Starr and Company
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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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