Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre

1956 18 Seasons 444 Episodes ⭐ 6.0 Drama

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.

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.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

The Outsider

EP 2

The Handshake / Bid for Fame

EP 3

Tears in the Wind

EP 4

Flash Point

EP 5

Black Limelight

EP 6

The Hollow Crown

EP 7

It's an Ill Wind

EP 8

The Mother

After a five month trudge through Poland the Kosky family have reached an Austrian labour camp. Their hopes to emigrate

EP 9

The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

EP 10

The Common Man

EP 11

The Right Thing

When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?

EP 12

The Face of a Stranger

EP 13

The Same Sky

The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with

EP 14

Three O'Clock Deadline

EP 15

The Great Healer

EP 16

Miss Julie

Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but i

EP 17

Ring Out the Old

EP 18

Michael and Mary

EP 19

The Necklace

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs.

EP 20

The Last Flight

EP 21

Quay South

EP 22

If This Be Treason

EP 23

The King of Iceland

There are odd goings-on in the Turkish baths. Is the distinguished stranger among the Colonel Blimps really the "King of

EP 24

The Witness

EP 25

This Was a Woman

Olivia Russell is outwardly a devoted wife and mother, the kind mistress of a happy home, and a sympathetic friend. But

EP 26

The Cask of Amontillado

Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the

EP 27

Catch a Falling Star

What future is there for a forgotten star of the New York theatre?

EP 28

Hilda Morgan

EP 29

The Constant Stranger

EP 30

Autumn

EP 31

The Heiress

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

EP 32

Rappaport Always Pays

EP 33

Possession

EP 34

The Old Ladies

EP 35

Dear Murderer

EP 36

Escape To Happiness

A famous (married) concert pianist falls in love with a young music student.

EP 37

Start from Scratch

EP 38

It Pays to Advertise

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible eno

EP 39

The Whiteheaded Boy

EP 40

While Parents Sleep

EP 41

Bed, Board and Romance

EP 42

The Women Have Their Way

EP 1

Off the Deep End

EP 2

Now Let Him Go

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings

EP 3

Ghosts

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it

EP 4

Policy for Love

EP 5

The Pier

EP 6

Inch from the Heart

EP 7

Trial By Candlelight

Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

EP 8

Ann Veronica

EP 9

The Last Mile

Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

EP 10

The Great City

EP 11

Man in a Moon

A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the mo

EP 12

The Human Touch

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from establis

EP 13

Sister

EP 14

The Mortimer Touch

EP 15

The Dividing Line

EP 16

Panther 140

EP 17

The Shining Hour

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

EP 18

Man in the Corner

EP 19

The Master Builder

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make

EP 20

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

EP 21

Night of the Ding-Dong

EP 22

The Five Dollar Bill

An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

EP 23

The Lady of Camellias

A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

EP 24

A Gust of Wind

EP 25

Murder Story

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

EP 26

Vendetta

EP 27

The One Who Came Back

An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if t

EP 28

A Man's Woman

EP 29

The Emperor Jones

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himsel

EP 30

Miss Olive

EP 31

Wolf Pack

EP 32

The Rat Wife

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc

EP 33

Fifty Fifty

EP 34

Breach of Marriage

EP 35

Hanging Judge

A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

EP 36

Paid in Full

The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his pli

EP 37

Death of Satan

EP 38

The Widower

Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns the

EP 39

No Flags for Geebang

In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

EP 40

Homecoming

Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

EP 41

Trial by Candlelight

In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

EP 42

The House of Bernarda Alba

A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters

EP 43

Wings of the Wind

EP 44

Noon on Doomsday

After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

EP 45

The Sins of Simone

EP 46

The Woman in Question

EP 47

The Travelling Lady

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.

EP 1

The Pillars of Midnight

A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

EP 2

The Web of Lace

EP 3

The Franchise Affair

An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.

