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Armchair Theatre

Season 9 · 21 episodes · Sep 13, 1964

  1. Episode 1

    The Trial of Doctor Fancy

    Sep 13, 1964

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

  2. Episode 2

    The Cherry on the Top

    Sep 27, 1964

    University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior office. During an afternoon in a pub she become intrigued by Bill Hemmings, a failed salesman who supplies toppings.

  3. Episode 3

    Something To Declare

    Oct 4, 1964

  4. Episode 4

    Old Soldiers

    Oct 18, 1964

  5. Episode 5

    They Throw It At You

    Oct 25, 1964

  6. Episode 6

    The Importance of Being Ernest

    Nov 15, 1964

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

  7. Episode 7

    The Girl in the Picture

    Nov 29, 1964

  8. Episode 8

    Sally

    Dec 6, 1964

    Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked his mistress to paint his mother he had not taken into account the sisterhood, and discovers his habits and foibles provide extensive conversation and much merriment amongst the women.

  9. Episode 9

    The Hothouse

    Dec 13, 1964

    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.

  10. Episode 10

    I've Got a System

    Jan 3, 1965

  11. Episode 11

    The Gaming Book

    Jan 10, 1965

    As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds himself out of his depth and humiliated.

  12. Episode 12

    Putty Metal

    Jan 24, 1965

  13. Episode 13

    The Lady with the Albatross

    Feb 14, 1965

  14. Episode 14

    The Vanishing Trick

    Feb 28, 1965

  15. Episode 15

    Keys of the Cafe

    Mar 7, 1965

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

  16. Episode 16

    I Took My Little World Away

    Mar 14, 1965

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

  17. Episode 17

    A Fearful Thing

    Mar 15, 1965

  18. Episode 18

    A Voice in the Sky

    Mar 21, 1965

    After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world destroyed by a secret organization with nuclear weapons.

  19. Episode 19

    I Loved You Last Summer

    Apr 4, 1965

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

  20. Episode 20

    The Man Who Came to Die

    Apr 18, 1965

    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.

  21. Episode 21

    The Incident

    Apr 25, 1965