Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre

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.

Drama

Seasons

1. The Outsider

Air Date: 1956-07-08

2. The Handshake / Bid for Fame

Air Date: 1956-08-12

3. Tears in the Wind

Air Date: 1956-09-16

4. Flash Point

Air Date: 1956-09-23

5. Black Limelight

Air Date: 1956-09-30

6. The Hollow Crown

Air Date: 1956-10-07

7. It's an Ill Wind

Air Date: 1956-10-14

8. The Mother

Air Date: 1956-10-28

After a five month trudge through Poland the Kosky family have reached an Austrian labour camp. Their hopes to emigrate to Canada take a desperate turn when Mrs Kosky is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

9. The Old Lady Shows Her Medals

Air Date: 1956-11-04

10. The Common Man

Air Date: 1956-11-11

11. The Right Thing

Air Date: 1956-11-25

When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?

12. The Face of a Stranger

Air Date: 1956-12-02

13. The Same Sky

Air Date: 1956-12-09

The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.

14. Three O'Clock Deadline

Air Date: 1956-12-16

15. The Great Healer

Air Date: 1956-12-16

16. Miss Julie

Air Date: 1956-12-23

Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling each other their memories and of their dreams. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland.

17. Ring Out the Old

Air Date: 1956-12-30

18. Michael and Mary

Air Date: 1957-01-13

19. The Necklace

Air Date: 1957-01-20

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs. Kendrick goes into debt to duplicate it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but Mrs. Kendrick never learns the truth, and struggles for years to pay off the huge debt.

20. The Last Flight

Air Date: 1957-01-27

21. Quay South

Air Date: 1957-02-03

22. If This Be Treason

Air Date: 1957-02-10

23. The King of Iceland

Air Date: 1957-02-17

There are odd goings-on in the Turkish baths. Is the distinguished stranger among the Colonel Blimps really the "King of Iceland"?

24. The Witness

Air Date: 1957-02-24

25. This Was a Woman

Air Date: 1957-03-10

Olivia Russell is outwardly a devoted wife and mother, the kind mistress of a happy home, and a sympathetic friend. But this suburban respectability conceals a sinister aspect of the feminine.

26. The Cask of Amontillado

Air Date: 1957-03-17

Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado and find themselves in a web of betrayal and revenge that changes their friendship forever. Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

27. Catch a Falling Star

Air Date: 1957-03-24

What future is there for a forgotten star of the New York theatre?

28. Hilda Morgan

Air Date: 1957-04-07

29. The Constant Stranger

Air Date: 1957-04-14

30. Autumn

Air Date: 1957-04-21

31. The Heiress

Air Date: 1957-05-05

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

32. Rappaport Always Pays

Air Date: 1957-05-12

33. Possession

Air Date: 1957-05-19

34. The Old Ladies

Air Date: 1957-05-26

35. Dear Murderer

Air Date: 1957-06-02

36. Escape To Happiness

Air Date: 1957-06-09

A famous (married) concert pianist falls in love with a young music student.

37. Start from Scratch

Air Date: 1957-06-16

38. It Pays to Advertise

Air Date: 1957-06-30

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

39. The Whiteheaded Boy

Air Date: 1957-07-14

40. While Parents Sleep

Air Date: 1957-07-28

41. Bed, Board and Romance

Air Date: 1957-08-11

42. The Women Have Their Way

Air Date: 1957-08-25

1. Off the Deep End

Air Date: 1957-09-08

2. Now Let Him Go

Air Date: 1957-09-15

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 that plays throughout.

3. Ghosts

Air Date: 1957-09-22

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

4. Policy for Love

Air Date: 1957-09-29

5. The Pier

Air Date: 1957-10-06

6. Inch from the Heart

Air Date: 1957-10-13

7. Trial By Candlelight

Air Date: 1957-10-20

Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

8. Ann Veronica

Air Date: 1957-10-28

9. The Last Mile

Air Date: 1957-11-03

Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

10. The Great City

Air Date: 1957-11-10

11. Man in a Moon

Air Date: 1957-11-17

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?.

