Studio 4 (TV series)
Appearance
Studio 4 | |
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Genre | Drama |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 18 |
Production | |
Producer | James MacTaggart[1] |
Running time | 60 minutes |
Production company | BBC |
Original release | |
Network | BBC TV |
Release | 22 January 17 September 1962 | –
Studio 4 is a BBC drama anthology series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962.[2] The series was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, an anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.[3]
Episodes
Series 1
- "The Cross and the Arrow" (22 Jan 1962)
- "The Second Curtain" (29 Jan 1962)
- "Flight Into Danger" (5 Feb 1962)
- "The Intrigue" (12 Feb 1962)
- "Call Me Back" (19 Feb 1962)
- "The Ballad of Peckham Rye" (5 March 1962)
- "Look Who's Talking" (12 March 1962)
- "The Victorian Chaise Longue" (19 March 1962)
- "The Grass Is Singing" (26 March 1962)
- "North Flight" (2 Apr 1962)
- "A Voice from the Top" (9 Apr 1962)
- "The Imbroglio" (16 Apr 1962)
Series 2
- "Doctor Korczak and the Children" (13 Aug 1962)
- "The Weather in the Streets" (20 Aug 1962)
- "Summer Storm" (27 Aug 1962)
- "Address Unknown" (3 Sept 1962)
- "Stamboul Train" (10 Sept 1962)
- "Comrade Jacob" (17 Sept 1962)
Missing episodes
Only two of the 18 plays survive in their transmitted form in the BBC archives.[4] One of these, Doctor Korczak and the Children, was adapted and directed by Rudolph Cartier, and was shown as part of a retrospective of Cartier's television career at the National Film Theatre in London in 1990.[5]
References
- ^ "MacTaggart, James (1928-74)", Film & TV credits, BFI screenonline
- ^ British Television Drama: A History, BFI Publishing (2003), p.65
- ^ Anon "The Cross and the Arrow", Radio Times, 20 January 1962, p. 19
- ^ http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=1229#identifier_2_1229
- ^ Wake, Oliver (11 January 2014). "Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962)". British Television Drama. Retrieved 5 November 2017.