Emerald Soup

{{Short description|1963 British children's sci-fi TV series}}

{{for|the soup dish|Spinach soup}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2020}}

{{Use British English|date=September 2012}}

{{Infobox television

| image = Emerald_Soup_film_frame_(1963).webp

| genre = Children's television, science fiction

| producer = Bill Bain

| writer = Martin Woodhouse{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/jul/05/martin-woodhouse-obituary|title=Martin Woodhouse obituary|first=Steve|last=Holland|date=5 July 2011|website=Theguardian.com}}

| director = Bill Bain

| starring = William Dexter, Janina Faye

| country = United Kingdom

| company = ABC Weekend TV

| network = ITV

| runtime = 30 minutes

| first_aired = {{start date|1963|11|9|df=y}}

| last_aired = {{end date|1963|12|21|df=y}}

| 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.{{Cite web |title=Emerald Soup |url=https://collections-search.bfi.org.uk/web/Details/ChoiceFilmWorks/150797059 |access-date=24 July 2024 |website=British Film Institute Collections Search}}{{cite web |title=CITV 1963 - Programmes - Transdiffusion |url=https://www.transdiffusion.org/2017/06/19/citv-1963 |accessdate=1 January 2019 |website=Transdiffusion.org}}{{Cite web |title=Emerald Soup (1963) :: starring: Janina Faye, Gregory Phillips |url=https://www.rarefilmfinder.com/movie.php?id=46870 |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=www.rarefilmfinder.com}} 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.{{Cite web |last=Marcus |first=Laurence |title=Emerald Soup |url=https://televisionheaven.co.uk/reviews/emerald-soup |access-date=2024-11-02 |website=Television Heaven |language=en}} 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.{{cite book|last=Hewett|first=Richard|title=The Changing Spaces of Television Acting: From Studio Realism to Location Realism in BBC Television Drama|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=lbQ1DwAAQBAJ&pg=PT89|year=2017|publisher=Manchester University Press|isbn=978-1-5261-1553-9|page=89}}