Armchair Theatre (Season 5)

Big Brain Man (Episode 1)

Writer: Stuart Douglass

Air date: 1960-09-11

Overview: 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.

A Heart and a Diamond (Episode 2)

Writer: Robert Pollock

Air date: 1960-09-18

Lena, O My Lena (Episode 3)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1960-09-25

Overview: 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.

Pig's Ear with Flowers (Episode 4)

Writer: Peter Luke

Air date: 1960-10-02

Thunder on the Snowy (Episode 5)

Writer: Peter Yeldham

Air date: 1960-10-09

The Siege at Killyfaddy (Episode 6)

Writer: Denis Johnson

Air date: 1960-10-16

I'll Have You to Remember (Episode 7)

Writer: Clive Exton

Air date: 1960-10-23

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

My Representative (Episode 8)

Writer: Kenneth Jupp

Air date: 1960-10-30

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

The Cake Baker (Episode 9)

Writer: Lou Shaw

Air date: 1960-11-06

Hail the Conquering Hero (Episode 10)

Writer: Ray Rigby

Air date: 1960-11-13

The Stranger (Episode 11)

Writer: Angus Wilson

Air date: 1960-11-20

Mr Nobody (Episode 12)

Writer: Leslie Sands

Air date: 1960-11-27

Clip Joint People (Episode 13)

Writer: Alexander Baron

Air date: 1960-12-04

The Cupboard (Episode 14)

Writer: Ray Rigby

Air date: 1960-12-11

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

Rain (Episode 15)

Writer: Clive Exton

Air date: 1960-12-18

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

The Great Gold Bullion Robbery (Episode 16)

Writer: Eric Paice

Air date: 1960-12-25

Overview: Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

A Head Full of Crocodiles (Episode 17)

Writer: Stewart Love

Air date: 1961-01-01

Till the Day I Die (Episode 18)

Writer: Edward Hyams

Air date: 1961-01-08

The Mystery of Martin Wheeler (Episode 19)

Writer: Howard Rodman

Air date: 1961-01-15

The Picture of Dorian Gray (Episode 20)

Writer: Oscar Wilde

Air date: 1961-01-22

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

Honeymoon Postponed (Episode 21)

Writer: Bill Naughton

Air date: 1961-01-29

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

A Degree of Murder (Episode 22)

Writer: Richard Reich

Air date: 1961-02-05

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

Strangers in the Room (Episode 23)

Writer: Kenneth Jupp

Air date: 1961-02-12

The Money Makers (Episode 24)

Writer: Ted Allan

Air date: 1961-02-19

Tune on an Apron-String (Episode 25)

Writer: Alexander Baron

Air date: 1961-02-26

The Big Deal (Episode 26)

Writer: Jimmy Sangster

Air date: 1961-03-03

Overview: 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.

The Man Out There (Episode 27)

Writer: Donal Giltinan

Air date: 1961-03-12

Overview: 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.

The Conscientious Gauger (Episode 28)

Writer: Donal Giltinan

Air date: 1961-03-26

The Way of Love (Episode 29)

Writer: Alun Owen

Air date: 1961-04-09

The Hero (Episode 30)

Writer: Alexander Baron

Air date: 1961-04-23

Danger! Men Working (Episode 31)

Writer: John D. Stewart

Air date: 1961-05-21

Overview: 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.

No Licence for Singing (Episode 32)

Writer: Rhys Adrian

Air date: 1961-05-21

Flying High (Episode 33)

Air date: 1961-04-23

Man on a Mountain Top (Episode 34)

Writer: Robert Alan Aurthur

Air date: 1961-04-30

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

Duel for Love (Episode 35)

Writer: Robert Rietty

Air date: 1961-05-07

The Ship That Couldn't Stop (Episode 36)

Writer: Christopher Hodder-Williams

Air date: 1961-05-14

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

The Truth About Helen (Episode 37)

Air date: 1961-05-21

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (Episode 38)

Writer: Mordecai Richler

Air date: 1961-05-28

Overview: 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.

The Typists (Episode 39)

Writer: Murray Schisgal

Air date: 1961-06-04

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

The Night of the Apes (Episode 40)

Writer: Ray Rigby

Air date: 1961-06-11

Overview: 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.