Compact

Compact is the title of a TV soap opera produced and broadcast by the BBC between 1962 and 1965. the show it was set in the offices of a glossy women's magazine.

Shown twice weekly on BBC One it was designed as competitor to ITV's Coronation Street although was shown on Tuesdays and Thursdays, thus avoiding a clash with its competitor, broadcast on Mondays and Wednesdays. It was first broadcast on 2 January 1962 and the final episode went out on 30 July 1965.

The series was written by Hazel Adair and Peter Ling who would later go on to write the long-running soap opera Crossroads, shown on ITV. Compact starred, among other, Ronald Allen who would go on to play David Hunter in Crossroads.