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Armchair Theatre

Season 6 · 17 episodes · Sep 10, 1961

  1. Episode 1

    The Omega Mystery

    Sep 10, 1961

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

  2. Episode 2

    Looking For Frankie

    Sep 24, 1961

  3. Episode 3

    The Rose Affair

    Oct 8, 1961

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

  4. Episode 4

    His Polyvinyl Girl

    Oct 22, 1961

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

  5. Episode 5

    Roll On Bloomin' Death

    Nov 5, 1961

    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. Episode 6

    The Trouble With Our Ivy

    Nov 19, 1961

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

  7. Episode 7

    Murder Club

    Dec 3, 1961

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

  8. Episode 8

    Tune On An Old Tax Fiddle

    Dec 17, 1961

    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. Episode 9

    The Rank and File

    Dec 31, 1961

    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. Episode 10

    Night Conspirators

    May 6, 1962

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

  11. Episode 11

    Girl In A Birdcage

    May 13, 1962

  12. Episode 12

    Night Stop

    May 27, 1962

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

  13. Episode 13

    The Irish Boys

    Jun 10, 1962

  14. Episode 14

    Dumb Martian

    Jun 24, 1962

    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. Episode 15

    The Hard Knock

    Jul 8, 1962

    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. Episode 16

    North City Traffic Straight Ahead

    Jul 22, 1962

  17. Episode 17

    The Fishing Match

    Aug 19, 1962

    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.