12. The Human Touch

Air Date: 1957-11-24

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

13. Sister

Air Date: 1957-12-01

14. The Mortimer Touch

Air Date: 1957-12-08

15. The Dividing Line

Air Date: 1957-12-15

16. Panther 140

Air Date: 1957-12-22

17. The Shining Hour

Air Date: 1960-01-05

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

18. Man in the Corner

Air Date: 1960-01-12

19. The Master Builder

Air Date: 1960-01-19

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

20. Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Air Date: 1960-01-26

21. Night of the Ding-Dong

Air Date: 1960-02-02

22. The Five Dollar Bill

Air Date: 1960-02-09

An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

23. The Lady of Camellias

Air Date: 1960-02-16

A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

24. A Gust of Wind

Air Date: 1960-02-23

25. Murder Story

Air Date: 1960-03-02

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

26. Vendetta

Air Date: 1960-03-09

27. The One Who Came Back

Air Date: 1960-03-16

An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?

28. A Man's Woman

Air Date: 1960-03-23

29. The Emperor Jones

Air Date: 1960-03-30

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

30. Miss Olive

Air Date: 1960-04-06

31. Wolf Pack

Air Date: 1960-04-13

32. The Rat Wife

Air Date: 1960-04-20

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.

33. Fifty Fifty

Air Date: 1960-04-27

34. Breach of Marriage

Air Date: 1960-05-04

35. Hanging Judge

Air Date: 1960-05-11

A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

36. Paid in Full

Air Date: 1960-05-18

The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.

37. Death of Satan

Air Date: 1960-05-25

38. The Widower

Air Date: 1960-06-01

Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

39. No Flags for Geebang

Air Date: 1960-06-08

In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

40. Homecoming

Air Date: 1960-06-15

Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

41. Trial by Candlelight

Air Date: 1960-06-22

In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

42. The House of Bernarda Alba

Air Date: 1960-06-22

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 ensue among the other daughters.

43. Wings of the Wind

Air Date: 1960-06-29

44. Noon on Doomsday

Air Date: 1960-07-06

After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

45. The Sins of Simone

Air Date: 1960-07-13

46. The Woman in Question

Air Date: 1960-07-20

47. The Travelling Lady

Air Date: 1960-08-03

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.

1. The Pillars of Midnight

Air Date: 1958-09-14

A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

2. The Web of Lace

Air Date: 1958-09-21

3. The Franchise Affair

Air Date: 1958-09-28

An elderly woman and her spinster niece are accused of kidnapping.

4. Murder in Slow Motion

Air Date: 1958-10-05

Racing driver Raymond Sibley faces dangers both on and off the track as he competes in the famous Le Mans twenty-four hour race.

5. I Can Destroy the Sun

Air Date: 1958-10-12

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?

6. Time of Your Life

Air Date: 1958-10-19

This is a performance of the play "The Time of Your Life" that was telecast on British television.

7. The Terrorist

Air Date: 1958-10-26

8. The Witching Hour

Air Date: 1958-11-02

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.

9. The Greatest Man in the World

Air Date: 1958-11-09

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.

10. Please Murder Me

Air Date: 1958-11-16

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.

11. The Boy with Meat Axe

Air Date: 1958-11-23

12. Underground

Air Date: 1958-11-30

13. The Report on Jessie Dean

Air Date: 1958-12-07

A bereaved mother, Jessie Dean, steals a baby belonging to a mother who had wanted her child adopted.

14. Dangerous World

Air Date: 1958-12-14

A new magistrate takes up a post in a British colony in Africa aiming to uphold justice against corruption.

15. The Deaf Heart

Air Date: 1958-12-21

16. The Criminals

Air Date: 1958-12-28

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.

17. The Sentry

Air Date: 1959-01-04

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.

18. The Break

Air Date: 1959-01-11

19. Soundings

Air Date: 1959-01-18

A lonely doctor with a mysterious past shies away from operating on a friendly Scottish giant aboard a storm-tossed Antarctic whaler.

20. Love and Money

Air Date: 1959-01-25

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.

