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 (47)
1. Off the Deep End
Aired 8 September 1957 • 60 min
2. Now Let Him Go
Aired 15 September 1957 • 60 min
A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.
3. Ghosts
Aired 22 September 1957 • 60 min
A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.
4. Policy for Love
Aired 29 September 1957 • 60 min
5. The Pier
Aired 6 October 1957 • 60 min
6. Inch from the Heart
Aired 13 October 1957 • 60 min
7. Trial By Candlelight
Aired 20 October 1957 • 60 min
Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.
8. Ann Veronica
Aired 28 October 1957 • 60 min
9. The Last Mile
Aired 3 November 1957 • 60 min
Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.
10. The Great City
Aired 10 November 1957 • 60 min
11. Man in a Moon
Aired 17 November 1957 • 60 min
A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.
12. The Human Touch
Aired 24 November 1957 • 60 min
A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.
13. Sister
Aired 1 December 1957 • 60 min
14. The Mortimer Touch
Aired 8 December 1957 • 60 min
15. The Dividing Line
Aired 15 December 1957
16. Panther 140
Aired 22 December 1957
17. The Shining Hour
Aired 5 January 1960
A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.
18. Man in the Corner
Aired 12 January 1960
19. The Master Builder
Aired 19 January 1960
A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.
20. Tragedy in a Temporary Town
Aired 26 January 1960
21. Night of the Ding-Dong
Aired 2 February 1960
22. The Five Dollar Bill
Aired 9 February 1960
An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.
23. The Lady of Camellias
Aired 16 February 1960
A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.
24. A Gust of Wind
Aired 23 February 1960
25. Murder Story
Aired 2 March 1960
Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.
26. Vendetta
Aired 9 March 1960
27. The One Who Came Back
Aired 16 March 1960
An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?
28. A Man's Woman
Aired 23 March 1960
29. The Emperor Jones
Aired 30 March 1960
Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.
30. Miss Olive
Aired 6 April 1960
31. Wolf Pack
Aired 13 April 1960
32. The Rat Wife
Aired 20 April 1960
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
33. Fifty Fifty
Aired 27 April 1960
34. Breach of Marriage
Aired 4 May 1960
35. Hanging Judge
Aired 11 May 1960
A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.
36. Paid in Full
Aired 18 May 1960
The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.
37. Death of Satan
Aired 25 May 1960
38. The Widower
Aired 1 June 1960
Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.
39. No Flags for Geebang
Aired 8 June 1960
In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.
40. Homecoming
Aired 15 June 1960
Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.
41. Trial by Candlelight
Aired 22 June 1960
In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?
42. The House of Bernarda Alba
Aired 22 June 1960
A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.
43. Wings of the Wind
Aired 29 June 1960
44. Noon on Doomsday
Aired 6 July 1960
After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.
45. The Sins of Simone
Aired 13 July 1960
46. The Woman in Question
Aired 20 July 1960
47. The Travelling Lady
Aired 3 August 1960
Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.