Original title
Armchair Theatre
Released
7/8/1956
Origin country
GB
Status
Ended
Number of seasons
18
Number of episodes
441
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.
Producer: Sydney Newman. Written by David Osborn. Starring: Joanna Dunham, Alan Bates, Sheila Allen. A young single girl finds herself pregnant. The play proved to be controversial and was not transmitted on grounds of decency because the girl showed no remorse about the condition she found herself in.
Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.
A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.
An Italian set suspense drama in which Bruno, a visiting American criminal is introduced to Grazia, an Italian woman whose motives are mysterious by a strange cloaked figure.
Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.
Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.
We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.
Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together. the more their age difference becomes a rift between them.
A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.
Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.
Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and call Dr Clarkson but find his behaviour very strange.
A pilot episode for Callan.
Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.
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