21. Hot Summer Night

Air Date: 1959-02-01

Jack Palmer, a strong union man, is forced to confront his principles when his daughter wants to marry a black man.

22. Ernie Barger Is 50

Air Date: 1959-02-08

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.

23. The Thug

Air Date: 1959-02-15

The relationship between Lewis, a young tearaway, and Charlotte, a shy girl who works in a record shop with her sick father.

24. To Ride a Tiger

Air Date: 1959-02-22

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.

25. The Fabulous Money Maker

Air Date: 1959-03-01

A drama based on the life of Ivar Kreugar, a Swedish financier who built up a monopoly in the match industry during the 1920s.

26. The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

Air Date: 1959-03-08

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.

27. No Gun, No Guilt

Air Date: 1959-03-15

A courtroom drama in which a young American lawyer is accused of concealing material evidence in a murder case.

28. Strange Meeting

Air Date: 1959-03-22

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.

29. Star in the Summer Night

Air Date: 1959-03-29

International singing star Adeline Girard is all but forgotten, then she meets a young couple who do not want to get married.

30. The Angry Flower

Air Date: 1959-04-05

31. The Trouble with Benny

Air Date: 1959-04-12

32. Parole

Air Date: 1959-04-19

The life of a young convict released on parole and torn between the needs of his family and his former criminal associates.

33. The Shadow of the Ruthless

Air Date: 1959-04-26

34. Hand in Glove

Air Date: 1959-05-03

35. Till Death Do Us Part

Air Date: 1959-05-10

36. The Big Client

Air Date: 1959-05-17

A satire set in the advertising industry.

37. The Girl on the Beach

Air Date: 1959-05-24

A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.

38. Wedding Day

Air Date: 1959-05-31

39. My Guess Would Be Murder

Air Date: 1959-06-07

40. The Devil's Instrument

Air Date: 1959-06-14

41. The Model Marriage

Air Date: 1959-06-21

42. Guest Appearance

Air Date: 1959-06-28

43. My Lost Saints

Air Date: 1959-07-05

44. If You Loved Me

Air Date: 1959-07-12

45. The Grandma Bandit

Air Date: 1959-07-19

46. A House of His Own

Air Date: 1959-07-26

47. The Garden Party

Air Date: 1959-08-02

48. Lysette

Air Date: 1959-08-09

49. You'll Never See Me Again

Air Date: 1959-08-16

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.

50. Black Laughter/Double Exit

Air Date: 1959-08-23

51. Invitation to Murder

Air Date: 1959-08-30

52. Young David

Air Date: 1959-09-06

A gentle orphan discovers life and love in an indifferent adult world.

1. The Scent of Fear

Air Date: 1959-09-13

Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.

2. After the Show

Air Date: 1959-09-20

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.

