Emerald Soup

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Emerald Soup
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Genre Children's television, science fiction
Written by Martin Woodhouse [1]
Directed by Bill Bain
StarringWilliam Dexter, Janina Faye
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes7
Production
Producer Bill Bain
Running time30 minutes
Production company ABC Weekend TV
Original release
Network ITV
Release9 November (1963-11-09) 
21 December 1963 (1963-12-21)

Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series directed by Bill Bain and produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network. [2] [3] [4] It was written by Martin Woodhouse, with Norman Bogner as script editor. Comprising seven 25-minute episodes, the series aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963. [5] The broadcast timing of series conflicted in part with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who , also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963. [6]

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Synopsis

The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discovers, constructed in the vicinity, a laboratory that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children attempt to stop the tests before any damage to the environment can be done. [7] [8]

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References

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