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Armchair Theatre Season 2 Episodes

47 Episodes 1957 - 1958

Episode 1

Off the Deep End

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Episode 2

Now Let Him Go

83 mins

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.

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Episode 3

Ghosts

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

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Episode 4

Policy for Love

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Episode 5

The Pier

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Episode 6

Inch from the Heart

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Episode 7

Episode #2.7

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Episode 8

Ann Veronica

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Episode 9

The Last Mile

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

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Episode 10

The Great City

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Episode 11

Man in a Moon

60 mins

A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.

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Episode 12

The Human Touch

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

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Episode 13

Sister

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Episode 14

The Mortimer Touch

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Episode 15

The Dividing Line

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Episode 16

Panther 140

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Episode 17

The Shining Hour

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

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Episode 18

Man in the Corner

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Episode 19

The Master Builder

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

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Episode 20

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

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Episode 21

Night of the Ding-Dong

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Episode 22

The Five Dollar Bill

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

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Episode 23

The Lady of Camellias

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

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Episode 24

A Gust of Wind

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Episode 25

Murder Story

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

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Episode 26

Vendetta

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Episode 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 the villagers recognise him?

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Episode 28

A Man's Woman

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Episode 29

Emperor Jones

Fri, Feb 20, 202675 mins

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

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Episode 30

Miss Olive

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Episode 31

Wolf Pack

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Episode 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 on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

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Episode 33

Fifty Fifty

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Episode 34

Breach of Marriage

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Episode 35

Hanging Judge

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

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Episode 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 plight.

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Episode 37

Death of Satan

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Episode 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 them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

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Episode 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.

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Episode 40

Homecoming

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

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Episode 41

Trial by Candlelight

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

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Episode 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 that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.

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Episode 43

Wings of the Wind

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Episode 44

Noon on Doomsday

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

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Episode 45

The Sins of Simone

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Episode 46

The Woman in Question

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Episode 47

The Travelling Lady

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

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