A world class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn, while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound which plays throughout.
Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.
A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.
An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.
A naïve young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.
Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.
A murderer escapes from prison to a Caribbean island, where he makes himself the 'Emperor' of the natives.
A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.
A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case, and learns a lesson in humanity.
The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.
In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.
Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.
In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?
A domineering, reclusive and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensues among the other daughters.
After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.
Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.
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?
When the first man to walk on the moon dies in an accident, his burial with full honors is televised worldwide.
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.
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when he receives a call summoning them to the flat of his Uncle's suicidal mistress.She's a young, bohemian type and Victor is smitten. She leads him on and he takes her out, but after meeting her friends, realises she's not for him.
Why is the immortal Karinskaya reluctant to come out of retirement and star in a new film? The mystery that has kept the world's most passionate actress a woman alone is revealed aboard a yacht in the Mediterranean.
Three sailors arrive at their home town, Liverpool, in a drama about the problems of Anglo-Welsh/Anglo-Irish identity, and coming to terms with conflicts with their fathers.
Dad has been living with daughter Jessy for years and she needs a break. She suggests he could live with her prosperous brother George whom Dad constantly praises but George refuses. Dad realises he has been rejected by both his children.
Ex-Sergeant Blanco White trying to adjust to civilian life after 31 years in the Guards Regiment goes into partnership with Mrs Klein, a local greengrocer.
The girl of the title is found dead as a result of a car hit and run accident. However both the town and the driver regard his importance above the girl's to warrant any further attention from the police.
Matthew Quade fears he is all washed up,waits by the phone for a call to prove otherwise.
A famous pop singer becomes involved in a murder trial.
Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student ,takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He's smitten with a girl named Lena who works in a machine shop next door, and takes her out despite a bullying driver claiming her for himself.
Lancashire newlyweds Jenny and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.
A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.
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.
Episode 27, season 4 of Armchair Theatre is entitled The Man Out There and sees Patrick McGoohan as a Russian cosmonaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket who has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife who is also trapped in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Marie's daughter is dying of diphtheria and despite the great distance, Nicholai has the medical knowledge to help her.
Trouble brews on a building site as work falls behind schedule.
A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.
Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.
A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.
Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.
An agent invites his young starlet to a party, to meet all the right people. A chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and maybe stardom. However while she is there, she realizes there is a price to pay...
A renowned artist of the old school has his whole world turned upside down, when his son, a young radical and his associates brings modern interpretations of art into his life.
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.
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
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.
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.
Originally produced for the 1964-1965 season, this episode was never broadcast due to scheduling problems.
An aging businessman's squabbling children object to his proposed marriage to his much younger assistant, and each for his or her own selfish reasons maneuvers against it. Originally produced for the 1964-1965 season, this episode was never broadcast due to scheduling problems but was later released on DVD.
Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps performing fleas of his own. One day a flea speaks to him and persuades him to go public with a microphone. The flea's act is a great success, but not everybody is pleased with its message.
A girl's Cinderella existence abruptly comes to an end, when a wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.
A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.
Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.
Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed about.
A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing office personnel cutbacks. When his job and wife slip away,he finds some redemption in his son's plans for a new life.
A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.
June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.
A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.
Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big trouble.
The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping her parents up all night. Meanwhile, the Groom is having second thoughts as his flatmate and a party girl distract him.
Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird receive a set back when, unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint.
The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than his home town.
A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.
The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This TV movie lead the way to a TV series, entitled "Callan", and the same story was later adapted into a theatrical film, also entitled "Callan".
Pompous film director David lives a boring life with his children's books writer wife Hilary but also has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline she decides to befriend her and then update him.
Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.
A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to steal her husband.
A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.
A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing had prepared her for meeting the likes of John Dolby. Later remade for the Shadows of Fear series.
Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end of the day her marriage is in trouble.
The safe with the takings from an all night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains, but then some policemen and a gun become involved.
Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing very well, he then hits on an usual solution to balance the books..
Alice suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. Married to an boring accountant she becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and become young again.
A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.
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.
Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the latest murder. However a new guest at his landlady's house is about to give him all attention he seeks.
Ted rents a flat so he can entertain his mistress without running into his wife Betty. She finds out about it, and sets a trap.
Life is comfortable for the Davenports as Mr Davenport is about to retire, but now that life has become routine and dull could he be looking for last fling elsewhere?
A dangerous game of one-upmanship develops between three women - a wife, her mother, and her mother-in-law - when they gather around the newest born addition to the family.
A doctor takes an attractive nurse into his home to help his wife through her convalescence. The stage looks set for an affair. But events take an unexpected course, and in the end, the doctor’s wife has to make a curious choice.
A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands what is going on but invariably blames the daughter for his wife's disappointments.
Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.
In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.
A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.
They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?
‘You don’t want to believe a word your dad says. Nobody else does.’ Young Ray hardly needs the advice. A budding poet, he particularly wants his father to go with him to the poetry competition at school – but father has something else on his mind, and Ray’s awakening disillusion is confirmed.
Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?
Mike comes home to an ‘empty’ flat and finds a surprise waiting for him in the bath. After a time, he grows used to having his visitor around, but the bachelor flat will never be quite the same again…
An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.
An Edwardian high summer wraps Lady Huntercombe’s home in a cocoon of peace and quiet. But, on the day of the cricket match, her ladyship’s eldest son, Jack, returns from Paris. He then announces that he is back to claim his inheritance.
A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.
Ernie decides to pack up and go to sea, however he had not taken into account the repercussions that would be felt by those around him.
Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.
Gustave appears to be helping Adolph and Tekla to sort out their tangled marriage. But are his objectives really as uncomplicated as they seem?
It's 1944. and as the Allies prepare for invasion, concerns are raised about Colonel Keyser and his reputed psychopathic personality as a good or bad thing into leading his men into D Day.
Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.
A folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles, as the authorities demand he identifies himself as either a Catholic, atheist or a Protestant atheist.
Billy Turnbull despises his workmates - and is despised by them. In a house run with military precision, he lives with his father, an ex-sergeant major full of tales of past glory; Billy’s life is bound up with band practices and dreams of the army he could never hope to join. But are son and father both just dreamers?
A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.
Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.
For Grace, haunted by secret fears, the regular visit to her aged grandmother turns into a terrifying nightmare. But are the macabre events in that strange house reality, or the imaginings of somebody close to mental breakdown?
Johnny Orange opted for a life in the regular army. He finds himself bored, disillusioned… and happy.
Shirley and Clive, a happy and affluent married couple find their preconceptions about questioned by Mik, an underground film maker - as they become ever more involved with his latest project.
A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.
Chief Inspector Flaherty’s integrity is challenged when he and his son come up against blackmail, money and power…
