Armchair Theatre

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.

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Creator: Sydney Newman,

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Type: tv

Season: 18

Episode: N/A

Duration: 60 minutes

Release: 1956-07-08

Rating: 5.8

Season 1 - Armchair Theatre

Season 2 - Armchair Theatre

Season 3 - Armchair Theatre
1958-11-30
1959-01-04
1959-01-11
1959-01-18
1959-02-15
1959-03-01
A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.
1959-03-22
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.
1959-04-19
The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associates.
1959-05-31
1959-08-09
1959-09-06

Season 4 - Armchair Theatre
1959-09-13
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.
1959-12-06
1960-01-17
1960-01-31
1960-02-07
1960-03-06
1960-04-24
1960-05-22

Season 5 - Armchair Theatre

Season 6 - Armchair Theatre

Season 7 - Armchair Theatre
1962-10-14
1962-11-25
1962-12-09
1963-04-28
1963-07-07
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.
1963-08-04

Season 8 - Armchair Theatre
1963-09-29
1963-10-13
1963-10-27
As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.
1963-12-15
1964-03-29
1964-04-12
1964-05-24
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.

Season 9 - Armchair Theatre
1964-10-18
1964-12-06
1964-12-13
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.
1965-01-24
1965-04-18
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.

Season 10 - Armchair Theatre

Season 11 - Armchair Theatre
1967-02-04
A pilot episode for Callan.
1967-02-18
Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.
1967-04-15
1967-05-20
When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.
1967-07-29
1967-08-26
1967-09-02
1967-09-09

Season 12 - Armchair Theatre

Season 13 - Armchair Theatre
1969-02-10
1969-02-24
Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the latest murder. However a new guest at his landlady's house is about to give him all attention he seeks.
1969-03-10

Season 14 - Armchair Theatre

Season 15 - Armchair Theatre

Season 16 - Armchair Theatre

Season 17 - Armchair Theatre

Season 18 - Armchair Theatre