Emerald Soup is a British children's science fiction television series

Science fiction on television

Science fiction first appeared on a television program during the Golden Age of Science Fiction. Special effects and other production techniques allow creators to present a living visual image of an imaginary world not limited by the constraints of reality; this makes television an excellent medium...

. Produced by ITV

ITV

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, the series ran for seven episodes from November 9, 1963 to December 21, 1963 on the Associated British Corporation

Associated British Corporation

Associated British Corporation was one of a number of commercial television companies established in the United Kingdom during the 1950s by cinema chain companies in an attempt to safeguard their business by becoming involved with television which was taking away their cinema audiences.In this...

 network. Each episode was 25 minutes in length.

Synopsis

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

Cast

• Jessica Maxwell - Jessica Spencer
• John Maxwell - William Dexter
• Jo Maxwell - Janina Faye
  Janina Faye
  Janina Faye, born Janina Smigelski in London, England, United Kingdom, is an English actress and director. She began her career as an actress in 1956 and includes theatre and television work in addition to many film appearances. In 1971, she appeared in an episode of Doctor at Large...
  
  
• Gally Lloyd - Karl Lanchbury
• Tim Maxwell - Gregory Phillips
• Penny Dalton - Annette Andre
  Annette Andre
  Annette Andre is an Australian actress best known for her work on British television throughout the 1960s and 1970s. She was educated at Brigidine College, Sydney. Her father was an upholsterer....
  
  
• Poynter - Michael Bangerter
• Mrs Evans - Ethel Gabriel
• Gaunt - Allan McClelland
• Lee - Frederic Abbott
• Pascoe - Blake Butler
  Blake Butler
  Blake Butler was a British actor best known for his regular role as Mr. Wainright during the first three series of Last of the Summer Wine between 1973 and 1976...
  
  

Crew

• Bill Bain
  Bill Bain (director)
  Bill Bain was an Australian television and film director. He directed numerous episodes of British television series, including Emerald Soup, The Avengers, Redcap, and Armchair Theatre. He won an Emmy Award in 1975 for Outstanding Directing in a Drama Series for his work on the Upstairs,...
  
   - Producer/Director
• Martin Woodhouse
  Martin Woodhouse
  Martin Charlton Woodhouse was a British author and scriptwriter. He is most famous as a writer for the TV series The Avengers, but he also authored or co-authored eleven novels...
  
   - Scriptwriter
• Norman Bogner
  Norman Bogner
  Norman Bogner is a New York Times Bestselling- author whose range of work has included several novels such as Seventh Avenue, The Deadliest Art, To Die in Provence and The Madonna Complex, as well as stage plays, and movie and television scripts...
  
  - Script Editor

External links

• Emerald Soup at the BFI Film and TV Database