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