Starr and Company

Starr and Company was 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.

In those times, all programmes were live with no telerecorded repeats – any repeat was another live programme, sometimes with changes of cast.

Episodes
