Irene Shubik (Producer)
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Works
Playhouse
A one-hour anthology television series of one-off contemporary and classic dramas produced by the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC).
Release Date1974-03-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count10
Vote Count1
Out of the Unknown
Out of the Unknown is a British television science fiction anthology drama series, produced by the BBC and broadcast on BBC2 in four series between 1965 and 1971. Each episode was a dramatisation of a science fiction short story. Some were written directly for the series, but most were adaptations of already published stories. The first three years were exclusively science fiction, but that genre was abandoned in the final year in favour of horror/fantasy stories. A number of episodes were wiped during the early 1970s, as was standard procedure at the time. A large number of episodes are still missing but some do turn up from time to time; for instance, Level Seven from series two, originally broadcast on 27 October 1966 was returned to the BBC from the archives of a European broadcaster in January 2006.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count38
Vote Count7
Out of This World
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by ABC Television and broadcast in 1962. A spin-off from the popular anthology series Armchair Theatre, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is generally seen as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown.
Release Date1962-06-30
DepartmentCreator
JobCreator
Vote Count3
Thirteen Against Fate
Thirteen Against Fate is a series of thirteen hour-long episodes based on the novels of Georges Simenon. Noted for the sound psychology of his characters, Simenon's stories deal with many nationalities and are set in numerous European cities and villages. There are sequences filmed in these locations integrated into the episodes. In each of the novels chosen for this series, Fate plays a leading role in the development of the story and the characters.
Release Date1966-06-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Episode Count1
Vote Count1
The Jewel in the Crown
A sweeping drama about the ruling and ruled classes of World War II India, the story begins with an unjust arrest for rape. The consequences of this arrest echo throughout the series with questions of identity and personal responsibility being explored against a background of war and personal intrigue.
Release Date1984-01-09
DepartmentWriting
JobWriter
Episode Count14
Vote Count21
Late Summer
Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together the more age difference becomes a rift between them.
Release Date1963-07-07
DepartmentWriting
JobStory Editor
The Pigeon Fancier
When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
Release Date1971-12-09
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of eccentric characters. With his passion for the railways and naïve disposition, Benjamin inadvertently encourages them to reveal their innermost fears and darkest secrets.
Release Date1969-10-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Moss
TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".
Release Date1975-10-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Stones
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
Release Date1976-10-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Joke
Bendel is known for his practical jokes and his self-confidence. But when Dr Walden, one of his victims. takes him seriously, trouble ensues.
Release Date1976-05-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Love of a Good Woman
Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
Release Date1976-10-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Sovereign's Company
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
Release Date1970-04-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Eleanor
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Release Date1974-12-12
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Michael Regan
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.
Release Date1971-11-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Lambda 1
The future. The TAU-mode shuttle carries passengers to Australia through the earth's crust. When a routine TAU-shuttle becomes entombed in solid rock miles under the earth, the only means of rescue is the experimental LAMBDA-mode shuttle; which its creator is unsure about.
Release Date1966-10-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Death of a Private
An army private is driven to murder when his wife falls in love with another man.
Release Date1967-12-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The General's Day
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Release Date1972-11-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
When the Bough Breaks
NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
Release Date1971-05-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
I Can't See My Little Willie
When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...
Release Date1970-11-19
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Sucker Bait
An expedition sets out to discover what has happened to a lost colony on a distant planet. Amongst the scientists is a teenager raised to be a kind of human computer, able to make connections between different specialisms.
Release Date1965-11-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Staying On
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
Release Date1980-12-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
No Place Like Earth
Earth is no more, destroyed by nuclear war; but itinerant handyman Bert Foster, wandering the canals of Mars, is possessed by a restlessness for a home which no longer exists. He considers a move to an isolated outpost on Venus.
Release Date1965-10-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Release Date1971-10-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Villa Maroc
A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
Release Date1972-02-17
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Dead Past
The Chronoscope is a device that analyses ancient photons to allow a glimpse into any event in Earth's distant past. Historian Arnold Potterley is rebuffed when he petitions for use of the Chronoscope to study ancient Carthage. So he commissions the building of a private time-viewing machine.