3. Worm in the Bud

Air Date: 1959-09-27

4. Light from a Star

Air Date: 1959-10-04

5. The Thought of Tomorrow

Air Date: 1959-10-11

6. No Trams to Lime Street

Air Date: 1959-10-18

7. A Trick of the Sun

Air Date: 1959-10-25

8. A Shilling for the Evil Day

Air Date: 1959-11-01

9. Small Fish Are Sweet

Air Date: 1959-11-08

10. The Last of the Brave

Air Date: 1959-11-15

11. Suspicious Mind

Air Date: 1959-11-22

12. The Rebel and the Soldier

Air Date: 1959-11-29

13. Dr Kabil

Air Date: 1959-12-06

14. Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing

Air Date: 1959-12-13

15. The Golden Horn

Air Date: 1959-12-20

16. The Last Tycoon

Air Date: 1959-12-27

17. Lord Arthur Savile's Crime

Air Date: 1960-01-03

18. Where I Live

Air Date: 1960-01-10

19. Misfire

Air Date: 1960-01-17

20. Fifth Floor People

Air Date: 1960-01-24

21. Cold Fury

Air Date: 1960-01-31

22. Night Panic

Air Date: 1960-02-07

23. Come in Razor Red

Air Date: 1960-02-14

24. Guardian Angel

Air Date: 1960-02-21

25. Pink String and Sealing Wax

Air Date: 1960-02-28

26. China Doll

Air Date: 1960-03-06

27. Some Talk of Alexander

Air Date: 1960-03-13

28. The Girl in the Market Square

Air Date: 1960-03-20

29. Roman Gesture

Air Date: 1960-03-27

30. After the Funeral

Air Date: 1960-04-03

31. The Leather Jungle

Air Date: 1960-04-10

32. Hold My Hand, Soldier

Air Date: 1960-04-17

33. A Night Out

Air Date: 1960-04-24

34. A Phone Call for Matthew Quade

Air Date: 1960-05-01

35. The Innocent

Air Date: 1960-05-08

36. Nest of Four

Air Date: 1960-05-15

37. On the Spot

Air Date: 1960-05-22

52. Night Stop

Air Date: 1962-05-27

Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

53. The Irish Boys

Air Date: 1960-06-10

83. A Kind of Kingdom

Air Date: 1963-09-01

1. Big Brain Man

Air Date: 1960-09-11

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.

2. A Heart and a Diamond

Air Date: 1960-09-18

3. Lena, O My Lena

Air Date: 1960-09-25

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.

4. Pig's Ear with Flowers

Air Date: 1960-10-02

5. Thunder on the Snowy

Air Date: 1960-10-09

6. The Siege at Killyfaddy

Air Date: 1960-10-16

7. I'll Have You to Remember

Air Date: 1960-10-23

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

8. My Representative

Air Date: 1960-10-30

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

9. The Cake Baker

Air Date: 1960-11-06

10. Hail the Conquering Hero

Air Date: 1960-11-13

11. The Stranger

Air Date: 1960-11-20

12. Mr Nobody

Air Date: 1960-11-27

13. Clip Joint People

Air Date: 1960-12-04

14. The Cupboard

Air Date: 1960-12-11

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

15. Rain

Air Date: 1960-12-18

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

16. The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

Air Date: 1960-12-25

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

17. A Head Full of Crocodiles

Air Date: 1961-01-01

18. Till the Day I Die

Air Date: 1961-01-08

19. The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

Air Date: 1961-01-15

20. The Picture of Dorian Gray

Air Date: 1961-01-22

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

21. Honeymoon Postponed

Air Date: 1961-01-29

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

22. A Degree of Murder

Air Date: 1961-02-05

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

23. Strangers in the Room

Air Date: 1961-02-12

24. The Money Makers

Air Date: 1961-02-19

25. Tune on an Apron-String

Air Date: 1961-02-26

26. The Big Deal

Air Date: 1961-03-03

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.

27. The Man Out There

Air Date: 1961-03-12

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.

28. The Conscientious Gauger

Air Date: 1961-03-26

29. The Way of Love

Air Date: 1961-04-09

30. The Hero

Air Date: 1961-04-23

31. Danger! Men Working

Air Date: 1961-05-21

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.

32. No Licence for Singing

Air Date: 1961-05-21

33. Flying High

Air Date: 1961-04-23

34. Man on a Mountain Top

Air Date: 1961-04-30

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

35. Duel for Love

Air Date: 1961-05-07

36. The Ship That Couldn't Stop

Air Date: 1961-05-14

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

37. The Truth About Helen

Air Date: 1961-05-21

38. The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

Air Date: 1961-05-28

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.

39. The Typists

Air Date: 1961-06-04

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

40. The Night of the Apes

Air Date: 1961-06-11

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.

1. The Omega Mystery

Air Date: 1961-09-10

Butler and Robinson have to track down a saboteur at an atomic research station before it is too late.

2. Looking For Frankie

Air Date: 1961-09-24

3. The Rose Affair

Air Date: 1961-10-08

A modern take on the old story of Beauty and the Beast.

4. His Polyvinyl Girl

Air Date: 1961-10-22

A department store closes for the night and instead of going home, the staff realize a musical fantasy amongst the store set pieces.

