Studio 4 (TV series)

Studio 4
Genre	Drama
Country of origin	United Kingdom
Original language(s)	English
No. of series	2
No. of episodes	18
Production
Producer(s)	James MacTaggart[1]
Running time	60 minutes
Production company(s)	BBC
Release
Original network	BBC TV
Original release	22 January – 17 September 1962
Chronology
Preceded by	Storyboard

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

1. "MacTaggart, James (1928-74)", Film & TV credits, BFI screenonline
2. British Television Drama: A History, BFI Publishing (2003), p.65
3. Anon "The Cross and the Arrow", Radio Times, 20 January 1962, p. 19
4. http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=1229#identifier_2_1229
5. http://www.britishtelevisiondrama.org.uk/?p=1229

External links

• Studio 4 at the Internet Movie Database