohammed's Daughter	29 Jan 1993	BBC
313.	Fighting with Shadows	05 Feb 1993	BBC
314.	Shakers	12 Feb 1993	BBC
315.	The Hamster Wheel	26 Feb 1993	BBC
316.	Test Flight #	05 Mar 1993	BBC
317.	Last Breeze of Summer #	12 Mar 1993	BBC
318.	Dear Life	19 Mar 1993	BBC
319.	A Separate Peace	26 Mar 1993	BBC
320.	Buddy Part 1: Raining in My Heart #	30 Apr 1993	BBC
321.	Buddy Part 2: Crying, Waiting, Hoping #	07 May 1993	BBC
322.	Buddy Part 3: Blue Suede Shoes #	14 May 1993	BBC
323.	Buddy Part 4: That'll Be The Day #	21 May 1993	BBC
324.	Buddy Part 5: Everyday It's A-Getting Closer #	28 May 1993	BBC
325.	The Soldier	13 Sep 1993	BBC
326.	Trafford Tanzi	24 Sep 1993	BBC
327.	The Diary of Rita Patel #	08 Oct 1993	BBC
328.	Pig Boy	22 Oct 1993	BBC
329.	Alyce In Wonderland #	26 Nov 1993	BBC
330.	Our Day Out Part 1 #	14 Jan 1994	BBC
331.	Our Day Out Part 2 #	21 Jan 1994	BBC
332.	Our Day Out Part 3 #	28 Jan 1994	BBC
333.	Teaching Matthew	22 Mar 1994	BBC
334.	The Blood That's In You	30 Sep 1994	BBC
335.	The Bet #	14 Oct 1994	BBC
336.	Young Jung	21 Oct 1994	BBC
337.	Sab	04 Nov 1994	BBC
338.	Pride	18 Nov 1994	BBC
339.	Elysian Fields	25 Nov 1994	BBC
340.	Family Snaps	02 Dec 1994	BBC
341.	Montana Crossroads #	03 Feb 1995	BBC
342.	Alison	24 Mar 1995	BBC
343.	Loved Up Part 1	06 Oct 1995	BBC
344.	Loved Up Part 2	13 Oct 1995	BBC
345.	Career Opportunities	10 Nov 1995	BBC
346.	Radio Waves	01 Dec 1995	BBC
347.	Prisoners In Time Part 1 #	02 Feb 1996	BBC
348.	Prisoners In Time Part 2 #	09 Feb 1996	BBC
349.	A Figure of Eight	01 Mar 1996	BBC
350.	Edward Nohands	08 Mar 1996	BBC
351.	Spy in the Cab	15 Mar 1996	BBC
352.	The People Are The Forest	22 Mar 1996	BBC
353.	Stone Cold Part 1	10 Jan 1997	BBC
354.	Stone Cold Part 2	17 Jan 1997	BBC
355.	Stone Cold Part 3	24 Jan 1997	BBC
356.	Summertime #	31 Jan 1997	BBC
357.	A Man of Letters	07 Feb 1997	BBC
358.	Breaking The Code Part 1 #	14 Feb 1997	BBC
359.	Breaking The Code Part 2 #	28 Feb 1997	BBC
360.	Breaking The Code Part 3 #	07 Mar 1997	BBC
361.	Skinny Marink	14 Mar 1997	BBC
362.	Choices	21 Mar 1997	BBC
363.	Dear Nobody Part 1	27 Feb 1998	BBC
364.	Dear Nobody Part 2	06 Mar 1998	BBC
365.	Dear Nobody Part 3	13 Mar 1998	BBC
366.	United	27 Mar 1998	BBC
367.	Junk Part 1	15 Jan 1999	BBC
368.	Junk Part 2	22 Jan 1999	BBC
369.	Junk Part 3	29 Jan 1999	BBC
370.	Offside	20 Jun 2002	BBC
371.	Oddsqaud	21 Mar 2005	BBC
372.	Spit Game	27 Oct 2005	BBC
373.	All About Me	27 Mar 2007	BBC

Solid lines show the break between academic years.

Highlighted episodes are drama programmes or plays. The remainder are documentaries.

# indicates a programme that was not originally made for Scene. For documentaries this normally means they were repeated/re-edited episodes from adult documentary series. For dramas it normally means they were produced as short films, or repeated/re-edited versions of adult dramas.

• Junk is not marked with # because, although it was also shown as a 90 minute drama for adults, this version was produced simultaneously with the Scene schools version, one didn't come before the other^[10].
  Two of Us is not marked with # because, although it was shown first as a 60-minute film for adults on 25 March 1988, it was still originally made for Scene.
  The Soldier was first shown in the schools slot on 1 October 1993, the date given above is for its screening on DEF II for adults, however this was still billed and presented as a Scene broadcast so I think it counts.
• "A series of programmes to mark 25 years of Scene drama begins with Buddy, a 5 part adaptation of the book by Nigel Hinton," proclaimed the Radio Times in Summer 1993. The only problem is that Buddy was never part of Scene! It was originally shown as a stand-alone series in spring 1986, and then later repeated as part of English Time when that series started in autumn 1986. But the Scene opening titles were shown at the beginning of each episode in 1993 so it definitely was part of the series by then! Buddy is listed above with its 1993 broadcast dates as this is when it joined Scene.
• The documentary Looking for Tat, first shown on BBC2 in 1997 as a compilation of Video Diaries programmes, was coupled with the Scene drama Stone Cold to make up a two-hour programme about homelessness for the Learning Zone on BBC2, which was first shown on 9 November 1999. Looking for Tat was listed as a Scene programme in the BBC Secondary Catalogue, but there is nothing within the broadcast programme to suggest it is part of Scene, and so it is not listed on this page.

Sources & References

1. ↑ Example of a Scene programme including violence: Last Bus.
2. ↑ Example of a Scene programme including swearing: Baby I Love You.
3. ↑ Example of a Scene programme including drug abuse: Junk.
4. ↑ Example of a Scene programme including sex: Junk, Baby I Love You, I will think of a different one to make the point!
5. ↑ Example of a Scene programme including nudity: How Did You Learn About It?.
6. ↑ Information about 3 new plays per school year is obvious from the episode list and stated explicitly on page vii of Scene Scripts 4 ("each term three complete plays are broadcast").
7. ↑ Documentaries being dropped is obvious from the episode list, exact quote from BBC Secondary Catalogue: PHSE/PSD 2000-2001 page 6 "a powerful series of dramas designed to 'hit home'."
8. ↑ Quote about Scene being "designed to provoke and stimulate discussion" from BBC Annual Programme for Age 11-19, 1983-84, page 19.
9. ↑ Sources used to compile the episode list: the Radio Times, the free online version of the BBC Programme Catalogue, the BFI Film & TV Database, Kaleidoscope (1997), various teacher's notes to the series 1970-1975, BBC Secondary Catalogue 2000-2001: PSHE/PSD, The Times (Digital Archive and microfilm + Times Index), and recent TV listings from BBC Whatson Schedules (& BBC Backstage), DigiGuide and TRILT: the Television and Radio Index for Learning and Teaching. Identification of drama vs documentary programmes with reference to all listings sources above and viewing of episodes themselves.
10. ↑ The simultaneously filming of Junk as an adult drama and a schools drama, with different versions of some scenes for the two editions, is covered in the video Making Junk: From Page to Screen, published by English & Media Centre (EMC 10/05).