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