Irene Shubik

Movies

Staying On
Producer
A british colonel and his wife decide to remain in India after the departure of the British raj in the 1940s.
Stones
Producer
From BBC2 Playhouse's The Mind Beyond series. Professor Reeve wonders about strange events that seem to be connected to Stonehenge (Source: BBC).
The Love of a Good Woman
Producer
Isabella and Henry were childhood sweethearts. Isabella dreams of the arrival of a vulgar woman named Emily.
Double Echo
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A psychologist comes to believe that the acutely autistic 17-year-old girl that he has been attempting to treat is gifted with telepathic powers, and begins to exhaustively test her capabilities, enlisting the aid of a psychiatric colleague to impartially observe.
Moss
Producer
TV play by Bernard Kops. Moss is a miser who only love is his grandson. Then tragedy strikes and Moss is "reborn".
Mrs. Acland's Ghosts
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Mr Mockler and Mrs Acland have never met, but gradually Mrs Acland 's ghosts begin to take over Mr Mockler 's life.
The Breakthrough
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An adaptation of Daphne du Maurier's 1966 short story of the same title, broadcast as part of the BBC's "BBC2 Playhouse".
Eleanor
Producer
Eleanor seems normal enough to her parents and teachers. Why then has she disappeared?
Access to the Children
Producer
A married man forms a liaison with a woman he meets on a train, and is divorced by his wife who allows him access to their daughters on Sundays, which they usually spend at the zoo.
Song at Twilight
Producer
Eddie Ritchie once ' played for England,' or did he? The team have their doubts.
The General's Day
Producer
When Mrs Hinch, the sinister charlady, decides to move in, General Suffolk fights his last battle.
Triple Exposure
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Len climbs Veronica and Percy’s fence intent on burglary, but what really happens next? The three acts of the play show the incident from each of the three perspectives.
The Villa Maroc
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A stolid British family from Bishops Stortford are adventurous and book a holiday in a villa in Morocco, where things befall them.
Ackerman, Dougall & Harker
Producer
A salesman learns a few lessons from the locals when he goes to Yorkshire for a business course.
In the Beautiful Caribbean
Producer
Play set in the Caribbean showing how life is hard and a struggle, with problems of unemployment and lack of money.
The Pigeon Fancier
Producer
When Len Shelton retires from a life of work in the coal mines, he turns to his first love - pigeons, which become a symbol of hope for him.
Pal
Producer
Two sworn enemies, one black and the other white, are forced to confront their prejudices when they are forced together by circumstance.
Michael Regan
Producer
Under stress, Irish tenant farmer Michael Regan, suddenly snaps one day and locks himself in his home, threatening the lives of his wife and child.
O Fat White Woman
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The wife of a public school head becomes gradually aware that her husband has been physically abusing his pupils. Written by the master of late-middle-age morality plays, William Trevor.
Edna: The Inebriate Woman
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A British play about homelessness by Jeremy Sandford, writer of "Cathy Come Home", first broadcast as a BBC Play For Today. It details the deterioration of Edna, a homeless alcoholic and was made at a time when vagrancy was still a criminal offence.
Everybody Say Cheese
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Comedy play about a seaside photographer, Henry Hunter, who goes to Margate every year to work, staying with his friends Frank and Hylda. However, he is getting older, and his trade is dying out as people have their own instamatic cameras.
When the Bough Breaks
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NSPCC social worker Margaret Ashdown is given the case of investigating into the Gosse family, when the young mother, Sheila, is unable to explain her baby's fractured skull at the hospital. She discovers the family live in poverty and ignorance, and have a tradition of instability.
The Fox Trot
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The first in a series of new plays. Arthur and Gwen, a cosy middle-aged couple, remember with nostalgia the pre-Motorway Britain of their youth. When Tom, an old friend, returns from voyaging the world their life takes a strange new turn.
The Rainbirds
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After a suicide attempt, John Rainbird is in a coma. Whilst in this state his mind experiences fantasies involving nightmare creatures and his relatives.
Alma Mater
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Jimmy Nicholson returns from working in the Middle East to visit his son at boarding school. He went to the same public school himself and is disturbed to find that things have changed and the traditions by which he has always lived and been guided now seem to be obsolete.
Hearts and Flowers
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A family gather together for the funeral and cremation of the head of the family.
A Distant Thunder
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Peter Barkham hero-worships his distinguished father. However, this is threatened by the intrusion of events and people from his father's wartime past.
I Can't See My Little Willie
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When it's time to wet the baby's head, it's surprising the secrets that emerge...
The Long Distance Piano Player
Producer
The first Play for Today is the story of one man's obsession (to win the world long distance piano playing record) and the battle for good (his wife) and evil (his agent) that rages around him.
Chariot of Fire
Producer
A prison visitor becomes involved with a convicted sex offender.
Sovereign's Company
Producer
Sovereign's Company is the story of a boy from an army family with a long tradition of honour and distinction, who goes to a military academy as an officer cadet and finds himself temperamentally unsuited to the life.
The Right Prospectus
Producer
A school story with a noticeable difference - the adults regress to children.
The Last Train Through Harecastle Tunnel
Producer
A young train spotter heads to Staffordshire for a historic journey through a soon to be condemned tunnel. During his trip, he encounters a series of curious characters.
Late Summer
Story Editor
Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together the more age difference becomes a rift between them.