''Studio 4'' is a BBC drama anthology series utilising

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's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962. The series was envisaged as a sequel to '' Storyboard'', an anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.

Episodes

Series 1

* "The Cross and the Arrow" (22 Jan 1962) * "The Second Curtain" (29 Jan 1962) * "Flight Into Danger" (5 Feb 1962) * "The Intrigue" (12 Feb 1962) * "Call Me Back" (19 Feb 1962) * "The Ballad of Peckham Rye" (5 March 1962) * "Look Who's Talking" (12 March 1962) * "The Victorian Chaise Longue" (19 March 1962) * "The Grass Is Singing" (26 March 1962) * "North Flight" (2 Apr 1962) * "A Voice from the Top" (9 Apr 1962) * "The Imbroglio" (16 Apr 1962)

Series 2

* "Doctor Korczak and the Children" (13 Aug 1962) * "The Weather in the Streets" (20 Aug 1962) * "Summer Storm" (27 Aug 1962) * "Address Unknown" (3 Sept 1962) * "Stamboul Train" (10 Sept 1962) * "Comrade Jacob" (17 Sept 1962)

Status

Like the preceding series, ''Studio 4'' was subject to the BBC's

wiping Lost television broadcasts are mostly those early television programs which cannot be accounted for in studio archives (or in personal archives) usually because of deliberate destruction or neglect. Common reasons for loss A significant prop ...

policy. Only two episodes survive in their transmitted form in the BBC archives. One of these, ''Doctor Korczak and the Children'', was adapted and directed by

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, and was shown as part of a retrospective of Cartier's television career at the

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in London in 1990.

References

External links

* {{IMDb title, id=0403808, title=Studio 4 1960s British drama television series 1962 British television series debuts 1962 British television series endings BBC television dramas 1960s British anthology television series Lost BBC episodes Black-and-white British television shows English-language television shows