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.
Armchair Theatre (Temporada 3)
The Pillars of Midnight (Episodio 1)
Guionista: Trevor Dudley-Smith
Fecha de emisión: 1958-09-14
Sinopsis: A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.
The Web of Lace (Episodio 2)
Guionista: Thomas Narcejac
Fecha de emisión: 1958-09-21
The Franchise Affair (Episodio 3)
Guionista: Josephine Tey
Fecha de emisión: 1958-09-28
Sinopsis: An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.
Murder in Slow Motion (Episodio 4)
Guionista: Dail Ambler
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-05
Sinopsis: Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.
I Can Destroy the Sun (Episodio 5)
Guionista: Jimmy Sangster
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-12
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Senior officials in the British, American and Russian governments all receive the same cryptic and unsigned message - "I Can Destroy The Sun". What can it mean?
Time of Your Life (Episodio 6)
Guionista: Philip Saville
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-19
Sinopsis: This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.
The Terrorist (Episodio 7)
Guionista: John Kruse
Fecha de emisión: 1958-10-26
The Witching Hour (Episodio 8)
Guionista: Martin Colemans
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-02
Sinopsis: Jack Brookfield, a gambler with clairvoyant and hypnotic powers, is able to win at cards through his unique gift. But when he inadvertently hypnotizes young Clay Thorne, the youth kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under the trance. No one believes Brookfield's protestations that Thorne is innocent of any murderous intent, so Brookfield teams up with retired lawyer Martin Prentice in hopes of saving the young man from the gallows.
The Greatest Man in the World (Episodio 9)
Guionista: James Thurber
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-09
Sinopsis: Just after a young unknown American becomes the first on the Moon returns, he dies in an accident. He's laid to rest with full honours, but only the president and a few high officials know just what sort of a man their hero was.
Please Murder Me (Episodio 10)
Guionista: Gore Vidal
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-16
Sinopsis: A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin. He chooses Miss Higgins, an eccentric author of detective fiction, to carry out the grim task.
The Boy with Meat Axe (Episodio 11)
Guionista: Ray Rigby
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-23
Duración: 60 min
Underground (Episodio 12)
Guionista: James Forsyth
Fecha de emisión: 1958-11-30
The Report on Jessie Dean (Episodio 13)
Guionista: Warren Chetham-Strode
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-07
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A bereaved mother, Jessie Dean, steals a baby belonging to a mother who had wanted her child adopted.
Dangerous World (Episodio 14)
Guionista: Giles Cooper
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-14
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.
The Deaf Heart (Episodio 15)
Guionista: Mayo Simon
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-21
Duración: 60 min
The Criminals (Episodio 16)
Guionista: Eric Paice
Fecha de emisión: 1958-12-28
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A small construction company's new year's eve party is taken over by a crook who has intricate knowledge of the men's private lives, forcing them into an incredible bank robbery plot.
The Sentry (Episodio 17)
Guionista: John Gay
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-04
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: An American Civil War drama in which Meade, a Confederate soldier, faces the dilemma of knowing that his brother, who is fighting on the other side, has been left to die in the course of an act of sabotage.
The Break (Episodio 18)
Guionista: Donal Giltinan
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-11
Duración: 60 min
Soundings (Episodio 19)
Guionista: George Lowther
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-18
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A lonely doctor with a mysterious past shies away from operating on a friendly Scottish giant aboard a storm-tossed Antarctic whaler.
Love and Money (Episodio 20)
Guionista: Phyllis Bentley
Fecha de emisión: 1959-01-25
Sinopsis: The marriage of a woman from a humble background to a rich Northern mill owner and her growing resentment at what she regards as the condescending nature of him and his family.
Hot Summer Night (Episodio 21)
Guionista: Ted Willis
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-01
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.
Ernie Barger Is 50 (Episodio 22)
Guionista: Tad Mosel
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-08
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: Ernie Barger, a senior partner in a pottery firm, initially celebrates his son's graduation but soon learns that not only is he twenty years behind the times but could also be responsible for his wife's illness.
The Thug (Episodio 23)
Guionista: Jane Arden
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-15
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: The relationship between Lewis, a young tearaway, and Charlotte, a shy girl who works in a record shop with her sick father.
