Armchair Theatre - Season 3

Season 3

Episodes

The Pillars of Midnight

The Web of Lace

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

Murder in Slow Motion

I Can Destroy the Sun

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

The Terrorist

The Witching Hour

The Greatest Man in the World
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.

Please Murder Me

The Boy with Meat Axe

Underground

The Report on Jessie Dean

Dangerous World

The Deaf Heart

The Criminals

The Sentry

The Break

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

Love and Money

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

Ernie Barger is 50

The Thug

To Ride a Tiger

The Fabulous Money Maker

The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

No Gun, No Guilt

Strange Meeting

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

The Angry Flower

The Trouble with Benny

Parole

The Shadow of the Ruthless

Hand in Glove

Till Death Do Us Part

The Big Client
A satire set in the advertising industry.

The Girl on the Beach
A girl who has lost her memory discovers that she is rich - a fact resented by others.

Wedding Day

My Guess Would Be Murder

The Devil's Instrument

The Model Marriage

Guest Appearance

My Lost Saints

If You Loved Me

The Grandma Bandit

A House of His Own

The Garden Party

Lysette

You'll Never See Me Again

Black Laughter/Double Exit

Invitation to Murder

Young David

The Scent of Fear
Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced an air hostess to conceal him so he may defect on arrival in London. However, a high ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger, tells her the man she's protecting isn't wanted for his politics, but that he's a murderer.

After the Show
Young Victor Liebig returns from the theatre with his eccentric Aunt, when 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.

Worm in the Bud

Light from a Star
A reclusive, once-famous film star is sought for a comeback.

The Thought of Tomorrow

No Trams to Lime Street
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.

A Trick of the Sun

A Shilling for the Evil Day

Small Fish Are Sweet

The Last of the Brave

Suspicious Mind
An elderly lady with a "suspicious mind" begins to suspect a charming-seeming neighbor of murder, even though her daughter is falling in love with him.

The Rebel and the Soldier

Dr. Kabil

Roast Goose and Walnut Stuffing

The Golden Horn

The Last Tycoon
F.Scott Fitzgerald's novel is brought to life in this story of a movie producer slowly working himself to death.

Lord Arthur Savile's Crime
Saville is told by a palm reader he is doomed to become a murderer at some future time. He decides to get the inevitable out of the way before his upcoming society wedding, and goes about attempting the crime on several likely victims.

Where I Live
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.

Misfire

Fifth Floor People

Cold Fury

Night Panic

Come in Razor Red

Guardian Angel

Pink String and Sealing Wax
A fictionalized account of a famous murder case of the early 1900s.

China Doll

Some Talk of Alexander

The Girl in the Market Square
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.

Roman Gesture

After the Funeral

The Leather Jungle

Hold My Hand, Soldier

A Night Out
Mother's boy Albert finally rebels, and goes to a works party. But things start to go wrong when he is accused of molesting a female colleague.

A Phone Call for Matthew Quade
Matthew Quade fears he is all washed up,waits by the phone for a call to prove otherwise.

The Innocent
A famous pop singer becomes involved in a murder trial.

Nest of Four

On the Spot
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