Irene Shubik
Known For: Production
Biography
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.
Filmography
1984
- The Jewel in the Crown ... (Writer)
1980
- Staying On ... (Producer)
1976
- The Joke ... (Producer)
- Meriel the Ghost Girl ... (Producer)
- Double Echo ... (Producer)
- The Love of a Good Woman ... (Producer)
- Stones ... (Producer)
1975
- Rumpole of the Bailey ... (Producer)
- Mrs. Acland's Ghosts ... (Producer)
- The Breakthrough ... (Producer)
- Moss ... (Producer)
1974
- Playhouse ... (Producer)
- The Cafeteria ... (Producer)
- Eleanor ... (Producer)
1973
- Wessex Tales ... (Producer)
- Song at Twilight ... (Producer)
- Access to the Children ... (Producer)
1972
- The Villa Maroc ... (Producer)
- In the Beautiful Caribbean ... (Producer)
- Ackerman, Dougall & Harker ... (Producer)
- The General's Day ... (Producer)
- Triple Exposure ... (Producer)
1971
- Edna: The Inebriate Woman ... (Producer)
- Alma Mater ... (Producer)
- O Fat White Woman ... (Producer)
- The Fox Trot ... (Producer)
- Pal ... (Producer)
- When the Bough Breaks ... (Producer)
- Michael Regan ... (Producer)
- Everybody Say Cheese ... (Producer)
- The Rainbirds ... (Producer)
- The Pigeon Fancier ... (Producer)
1970
- The Long Distance Piano Player ... (Producer)
- A Distant Thunder ... (Producer)
- I Can't See My Little Willie ... (Producer)
- Hearts and Flowers ... (Producer)
- The Right Prospectus ... (Producer)
- Sovereign's Company ... (Producer)
- Chariot of Fire ... (Producer)
1969
- The Exiles ... (Producer)
- The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel ... (Producer)
- Sling Your Hook ... (Producer)
1968
- Charlie ... (Producer)
- Infidelity Took Place ... (Producer)
- Mrs. Lawrence Will Look After It ... (Producer)
- The Drummer and the Bloke ... (Producer)
- House of Character ... (Producer)
1967
- The Prophet ... (Producer)
- Death of a Private ... (Producer)
1966
- Chronicle ... (Director)
- Thirteen Against Fate ... (Producer)
- The Eye ... (Producer)
- Satisfaction Guaranteed ... (Producer)
- Second Childhood ... (Producer)
- Level Seven ... (Producer)
- Frankenstein Mark 2 ... (Producer)
- Walk's End ... (Producer)
- Too Many Cooks ... (Producer)
- The World in Silence ... (Producer)
- The Fastest Draw ... (Producer)
- The Machine Stops ... (Producer)
- Tunnel Under the World ... (Producer)
- Lambda 1 ... (Producer)
1965
- Out of the Unknown ... (Producer)
- The Dead Past ... (Producer)
- Time in Advance ... (Producer)
- No Place Like Earth ... (Producer)
- The Fox and the Forest ... (Producer)
- Andover and the Android ... (Producer)
- The Midas Plague ... (Producer)
- Sucker Bait ... (Producer)
- Stranger in the Family ... (Producer)
- The Counterfeit Man ... (Producer)
- Come Buttercup, Come Daisy, Come......? ... (Producer)
- Thirteen to Centaurus ... (Story Editor)
- Some Lapse of Time ... (Producer)
1964
- Theatre 625 ... (Script Editor)
- Story Parade ... (Writer)
- The Caves of Steel ... (Script Editor)
1963
- Long Past Glory ... (Story Editor)
- Late Summer ... (Story Editor)
1962
- Out of This World ... (Story Editor)
- Little Lost Robot ... (Story Editor)