Starr and Company
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Length
- 77 episodes
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this series is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
Set in a buoy-making firm in a fictional English town, the series follows the daily lives and interactions of the staff. It was a live soap opera broadcast twice a week.
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What happens
Starr and Company is a BBC television drama series aired in 1958. It was a soap opera, aired twice a week, Monday and Thursday. 77 episodes were made, of which only a single episode (episode 1) is known to survive. The series was set in a buoy-making firm established by retired naval engineer Joseph Starr in the fictional town of Sullbridge in South East England. Most of the cast were not known before or after, but there were several well-known players – Graham Crowden; Edna Doré; Edward Evans; Stratford Johns; Renny Lister; Warren Mitchell; Guy Kingsley Poynter; Arnold Ridley – either already established or who later became well-known. The programme was broadcast live. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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