5. Roll On Bloomin' Death

Air Date: 1961-11-05

Its near the end of World War 2, and a young green officer takes over a war weary platoon, he is ordered to take some of them on a raid, but he cannot rouse any volunteers.

6. The Trouble With Our Ivy

Air Date: 1961-11-19

A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper

7. Murder Club

Air Date: 1961-12-03

In the year 2110, Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting.

8. Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle

Air Date: 1961-12-17

When the inland revenue gets an angry mistress's letter exposing a man named Toby as a tax cheat, they quietly put pressure on him. Toby panics, and hires an unscrupulous lawyer named Elvin, but he has a hard time taking his advice.

9. The Rank and File

Air Date: 1961-12-31

An observation on corruption in a US Trade Union.Follows the life of factory worker Bill Kilcoyne from the depressed 1930s to his present day (1959) standing in front of a Senate Committee as a trade union leader.

10. Night Conspirators

Air Date: 1962-05-06

An elderly man is rescued from Iceland. Why would an elderly man need to escape from Iceland? Unless of course its Adolf Hitler.

11. Girl In A Birdcage

Air Date: 1962-05-13

12. Night Stop

Air Date: 1962-05-27

Eddy, a young Midlands bargee, investigates the so-called accidental drowning death of a lifelong friend.

13. The Irish Boys

Air Date: 1962-06-10

14. Dumb Martian

Air Date: 1962-06-24

On Mars, Withers a gruff, bigoted pioneer buys himself a Martian wife for company. Like all her race, Lellie cannot speak and Withers treats her like a slave. But he becomes jealous when Weaver, a young scientist, lodges at his camp and treats Lellie sympathetically.

15. The Hard Knock

Air Date: 1962-07-08

A short tempered Irishman returns home after his brother was hanged for murder during a robbery. Though at first determined he was actually innocent, family and friends slowly convince him otherwise.

16. North City Traffic Straight Ahead

Air Date: 1962-07-22

17. The Fishing Match

Air Date: 1962-08-19

Peter drives his uncle and his friends to the countryside to take part in a fishing match. Meeting Kath he tells her stories of his father's travels but discovers a picture of him taken in Skegness and knows he's living a lie.

1. Nothing To Pay

Air Date: 1962-09-02

Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.

2. The Sin Shifter

Air Date: 1962-09-16

Fisherman Manny Barnes comes into conflict with the local clergy as he tries to halt the decline in his fishing town by turning it into a gambling spot.

3. Afternoon of a Nymph

Air Date: 1962-09-30

An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and possible stardom. However while she is there, she realizes that there is a price to pay.

4. Dead Letter

Air Date: 1962-10-14

Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

5. Always Something Hot

Air Date: 1962-10-28

6. Thank You and Goodnight

Air Date: 1962-11-11

A rather intellectual young woman who has just broken off an affair with a married man meets a rather uncouth pop singer on a train journey.

7. The Big Ride

Air Date: 1962-11-25

8. Joker

Air Date: 1962-12-09

9. Hear The Tiger, See The Bay

Air Date: 1962-12-23

10. Blue and White

Air Date: 1963-01-06

11. The Hot Potato Boys

Air Date: 1963-01-20

12. Into The Dark

Air Date: 1963-02-03

13. The Paradise Suite

Air Date: 1963-02-17

After a London premiere, a psychologically troubled Hollywood starlet in a luxury hotel suite meets several men, including a critic, an agent, a bell hop and a photographer, desperately seeking understanding.

14. The Cruel Kind

Air Date: 1963-03-17

Arnold, a soldier who has deserted after a traumatic event on the Berlin Wall, is drowning his sorrows in a pub. A Spanish boy who can speak little English enters the pub begging for help against a lynch mob chasing him, accusing him of molesting the daughter of a local businessman. After recent events, Arnold wants no involvement, but Cissy persuades him otherwise.

15. The Invasion

Air Date: 1963-03-31

Inhabitants in a remote village laughs off and dismiss a couple of schoolboys' claims that they are being invaded by aliens.

