Emerald Soup

*Emerald Soup*
Emerald Soup
Genre	Children's television, science fiction
Written by	Martin Woodhouse
Directed by	Bill Bain
Starring	William Dexter, Janina Faye
Country of origin	United Kingdom
No. of episodes	7
Production
Producer	Bill Bain
Running time	30 minutes
Production company	ABC Weekend TV
Original release
Network	ITV
Release	9 November –; 21 December 1963

Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series.^[2] Consisting of seven 25-minute episodes produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network, the series was aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963.^{[citation needed]} Each episode except the last one ended with a scene to be resolved the following week via a quote from William Shakespeare. The last episode ended with the discovery of a gem (an emerald?). Norman Bogner acted as the Script Editor. The series conflicted in part with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963.^[3]

Synopsis[edit]

The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discovers, constructed in the vicinity, a laboratory that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children attempt to stop the tests before any damage to the environment can be done.

Cast[edit]

Jessica Maxwell - Jessica Spencer
John Maxwell - William Dexter
Jo Maxwell - Janina Faye
Gally Lloyd - Karl Lanchbury
Tim Maxwell - Gregory Phillips
Penny Dalton - Annette Andre
Poynter - Michael Bangerter
Mrs Evans - Ethel Gabriel
Gaunt - Allan McClelland
Lee - Frederic Abbott
Pascoe - Blake Butler

References[edit]

^ Holland, Steve (5 July 2011). "Martin Woodhouse obituary". Theguardian.com.
^ "CITV 1963 - Programmes - Transdiffusion". Transdiffusion.org. Retrieved 1 January 2019.
^ Hewett, Richard (2017). The Changing Spaces of Television Acting: From Studio Realism to Location Realism in BBC Television Drama. Manchester University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-5261-1553-9.

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[1] Holland, Steve (5 July 2011). "Martin Woodhouse obituary". Theguardian.com.

[2] "CITV 1963 - Programmes - Transdiffusion". Transdiffusion.org. Retrieved 1 January 2019.

[3] Hewett, Richard (2017). The Changing Spaces of Television Acting: From Studio Realism to Location Realism in BBC Television Drama. Manchester University Press. p. 89. ISBN 978-1-5261-1553-9.

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