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