About this season
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.
Episodes (30)
1. The Floating Population
Aired 28 January 1967 • 60 min
Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.
2. A Magnum for Schneider
Aired 4 February 1967 • 60 min
The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.
3. What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty
Aired 11 February 1967 • 60 min
Pompous film director David endures a boring existence with his wife Hilary, a children's-book author--and has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline, she decides to befriend her, then update him.
4. Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width
Aired 18 February 1967 • 60 min
Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.
5. Easier in the Dark
Aired 25 February 1967 • 60 min
6. Reason For Sale
Aired 4 March 1967 • 60 min
Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.
7. The Happy Sacking
Aired 11 March 1967 • 60 min
8. The Exploding Azalea
Aired 18 March 1967 • 60 min
9. Any Number Can Play
Aired 25 March 1967 • 60 min
Set in a future where the three-day working week is the norm, the play asks what human qualities will the games people play bring out--love or hate?
10. A World of Time
Aired 1 April 1967 • 60 min
A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to steal her husband.
11. Call Me Daddy
Aired 8 April 1967 • 60 min
A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.
12. I Am Osango
Aired 15 April 1967 • 60 min
13. Will You Come a Little Closer
Aired 22 April 1967
A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing had prepared her for meeting the likes of John Dolby. Later remade for the Shadows of Fear series.
14. England My England
Aired 29 April 1967
Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end of the day her marriage is in trouble.
15. In The Name of the Law
Aired 6 May 1967
The safe with the takings from an all-night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains until some policemen and a gun become involved.
16. Depart in Terror
Aired 13 May 1967
An electronics expert takes revenge on his wife's lover.
17. The Snares of Death
Aired 20 May 1967
When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.
18. Compensation Alice
Aired 1 July 1967 • 60 min
Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.
19. A Slight Formality
Aired 8 July 1967
20. Quite an Ordinary Knife
Aired 15 July 1967
21. Another Branch of the Family
Aired 22 July 1967
A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.
22. Love Life
Aired 29 July 1967
23. The Education of Corporal Halliday
Aired 5 August 1967
24. Nursery Tale
Aired 12 August 1967
25. Marriage and Henry Sunday
Aired 19 August 1967
Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agency.
26. The Girl
Aired 26 August 1967
The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.
27. Split Level
Aired 2 September 1967
28. Poor Cherry
Aired 9 September 1967
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
29. Don't Forget the Basics
Aired 16 September 1967
30. The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
Aired 23 September 1967