EP 4

Murder in Slow Motion

Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four ho

EP 5

I Can Destroy the Sun

Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I

EP 6

Time of Your Life

This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.

EP 7

The Terrorist

EP 8

The Witching Hour

Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But wh

EP 9

The Greatest Man in the World

Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest wit

EP 10

Please Murder Me

A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin. He chooses Miss Higgins, an eccent

EP 11

The Boy with Meat Axe

EP 12

Underground

EP 13

The Report on Jessie Dean

A bereaved mother, Jessie Dean, steals a baby belonging to a mother who had wanted her child adopted.

EP 14

Dangerous World

A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.

EP 15

The Deaf Heart

EP 16

The Criminals

A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's pr

EP 17

The Sentry

An American Civil War drama in which Meade, a Confederate soldier, faces the dilemma of knowing that his brother, who is

EP 18

The Break

EP 19

Soundings

A lonely doctor with a mysterious past shies away from operating on a friendly Scottish giant aboard a storm-tossed Anta

EP 20

Love and Money

The marriage of a woman from a humble background to a rich Northern mill owner and her growing resentment at what she re

EP 21

Hot Summer Night

Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.

EP 22

Ernie Barger Is 50

Ernie Barger, a senior partner in a pottery firm, initially celebrates his son's graduation but soon learns that not onl

EP 23

The Thug

The relationship between Lewis, a young tearaway, and Charlotte, a shy girl who works in a record shop with her sick fat

EP 24

To Ride a Tiger

A cabal in an unnamed South American country pulls a coup by choosing a popular dissident as dictator. His well meant re

EP 25

The Fabulous Money Maker

A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the

EP 26

The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their n

EP 27

No Gun, No Guilt

A courtroom drama in which a young American lawyer is accused of concealing material evidence in a murder case.

EP 28

Strange Meeting

An Italian set suspense drama in which Bruno, a visiting American criminal is introduced to Grazia, an Italian woman who

EP 29

Star in the Summer Night

International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get mar

EP 30

The Angry Flower

EP 31

The Trouble with Benny

EP 32

Parole

The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associat

EP 33

The Shadow of the Ruthless

EP 34

Hand in Glove

EP 35

Till Death Do Us Part

EP 36

The Big Client

A satire set in the advertising industry.

EP 37

The Girl on the Beach

A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.

EP 38

Wedding Day

EP 39

My Guess Would Be Murder

EP 40

The Devil's Instrument

EP 41

The Model Marriage

EP 42

Guest Appearance

EP 43

My Lost Saints

EP 44

If You Loved Me

EP 45

The Grandma Bandit

EP 46

A House of His Own

EP 47

The Garden Party

EP 48

Lysette

EP 49

You'll Never See Me Again

Jim Mason's wife Molly vanishes after purportedly leaving to visit her parents. When Jim calls the in-laws he has never

