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Armchair Theatre

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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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#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Outsider	Jul 8, 1956
2	The Handshake / Bid for Fame	Aug 12, 1956
3	Tears in the Wind	Sep 16, 1956
4	Flash Point	Sep 23, 1956
5	Black Limelight	Sep 30, 1956
6	The Hollow Crown	Oct 7, 1956
7	It's an Ill Wind	Oct 14, 1956
8	The Mother	Oct 28, 1956
9	The Old Lady Shows Her Medals	Nov 4, 1956
10	The Common Man	Nov 11, 1956
11	The Right Thing	Nov 25, 1956
12	The Face of a Stranger	Dec 2, 1956
13	The Same Sky	Dec 9, 1956
14	Three O'Clock Deadline	Dec 16, 1956
15	The Great Healer	Dec 16, 1956
16	Miss Julie	Dec 23, 1956
17	Ring Out the Old	Dec 30, 1956
18	Michael and Mary	Jan 13, 1957
19	The Necklace	Jan 20, 1957
20	The Last Flight	Jan 27, 1957
21	Quay South	Feb 3, 1957
22	If This Be Treason	Feb 10, 1957
23	The King of Iceland	Feb 17, 1957
24	The Witness	Feb 24, 1957
25	This Was a Woman	Mar 10, 1957
26	The Cask of Amontillado	Mar 17, 1957
27	Catch a Falling Star	Mar 24, 1957
28	Hilda Morgan	Apr 7, 1957
29	The Constant Stranger	Apr 14, 1957
30	Autumn	Apr 21, 1957
31	The Heiress	May 5, 1957
32	Rappaport Always Pays	May 12, 1957
33	Possession	May 19, 1957
34	The Old Ladies	May 26, 1957
35	Dear Murderer	Jun 2, 1957
36	Escape To Happiness	Jun 9, 1957
37	Start from Scratch	Jun 16, 1957
38	It Pays to Advertise	Jun 30, 1957
39	The Whiteheaded Boy	Jul 14, 1957
40	While Parents Sleep	Jul 28, 1957
41	Bed, Board and Romance	Aug 11, 1957
42	The Women Have Their Way	Aug 25, 1957

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Off the Deep End	Sep 8, 1957
2	Now Let Him Go	Sep 15, 1957
3	Ghosts	Sep 22, 1957
4	Policy for Love	Sep 29, 1957
5	The Pier	Oct 6, 1957
6	Inch from the Heart	Oct 13, 1957
7	Trial By Candlelight	Oct 20, 1957
8	Ann Veronica	Oct 28, 1957
9	The Last Mile	Nov 3, 1957
10	The Great City	Nov 10, 1957
11	Man in a Moon	Nov 17, 1957
12	The Human Touch	Nov 24, 1957
13	Sister	Dec 1, 1957
14	The Mortimer Touch	Dec 8, 1957
15	The Dividing Line	Dec 15, 1957
16	Panther 140	Dec 22, 1957
17	The Shining Hour	Jan 5, 1960
18	Man in the Corner	Jan 12, 1960
19	The Master Builder	Jan 19, 1960
20	Tragedy in a Temporary Town	Jan 26, 1960
21	Night of the Ding-Dong	Feb 2, 1960
22	The Five Dollar Bill	Feb 9, 1960
23	The Lady of Camellias	Feb 16, 1960
24	A Gust of Wind	Feb 23, 1960
25	Murder Story	Mar 2, 1960
26	Vendetta	Mar 9, 1960
27	The One Who Came Back	Mar 16, 1960
28	A Man's Woman	Mar 23, 1960
29	The Emperor Jones	Mar 30, 1960
30	Miss Olive	Apr 6, 1960
31	Wolf Pack	Apr 13, 1960
32	The Rat Wife	Apr 20, 1960
33	Fifty Fifty	Apr 27, 1960
34	Breach of Marriage	May 4, 1960
35	Hanging Judge	May 11, 1960
36	Paid in Full	May 18, 1960
37	Death of Satan	May 25, 1960
38	The Widower	Jun 1, 1960
39	No Flags for Geebang	Jun 8, 1960
40	Homecoming	Jun 15, 1960
41	Trial by Candlelight	Jun 22, 1960
42	The House of Bernarda Alba	Jun 22, 1960
43	Wings of the Wind	Jun 29, 1960
44	Noon on Doomsday	Jul 6, 1960
45	The Sins of Simone	Jul 13, 1960
46	The Woman in Question	Jul 20, 1960
47	The Travelling Lady	Aug 3, 1960