16. Power and Glory

Air Date: 1963-04-14

17. Wagger

Air Date: 1963-04-28

18. Jungle Juice

Air Date: 1963-05-12

19. The Wednesday Caller

Air Date: 1963-05-26

20. The Monkey and the Mohawk

Air Date: 1963-06-09

21. The Pushover

Air Date: 1963-06-23

22. Late Summer

Air Date: 1963-07-07

Helga and David travel to a secluded hotel for some alone time. Helga is much older than David and tongues wag among the other guests. The more time they are together. the more their age difference becomes a rift between them.

23. A Little Night Music

Air Date: 1963-07-21

24. The Snag

Air Date: 1963-08-04

When developer John Goggin plans to build a civic centre, only Emma Mannering's corset shoppe stands in the way, and she refuses to sell, so he sends his unscrupulous assistant Ed Crayshaw to "fix" things, but instead he's double crossed.

25. Living Image

Air Date: 1963-08-18

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.

1. A Kind of Kingdom

Air Date: 1963-09-01

2. The Front Room

Air Date: 1963-09-15

3. Mr. Big

Air Date: 1963-09-29

4. Little Doris

Air Date: 1963-10-13

5. The Chocolate Tree

Air Date: 1963-10-27

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.

6. Long Past Glory

Air Date: 1963-11-17

7. The Higher They Fly

Air Date: 1963-12-01

8. The Swindler

Air Date: 1963-12-15

9. A Way of Living

Air Date: 1963-12-29

10. Sharp at Four

Air Date: 1964-01-12

11. Last Word on Julie

Air Date: 1964-01-26

12. The Pretty English Girls

Air Date: 1964-02-16

13. Realm of Error

Air Date: 1964-03-01

14. Always Ask for the Best

Air Date: 1964-03-15

15. Mug's Game

Air Date: 1964-03-29

16. Prisoner and Escort

Air Date: 1964-04-05

17. Cradle Song

Air Date: 1964-04-12

18. A Nice Little Business

Air Date: 1964-04-26

19. Pleasure Where She Finds It

Air Date: 1964-05-03

20. A Jug of Bread

Air Date: 1964-05-17

21. St. Ernie Leatherbound

Air Date: 1964-05-24

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.

22. That's Where the Town's Going

Air Date: 1964-06-07

23. Exit Joe - Running

Air Date: 1964-06-14

24. A Certain Kind of Silence

Air Date: 1964-06-28

1. The Trial of Doctor Fancy

Air Date: 1964-09-13

2. The Cherry on the Top

Air Date: 1964-09-27

3. Something To Declare

Air Date: 1964-10-04

4. Old Soldiers

Air Date: 1964-10-18

5. They Throw It At You

Air Date: 1964-10-25

6. The Importance of Being Ernest

Air Date: 1964-11-15

7. The Girl in the Picture

Air Date: 1964-11-29

8. Sally

Air Date: 1964-12-06

9. The Hothouse

Air Date: 1964-12-13

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. I've Got a System

Air Date: 1965-01-03

11. The Gaming Book

Air Date: 1965-01-10

12. Putty Metal

Air Date: 1965-01-24

13. The Lady with the Albatross

Air Date: 1965-02-14

14. The Vanishing Trick

Air Date: 1965-02-28

15. Keys of the Cafe

Air Date: 1965-03-07

16. I Took My Little World Away

Air Date: 1965-03-14

17. A Fearful Thing

Air Date: 1965-03-15

18. A Voice in the Sky

Air Date: 1965-03-21

19. I Loved You Last Summer

Air Date: 1965-04-04

20. The Man Who Came to Die

Air Date: 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. The Incident

Air Date: 1965-04-25

1. The Paraffin Season

Air Date: 1965-12-04

2. The Gong Game

Air Date: 1965-12-11

3. A Cold Peace

Air Date: 1965-12-18

4. The Sweet War Man

Air Date: 1966-01-01

5. Ready for the Glory

Air Date: 1966-01-08

6. Neighbors

Air Date: 1966-01-15

7. The Pity of it All

Air Date: 1966-01-22

8. Man Without a Mortgage

Air Date: 1966-03-19

9. The Battersea Miracle

Air Date: 1966-03-26

Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. 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.

