Armchair Theatre Season 4 Episodes

Episode 1

Big Brain Man

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.

Episode 2

A Heart and a Diamond

Episode 3

Lena, O My Lena

60 mins

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

Episode 4

Pig's Ear with Flowers

Episode 5

Thunder on the Snowy

Episode 6

The Siege at Killyfaddy

Episode 7

I'll Have You to Remember

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

Episode 8

My Representative

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

Episode 9

The Cake Baker

Episode 10

Hail the Conquering Hero

Episode 11

The Stranger

Episode 12

Mr Nobody

Episode 13

Clip Joint People

Episode 14

The Cupboard

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

Episode 15

Rain

A prostitute finds redemption in Pago Pago thanks to a hard missionary man.

Episode 16

The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

Episode 17

A Head Full of Crocodiles

Episode 18

Till the Day I Die

Episode 19

The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

Episode 20

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Episode 21

Honeymoon Postponed

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

Episode 22

A Degree of Murder

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

Episode 23

Strangers in the Room

Episode 24

The Money Makers

Episode 25

Tune on an Apron-String

Episode 26

The Big Deal

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.

Episode 27

The Man Out There

55 mins

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.

Episode 28

The Conscientious Gauger

Episode 29

The Way of Love

Episode 30

The Hero

Episode 31

Danger! Men Working

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.

Episode 32

No Licence for Singing

Episode 33

Flying High

Episode 34

Man on a Mountain Top

60 mins

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

Episode 35

Duel for Love

Episode 36

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

60 mins

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

Episode 37

The Truth About Helen

Episode 38

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.

Episode 39

The Typists

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

Episode 40

The Night of the Apes

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.

Episode 41

The Omega Mystery

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

Episode 42

Looking for Frankie

Episode 43

The Rose Affair

58 mins

A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.

Episode 44

His Polyvinyl Girl

A department store closes for the night and instead of going home, the staff realize a musical fantasy amongst the store set pieces.

Episode 45

Roll on Blooming Death

Its near the end of World War 2, and a young green officer takes over a war weary platoon, he is ordered to take some of them on a raid, but he cannot rouse any volunteers.

Episode 46

The Trouble with Our Ivy

A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper

Episode 47

Murder Club

60 mins

In the year 2110, Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting.

Episode 48

Tune on the Old Tax Fiddle

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.

Episode 49

The Rank and File

An observation on corruption in a US Trade Union.Follows the life of factory worker Bill Kilcoyne from the depressed 1930s to his present day (1959) standing in front of a Senate Committee as a trade union leader.

Episode 50

Night Conspirators

An elderly man is rescued from Iceland. Why would an elderly man need to escape from Iceland? Unless of course its Adolf Hitler.

Episode 51

Girl in a Bird Cage

Episode 52

Night Stop

Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

Episode 53

The Irish Boys

60 mins

Episode 54

Dumb Martian

On Mars, Withers a gruff, bigoted pioneer buys himself a Martian wife for company. Like all her race, Lellie cannot speak and Withers treats her like a slave. But he becomes jealous when Weaver, a young scientist, lodges at his camp and treats Lellie sympathetically.

Episode 55

The Hard Knock

A short tempered Irishman returns home after his brother was hanged for murder during a robbery. Though at first determined he was actually innocent, family and friends slowly convince him otherwise.

Episode 56

North City Traffic Straight Ahead

Episode 57

The Fishing Match

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.

Episode 58

Nothing to Pay

Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.

Episode 59

The Sin Shifter

Fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by turning it into a gambling spot.

Episode 60

Afternoon of a Nymph

58 mins

An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and possible stardom. However while she is there, she realizes that there is a price to pay.

Episode 61

Dead Letter

Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

Episode 62

Always Something Hot

Episode 63

Thank You and Goodnight

A rather intellectual young woman who has just broken off an affair with a married man meets a rather uncouth pop singer on a train journey.

Episode 64

The Big Ride

Episode 65

Joker

Episode 66

Hear the Tiger See the Bay

Episode 67

Blue and White

Episode 68

The Hot Potato Boys

Episode 69

Into the Dark

Episode 70

The Paradise Suite

After a London premiere, a psychologically troubled Hollywood starlet in a luxury hotel suite meets several men, including a critic, an agent, a bell hop and a photographer, desperately seeking understanding.

Episode 71

The Cruel Kind

Arnold, a soldier who has deserted after a traumatic event on the Berlin Wall, is drowning his sorrows in a pub. A Spanish boy who can speak little English enters the pub begging for help against a lynch mob chasing him, accusing him of molesting the daughter of a local businessman. After recent events, Arnold wants no involvement, but Cissy persuades him otherwise.

Episode 72

The Invasion

55 mins

Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.

Episode 73

Power and Glory

Episode 74

Wagger

Episode 75

Jungle Juice

Episode 76

The Wednesday Caller

Episode 77

The Monkey and the Mohawk

Episode 78

The Push Over

Episode 79

Late Summer

Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together. the more their age difference becomes a rift between them.

Episode 80

A Little Night Music

Episode 81

The Snag

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic centre, only Emma Mannering's corset shoppe stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead he's double crossed.

Episode 82

The Living Image

56 mins

A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down, when his son, a young radical and his associates brings modern interpretations of art into his life.

Episode 83

A Kind of Kingdom

Episode 84

The Front Room

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

Episode 85

Mr Big

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.

Episode 86

Little Doris

Episode 87

The Chocolate Tree

56 mins

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.

Episode 88

Long Past Glory

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.

Episode 89

The Higher They Fly

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

Episode 90

The Swindler

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.

Episode 91

A Way of Living

Episode 92

Sharp at Four

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

Episode 93

Last Word on Julie

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.

Episode 94

The Pretty English Girls

Episode 95

Realm of Error

Episode 96

Always Ask for the Best

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

Episode 97

Mug's Game

Episode 98

Prisoner and Escort

Episode 99

Cradle Song

Episode 100

A Nice Little Business

Episode 101

Pleasure Is Where She Finds It

Episode 102

A Jug of Bread

Episode 103

St Ernie: Leather Bound

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.

Episode 104

That's Where the Town Is Going

Episode 105

Exit Joe: Running

Episode 106

A Certain Kind of Silence