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Armchair Theatre

Season 8 · 24 episodes · Sep 1, 1963

  1. Episode 1

    A Kind of Kingdom

    Sep 1, 1963

  2. Episode 2

    The Front Room

    Sep 15, 1963

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

  3. Episode 3

    Mr. Big

    Sep 29, 1963

    Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.

  4. Episode 4

    Little Doris

    Oct 13, 1963

  5. Episode 5

    The Chocolate Tree

    Oct 27, 1963

    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.

  6. Episode 6

    Long Past Glory

    Nov 17, 1963

    Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.

  7. Episode 7

    The Higher They Fly

    Dec 1, 1963

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

  8. Episode 8

    The Swindler

    Dec 15, 1963

    Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.

  9. Episode 9

    A Way of Living

    Dec 29, 1963

  10. Episode 10

    Sharp at Four

    Jan 12, 1964

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

  11. Episode 11

    Last Word on Julie

    Jan 26, 1964

    Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.

  12. Episode 12

    The Pretty English Girls

    Feb 16, 1964

  13. Episode 13

    Realm of Error

    Mar 1, 1964

  14. Episode 14

    Always Ask for the Best

    Mar 15, 1964

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

  15. Episode 15

    Mug's Game

    Mar 29, 1964

  16. Episode 16

    Prisoner and Escort

    Apr 5, 1964

  17. Episode 17

    Cradle Song

    Apr 12, 1964

  18. Episode 18

    A Nice Little Business

    Apr 26, 1964

  19. Episode 19

    Pleasure Where She Finds It

    May 3, 1964

  20. Episode 20

    A Jug of Bread

    May 17, 1964

  21. Episode 21

    St. Ernie Leatherbound

    May 24, 1964

    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.

  22. Episode 22

    That's Where the Town's Going

    Jun 7, 1964

  23. Episode 23

    Exit Joe - Running

    Jun 14, 1964

  24. Episode 24

    A Certain Kind of Silence

    Jun 28, 1964