This article includes a list of general references, but it lacks sufficient corresponding inline citations .(October 2015) |
The Human Jungle | |
---|---|
Genre | Drama |
Created by | Ronald J. Kahn |
Starring | |
Theme music composer | Bernard Ebbinghouse |
Opening theme | Played by John Barry and his Orchestra |
Country of origin | United Kingdom |
Original language | English |
No. of series | 2 |
No. of episodes | 26 (list of episodes) |
Production | |
Producers | |
Cinematography | Bert Mason |
Running time | 49–51 minutes |
Production company | Independent Artists for ABC Weekend TV |
Original release | |
Network | ITV |
Release | 30 March 1963 – 13 May 1965 [1] |
The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Weekend TV by Independent Artists.
Starring Herbert Lom as Dr Roger Corder and Sally Smith as his daughter Jennifer, it comprised 26 50-minute episodes and ran for two series 1963–1965.
Most episodes focused on one patient, whose psychological ailment Dr Corder would treat using a humane yet idiosyncratic approach that mixed Freudian psychoanalysis with the contemporary methods associated with the then-fashionable theories of R. D. Laing. [1] Several psychiatric techniques, such as word association, group work, role-play and hypnotherapy, were featured in the series. Frequently, Corder's initial patient in a story would turn out not to be the character with the pressing mental health issue.
Because of the constraints of a 50-minute television episode, it was often suggested that Corder would continue to see his patients after the denouement.
The series was created by Ronald J. Kahn, credited on screen as "assistant to the producers", and produced by Julian Wintle and Leslie Parkyn. [2]
The theme music was composed by Bernard Ebbinghouse, and arranged and recorded by John Barry and his Orchestra. [3]
Several high-profile guest stars appeared in his surgery or as hospital patients, including Joan Collins, Margaret Lockwood, Flora Robson, Roger Livesey, Rita Tushingham and André Morell. [4]
The first series was filmed at Beaconsfield Studios, which closed down shortly after production ended; the second series was shot at the Associated British Studios in Elstree owned by ABC's parent company Associated British Picture Corporation.
The script editor was John Kruse. [5] The advisor on psychiatric content was Dr Hugh L. Freeman, on behalf of the National Association for Mental Health (now Mind). [4]
Air date is for ABC Weekend TV. [6] ITV regions varied date and order. Episode order is given as per the Network DVD release.
Episode No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "The Vacant Chair" | James Hill | Bill MacIlwraith | 30 March 1963 | |
Stars Ronald Leigh-Hunt, Lloyd Lamble, Keith Pyott, Geoffrey Palmer, Edward Evans, Hamilton Dyce and Jonathan Burn | |||||
2 | "The Flip Side Man" | Sydney A. Hayers | Robert Stewart | 6 April 1963 | |
Stars Jess Conrad and Michael Ripper | |||||
3 | "Run with the Devil" | Vernon Sewell |
| 13 April 1963 | |
Stars Derek Farr, Jenny Laird, Andrée Melly, Walter Hudd and Harry Fowler | |||||
4 | "Thin Ice" | John Ainsworth |
| 20 April 1963 | |
Guest stars Janina Faye, George A. Cooper and Cyril Chamberlain | |||||
5 | "The Lost Hours" | John Ainsworth | John Kruse | 27 April 1963 | |
Stars Leonard Sachs, Ursula Howells, Frank Jarvis, Larry Martyn, Robin Hawdon, Stacy Davies and June Murphy | |||||
6 | "A Friend of the Sergeant Major" | Don Sharp | Lewis Davidson | 4 May 1963 | |
Stars Alfred Burke, Richard Leech, Cavan Kendall, John Harvey and Steven Scott | |||||
7 | "14 Ghosts" | Sydney A. Hayers | Leo Leiberman | 11 May 1963 | |
Stars Avice Landon, André Morell, Justine Lord, William Marlowe, Peter Bathurst and Bernard Davies | |||||
8 | "Fine Feathers" | Vernon Sewell | Robert Stewart | 18 May 1963 | |
Stars Jane Merrow and Philip Gilbert | |||||
9 | "The Wall" | James Hill | John Kruse | 25 May 1963 | |
Stars Jeremy Spenser, Catherine Feller, Blake Butler, Arnold Diamond, Rosamund Greenwood and Hana Maria Pravda | |||||
10 | "A Woman with Scars" | James Hill | Robert Stewart | 1 June 1963 | |
Stars Jeanne Moody, Frank Lawton, John Glyn-Jones, Rosalie Crutchley and Robin Hughes | |||||
11 | "Time-Check" | Alan Cooke | Lewis Davidson | 8 June 1963 | |
Stars Melvyn Hayes, Gerald James, Fabia Drake, Warren Mitchell, John Arnatt, Douglas Blackwell and Mitzi Rogers | |||||
12 | "The Two Edged Sword" | Vernon Sewell | Bill MacIlwraith | 15 June 1963 | |
Stars Susan Burnet, Pauline Yates, Frederick Piper, Beatrice Varley, William Kendall, Roger Delgado and Glynn Edwards | |||||
13 | "Over and Out" | Vernon Sewell |
| 22 June 1963 | |
Stars Ian Bannen, Eddie Byrne, Zena Marshall, June Barry, John Boxer, Simon Lack and Gerald Andersen |
Air date is for Associated-Rediffusion. [7] ITV regions varied date and order. ABC Weekend Television was broadcast two days later. Order as for the Network DVD release.