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Pillars of Midnight	Sep 14, 1958
2	The Web of Lace	Sep 21, 1958
3	The Franchise Affair	Sep 28, 1958
4	Murder in Slow Motion	Oct 5, 1958
5	I Can Destroy the Sun	Oct 12, 1958
6	Time of Your Life	Oct 19, 1958
7	The Terrorist	Oct 26, 1958
8	The Witching Hour	Nov 2, 1958
9	The Greatest Man in the World	Nov 9, 1958
10	Please Murder Me	Nov 16, 1958
11	The Boy with Meat Axe	Nov 23, 1958
12	Underground	Nov 30, 1958
13	The Report on Jessie Dean	Dec 7, 1958
14	Dangerous World	Dec 14, 1958
15	The Deaf Heart	Dec 21, 1958
16	The Criminals	Dec 28, 1958
17	The Sentry	Jan 4, 1959
18	The Break	Jan 11, 1959
19	Soundings	Jan 18, 1959
20	Love and Money	Jan 25, 1959
21	Hot Summer Night	Feb 1, 1959
22	Ernie Barger Is 50	Feb 8, 1959
23	The Thug	Feb 15, 1959
24	To Ride a Tiger	Feb 22, 1959
25	The Fabulous Money Maker	Mar 1, 1959
26	The Bird, the Bear and the Actress	Mar 8, 1959
27	No Gun, No Guilt	Mar 15, 1959
28	Strange Meeting	Mar 22, 1959
29	Star in the Summer Night	Mar 29, 1959
30	The Angry Flower	Apr 5, 1959
31	The Trouble with Benny	Apr 12, 1959
32	Parole	Apr 19, 1959
33	The Shadow of the Ruthless	Apr 26, 1959
34	Hand in Glove	May 3, 1959
35	Till Death Do Us Part	May 10, 1959
36	The Big Client	May 17, 1959
37	The Girl on the Beach	May 24, 1959
38	Wedding Day	May 31, 1959
39	My Guess Would Be Murder	Jun 7, 1959
40	The Devil's Instrument	Jun 14, 1959
41	The Model Marriage	Jun 21, 1959
42	Guest Appearance	Jun 28, 1959
43	My Lost Saints	Jul 5, 1959
44	If You Loved Me	Jul 12, 1959
45	The Grandma Bandit	Jul 19, 1959
46	A House of His Own	Jul 26, 1959
47	The Garden Party	Aug 2, 1959
48	Lysette	Aug 9, 1959
49	You'll Never See Me Again	Aug 16, 1959
50	Black Laughter/Double Exit	Aug 23, 1959
51	Invitation to Murder	Aug 30, 1959
52	Young David	Sep 6, 1959

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Scent of Fear	Sep 13, 1959
2	After the Show	Sep 20, 1959
3	Worm in the Bud	Sep 27, 1959
4	Light from a Star	Oct 4, 1959
5	The Thought of Tomorrow	Oct 11, 1959
6	No Trams to Lime Street	Oct 18, 1959
7	A Trick of the Sun	Oct 25, 1959
8	A Shilling for the Evil Day	Nov 1, 1959
9	Small Fish Are Sweet	Nov 8, 1959
10	The Last of the Brave	Nov 15, 1959
11	Suspicious Mind	Nov 22, 1959
12	The Rebel and the Soldier	Nov 29, 1959
13	Dr Kabil	Dec 6, 1959
14	Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing	Dec 13, 1959
15	The Golden Horn	Dec 20, 1959
16	The Last Tycoon	Dec 27, 1959
17	Lord Arthur Savile's Crime	Jan 3, 1960
18	Where I Live	Jan 10, 1960
19	Misfire	Jan 17, 1960
20	Fifth Floor People	Jan 24, 1960
21	Cold Fury	Jan 31, 1960
22	Night Panic	Feb 7, 1960
23	Come in Razor Red	Feb 14, 1960
24	Guardian Angel	Feb 21, 1960
25	Pink String and Sealing Wax	Feb 28, 1960
26	China Doll	Mar 6, 1960
27	Some Talk of Alexander	Mar 13, 1960
28	The Girl in the Market Square	Mar 20, 1960
29	Roman Gesture	Mar 27, 1960
30	After the Funeral	Apr 3, 1960
31	The Leather Jungle	Apr 10, 1960
32	Hold My Hand, Soldier	Apr 17, 1960
33	A Night Out	Apr 24, 1960
34	A Phone Call for Matthew Quade	May 1, 1960
35	The Innocent	May 8, 1960
36	Nest of Four	May 15, 1960
37	On the Spot	May 22, 1960
52	Night Stop	May 27, 1962
53	The Irish Boys	Jun 10, 1960
83	A Kind of Kingdom	Sep 1, 1963