Release Date1965-10-25
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
When an elderly woman is hospitalised, the truth behind her illegal adoption of 14 children is revealed.
Release Date1968-08-21
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Machine Stops
The future. The material needs of people are tended by the Machine, which makes their environment, in vast tunnels beneath the earth, comfortable and safe. But if the Machine stops, what then?
Release Date1966-10-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Breakthrough
An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
Release Date1975-01-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Time in Advance
The future. Criminals serve prison sentences before they commit their crimes. Prisons are on new planets that are being colonised. After serving their time, the former prisoners return to their home planet.
Release Date1965-11-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Alma Mater
Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
Release Date1971-01-07
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Everybody Say Cheese
Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he is getting older, and his trade is dying out as people have their own instamatic cameras.
Release Date1971-06-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Pal
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Release Date1971-12-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Access to the Children
A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.
Release Date1973-03-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Meriel the Ghost Girl
Livingston, a psychic investigator, is asked to attend a seance. Can it be that he has finally discovered a genuine supernatural phenomenon!?
Release Date1976-09-28
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Hearts and Flowers
A family gather together for the funeral and cremation of the head of the family.
Release Date1970-12-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Vote Count1
Double Echo
A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
Release Date1976-10-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Stranger in the Family
A boy is skilled at telepathy and in mind control. He attracts the attention of the government.
Release Date1965-10-18
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
Henry Wilkes cultivates rare tropical plants.The length to which he goes to propagate and nurture new hybrids alarms his wife.
Release Date1965-11-08
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
O Fat White Woman
The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Release Date1971-11-04
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Triple Exposure
Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the three perspectives.
Release Date1972-11-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
Release Date1972-02-03
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Cafeteria
An eccentric Jewish writer is drawn into the world of an apparantly delusional young woman and her invalid father
Release Date1974-08-13
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Sling Your Hook
A group of coal miners from Nottingham go on their annual trip to Blackpool.
Release Date1969-04-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Drummer and the Bloke
Alf and Jack, two labourers hired to work in a quarry,have decided to go on strike because of the degrading nature of the job.
Release Date1968-01-31
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
A Distant Thunder
Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.
Release Date1970-11-26
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Long Distance Piano Player
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
Release Date1970-10-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Chariot of Fire
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Release Date1970-05-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Some Lapse of Time
Dr Max Harrow is awakened from a re-current nightmare in which he is pursued by a barbaric accusing figures, to find a tramp collapsed on his doorstep, The tramp is suffering from a genetic radiation disorder that should killed him in infancy as it did Harrow's baby son. The man is the living image of Harrow's nightmare figures, Clutched in his hand is a human finger bone and he speaks a strange, unknown tongue,
Release Date1965-12-06
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Level Seven
Level 7 is the deepest and the safest level in a nuclear bunker. The nerve centre of the government is based here. But how safe is it?
Release Date1966-10-27
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Rainbirds
After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
Release Date1971-02-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
House of Character
Bisthorpe moves into a flat where a host of bizarre events occur: hands come through walls, light bulbs explode, furniture talks, he turns into a table-top model in an advertising agency, etc. Finally, it's revealed that the new flat is, in fact, a room in a psychiatric asylum.
Release Date1968-01-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Midas Plague
The Future. Robot labour and free energy make the creation of goods easy and automatic. Now people are continually supplied with more things than they can possibly consume.
Release Date1965-12-20
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Counterfeit Man
On Jupiter's moon Ganymede, an alien life-form has taken over the body of a human astronaut, creating an almost perfect copy. It then begins the long return journey to Earth.
Release Date1965-10-11
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.
Release Date1975-01-15
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Song at Twilight
Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
Release Date1973-02-05
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Ackerman, Dougall & Harker
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.
Release Date1972-02-10
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
Tunnel under the World
Déja vu: as Guy Birkett goes through the day he has a nagging feeling that he's been here before, experienced this already; except the details are always different. Is it conceivable that he is merely a simulacrum, the ultimate in consumer market surveying?
Release Date1966-12-01
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Right Prospectus
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
Release Date1970-01-02
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer
The Fox Trot
The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.
Release Date1971-04-29
DepartmentProduction
JobProducer