To Ride a Tiger (Episodio 24)
Guionista: Marcelo Motta
Fecha de emisión: 1959-02-22
Duración: 60 min
Sinopsis: A cabal in an unnamed South American country pulls a coup by choosing a popular dissident as dictator. His well meant reforms are not well received, and as his marriage fails, he shows the people what a real dictator is capable of.
The Fabulous Money Maker (Episodio 25)
Guionista: Norman Ginsbury
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-01
Sinopsis: A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.
The Bird, the Bear and the Actress (Episodio 26)
Guionista: John Glennon
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-08
Sinopsis: A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
No Gun, No Guilt (Episodio 27)
Guionista: A. E. Hotchner
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-15
Sinopsis: A courtroom drama in which a young American lawyer is accused of concealing material evidence in a murder case.
Strange Meeting (Episodio 28)
Guionista: Robert Rietty
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-22
Sinopsis: An Italian set suspense drama in which Bruno, a visiting American criminal is introduced to Grazia, an Italian woman whose motives are mysterious by a strange cloaked figure.
Star in the Summer Night (Episodio 29)
Guionista: Tad Mosel
Fecha de emisión: 1959-03-29
Sinopsis: International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get married.
The Angry Flower (Episodio 30)
Guionista: Michael Noonan
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-05
The Trouble with Benny (Episodio 31)
Guionista: Mordecai Richler
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-12
Parole (Episodio 32)
Guionista: Carl Nystrom
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-19
Sinopsis: The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associates.
The Shadow of the Ruthless (Episodio 33)
Guionista: Stuart Douglass
Fecha de emisión: 1959-04-26
Hand in Glove (Episodio 34)
Guionista: Gerald Savory
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-03
Till Death Do Us Part (Episodio 35)
Guionista: Joseph Schull
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-10
The Big Client (Episodio 36)
Guionista: Eric Paice
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-17
Sinopsis: A satire set in the advertising industry.
The Girl on the Beach (Episodio 37)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-24
Sinopsis: A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.
Wedding Day (Episodio 38)
Guionista: Ray Rigby
Fecha de emisión: 1959-05-31
My Guess Would Be Murder (Episodio 39)
Guionista: Anthony Gilbert
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-07
The Devil's Instrument (Episodio 40)
Guionista: W.O. Mitchell
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-14
The Model Marriage (Episodio 41)
Guionista: Wolf Mankowitz
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-21
Guest Appearance (Episodio 42)
Guionista: Lester Powell
Fecha de emisión: 1959-06-28
My Lost Saints (Episodio 43)
Guionista: Tad Mosel
Fecha de emisión: 1959-07-05
If You Loved Me (Episodio 44)
Guionista: John Chandos
Fecha de emisión: 1959-07-12
The Grandma Bandit (Episodio 45)
Guionista: Lester Powell
Fecha de emisión: 1959-07-19
A House of His Own (Episodio 46)
Guionista: Loring Mandel
Fecha de emisión: 1959-07-26
The Garden Party (Episodio 47)
Guionista: Tad Mosel
Fecha de emisión: 1959-08-02
Lysette (Episodio 48)
Fecha de emisión: 1959-08-09
You'll Never See Me Again (Episodio 49)
Guionista: Cornell Woolrich
Fecha de emisión: 1959-08-16
Sinopsis: Jim Mason's wife Molly vanishes after purportedly leaving to visit her parents. When Jim calls the in-laws he has never met, he discovers she never arrived. As the mystery deepens, the police suspect Jim of a sinister crime.
Black Laughter/Double Exit (Episodio 50)
Guionista: James Parish
Fecha de emisión: 1959-08-23
Invitation to Murder (Episodio 51)
Guionista: Joel Murcott
Fecha de emisión: 1959-08-30
Young David (Episodio 52)
Guionista: Charles Dickens
Fecha de emisión: 1959-09-06
Sinopsis: A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

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Episodios 42
Episodios 47
Episodios 52
Episodios 40
Episodios 40
Episodios 17
Episodios 25
Episodios 24
Episodios 21
Episodios 27
Episodios 30
Episodios 16
Episodios 10
Episodios 16
Episodios 11
Episodios 12
Episodios 10
Episodios 4
Episodios 1