10. The Night Before the Morning After

Air Date: 1966-04-02

11. Don't Utter a Note

Air Date: 1966-04-09

12. Daughter of the House

Air Date: 1966-04-16

13. The Walls Came Tumbling Down

Air Date: 1966-04-23

14. The Match

Air Date: 1966-04-30

15. Pretty Polly

Air Date: 1966-07-23

16. The Wager

Air Date: 1966-07-30

17. The One-Eyed Monster

Air Date: 1966-08-06

18. Great Big Blonde

Air Date: 1966-08-13

19. A Fair Swap

Air Date: 1966-08-20

20. The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson

Air Date: 1966-08-27

21. The Noise Stopped

Air Date: 1966-09-03

22. Dead Silence

Air Date: 1966-09-10

23. Barrett Keller: His Mark

Air Date: 1966-09-17

24. Light the Blue Touch Paper

Air Date: 1966-09-24

25. The Tilted Screen

Air Date: 1966-10-01

26. The Three Barrelled Shotgun

Air Date: 1966-10-08

27. The Long Nightmare

Air Date: 1966-10-15

1. The Floating Population

Air Date: 1967-01-28

2. A Magnum for Schneider

Air Date: 1967-02-04

A pilot episode for Callan.

3. What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

Air Date: 1967-02-11

4. Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Air Date: 1967-02-18

Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.

5. Easier in the Dark

Air Date: 1967-02-25

6. Reason For Sale

Air Date: 1967-03-04

7. The Happy Sacking

Air Date: 1967-03-11

8. The Exploding Azalea

Air Date: 1967-03-18

9. Any Number Can Play

Air Date: 1967-03-25

10. A World of Time

Air Date: 1967-04-01

11. Call Me Daddy

Air Date: 1967-04-08

12. I Am Osango

Air Date: 1967-04-15

13. Will You Come a Little Closer

Air Date: 1967-04-22

14. England My England

Air Date: 1967-04-29

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.

15. In The Name of the Law

Air Date: 1967-05-06

16. Depart in Terror

Air Date: 1967-05-13

17. The Snares of Death

Air Date: 1967-05-20

When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.

18. Compensation Alice

Air Date: 1967-07-01

19. A Slight Formality

Air Date: 1967-07-08

20. Quite an Ordinary Knife

Air Date: 1967-07-15

21. Another Branch of the Family

Air Date: 1967-07-22

22. Love Life

Air Date: 1967-07-29

23. The Education of Corporal Halliday

Air Date: 1967-08-05

24. Nursery Tale

Air Date: 1967-08-12

25. Marriage and Henry Sunday

Air Date: 1967-08-19

26. The Girl

Air Date: 1967-08-26

27. Split Level

Air Date: 1967-09-02

28. Poor Cherry

Air Date: 1967-09-09

29. Don't Forget the Basics

Air Date: 1967-09-16

30. The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick

Air Date: 1967-09-23

1. Mrs. Capper's Birthday

Air Date: 1968-02-03

2. The Wind in a Tall Paper Chimney

Air Date: 1968-02-10

3. The Scallop Shell

Air Date: 1968-02-17

4. A Second Look

Air Date: 1968-02-21

5. The Contract

Air Date: 1968-03-02

6. A Very Fine Line

Air Date: 1968-03-09

7. Unscheduled Stop

Air Date: 1968-03-15

8. Recount

Air Date: 1968-04-18

9. No Easy Walk

Air Date: 1968-05-04

10. The Escape Club

Air Date: 1968-05-11

11. Home Movies

Air Date: 1968-05-18

12. You and Me

Air Date: 1968-05-25

13. The Glove Puppet

Air Date: 1968-06-01

14. The Three Wives of Felix Hull

Air Date: 1968-06-08

15. One Night I Danced with Mr. Dalton

Air Date: 1968-06-13

16. The Ballad of the Artificial Mash

Air Date: 1968-07-27

1. The Frobisher Game

Air Date: 1969-01-06

2. A Foot in the Door

Air Date: 1969-01-13

3. What's a Mother For?

Air Date: 1969-01-20

4. The Manderins

Air Date: 1969-01-27

5. Go On - It'll Do You Good

Air Date: 1969-02-03

6. The Good Son

Air Date: 1969-02-10

Eddie the son that made good in Canada, returns on a trip to see his London Mum, he has been quite happy to contribute to her welfare but discovers she has a young tenant that has been living rent free for several months.