Episode No. | Title | Directed by | Written by | Original airdate | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | "Struggle for a Mind" | Sydney A. Hayers | John Kruse | 18 February 1965 | |
Stars Joan Collins, Clifford Evans, Derek Godfrey and Margaret Whiting | |||||
2 | "Success Machine" | Sydney A. Hayers | John Kruse | 25 February 1965 | |
Stars Edward Judd, Sylvia Syms, Harold Goldblatt, Jack Smethurst, Philip Latham, Ruth Trouncer and Wanda Ventham | |||||
3 | "The 24-Hour Man" | Robert Day | Robert Stewart | 4 March 1965 | |
Stars Johnny Sekka, Dolores Mantez, Inigo Jackson, Donald Morley, Frank Coda and Mark Lester | |||||
4 | "Solo Performance" | Roy Baker | Bill MacIlwraith | 11 March 1965 | |
Stars Margaret Lockwood, James Villiers, Rona Anderson, Terence Brook and Malcolm Tierney | |||||
5 | "Ring of Hate" | Charles Crichton |
| 18 March 1965 | |
Stars Dudley Sutton, Bernard Lee, Francis Matthews, Walter Gotell, Jimmy Gardner, Peter Diamond | |||||
6 | "Conscience on a Rack" | Roy Baker | Bill MacIlwraith | 25 March 1965 | |
Stars Flora Robson, Megs Jenkins, Ronald Hines and Adrienne Posta | |||||
7 | "The Quick and the Dead" | Roy Baker | John Kruse | 1 April 1965 | |
Stars Richard Johnson, Robert Beatty, Andrew Keir, David McAlister and Moray Watson | |||||
8 | "The Man Who Fell Apart" | Roy Baker | John Kruse | 8 April 1965 | |
Stars Rita Tushingham, Barbara Shelley, Alan Dobie, Patrick O'Connell, Griffith Davies | |||||
9 | "Dual Control" | Roy Baker | Anne Francis | 15 April 1965 | |
Stars Peggy Cummins, Dennis Price, Annette Andre, Rona Anderson and Yvonne Antrobus | |||||
10 | "Skeleton in the Cupboard" | Roy Baker | Bill MacIlwraith | 22 April 1965 | |
Stars Roger Livesey, Ann Firbank, Allan Cuthbertson, Russell Waters and Donald Pickering | |||||
11 | "Wild Goose Chase" | Vernon Sewell | Marc Brandel | 29 April 1965 | |
Stars Francesca Annis, Vladek Sheybal, Faith Brook, Gary Watson, Aimée Delamain and Tony Steedman | |||||
12 | "Enemy Outside" | Roy Baker | Bill MacIlwraith | 6 May 1965 | |
Guest star Lloyd Reckord, Tony Tanner, Avis Bunnage, Barbara Ferris and Rona Anderson | |||||
13 | "Heartbeats in a Tin Box" | Roy Baker | Robert Stewart | 13 May 1965 | |
Stars Susan George, Gerald Harper, Ray McAnally, John Junkin, Donald Eccles, Tenniel Evans and Arnold Ridley |
The complete series was released in November 2012 as a 7 DVD (Region 2) boxset with accompanying series guide by Andrew Pixley.
Do Not Adjust Your Set (DNAYS) is a British television series produced originally by Rediffusion, London, then, by the fledgling Thames Television for British commercial television channel ITV from 26 December 1967 to 14 May 1969. The show took its name from the message that was displayed when there was a problem with transmission or technical difficulties.
