The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Weekend Television by the small production company Independent Artists and screened by the ITV

ITV

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 Network. It ran for two series between 1963 and 1964 on ABC, (the second series was broadcast in 1965 in some regions such as Granada Television

Granada Television

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) and starred Herbert Lom

Herbert Lom

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 as Dr Roger Corder M.D., D.P.M, who saw patients in his own Harley Street

Harley Street

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 practice and at the local (fictional) St Damian's hospital. He was supported by the more junior Dr Jimmy Davis (Michael Johnson), and his secretary Nancy Hamilton (Mary Yeomans) and, more occasionally, by his personal assistant Jane Harris (Mary Steele). He shared his home with his headstrong teenage daughter Jennifer (Sally Smith), whose mother, we are told, was killed in a car accident.

The series was created by Julian Wintle, and produced by Wintle and Leslie Parkyn, the theme music was composed by Bernard Ebbinghouse and recorded by John Barry

John Barry (composer)

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 and his Orchestra. The first series was filmed at Beaconsfield studios, which closed down shortly after causing the second series to move production to Elstree Studios

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. The script editor was John Kruse and the advisor on psychiatric content was Dr Hugh L. Freeman on behalf of the National Association for Mental Health.

Each 50-minute episode (26 in total) focused on a specific patient, whose psychological ailment Dr Corder would treat and, invariably, cure, using an idiosyncratic approach which mixed Freudian

Sigmund Freud

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 psychoanalysis

Psychoanalysis

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 with more contemporary methods associated with the likes of the controversial R.D. Laing. A number of high profile guest stars appeared in his surgery, including Joan Collins

Joan Collins

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, Margaret Lockwood, Flora Robson

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, Roger Livesey

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, Rita Tushingham

Rita Tushingham

-Career:Born in Liverpool, Tushingham began her career as a stage actress at the Liverpool Playhouse. Her screen debut was in A Taste of Honey...

 and Alfie Bass

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.

Episode list

Airdates for ABC Weekend Television.

Season 1: (30 March 1963 - 22 June 1963)

• The Vacant Chair
• The Flip-Side Man
• Run With The Devil
• Thin Ice
• The Lost Hours
• Fine Feathers
• A Friend of the Sergeant Major
• Fourteen Ghosts
• The Wall
• A Woman with Scars
• The Two Edged Sword
• Time Check
• Over and Out

Season 2: (29 September 1964 - 21 December 1964)

• Success Machine
• Conscience on a Rack
• Struggle For A Mind
• Solo Performance
• Enemy Outside
• Wild Goose Chase
• Heartbeats in a Tin Box
• Dual Control
• The 24 Hour Man
• Ring of Hate
• Skeleton in the Cupboard
• The Quick and The Dead
• The Man Who Fell Apart