Armchair Theatre - Season 4

Season 4

Episodes

Big Brain Man
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.

A Heart and a Diamond

Lena, O My Lena
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.

Pig's Ear with Flowers

Thunder on the Snowy

The Seige at Killyfaddy

I'll Have You to Remember
A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

My Representative

The Cake Baker

Hail the Conquering Hero

The Stranger

Mr. Nobody

Clip Joint People

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

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

The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

A Head Full of Crocodiles

Till the Day I Die

The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

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

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

A Degree of Murder

Strangers in the Room

The Money Makers

Tune on an Apron-String

The Big Deal

The Man Out There
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.

The Conscientious Gauger

The Way of Love

The Hero

Danger! Men Working

No Licence for Singing

Flying High

Man on a Mountain Top

Duel for Love

The Ship That Couldn't Stop
A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

The Truth About Helen

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
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.

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

The Night of the Apes
Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist. He finds his return to his home town no easy matter.

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

Looking for Frankie

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

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

Roll on Blooming Death
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.

The Trouble with Our Ivy
A feud over rose-growing escalates to manic proportions when one neighbour acquires a fast-growing creeper

Murder Club
Stanley Frelaine is urged by his boss to improve his social connections by taking up hunting. But this is the year 2110,

A Tune on the Old Tax Fiddle
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.

The Rank and File

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

Girl in a Bird Cage

Night Stop

The Irish Boys

Dumb Martian
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.

The Hard Knock
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.

North City Traffic Straight Ahead

The Fishing Match

Nothing to Pay
Supporters leave their village for the first time and visit the city to see an away match.

The Sin Shifter
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.

Afternoon of a Nymph
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...

Dead Letter

Always Something Hot

Thank You and Goodnight
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.

The Big Ride

Joker

Hear the Tiger See the Bay

Blue and White

The Hot Potato Boys

Into the Dark

The Paradise Suite
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.

The Cruel Kind
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.

Invasion

Power and Glory

Wagger

Jungle Juice

The Wednesday Caller

The Monkey and the Mohawk

The Push Over

Late Summer

A Little Night Music

The Snag
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.

The Living Image
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.

A Kind of Kingdom

The Front Room

Mr. Big

Little Doris

The Chocolate Tree

Long Past Glory
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
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

A Way of Living

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

The Last Word on Julie

The Pretty English Girls

Realm of Error

Always Ask for the Best
An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

Mug's Game

Prisoner and Escort

Cradle Song

A Nice Little Business

Pleasure is Where She Finds It

A Jug of Bread

St Ernie: Leather Bound
A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove his new found religion works by allowing 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 is Going

Exit Joe: Running

A Certain Kind of Silence
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