ABC Weekend TV was the popular name of the British broadcaster ABC Television Limited, which provided the weekend service in the Midlands and Northern England regions of the Independent Television (ITV) network from 1956 to 1968. It was one of the "Big Four" companies that between them produced the majority of ITV networked programmes during this period.
Associated-Rediffusion, later Rediffusion London, was the British ITV franchise holder for London and parts of the surrounding counties, on weekdays between 22 September 1955 and 29 July 1968. It was the first ITA franchisee to go on air, and one of the "Big Four" companies that between them produced the majority of ITV networked programmes during this period.
Quatermass and the Pit is a British television science-fiction serial transmitted live by BBC Television in December 1958 and January 1959. It was the third and last of the BBC's Quatermass serials, although the chief character, Professor Bernard Quatermass, reappeared in a 1979 ITV production called Quatermass. Like its predecessors, Quatermass and the Pit was written by Nigel Kneale.
Alan John Clarke was an English television and film director, producer and writer.
Cecil André Mesritz, known professionally as André Morell, was an English actor. He appeared frequently in theatre, film and on television from the 1930s to the 1970s. His best known screen roles were as Professor Bernard Quatermass in the BBC Television serial Quatermass and the Pit (1958–59), and as Doctor Watson in the Hammer Film Productions version of The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959).
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its successor Thames Television took over from mid-1968.
Rita Tushingham is a British actress. She is known for her starring roles in films including A Taste of Honey (1961), The Leather Boys (1964), The Knack ...and How to Get It (1965), Doctor Zhivago (1965), and Smashing Time (1967). For A Taste of Honey, she won the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, and Most Promising Newcomer at both the BAFTA Awards and Golden Globe Awards. Her other film appearances include An Awfully Big Adventure (1995), Under the Skin (1997), Being Julia (2004), and Last Night in Soho (2021).
Special Branch is a British television series made by Thames Television for ITV and shown between 1969-1970 and 1973-1974. A police drama series, the action was centred on members of the Special Branch anti-espionage and anti-terrorist department of the London Metropolitan Police. The first two series starred Derren Nesbitt, before the programme went through an overhaul, with George Sewell taking over as the new lead.
Thriller is a British television series, originally broadcast in the UK from 1973 to 1976. It is an anthology series: each episode has a self-contained story and its own cast. As the title suggests, each story is a thriller of some variety, from tales of the supernatural to down-to-earth whodunits.
Dennis Vance was a British television producer, director, and occasional actor.
Out of This World is a British science fiction anthology television series made by the ITV franchise ABC Weekend TV for ITV. It was broadcast on ITV in 1962. A spin-off from the Armchair Theatre anthology series, each episode was introduced by the actor Boris Karloff. Many of the episodes were adaptations of stories by science fiction writers including Isaac Asimov, Philip K. Dick and Clifford D. Simak. The series is described by the British Film Institute as a precursor to the BBC science fiction anthology series Out of the Unknown, which was created and produced by Out of This World creator Irene Shubik after she left ABC.
The Adventures of William Tell is a British swashbuckler adventure series, first broadcast on the ITV network in 1958, and produced by ITC Entertainment. In the United States, the episodes aired on the syndicated NTA Film Network in 1958–1959.
Bank Holiday is a 1938 British drama film directed by Carol Reed and starring John Lodge, Margaret Lockwood, Hugh Williams and Kathleen Harrison.
Justice is a British drama television series that originally aired on ITV in 39 hour-long episodes between 8 August 1971 and 16 October 1974. Margaret Lockwood stars as Harriet Peterson, a female barrister in the North of England. It was made by Yorkshire Television and was based loosely on Justice Is a Woman, an episode of ITV Playhouse broadcast in 1969 in which Lockwood had played a barrister. The theme music is Crown Imperial by William Walton.
That Dangerous Age is a 1949 British romance film directed by Gregory Ratoff and starring Myrna Loy, Roger Livesey and Peggy Cummins. It was adapted from the play Autumn by Margaret Kennedy and Ilya Surguchev. The film was released under the alternative title of If This Be Sin in the United States. It was shot at Shepperton Studios and on location in London and Capri. The film's sets were designed by the art director Andrej Andrejew.
Play of the Week is a 90-minute British television anthology series produced by a variety of companies including Granada Television, Associated-Rediffusion, ATV and Anglia Television.
This is a timeline of the history of the British television company ABC Weekend TV, one of the first four contractors of the Independent Television network.