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Big Brain Man	Sep 11, 1960
2	A Heart and a Diamond	Sep 18, 1960
3	Lena, O My Lena	Sep 25, 1960
4	Pig's Ear with Flowers	Oct 2, 1960
5	Thunder on the Snowy	Oct 9, 1960
6	The Siege at Killyfaddy	Oct 16, 1960
7	I'll Have You to Remember	Oct 23, 1960
8	My Representative	Oct 30, 1960
9	The Cake Baker	Nov 6, 1960
10	Hail the Conquering Hero	Nov 13, 1960
11	The Stranger	Nov 20, 1960
12	Mr Nobody	Nov 27, 1960
13	Clip Joint People	Dec 4, 1960
14	The Cupboard	Dec 11, 1960
15	Rain	Dec 18, 1960
16	The Great Gold Bullion Robbery	Dec 25, 1960
17	A Head Full of Crocodiles	Jan 1, 1961
18	Till the Day I Die	Jan 8, 1961
19	The Mystery of Martin Wheeler	Jan 15, 1961
20	The Picture of Dorian Gray	Jan 22, 1961
21	Honeymoon Postponed	Jan 29, 1961
22	A Degree of Murder	Feb 5, 1961
23	Strangers in the Room	Feb 12, 1961
24	The Money Makers	Feb 19, 1961
25	Tune on an Apron-String	Feb 26, 1961
26	The Big Deal	Mar 3, 1961
27	The Man Out There	Mar 12, 1961
28	The Conscientious Gauger	Mar 26, 1961
29	The Way of Love	Apr 9, 1961
30	The Hero	Apr 23, 1961
31	Danger! Men Working	May 21, 1961
32	No Licence for Singing	May 21, 1961
33	Flying High	Apr 23, 1961
34	Man on a Mountain Top	Apr 30, 1961
35	Duel for Love	May 7, 1961
36	The Ship That Couldn't Stop	May 14, 1961
37	The Truth About Helen	May 21, 1961
38	The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz	May 28, 1961
39	The Typists	Jun 4, 1961
40	The Night of the Apes	Jun 11, 1961

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Omega Mystery	Sep 10, 1961
2	Looking For Frankie	Sep 24, 1961
3	The Rose Affair	Oct 8, 1961
4	His Polyvinyl Girl	Oct 22, 1961
5	Roll On Bloomin' Death	Nov 5, 1961
6	The Trouble With Our Ivy	Nov 19, 1961
7	Murder Club	Dec 3, 1961
8	Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle	Dec 17, 1961
9	The Rank and File	Dec 31, 1961
10	Night Conspirators	May 6, 1962
11	Girl In A Birdcage	May 13, 1962
12	Night Stop	May 27, 1962
13	The Irish Boys	Jun 10, 1962
14	Dumb Martian	Jun 24, 1962
15	The Hard Knock	Jul 8, 1962
16	North City Traffic Straight Ahead	Jul 22, 1962
17	The Fishing Match	Aug 19, 1962

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Nothing To Pay	Sep 2, 1962
2	The Sin Shifter	Sep 16, 1962
3	Afternoon of a Nymph	Sep 30, 1962
4	Dead Letter	Oct 14, 1962
5	Always Something Hot	Oct 28, 1962
6	Thank You and Goodnight	Nov 11, 1962
7	The Big Ride	Nov 25, 1962
8	Joker	Dec 9, 1962
9	Hear The Tiger, See The Bay	Dec 23, 1962
10	Blue and White	Jan 6, 1963
11	The Hot Potato Boys	Jan 20, 1963
12	Into The Dark	Feb 3, 1963
13	The Paradise Suite	Feb 17, 1963
14	The Cruel Kind	Mar 17, 1963
15	The Invasion	Mar 31, 1963
16	Power and Glory	Apr 14, 1963
17	Wagger	Apr 28, 1963
18	Jungle Juice	May 12, 1963
19	The Wednesday Caller	May 26, 1963
20	The Monkey and the Mohawk	Jun 9, 1963
21	The Pushover	Jun 23, 1963
22	Late Summer	Jul 7, 1963
23	A Little Night Music	Jul 21, 1963
24	The Snag	Aug 4, 1963
25	Living Image	Aug 18, 1963