EP 50

Black Laughter/Double Exit

EP 51

Invitation to Murder

EP 52

Young David

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

EP 1

The Scent of Fear

Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal hi

EP 2

After the Show

Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat

EP 3

Worm in the Bud

EP 4

Light from a Star

EP 5

The Thought of Tomorrow

EP 6

No Trams to Lime Street

EP 7

A Trick of the Sun

EP 8

A Shilling for the Evil Day

EP 9

Small Fish Are Sweet

EP 10

The Last of the Brave

EP 11

Suspicious Mind

EP 12

The Rebel and the Soldier

EP 13

Dr Kabil

EP 14

Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing

EP 15

The Golden Horn

EP 16

The Last Tycoon

EP 17

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

EP 18

Where I Live

EP 19

Misfire

EP 20

Fifth Floor People

EP 21

Cold Fury

EP 22

Night Panic

EP 23

Come in Razor Red

EP 24

Guardian Angel

EP 25

Pink String and Sealing Wax

EP 26

China Doll

EP 27

Some Talk of Alexander

EP 28

The Girl in the Market Square

EP 29

Roman Gesture

EP 30

After the Funeral

EP 31

The Leather Jungle

EP 32

Hold My Hand, Soldier

EP 33

A Night Out

EP 34

A Phone Call for Matthew Quade

EP 35

The Innocent

EP 36

Nest of Four

EP 37

On the Spot

EP 52

Night Stop

Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

EP 53

The Irish Boys

EP 83

A Kind of Kingdom

EP 1

Big Brain Man

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behavi

EP 2

A Heart and a Diamond

EP 3

Lena, O My Lena

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with

EP 4

Pig's Ear with Flowers

EP 5

Thunder on the Snowy

EP 6

The Siege at Killyfaddy

EP 7

I'll Have You to Remember

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

EP 8

My Representative

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a success

EP 9

The Cake Baker

EP 10

Hail the Conquering Hero

EP 11

The Stranger

EP 12

Mr Nobody

EP 13

Clip Joint People

EP 14

The Cupboard

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police ar

EP 15

Rain

A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

EP 16

The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

EP 17

A Head Full of Crocodiles

EP 18

Till the Day I Die

EP 19

The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

EP 20

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to al

EP 21

Honeymoon Postponed

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his pa

EP 22

A Degree of Murder

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

EP 23

Strangers in the Room

EP 24

The Money Makers

EP 25

Tune on an Apron-String

EP 26

The Big Deal

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton

EP 27

The Man Out There

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie,

EP 28

The Conscientious Gauger

EP 29

The Way of Love

EP 30

The Hero

EP 31

Danger! Men Working

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases

EP 32

No Licence for Singing

EP 33

Flying High

EP 34

Man on a Mountain Top

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

EP 35

Duel for Love

EP 36

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

EP 37

The Truth About Helen

EP 38

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society

EP 39

The Typists

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

EP 40

The Night of the Apes

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to

EP 1

The Omega Mystery

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

EP 2

Looking For Frankie

EP 3

The Rose Affair

A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.

EP 4

His Polyvinyl Girl

A department store closes for the night and instead of going home, the staff realize a musical fantasy amongst the store

EP 5

Roll On Bloomin' Death

Its near the end of World War 2, and a young green officer takes over a war weary platoon, he is ordered to take some of

EP 6

The Trouble With Our Ivy

A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper

EP 7

Murder Club

In the year 2110, Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting.

EP 8

Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put press

EP 9

The Rank and File

An observation on corruption in a US Trade Union.Follows the life of factory worker Bill Kilcoyne from the depressed 193

EP 10

Night Conspirators

An elderly man is rescued from Iceland. Why would an elderly man need to escape from Iceland? Unless of course its Adolf

EP 11

Girl In A Birdcage

EP 12

Night Stop

Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

EP 13

The Irish Boys

EP 14

Dumb Martian

On Mars, Withers a gruff, bigoted pioneer buys himself a Martian wife for company. Like all her race, Lellie cannot spea

EP 15

The Hard Knock

A short tempered Irishman returns home after his brother was hanged for murder during a robbery. Though at first determi

EP 16

North City Traffic Straight Ahead

EP 17

The Fishing Match

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her sto

EP 1

Nothing To Pay

Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.

EP 2

The Sin Shifter

Fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by

EP 3

Afternoon of a Nymph

An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the

EP 4

Dead Letter

Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

EP 5

Always Something Hot

EP 6

Thank You and Goodnight

A rather intellectual young woman who has just broken off an affair with a married man meets a rather uncouth pop singer

EP 7

The Big Ride

EP 8

Joker

EP 9

Hear The Tiger, See The Bay

EP 10

Blue and White

EP 11

The Hot Potato Boys

EP 12

Into The Dark

EP 13

The Paradise Suite

After a London premiere, a psychologically troubled Hollywood starlet in a luxury hotel suite meets several men, includi

EP 14

The Cruel Kind

Arnold, a soldier who has deserted after a traumatic event on the Berlin Wall, is drowning his sorrows in a pub. A Spani

