| Genre: | Children's television, science fiction |
| Producer: | Bill Bain |
| Director: | Bill Bain |
| Starring: | William Dexter, Janina Faye |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Company: | ABC Weekend TV |
| Network: | ITV |
| Runtime: | 30 minutes |
| Num Episodes: | 7 |
Emerald Soup was a 1963 British children's science fiction television series directed by Bill Bain and produced by ABC Weekend TV for the ITV network.[1] [2] It was written by Martin Woodhouse, with Norman Bogner as script editor. Comprising seven 25-minute episodes, the series aired weekly from Saturday 9 November to Saturday 21 December 1963. Each episode except the final one ended with a scene to be resolved the following week via a quote from William Shakespeare. The final episode ended with the discovery of a gem. The broadcast timing of series conflicted in part with the initial episodes of the BBC series Doctor Who, also broadcast on Saturdays, which started on 23 November 1963.[3]
The series was set in a small rural community, where a group of local children discovers, constructed in the vicinity, a laboratory that is conducting secret radiation tests. The children attempt to stop the tests before any damage to the environment can be done.