#	Episode	Air Date
1	A Kind of Kingdom	Sep 1, 1963
2	The Front Room	Sep 15, 1963
3	Mr. Big	Sep 29, 1963
4	Little Doris	Oct 13, 1963
5	The Chocolate Tree	Oct 27, 1963
6	Long Past Glory	Nov 17, 1963
7	The Higher They Fly	Dec 1, 1963
8	The Swindler	Dec 15, 1963
9	A Way of Living	Dec 29, 1963
10	Sharp at Four	Jan 12, 1964
11	Last Word on Julie	Jan 26, 1964
12	The Pretty English Girls	Feb 16, 1964
13	Realm of Error	Mar 1, 1964
14	Always Ask for the Best	Mar 15, 1964
15	Mug's Game	Mar 29, 1964
16	Prisoner and Escort	Apr 5, 1964
17	Cradle Song	Apr 12, 1964
18	A Nice Little Business	Apr 26, 1964
19	Pleasure Where She Finds It	May 3, 1964
20	A Jug of Bread	May 17, 1964
21	St. Ernie Leatherbound	May 24, 1964
22	That's Where the Town's Going	Jun 7, 1964
23	Exit Joe - Running	Jun 14, 1964
24	A Certain Kind of Silence	Jun 28, 1964

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Trial of Doctor Fancy	Sep 13, 1964
2	The Cherry on the Top	Sep 27, 1964
3	Something To Declare	Oct 4, 1964
4	Old Soldiers	Oct 18, 1964
5	They Throw It At You	Oct 25, 1964
6	The Importance of Being Ernest	Nov 15, 1964
7	The Girl in the Picture	Nov 29, 1964
8	Sally	Dec 6, 1964
9	The Hothouse	Dec 13, 1964
10	I've Got a System	Jan 3, 1965
11	The Gaming Book	Jan 10, 1965
12	Putty Metal	Jan 24, 1965
13	The Lady with the Albatross	Feb 14, 1965
14	The Vanishing Trick	Feb 28, 1965
15	Keys of the Cafe	Mar 7, 1965
16	I Took My Little World Away	Mar 14, 1965
17	A Fearful Thing	Mar 15, 1965
18	A Voice in the Sky	Mar 21, 1965
19	I Loved You Last Summer	Apr 4, 1965
20	The Man Who Came to Die	Apr 18, 1965
21	The Incident	Apr 25, 1965

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Paraffin Season	Dec 4, 1965
2	The Gong Game	Dec 11, 1965
3	A Cold Peace	Dec 18, 1965
4	The Sweet War Man	Jan 1, 1966
5	Ready for the Glory	Jan 8, 1966
6	Neighbours	Jan 15, 1966
7	The Pity of it All	Jan 22, 1966
8	Man Without a Mortgage	Mar 19, 1966
9	The Battersea Miracle	Mar 26, 1966
10	The Night Before the Morning After	Apr 2, 1966
11	Don't Utter a Note	Apr 9, 1966
12	Daughter of the House	Apr 16, 1966
13	The Walls Came Tumbling Down	Apr 23, 1966
14	The Match	Apr 30, 1966
15	Pretty Polly	Jul 23, 1966
16	The Wager	Jul 30, 1966
17	The One-Eyed Monster	Aug 6, 1966
18	Great Big Blonde	Aug 13, 1966
19	A Fair Swap	Aug 20, 1966
20	The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson	Aug 27, 1966
21	The Noise Stopped	Sep 3, 1966
22	Dead Silence	Sep 10, 1966
23	Barrett Keller: His Mark	Sep 17, 1966
24	Light the Blue Touch Paper	Sep 24, 1966
25	The Tilted Screen	Oct 1, 1966
26	The Three Barrelled Shotgun	Oct 8, 1966
27	The Long Nightmare	Oct 15, 1966

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Floating Population	Jan 28, 1967
2	A Magnum for Schneider	Feb 4, 1967
3	What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty	Feb 11, 1967
4	Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width	Feb 18, 1967
5	Easier in the Dark	Feb 25, 1967
6	Reason For Sale	Mar 4, 1967
7	The Happy Sacking	Mar 11, 1967
8	The Exploding Azalea	Mar 18, 1967
9	Any Number Can Play	Mar 25, 1967
10	A World of Time	Apr 1, 1967
11	Call Me Daddy	Apr 8, 1967
12	I Am Osango	Apr 15, 1967
13	Will You Come a Little Closer	Apr 22, 1967
14	England My England	Apr 29, 1967
15	In The Name of the Law	May 6, 1967
16	Depart in Terror	May 13, 1967
17	The Snares of Death	May 20, 1967
18	Compensation Alice	Jul 1, 1967
19	A Slight Formality	Jul 8, 1967
20	Quite an Ordinary Knife	Jul 15, 1967
21	Another Branch of the Family	Jul 22, 1967
22	Love Life	Jul 29, 1967
23	The Education of Corporal Halliday	Aug 5, 1967
24	Nursery Tale	Aug 12, 1967
25	Marriage and Henry Sunday	Aug 19, 1967
26	The Girl	Aug 26, 1967
27	Split Level	Sep 2, 1967
28	Poor Cherry	Sep 9, 1967
29	Don't Forget the Basics	Sep 16, 1967
30	The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick	Sep 23, 1967

