Series synopsis
Screen, also known as 스크린 is a South Korean drama television series that premiered on SBS on May 31, 2003. It ended on July 27, 2003. It stars Park Jung-chul, Kim Tae-hee, Oh Seung-hyun and Gong Yoo.
Kim So Hyun (Kim Tae Hee) is an orphan who lost her father at a young age. Her father, who was a movie director, died in a fire while trying to save his original movie. Having been inspired at a young age, So Hyun took up writing with a desire to make a movie someday. When So Hyun becomes a young adult, she moves into a new apartment. Due to a communication error, she ends up sharing the apartment with a handsome young man named Kim Joon Pyo (Gong Yoo). Little does she know that Song Yoo Ra (Oh ...
Premise
Kim So Hyun (Kim Tae Hee) is an orphan who lost her father at a young age. Her father, who was a movie director, died in a fire while trying to save his original movie. Having been inspired at a young age, So Hyun took up writing with a desire to make a movie someday. When So Hyun becomes a young adult, she moves into a new apartment. Due to a communication error, she ends up sharing the apartment with a handsome young man named Kim Joon Pyo (Gong Yoo). Little does she know that Song Yoo Ra (Oh Seung Hyun), a childhood classmate, has a secret crush on Joon Pyo! Coincidentally, Yoo Ra and So Hyun work at the same place - So Hyun as the theater clean-up attendant, and Yoo-Ra as a staff in the production department. Park Tae-Young (Park Jung-Chul) is another staff in the production department of the theater that So Hyun and Yoo Ra work at. He meets So Hyun and is surprised to find himself eventually falling for her.
Cast and characters
Leading cast
- Park Jung-chul as Park Tae-Young
- Kim Tae-hee as Kim So-Hyun
- Oh Seung-hyun as Song Yu-Ra
- Gong Yoo as Kim Jun-Pyo
- Jeon Mi-seon as Park Joo-Young
Episodes
This series spans 15 seasons with 176 episodes.
| Season | Episodes | First aired | Last aired |
|---|---|---|---|
| Season 1 | 18 | May 31, 2003 | July 27, 2003 |
| Season 2 | 13 | January 12, 1986 | April 6, 1986 |
| Season 3 | 15 | January 4, 1987 | April 19, 1987 |
| Season 4 | 11 | January 9, 1988 | April 24, 1988 |
| Season 5 | 12 | January 7, 1989 | March 26, 1989 |
| Season 6 | 12 | January 14, 1990 | April 1, 1990 |
| Season 7 | 12 | January 13, 1991 | April 7, 1991 |
| Season 8 | 13 | January 18, 1992 | April 19, 1992 |
| Season 9 | 13 | December 22, 1993 | December 30, 1993 |
| Season 10 | 19 | March 2, 1994 | January 2, 1996 |
| Season 11 | 9 | March 26, 1995 | June 18, 1995 |
| Season 12 | 9 | November 11, 1995 | February 18, 1996 |
| Season 13 | 6 | May 11, 1996 | June 15, 1996 |
| Season 14 | 7 | October 4, 1996 | December 31, 1996 |
| Season 15 | 7 | May 17, 1997 | January 1, 1998 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Episode 1 | May 31, 2003 |
| 2 | Episode 2 | June 1, 2003 |
| 3 | Episode 3 | June 7, 2003 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The McGuffin From his window, film critic Paul Hatcher watches neighbour Mrs. Forbes-Duthie and her transvestite grandson, Gavin. He sees two men attacking them and Gavin falling to his death. The men were looking for something and believe he has it. |
January 12, 1986 |
| 2 |
The Silent Twins Twins June and Jennifer Gibbons speak only to each other in a language of their own creation. As young teens, they commit a violent crime. After 14 years in Broadmoor Psychiatric Institution, freedom visits them in a mysterious way. |
January 19, 1986 |
| 3 |
Time After Time The aging Swift family of one brother, Jasper, and three sisters, April, May and June, are forced to live together in the run-down family mansion and they all get on each others nerves. One-eyed Jasper is the only one who does the cooking and he has occasional meetings with a monk from the nearby monastery. April was left some money when her husband died and is now practically deaf. May is a spinster who gives talks on flower arranging and also steals ornaments. The youngest, still called Baby June, was an avid horsewoman, but now relies on her farmhand Christy Lucey to train and ride her horse. One day, to their surprise, cousin Leda comes to visit and elicits various embarrassing family secrets. Leda, who is half Jewish and used to live in Vienna, stayed with the family when she was a teenager, but they thought she died in a concentration camp in the war. |
January 26, 1986 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Coast to Coast Two guys meet, one American, a deserter from the US army, one Brit, and they are drawn together by their mutual love of Soul music. Neither being gainfully employed they decide to start a mobile disco service for fellow soul lovers, which leads them to buy an ice cream van, and the adventure begins. Before long they find themselves on the run from the bad guys and the police. |
January 4, 1987 |