EP 15

The Invasion

Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by ali

EP 16

Power and Glory

EP 17

Wagger

EP 18

Jungle Juice

EP 19

The Wednesday Caller

EP 20

The Monkey and the Mohawk

EP 21

The Pushover

EP 22

Late Summer

Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the

EP 23

A Little Night Music

EP 24

The Snag

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic centre, only Emma Mannering's corset shoppe stands in the way, and she

EP 25

Living Image

A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down, when his son, a young radical and his associ

EP 1

A Kind of Kingdom

EP 2

The Front Room

A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.

EP 3

Mr. Big

Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, wh

EP 4

Little Doris

EP 5

The Chocolate Tree

As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into

EP 6

Long Past Glory

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano an

EP 7

The Higher They Fly

Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and

EP 8

The Swindler

Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders

EP 9

A Way of Living

EP 10

Sharp at Four

Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.

EP 11

Last Word on Julie

Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disast

EP 12

The Pretty English Girls

EP 13

Realm of Error

EP 14

Always Ask for the Best

An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

EP 15

Mug's Game

EP 16

Prisoner and Escort

EP 17

Cradle Song

EP 18

A Nice Little Business

EP 19

Pleasure Where She Finds It

EP 20

A Jug of Bread

EP 21

St. Ernie Leatherbound

A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in h

EP 22

That's Where the Town's Going

EP 23

Exit Joe - Running

EP 24

A Certain Kind of Silence

EP 1

The Trial of Doctor Fancy

A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operation

EP 2

The Cherry on the Top

University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior offi

EP 3

Something To Declare

EP 4

Old Soldiers

EP 5

They Throw It At You

EP 6

The Importance of Being Ernest

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

EP 7

The Girl in the Picture

EP 8

Sally

Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked h

EP 9

The Hothouse

Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a de

EP 10

I've Got a System

EP 11

The Gaming Book

As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds

EP 12

Putty Metal

EP 13

The Lady with the Albatross

EP 14

The Vanishing Trick

EP 15

Keys of the Cafe

The romantic entanglements of a hairdresser, a driving instructor and a wife.

EP 16

I Took My Little World Away

Mandy is in a dark place on the brink of suicide, can Geoffrey persuade her otherwise?.

EP 17

A Fearful Thing

EP 18

A Voice in the Sky

After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world de

EP 19

I Loved You Last Summer

A spoof on Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' as three Irish labourers take on Birmingham.

EP 20

The Man Who Came to Die

Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body

EP 21

The Incident

EP 1

The Paraffin Season

EP 2

The Gong Game

Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big

EP 3

A Cold Peace

EP 4

The Sweet War Man

EP 5

Ready for the Glory

A marriage bureau pairs a three times married, alcoholic titled lady with an able seaman from the navy. On visiting her

EP 6

Neighbours

The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their ap

EP 7

The Pity of it All

Young miner's widow Nancy Harper works in a sweet shop to support her little daughter, who is killed when accidentally s

EP 8

Man Without a Mortgage

EP 9

The Battersea Miracle

Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. One day a flea speaks to him and per

EP 10

The Night Before the Morning After

The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping

EP 11

Don't Utter a Note

Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possessi

EP 12

Daughter of the House

EP 13

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

EP 14

The Match

EP 15

Pretty Polly

A girl's Cinderella existence crashes to an abrupt end when her wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.

EP 16

The Wager

During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.

EP 17

The One-Eyed Monster

EP 18

Great Big Blonde

A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.

EP 19

A Fair Swap

Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.

EP 20

The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson

Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed ab

EP 21

The Noise Stopped

A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing of

EP 22

Dead Silence

A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.

EP 23

Barrett Keller: His Mark

EP 24

Light the Blue Touch Paper

June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference

EP 25

The Tilted Screen

The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than

EP 26

The Three Barrelled Shotgun

A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.

