Studio 4 (TV series) explained

Genre:	Drama
Country:	United Kingdom
Language:	English
Num Series:	2
Num Episodes:	18
Producer:	James MacTaggart^[1]
Runtime:	60 minutes
Company:	BBC
Channel:	BBC TV
Related:	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)

Status

Like the preceding series, Studio 4 was subject to the BBC's wiping policy. Only two episodes 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]

Notes and References

1. http://www.screenonline.org.uk/people/id/1343392/credits.html "MacTaggart, James (1928-74)"
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. Web site: Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962) – British Television Drama.
5. Web site: Wake. Oliver. Doctor Korczak and the Children (1962). British Television Drama. 11 January 2014. 5 November 2017.