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Armchair Theatre

Season 9

1964 · 21 episodes

  1. 1. The Trial of Doctor Fancy

    1964-09-13 · 60m

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

  2. 2. The Cherry on the Top

    1964-09-27 · 60m

    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. 3. Something To Declare

    1964-10-04 · 60m

  4. 4. Old Soldiers

    1964-10-18 · 60m

  5. 5. They Throw It At You

    1964-10-25 · 60m

  6. 6. The Importance of Being Ernest

    1964-11-15 · 60m

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

  7. 7. The Girl in the Picture

    1964-11-29 · 60m

  8. 8. Sally

    1964-12-06 · 60m

    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. 9. The Hothouse

    1964-12-13 · 60m

    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. 10. I've Got a System

    1965-01-03 · 60m

  11. 11. The Gaming Book

    1965-01-10 · 60m

    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. 12. Putty Metal

    1965-01-24 · 60m

  13. 13. The Lady with the Albatross

    1965-02-14 · 60m

  14. 14. The Vanishing Trick

    1965-02-28 · 60m

  15. 15. Keys of the Cafe

    1965-03-07 · 60m

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

  16. 16. I Took My Little World Away

    1965-03-14 · 60m

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

  17. 17. A Fearful Thing

    1965-03-15 · 60m

  18. 18. A Voice in the Sky

    1965-03-21

    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. 19. I Loved You Last Summer

    1965-04-04

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

  20. 20. The Man Who Came to Die

    1965-04-18

    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. 21. The Incident

    1965-04-25

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