Armchair Theatre (Season 8)

A Kind of Kingdom (Episode 1)

Writer: Hugh Leonard

Air date: 1963-09-01

The Front Room (Episode 2)

Writer: Robert Storey

Air date: 1963-09-15

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

Mr. Big (Episode 3)

Writer: Ken Taylor

Air date: 1963-09-29

Overview: 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.

Little Doris (Episode 4)

Writer: David Perry

Air date: 1963-10-13

The Chocolate Tree (Episode 5)

Writer: Andrew Sinclair

Air date: 1963-10-27

Overview: 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.

Long Past Glory (Episode 6)

Writer: Len Deighton

Air date: 1963-11-17

Overview: 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.

The Higher They Fly (Episode 7)

Writer: Christopher Hodder-Williams

Air date: 1963-12-01

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

The Swindler (Episode 8)

Writer: John Hall

Air date: 1963-12-15

Overview: 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.

A Way of Living (Episode 9)

Writer: David Mercer

Air date: 1963-12-29

Sharp at Four (Episode 10)

Writer: Donald Churchill

Air date: 1964-01-12

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

Last Word on Julie (Episode 11)

Writer: Lynne Reid Banks

Air date: 1964-01-26

Overview: 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.

The Pretty English Girls (Episode 12)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1964-02-16

Realm of Error (Episode 13)

Writer: Hugh Leonard

Air date: 1964-03-01

Always Ask for the Best (Episode 14)

Writer: Stephen Lewis

Air date: 1964-03-15

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

Mug's Game (Episode 15)

Writer: Robert Storey

Air date: 1964-03-29

Prisoner and Escort (Episode 16)

Writer: Charles Wood

Air date: 1964-04-05

Cradle Song (Episode 17)

Writer: Hugo Charteris

Air date: 1964-04-12

A Nice Little Business (Episode 18)

Writer: Marc Brandel

Air date: 1964-04-26

Pleasure Where She Finds It (Episode 19)

Writer: Robert Muller

Air date: 1964-05-03

A Jug of Bread (Episode 20)

Air date: 1964-05-17

St. Ernie Leatherbound (Episode 21)

Air date: 1964-05-24

Overview: 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.

That's Where the Town's Going (Episode 22)

Writer: Tad Mosel

Air date: 1964-06-07

Exit Joe - Running (Episode 23)

Writer: John Hall

Air date: 1964-06-14

A Certain Kind of Silence (Episode 24)

Writer: Hugo Charteris

Air date: 1964-06-28