EP 27

The Long Nightmare

A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.

EP 1

The Floating Population

Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.

EP 2

A Magnum for Schneider

The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lo

EP 3

What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

Pompous film director David endures a boring existence with his wife Hilary, a children's-book author--and has a glamoro

EP 4

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.

EP 5

Easier in the Dark

EP 6

Reason For Sale

Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts

EP 7

The Happy Sacking

EP 8

The Exploding Azalea

EP 9

Any Number Can Play

Set in a future where the three-day working week is the norm, the play asks what human qualities will the games people p

EP 10

A World of Time

A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to

EP 11

Call Me Daddy

A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She ex

EP 12

I Am Osango

EP 13

Will You Come a Little Closer

A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing

EP 14

England My England

Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end

EP 15

In The Name of the Law

The safe with the takings from an all-night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains until some policemen and a gu

EP 16

Depart in Terror

An electronics expert takes revenge on his wife's lover.

EP 17

The Snares of Death

When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the book

EP 18

Compensation Alice

Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once wa

EP 19

A Slight Formality

EP 20

Quite an Ordinary Knife

EP 21

Another Branch of the Family

A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.

EP 22

Love Life

EP 23

The Education of Corporal Halliday

EP 24

Nursery Tale

EP 25

Marriage and Henry Sunday

Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agenc

EP 26

The Girl

The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child.

EP 27

Split Level

EP 28

Poor Cherry

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglement

EP 29

Don't Forget the Basics

EP 30

The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

EP 1

Mrs. Capper's Birthday

It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestur

EP 2

The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney

Honeybone is an engineer and is contacted by Killick to be told that he is a test for a possible mole in the department

EP 3

The Scallop Shell

EP 4

A Second Look

EP 5

The Contract

EP 6

A Very Fine Line

A man admits to the police a murder in London's busy Soho district, but cannot remember where he left the body.

EP 7

Unscheduled Stop

A highly-influential religious celebrity's public image is in danger of shattering when a plane must make an unexpected

EP 8

Recount

A housewife finds herself pregnant again just as she is due to attend her daughter's marriage. She recalls her politicia

EP 9

No Easy Walk

Adjusting to a new life in South Africa is no easy walk for Adrian.

EP 10

The Escape Club

EP 11

Home Movies

EP 12

You and Me

EP 13

The Glove Puppet

EP 14

The Three Wives of Felix Hull

Felix visits a health farm with his third wife, only to discover that his second wife, his daughter by his first marriag

EP 15

One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton

EP 16

The Ballad of the Artificial Mash

EP 1

The Frobisher Game

While the owners of a country house are away, the servants play a game of impersonating their employers.

EP 2

A Foot in the Door

David's mother thinks he would make a good salesman, but he looses his nerve every time he meets a new customer.

EP 3

What's a Mother For?

Angela, whose husband is abroad, wakes to find she has been sharing a bed with a strange man....and he's dead.

EP 4

The Manderins

Stanley Marsden is putting himself forward for a top job in the Civil Service, however he is only a grammar school boy,

EP 5

Go On - It'll Do You Good

Ledbetter works for 'The Ministry of Social Welfare' he is very enthusiastic about getting old people to use the many fa

EP 6

The Good Son

Eddie the son that made good in Canada, returns on a trip to see his London Mum, he has been quite happy to contribute t

EP 7

The Brophy Story

EP 8

Edward the Confessor

Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the l

EP 9

The Story-Teller

Brian a young man, gatecrashes a lively party and intrigues some of the guests with his sombre stories which involves th

EP 10

On Vacation

A New York businessman and his wife on a much holiday needed in Miami find the staff are treating him as if it's his ver

EP 1

Up Among the Cuckoos

A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apar

EP 2

The Others

Robert and Claire are troubled that their home is also housing somebody else they don't know.

EP 3

The World in a Room

Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.