| 2 |
Blunt: The Fourth Man The story of Anthony Blunt, the "fourth man" in a notorious 1951 spy scandal. |
January 11, 1987 |
| 3 |
Will You Love Me Tomorrow Freedom fascinates and frightens Jackie, encountering the real world for the first time in years, She clings to an ideal: 'What I want most in the whole world is to be in love and to be loved'. Reality can be harsh and unforgiving. |
January 18, 1987 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Vision Veteran broadcaster James Marriner is persuaded to front a new big budget national family TV channel. But he begins to suspect that the channel is a front for something much more sinister and political. |
January 9, 1988 |
| 2 |
Dead Lucky Martin Urban, a young accountant, is gay but unwilling to own up to this fact because he desperately wants to be the ideal son for his parents. When he wins a fortune on the football pools, he decides to give half of it away to deserving people. But he neglects to include his friend Tim Sage, who filled in the coupon for him and really needs the money. Perhaps Martin doesn't acknowledge Tim because Martin is strongly sexually attracted to him. Tim's revenge upon Martin succeeds beyond his wildest dreams, setting in motion a chain of events leading to a tragic climax |
January 17, 1988 |
| 3 |
Sweet As You Are A lecturer has an extra-marital one night stand and contracts HIV. The movie shows how he tells his wife and the way in which she is forced to cope with his infidelity and the fact he has put her in danger of contracting the disease herself. |
January 24, 1988 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Death of a Son 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 the inquest verdict was clear: John had been 'unlawfully killed'. Yet no prosecutions followed. Pauline could not accept this decision and spent the next three years taking on the British legal establishment. The outcome of her campaign has now earned her a place in legal history. |
January 8, 1989 |
| 2 |
Angel Voices 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 his beloved choir may not survive the temptations of the time. |
January 15, 1989 |
| 3 |
Flying in the Branches 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 of things she had tried to forget. Amid the tensions of the sisters' less than joyful reunion, Dana announces that she wants to find a husband. |
January 22, 1989 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Old Flames Daniel is an obeying and high-flying barrister with the good life on his side. Nathaniel Quass is a rich and bizarre recluse, generous, obsessed and sad. This reluctant pair are caught up in an alliance against an ingenious conspiracy which threatens both their lives. |
January 14, 1990 |
| 2 |
The Man from the Pru The story of a famous real-life murder case in which an employee of the Prudential Insurance Company was suspected of killing his wife. |
January 21, 1990 |
| 3 |
Drowning in the Shallow End A young man's personal and professional life falls apart. |
January 28, 1990 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Heading Home A story of a woman who is torn between two men in post World War II London. |
January 13, 1991 |
| 2 |
Hallelujah Anyhow When local pastor Adlyn meets and falls in love again with her old childhood sweetheart, she is forced to make an agonising choice between her faith and family and her heart. |
January 27, 1991 |
| 3 |
Korczak The last days of life of the legendary Polish pedagogue Dr. Janusz Korczak and his heroic dedication to protecting Jewish orphans in the Warsaw Ghetto. |
February 3, 1991 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Grass Arena | January 19, 1992 |
| 2 | Flea Bites | January 26, 1992 |
| 3 | The Count of Solar | February 2, 1992 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
The Clothes in the Wardrobe Margaret would really rather become a nun than a housewife, but the wedding is all arranged, the guests have begun to arrive, so what can be done? |
December 23, 1993 |
| 2 |
Edward II In this Derek Jarman version of Christopher Marlowe's Elizabethan drama, in modern costumes and settings, Plantagenet king Edward II hands the power-craving nobility the perfect excuse by taking as lover besides his diplomatic wife, the French princess Isabel, not an acceptable lady at court but the ambitious Piers Gaveston, who uses his favour in bed even to wield political influence - the stage is set for a palace revolt which sends the gay pair from the throne to a terminal torture dungeon. |
December 30, 1993 |
| 3 |
The Long Roads An elderly woman learns that she is dying of cancer. She and her husband leave their small farm on the Isle of Skye to visit their children to inform them of the news. During the journey, the couple rediscover their love for each other. |
