The Human Jungle (TV series)

The Human Jungle is a British TV series about a psychiatrist, made for ABC Weekend TV by Independent Artists.

Starring Herbert Lom as Dr Roger Corder and Sally Smith as his daughter Jennifer, it comprised 26 50-minute episodes and ran for two series 1963–1965.

Outline
Most episodes focused on one patient, whose psychological ailment Dr Corder would treat using a humane yet idiosyncratic approach that mixed Freudian psychoanalysis with the contemporary methods associated with the then-fashionable theories of R. D. Laing. Several psychiatric techniques, such as word association, group work, role-play and hypnotherapy, were featured in the series. Frequently, Corder's initial patient in a story would turn out not to be the character with the pressing mental health issue.

Because of the constraints of a 50-minute television episode, it was often suggested that Corder would continue to see his patients after the denouement.

Main

 * Herbert Lom as Dr Roger Corder M.D., D.P.M.
 * Michael Johnson as Dr Jimmy Davis
 * Sally Smith as Corder's daughter, Jennifer
 * Mary Yeomans as secretary, Nancy Hamilton
 * Mary Steele as personal assistant, Jane Harris

Guests

 * Joan Collins
 * Margaret Lockwood
 * Flora Robson as Headmistress (1 episode)
 * Roger Livesey
 * Rita Tushingham as Joy South (1 episode)
 * André Morell
 * Ronald Leigh-Hunt
 * Lloyd Lamble
 * Keith Pyott
 * Geoffrey Palmer
 * Edward Evans
 * Hamilton Dyce as Jonathan Burn
 * Jess Conrad as Danny Pace (1 episode)
 * Michael Ripper
 * Derek Farr
 * Jenny Laird
 * Andrée Melly
 * Walter Hudd
 * Harry Fowler
 * Janina Faye
 * George A. Cooper
 * Cyril Chamberlain
 * Leonard Sachs
 * Ursula Howells
 * Frank Jarvis
 * Larry Martyn
 * Robin Hawdon
 * Stacy Davies
 * June Murphy
 * Alfred Burke
 * Richard Leech
 * Cavan Kendall
 * John Harvey
 * Steven Scott
 * Avice Landon
 * André Morell
 * Justine Lord
 * William Marlowe
 * Peter Bathurst
 * Bernard Davies
 * Jane Merrow
 * Philip Gilbert
 * Jeremy Spenser
 * Catherine Feller
 * Blake Butler
 * Arnold Diamond
 * Rosamund Greenwood
 * Hana Maria Pravda
 * Jeanne Moody
 * Frank Lawton
 * John Glyn-Jones
 * Rosalie Crutchley
 * Robin Hughes
 * Melvyn Hayes
 * Gerald James
 * Fabia Drake
 * Warren Mitchell
 * John Arnatt
 * Douglas Blackwell
 * Mitzi Rogers
 * Susan Burnet
 * Pauline Yates
 * Frederick Piper
 * Beatrice Varley
 * William Kendall
 * Roger Delgado
 * Glynn Edwards
 * Ian Bannen
 * Eddie Byrne
 * Zena Marshall
 * June Barry
 * John Boxer
 * Simon Lack
 * Gerald Andersen
 * Joan Collins
 * Clifford Evans
 * Derek Godfrey
 * Margaret Whiting
 * Edward Judd
 * Sylvia Syms
 * Harold Goldblatt
 * Jack Smethurst
 * Philip Latham
 * Ruth Trouncer
 * Wanda Ventham
 * Johnny Sekka
 * Dolores Mantez
 * Inigo Jackson
 * Donald Morley
 * Frank Coda
 * Mark Lester
 * Margaret Lockwood
 * James Villiers
 * Rona Anderson
 * Terence Brook
 * Malcolm Tierney
 * Dudley Sutton
 * Bernard Lee
 * Francis Matthews
 * Walter Gotell
 * Jimmy Gardner
 * Peter Diamond
 * Flora Robson
 * Megs Jenkins
 * Ronald Hines
 * Adrienne Posta
 * Richard Johnson
 * Robert Beatty
 * Andrew Keir
 * David McAlister
 * Moray Watson
 * Rita Tushingham
 * Barbara Shelley
 * Alan Dobie
 * Patrick O'Connell
 * Griffith Davies
 * Peggy Cummins
 * Dennis Price
 * Annette Andre
 * Rona Anderson
 * Yvonne Antrobus
 * Roger Livesey
 * Ann Firbank
 * Allan Cuthbertson
 * Russell Waters
 * Donald Pickering
 * Francesca Annis
 * Vladek Sheybal
 * Faith Brook
 * Gary Watson
 * Aimée Delamain as Mrs. Oliver
 * Tony Steedman
 * Lloyd Reckord as Dock Worker
 * Tony Tanner as Troublemaker
 * Avis Bunnage
 * Barbara Ferris
 * Rona Anderson
 * Susan George as Gina McCutcheon (1 episode)
 * Gerald Harper
 * Ray McAnally
 * John Junkin
 * Donald Eccles
 * Tenniel Evans
 * Arnold Ridley

Production
The series was created by Ronald J. Kahn, credited on screen as "assistant to the producers", and produced by Julian Wintle and Leslie Parkyn.

The theme music was composed by Bernard Ebbinghouse, and arranged and recorded by John Barry and his Orchestra.

Several high-profile guest stars appeared in his surgery or as hospital patients, including Joan Collins, Margaret Lockwood, Flora Robson, Roger Livesey, Rita Tushingham and André Morell.

The first series was filmed at Beaconsfield Studios, which closed down shortly after production ended; the second series was shot at the Associated British Studios in Elstree owned by ABC's parent company Associated British Picture Corporation.

The script editor was John Kruse. The advisor on psychiatric content was Dr Hugh L. Freeman, on behalf of the National Association for Mental Health (now Mind).

Series one
Air date is for ABC Weekend TV. ITV regions varied date and order. Episode order is given as per the Network DVD release.

Series two
Air date is for Associated-Rediffusion. ITV regions varied date and order. ABC Weekend Television was broadcast two days later. Order as for the Network DVD release.

DVD
The complete series was released in November 2012 as a 7 DVD (Region 2) boxset with accompanying series guide by Andrew Pixley.