EP 4

The End of the Line

On the Edinburgh to London night train, two strangers in an otherwise empty carriage start to reveal some shocking facts

EP 5

A Young Man in Trouble

What seems to be a major problem turns out to be a false alarm.

EP 6

The Prime Minister's Daughter

The Prime Minister's career starts to suffer from his daughter's antics and peccadilloes ..but he loves her.

EP 7

A Room in Town

Essentially a piece about wife and husband swapping, partially used for revenge.

EP 8

Warm Feet, Warm Heart

Cockney Albert must choose between two women..one who empties his wallet regularly and another who is a cook and feeds h

EP 9

The Second Interview

A man who has become a slave to buying luxuries tells his wife that he is being interviewed for a higher-paid position a

EP 10

The Company Man

Agnes realizes 'the other woman' in her and Bob's family life is the company he works for. 'The Company' demands total p

EP 11

Poor Mother

Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she disc

EP 12

Mrs Davenport

With the help of her sister and daughter, Mrs Davenport lures her husband's lover to her country house. However the girl

EP 13

Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

A dangerous game of oneupmanship develops between three women - a wife, her mother, and her mother-in-law - when they ga

EP 14

The Dolly Scene

Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young

EP 15

Wednesday's Child

After his wife miscarries, a doctor hires on a private live-in nurse to look after her. As their marriage becomes more s

EP 16

Still Life

A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands

EP 1

Ireland, Mother Ireland

A play that examines the casualties in a war, such as truth, loyalty, and death.

EP 2

The Bargain Hunters

A couple buying a cheap painting begin to think that it maybe unique and valuable.

EP 3

Office Party

Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an ex

EP 4

The Loving Lessons

Mary's husband works away on nights- after returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.

EP 5

Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee

In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to

EP 6

Detective Waiting

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realiz

EP 7

The Girl on the M1

A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.

EP 8

Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

EP 9

Competition

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of whi

EP 10

Man Charged

A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector Peter Hill.

EP 11

Father's Help

A father who ditched his family life to be free and single again finds some unexpected guests left on his doorstep by hi

EP 1

The Left Overs

A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a

EP 2

Whatever Became of Me

Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?

EP 3

A Touch of the Victorians

An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal

EP 4

High Summer

The peace of an aristocratic cricketing weekend at a large English country mansion in the early 20th century is disturbe

EP 5

Franklin's Farm

A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.

EP 6

A Fluid Arrangement

Ernie decides to pack up and go to sea, however he had not taken into account the repercussions that would be felt by th

EP 7

On Call

Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.

EP 8

The Creditors

Gustave meets a man called Adolph, who tries to show him that Gustave's fiancee doesn't love him.

EP 9

The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, concerns are raised about Colonel Keyser and his reputed psychopathic person

EP 10

Anywhere But England, Old Boy

Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local polit

EP 11

The Folk Singer

A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles as the authorities dem

EP 12

The Stumbling Block

Alfred decides his business must keep up and move on with the times, but discovers that the biggest obstacle to change i

EP 1

The Death of Glory

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching

EP 2

Beyond Our Means

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent

EP 3

A Bit of a Lift

A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

EP 4

Brussel Sprouts-Boy Scouts

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at a

EP 5

Red Riding Hood

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relati

EP 6

The Square of Three

An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medic

EP 7

Verite

An affluent, happy and conventionally married couple have their preconceptions about life questioned by their guest (an

EP 8

The Golden Road

A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.

EP 9

Russian Roulette

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form

EP 10

That Sinking Feeling

At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he obser

EP 1

If You Could See What I Can See

Middle-aged Trevor has been estranged from his young wife and son, but when they meet again there are potential problems

EP 2

Amy, Wonderful Amy

Barbara lives in her own dream world and imagines becoming a pilot like her heroine Amy Johnson.

EP 3

The Virgins

Three Irish bachelors value their celibacy and try to resist the temptations of the flesh, which usually involves some h

EP 4

According to the Rules

When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful po

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