Irene Shubik
Production · Hampstead, London, England, UK
Irene Shubik (26 December 1929 – 26 September 2019) was a British television producer and story editor, known for her contribution to the development of the single play in British television drama. Beginning her career in television at ABC Weekend TV, she worked on Armchair Theatre as a story editor, where she devised the science fiction anthology series Out of this World. Moving to the BBC, she briefly worked as a story editor before being promoted to producer, creating the science fiction anthology television series Out of the Unknown. Leaving Out of the Unknown after two seasons, Shubik co-produced The Wednesday Play, overseeing its transition into Play for Today in 1970. She left the BBC in 1976 and subsequently produced the first season of Rumpole of the Bailey for Thames Television before joining Granada Television, where she produced Staying On and devised The Jewel in the Crown. She also wrote film scripts and a novel, The War Guest.
Titles
The Jewel in the Crown
Out of the Unknown
Out of This World
Wessex Tales
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Sovereign's Company
Staying On
The Machine Stops
Hearts and Flowers
Access to the Children
Thirteen to Centaurus
Double Echo
The Love of a Good Woman
Meriel the Ghost Girl
The Long Distance Piano Player
No Place Like Earth
Stranger in the Family
Time in Advance
The Dead Past
Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......?
Some Lapse of Time
Sucker Bait
The Midas Plague
Lambda 1
Tunnel Under the World
Level Seven
The Counterfeit Man
Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It
Death of a Private
Sling Your Hook
House of Character
The Drummer and the Bloke
The Breakthrough
Everybody Say Cheese
Alma Mater
When the Bough Breaks
A Distant Thunder
I Can't See My Little Willie
The Pigeon Fancier
Song at Twilight
The Rainbirds
The Fox Trot
Moss
Michael Regan
Pal
The Right Prospectus
Chariot of Fire
Stones
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
O Fat White Woman
The Caves of Steel
Long Past Glory
Thirteen Against Fate
Playhouse
Story Parade
Triple Exposure
Late Summer
The Villa Maroc
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Ackerman, Dougall & Harker