Armchair Theatre Season 8 Episodes

Episode 1

Compensation Alice

Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.

Episode 2

A Slight Formality

Episode 3

Quite an Ordinary Knife

Episode 4

Another Branch of the Family

Episode 5

Love Life

Episode 6

The Education of Corporal Halliday

Episode 7

Nursery Tale

Episode 8

Marriage and Henry Sunday

Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agency.

Episode 9

The Girl

The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.

Episode 10

Split Level

Episode 11

Poor Cherry

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

Episode 12

Don't Forget the Basics

Episode 13

The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

Episode 14

Mrs Capper's Birthday

It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed with her employers and friends joining together to give her night to remember.

Episode 15

The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney

Honeybone is an engineer and is contacted by Killick to be told that he is a test for a possible mole in the department and Honeybone's role is to say that he will give away secrets. Meanwhile Honeybone meets and befriends a new contact - it turns out to be the mole. The mole's girl comments 'I feel like a prostitute' and the mole replied - 'that is exactly what you are my dear.' Killik later contacts Honeybone and tells him to get on with the job that he will give up secrets. He then lets slip to the mole that he is on his way to Strasbourg where he disappears. Honeybone has said he will give away secrets to the mole The final scene is a phone call taken by the mole- 'oh you have got him. Well treat him nicely I was at school with him. oh and by the way I have just met someone who may be of use to you.' The mole is a mole and has given away Killik's movement so he can be kidnapped and has passed on the name of Honeybone. Plot very reliant on Kim Philby who was then very much in the public consciousness.

Episode 16

The Scallop Shell

Episode 17

A Second Look

60 mins

Episode 18

The Contact

Episode 19

A Very Fine Line

Leslie Phillips is in a hotel room and phones he police and says he thinks he has killed someone but cannot remember the details. The police of course take details of the possible victim. The lead has to phone his wife and this is done in front of the Police who comment that he did not pull his punches. Later in the play it transpires that the wife is so shocked she has committed suicide. After this news the police come in to find the lead tucking into tea and toast. It dawns on them that this whole thing is a ruse to lead to the suicide of his wife and that there is no murder The final scene is where the police say "well we have a body and we have a confession and we should be able to put the two together." - they will continue with the case, and arrest the lead.

Episode 20

Unscheduled Stop

A highly-influential religious celebrity's public image is in danger of shattering when a plane must make an unexpected landing.

Episode 21

Recount

A housewife finds herself pregnant again just as she is due to attend her daughter's marriage. She recalls her politician husband's reaction to the birth of her daughter over twenty years ago, and contemplates whether she wants to go through it all again.

Episode 22

No Easy Walk

Adjusting to a new life in South Africa is no easy walk for Adrian.

Episode 23

The Escape Club

Episode 24

Home Movies

Episode 25

You and Me

Episode 26

The Glove Puppet

Episode 27

The Three Wives of Felix Hull

Felix visits a health farm with his third wife, only to discover that his second wife, his daughter by his first marriage, and his stepdaughter are also present.

Episode 28

One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton

Episode 29

The Ballad of the Artificial Mash