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    Studio 64

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    A group of television writers and directors were brought together in pairs to collaborate on a series of specially written drama productions for ATV’s Studio 64 series. The episodes aired fortnightly.


    The Crunch

    Airing at 9.35 pm on Sunday 19 January 1964, The Crunch postulated a situation where the newly created independent Eastern State of Makang (formerly a British Colony) threatened the safety of London.

    As the play opened, London was being evacuated and in a quiet street of West London, the Makangese Ambassador (Maxwell Shaw) has secreted a nuclear weapon in the basement of their Embassy and was threatening to detonate it if his demands weren’t met.

    Harry Andrews played the Prime Minister and Anthony Bushell the CO of the troops called out in this thriller by the author of the Quatermass series.

    Prime Minister Goddard 
    Harry Andrews
    Mr Ken (Makangese Ambassador)
    Maxwell Shaw
    Mrs Ken
    Hira Talfrey
    President Jimson
    Wolfe Morris
    Lt. Gen. Priest
    Anthony Bushell
    Capt. Buckley
    Peter Bowles
    Lovell
    Carl Bernard
    Dr Kessell
    John Gabriel
    RAMC Major
    John Cazabon
    Bradshaw
    Frank Crawshaw
    O’Day
    Michael Corcoran

    Writer
    Nigel Kneale
    Director
    Michael Elliott

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    Better Luck Next Time

    Airing on 2 February 1964, Better Luck Next Time revolved around William Foster (Michael Bryant), an intense young man in the publishing business who was trying to shake himself free of the pressure and strains of the New York business world and of a wife who wanted him to stay in the rat-race and run even faster!

    In a hotel room, Willliam met Jenny (Zohra Lampert), a shapely and sleepy-eyed girl who had come along as the “professional co-respondent” he needed to get a divorce. The pair propped themselves up in bed and chatted like two nervous strangers as they waited for a private detective to “discover” them together.

    During that wait, the two began to fall in love – but things didn’t work out and William found himself once again in another hotel room with another hired co-respondent.

    William Foster
    Michael Bryant
    Jenny Zubitski
    Zohra Lampert

    Writer
    Stanley Mann
    Director
    Silvio Narrizzano


    The Devil and John Brown

    Set in Scotland in 1835, Andrew Keir was seen as an Ayrshire miner who was trapped below ground for 23 days in The Devil and John Brown which aired at 9.35 pm on Sunday 23 February.

    Keir (once a Lanarkshire miner himself) gave a gripping performance as the man – trapped by a fall of rock – with the milestones of a bitter-sweet life passing before his eyes as he lay in the darkness waiting to be rescued.

    Good use of flashbacks freed the plot from the picture of one man entombed.

    It was acted and produced with competence, but too much of it called for exclamations of hoarse despair, and too much of it took place in the flickering light of a miner’s lamp to make this a really memorable play.

    John Brown
    Andrew Keir
    Minister
    Fulton Mackay
    Master
    Graham Crowden
    Katie
    Janet McIntyre
    John Scobie
    Leo Maguire
    Robert Scobie
    John Kidd

    Writer
    Len Taylor
    Director
    Stuart Burge


    The Happy Moorings

    Jocelyn Willow (Millicent Martin) hires the services of escort Oliver Strickland (Roy Kinnear) to obtain a divorce from her husband (Nigel Stock) in this offbeat comedy from Keith Waterhouse and Willis Hall.

    But unwelcome surprises awaited her and her flustered escort when they motored up the river to spend the night at her husband’s riverside hotel where Jocelyn plotted to confront her husband with the evidence necessary for the divorce.

    JG Devlin and Jack MacGowran contributed character sketches as two old eccentric retainers at the hotel.

    Unfortunately, the complicated carry-ons at the Boatel were hard to follow – there were eight characters, interconnected by the wildest coincidences explained mainly in gabbled dialogue.

    Jocelyn Willow
    Millicent Martin
    Oliver Strickland
    Roy Kinnear
    David Potter
    Brian Murray
    Ewin Parry
    Nigel Stock
    Herbert Reynolds
    Jack MacGowran
    Walter Reynolds (Barman)
    JG Devlin
    Receptionist
    Phillip Locke
    Mrs Reynolds
    Eleanor Darling

    Writers
    Keith Waterhouse
    Willis Hall
    Director
    David Greene


    The Close Prisoner

    Henry Hutchins (Bernard Cribbins) was told at the age of 14 that his chest and back were literally turning to steel. But nobody is really interested in his steel torso.

    In the television studio where his life story is being told, the director (Michael Gwynn) and floor manager (Michael Coles) are only interested in artistic merit and commercial acceptability. Where the truth doesn’t quite fit, it has to be massaged a bit.

    Henry’s parents (Dandy Nichols and Norman Bird) like it to be “nice”. “This is nicer,” they cry, ignoring Henry’s pleas as he chokes to death on the studio floor to watch a “hearts and flowers” version of his death bed scene, which has been specially pre-filmed.

    Once Henry existed. Now he doesn’t. Between his birth and death is just a space – a series of episodes which people can adjust to suit their own point of view.

    Sheila Steafel deserves mention as Henry’s wife, Ethel, for a bedroom scene in which she has few lines but speaks volumes with a mere change of expression. Bernard Cribbins was fitted into a special plaster cast at Elstree for the play.

    Henry Hutchins
    Bernard Cribbins
    Director
    Michel Gwynn
    Floor Manager
    Michael Coles
    Father
    Norman Bird
    Mother
    Dandy Nichols
    Ethel Hutchins
    Sheila Steafel
    Dr Selinex
    Oliver Johnson
    Doctor
    Ray Marlow
    Medical Student
    Nicholas Edmett
    Landlord
    John Sharp
    Henry (aged 14)
    Nicholas Clay
    Henry (aged 8)
    Nigel Clay

    Writer
    Clive Exton
    Director
    William (Ted) Kotcheff

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