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Armchair Theatre

Season 11 · 30 episodes · Jan 28, 1967

  1. Episode 1

    The Floating Population

    Jan 28, 1967

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

  2. Episode 2

    A Magnum for Schneider

    Feb 4, 1967

    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. Episode 3

    What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

    Feb 11, 1967

    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. Episode 4

    Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

    Feb 18, 1967

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

  5. Episode 5

    Easier in the Dark

    Feb 25, 1967

  6. Episode 6

    Reason For Sale

    Mar 4, 1967

    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. Episode 7

    The Happy Sacking

    Mar 11, 1967

  8. Episode 8

    The Exploding Azalea

    Mar 18, 1967

  9. Episode 9

    Any Number Can Play

    Mar 25, 1967

    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. Episode 10

    A World of Time

    Apr 1, 1967

    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. Episode 11

    Call Me Daddy

    Apr 8, 1967

    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. Episode 12

    I Am Osango

    Apr 15, 1967

  13. Episode 13

    Will You Come a Little Closer

    Apr 22, 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. Episode 14

    England My England

    Apr 29, 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. Episode 15

    In The Name of the Law

    May 6, 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. Episode 16

    Depart in Terror

    May 13, 1967

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

  17. Episode 17

    The Snares of Death

    May 20, 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. Episode 18

    Compensation Alice

    Jul 1, 1967

    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. Episode 19

    A Slight Formality

    Jul 8, 1967

  20. Episode 20

    Quite an Ordinary Knife

    Jul 15, 1967

  21. Episode 21

    Another Branch of the Family

    Jul 22, 1967

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

  22. Episode 22

    Love Life

    Jul 29, 1967

  23. Episode 23

    The Education of Corporal Halliday

    Aug 5, 1967

  24. Episode 24

    Nursery Tale

    Aug 12, 1967

  25. Episode 25

    Marriage and Henry Sunday

    Aug 19, 1967

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

  26. Episode 26

    The Girl

    Aug 26, 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. Episode 27

    Split Level

    Sep 2, 1967

  28. Episode 28

    Poor Cherry

    Sep 9, 1967

    A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

  29. Episode 29

    Don't Forget the Basics

    Sep 16, 1967

  30. Episode 30

    The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

    Sep 23, 1967