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Mrs. Capper's Birthday	Feb 3, 1968
2	The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney	Feb 10, 1968
3	The Scallop Shell	Feb 17, 1968
4	A Second Look	Feb 21, 1968
5	The Contract	Mar 2, 1968
6	A Very Fine Line	Mar 9, 1968
7	Unscheduled Stop	Mar 15, 1968
8	Recount	Apr 18, 1968
9	No Easy Walk	May 4, 1968
10	The Escape Club	May 11, 1968
11	Home Movies	May 18, 1968
12	You and Me	May 25, 1968
13	The Glove Puppet	Jun 1, 1968
14	The Three Wives of Felix Hull	Jun 8, 1968
15	One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton	Jun 13, 1968
16	The Ballad of the Artificial Mash	Jul 27, 1968

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Frobisher Game	Jan 6, 1969
2	A Foot in the Door	Jan 13, 1969
3	What's a Mother For?	Jan 20, 1969
4	The Manderins	Jan 27, 1969
5	Go On - It'll Do You Good	Feb 3, 1969
6	The Good Son	Feb 10, 1969
7	The Brophy Story	Feb 17, 1969
8	Edward the Confessor	Feb 24, 1969
9	The Story-Teller	Mar 3, 1969
10	On Vacation	Mar 10, 1969

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Up Among the Cuckoos	Jun 8, 1970
2	The Others	Jun 15, 1970
3	The World in a Room	Jun 22, 1970
4	The End of the Line	Jun 29, 1970
5	A Young Man in Trouble	Jul 6, 1970
6	The Prime Minister's Daughter	Jul 13, 1970
7	A Room in Town	Sep 15, 1970
8	Warm Feet, Warm Heart	Sep 22, 1970
9	The Second Interview	Sep 29, 1970
10	The Company Man	Oct 6, 1970
11	Poor Mother	Oct 13, 1970
12	Mrs Davenport	Oct 20, 1970
13	Say Goodnight to Your Grandma	Oct 27, 1970
14	The Dolly Scene	Nov 3, 1970
15	Wednesday's Child	Nov 10, 1970
16	Still Life	Nov 17, 1970

#	Episode	Air Date
1	Ireland, Mother Ireland	Aug 3, 1971
2	The Bargain Hunters	Aug 10, 1971
3	Office Party	Aug 17, 1971
4	The Loving Lessons	Aug 31, 1971
5	Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee	Sep 7, 1971
6	Detective Waiting	Sep 14, 1971
7	The Girl on the M1	Sep 21, 1971
8	Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?	Sep 29, 1971
9	Competition	Oct 5, 1971
10	Man Charged	Oct 12, 1971
11	Father's Help	Oct 19, 1971

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Left Overs	Aug 22, 1972
2	Whatever Became of Me	Aug 29, 1972
3	A Touch of the Victorians	Sep 5, 1972
4	High Summer	Sep 12, 1972
5	Franklin's Farm	Sep 19, 1972
6	A Fluid Arrangement	Sep 26, 1972
7	On Call	Oct 3, 1972
8	The Creditors	Oct 10, 1972
9	The Breaking of Colonel Keyser	Oct 17, 1972
10	Anywhere But England, Old Boy	Oct 31, 1972
11	The Folk Singer	Nov 7, 1972
12	The Stumbling Block	Dec 11, 1972

#	Episode	Air Date
1	The Death of Glory	Sep 11, 1973
2	Beyond Our Means	Sep 18, 1973
3	A Bit of a Lift	Sep 25, 1973
4	Brussel Sprouts-Boy Scouts	Oct 2, 1973
5	Red Riding Hood	Oct 9, 1973
6	The Square of Three	Oct 16, 1973
7	Verite	Oct 23, 1973
8	The Golden Road	Oct 30, 1973
9	Russian Roulette	Nov 6, 1973
10	That Sinking Feeling	Nov 13, 1973

#	Episode	Air Date
1	If You Could See What I Can See	May 15, 1974
2	Amy, Wonderful Amy	May 22, 1974
3	The Virgins	Jun 24, 1974
4	According to the Rules	Sep 3, 1974

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