Armchair Theatre

- Season 4

(1960)

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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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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.

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.

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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.

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

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.

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...

Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

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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.

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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.

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.

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

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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 age difference becomes a rift between them.

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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.

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.

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A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.

Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.

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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.

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.

Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.

Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.

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

Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.

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An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

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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.

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