Armchair Theatre

- Season 3

(1958)

A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

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

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

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?

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

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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, Thorne kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under a 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.

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.

A black comedy in which Mr Potz, a rich man who longs to die, hires his own assassin, choosing Miss Higgins, an eccentric author of detective fiction, to carry out the task.

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

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

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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.

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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A satire set in the advertising industry.

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

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

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.

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.

An elderly man living on his own in Belfast rouses the suspicions of his neighbors.

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

Geoffrey Hansbury's clothing empire is on the verge of collapse. His health his deteriorating and relies on his secretary Jane Harrison, who is also his mistress. All their efforts are needed to get the deal that will save his business.

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.

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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.

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Holidaying in Algeria, French minister Corrazzi, is fighting for his life, in hospital after a botched assassination attempt. Algerian doctor Dr Kabil is reluctantly trusted to save his life but discovers his daughter was the assassin.

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

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.

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.

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A fictionalized account of a famous murder case of the early 1900s.

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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.

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A soldier can escape from a trap, but only if he leaves a dying officer and his wounded NCO.

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.

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.

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When Tony Pirelli, king of the mob, puts you "on the spot", you're a dead man. But Tony's own position is not so secure.