7. The Brophy Story

Air Date: 1969-02-17

8. Edward the Confessor

Air Date: 1969-02-24

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.

9. The Story-Teller

Air Date: 1969-03-03

10. On Vacation

Air Date: 1969-03-10

1. Up Among the Cuckoos

Air Date: 1970-06-08

2. The Others

Air Date: 1970-06-15

3. The World in a Room

Air Date: 1970-06-22

4. The End of the Line

Air Date: 1970-06-29

5. A Young Man in Trouble

Air Date: 1970-07-06

6. The Prime Minister's Daughter

Air Date: 1970-07-13

7. A Room in Town

Air Date: 1970-09-15

8. Warm Feet, Warm Heart

Air Date: 1970-09-22

9. The Second Interview

Air Date: 1970-09-29

10. The Company Man

Air Date: 1970-10-06

11. Poor Mother

Air Date: 1970-10-13

12. Mrs Davenport

Air Date: 1970-10-20

13. Say Goodnight to Your Grandma

Air Date: 1970-10-27

14. The Dolly Scene

Air Date: 1970-11-03

15. Wednesday's Child

Air Date: 1970-11-10

16. Still Life

Air Date: 1970-11-17

1. Ireland, Mother Ireland

Air Date: 1971-08-03

2. The Bargain Hunters

Air Date: 1971-08-10

3. Office Party

Air Date: 1971-08-17

4. The Loving Lessons

Air Date: 1971-08-31

5. Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee

Air Date: 1971-09-07

6. Detective Waiting

Air Date: 1971-09-14

7. The Girl on the M1

Air Date: 1971-09-21

8. Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'?

Air Date: 1971-09-29

9. Competition

Air Date: 1971-10-05

10. Man Charged

Air Date: 1971-10-12

11. Father's Help

Air Date: 1971-10-19

1. The Left Overs

Air Date: 1972-08-22

2. Whatever Became of Me

Air Date: 1972-08-29

3. A Touch of the Victorians

Air Date: 1972-09-05

4. High Summer

Air Date: 1972-09-12

5. Franklin's Farm

Air Date: 1972-09-19

6. A Fluid Arrangement

Air Date: 1972-09-26

7. On Call

Air Date: 1972-10-03

8. The Creditors

Air Date: 1972-10-10

9. The Breaking of Colonel Keyser

Air Date: 1972-10-17

10. Anywhere But England, Old Boy

Air Date: 1972-10-31

11. The Folk Singer

Air Date: 1972-11-07

12. The Stumbling Block

Air Date: 1972-12-11

1. The Death of Glory

Air Date: 1973-09-11

2. Beyond Our Means

Air Date: 1973-09-18

3. A Bit of a Lift

Air Date: 1973-09-25

4. Brussel Sprouts-Boy Scouts

Air Date: 1973-10-02

5. Red Riding Hood

Air Date: 1973-10-09

6. The Square of Three

Air Date: 1973-10-16

7. Verite

Air Date: 1973-10-23

8. The Golden Road

Air Date: 1973-10-30

9. Russian Roulette

Air Date: 1973-11-06

10. That Sinking Feeling

Air Date: 1973-11-13

1. If You Could See What I Can See

Air Date: 1974-05-15

2. Amy, Wonderful Amy

Air Date: 1974-05-22

3. The Virgins

Air Date: 1974-06-24

4. According to the Rules

Air Date: 1974-09-03

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Rating

5.8/10

Release Date

1956-07-08

Episodes

444 (18 seasons)

Status

Ended

Cast