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Studio 4 is an anthology drama series utilising BBC Television Centre's Studio Four, and running for two series in 1962 on BBC One. It was envisaged as a sequel to Storyboard, a similar anthology series which had been transmitted the previous year.
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1962
Despite being decorated with a German Service Cross, Willi Wegler is inwardly sickened by both Hitler's genocidal war and the complicity of his fellow citizens in Third Reich brutalities. Wracked by guilt, he suddenly betrays his country in a profound gesture of protest and self-sacrifice – an act that cannot fail to precipitate a series of dramatic events.
Divorced novelist named George Garner gets drawn into a disappearance case involving an old schoolmate, William Widgery, leading him to amateur sleuthing as his own life and reputation unravel.
A charter flight from Winnipeg to Vancouver goes horribly awry when the pilots and passengers fall victim to food poisoning, forcing an ex-WWII pilot passenger to take control and attempt an emergency landing.
A French magistrate hears a homicide confession described as 'as disarmingly honest as it is disconcertingly gay', revealing the love affair that sparked the crime.
A harried ad man drinks himself into oblivion as he tries to touch base with friends and loved ones by phone.
A mysterious, devilish Scotsman named Dougal Douglas arrives in a South London neighbourhood and disrupts the lives of the local workers at a textile company, causing mayhem, mutiny, and even murder through his 'human research'.
After buying an antique chaise-longue, Melanie experiences a nightmarish body-swap, finding herself in a oppressive Victorian era with a patronising husband and doctor, unable to convince anyone she is from the future.
Mary Turner is a white woman whose life unravels on a farm, leading to a destructive relationship with her Black servant, Moses, culminating in violence and a critique of the social and racial dynamics.
A tale of political intrigue following failures of British jet fighters in the service of a foreign power.
A shy, awkward law student dreams of becoming a famous diplomat.
1962
Revered Polish-Jewish educator, pediatrician, and writer Janusz Korczak chose to die with nearly 200 orphans from his Warsaw Ghetto orphanage, leading them calmly to the Treblinka extermination camp in August 1942 rather than abandoning them.
Olivia Curtis, a woman in a failing marriage, begins a passionate, illicit affair with her childhood crush, Rollo Spencer, after they reconnect on a trai
Wnen the nude body of a beautiful girl washes up on the beach of an exclusive Spanish resort on the Costa Brava, it is discovered one morning by a group of children from the summer colony. The unknown victim soon haunts the imagination of the community; the sheltered but undisciplined children have encountered for the first time the naked facts of life while the townspeople and fishermen seek desperately to convince themselves that this is just another shameful crime perpetrated against their Spain by the depraved foreign vacationers in the tent camp on the outskirts of the colony.
A powerful story told via letters between a Jewish art dealer in San Francisco and his former business partner who returns to Germany as the Nazis rise to power.
As a diverse group of passengers on the Orient Express journey from Ostend to Istanbul, their lives intertwine. Among them are chorus girl Coral Musker, businessman Carleton Myatt, and revolutionary Dr. John, exploring themes of identity, politics, and human connection through a suspenseful thriller.
The rise and fall of the Diggers, a radical religious group during the English Civil War, focusing on their leader Gerrard Winstanley and the challenges of their communal living and ideals.