January 31, 1993 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Genghis Cohn A former SS officer is haunted by the ghost of a man he murdered during WWII. |
March 2, 1994 |
| 2 |
Skallagrigg Back in the 'bad old days' when the physically and mentally disabled were locked away in institutions a legend grew of someone who could stand up to the authorities and help them. This charming story is how a group of disabled people went to chase that legend. |
March 9, 1994 |
| 3 |
All Things Bright and Beautiful A young boy's innocent observations leads the local priest to believe he has borne witness to a manifestation of the Virgin Mary. Set in an idyllic rural Northern Ireland in the 1950's. |
March 16, 1994 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
A Very Open Prison Three prisoners ruin the Home Secretary's week, and provide the catalyst that threatens to topple the Government, by breaking out of a newly privatised jail. |
March 26, 1995 |
| 2 |
Life After Life Leo Doyle, in his mid-30s and single, is released into ceasefire Belfast after serving a life sentence for an IRA murder. Desperate for a new cause, he tries to rekindle an affair with his ex-fiancée. |
April 2, 1995 |
| 3 |
Persuasion Based on the novel by Jane Austen, this period movie tells the story of Anne Elliot, spinster daughter of a British nobleman. Anne is unduly influenced by her society-oriented family's preference for a gentleman match and turns away a love interest, only to cross paths with him again seven years later. The movie explores societal conventions around marriage and class in 19th century England. |
April 16, 1995 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Great Moments in Aviation Desire turns deadly as an intricate web of lies and betrayal unfolds on a voyage aboard a luxurious ocean liner. The journey begins when a naive young woman finds romance in the arms of a dashing stranger who could be a dangerous criminal. |
November 11, 1995 |
| 2 |
Priest A homosexual Catholic priest finds out during confessional that a young girl is being sexually abused by her father, and has to decide how to deal with both that secret and his own. |
November 18, 1995 |
| 3 |
Streetlife Single mother Jo, in the middle of a tempestuous love affair with a married man, is pregnant. When he starts to mess her around and her mother is taken ill, Jo's life starts to crumble. |
November 25, 1995 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Captives A beautiful young dentist working in a tough British prison starts to become attracted to a violent inmate after the break-up of her marriage, and embarks upon an illicit affair with him, with terrible consequences for all. |
May 11, 1996 |
| 2 |
A Man of No Importance A friendly, poetry quoting bus conductor in 1963 Dublin wants to stage Oscar Wilde's play, Salome, with passengers on his bus. |
May 18, 1996 |
| 3 |
The Cement Garden Four children live with their terminally ill mother. After she dies, they try to hold things together. In their isolated house, they begin to deteriorate mentally, whilst they hide their mom's decomposing corpse in a makeshift concrete sarcophagus. |
May 25, 1996 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Crossing the Floor Political satire closely mirroring real-life British politics of the time - a self-serving Conservative minister "crosses the floor" to join the opposition Labour Party, at a time when the Conservative Party has a majority in Parliament of just one seat. |
October 5, 1996 |
| 2 |
Deadly Voyage When stowaways are found on board a Russian cargo ship, some of the officers and crew decide to dispose of them at sea. The last time they had a stowaway on board, the ship was fined heavily and black marks entered into their records, when he made it off the ship into a foreign port. |
October 12, 1996 |
| 3 |
Loving An upper class English family owns a villa in the Irish countryside. When the man of the house leaves to fight in WW2, his mother, wife, dying butler, maid and other staff's life becomes a bit hectic and some love affairs start to bloom. |
October 19, 1996 |
| Episode | Title | Air date |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |
Stonewall A group of homosexual people try to live with dignity and self-respect while events build to the opening battle in the major gay rights movement. |
May 17, 1997 |
| 2 |
I.D. When a cop goes undercover to infiltrate a gang of hooligans, he finds himself being drawn to the other side. |
June 1, 1997 |
| 3 |
Stone, Scissors, Paper Jean moves to a riverside cottage in an effort to escape her violent husband. There she meets Redfern, a married stonemason, with whom she forms a relationship. |
June 7, 1997 |
Production
Release
| Original network/platform | SBS |
|---|---|
| First aired | May 31, 2003 |
| Last aired | July 27, 2003 |
| Runtime | 70 minutes |
| Status | ended |