Armchair Theatre

Jul 8, 1956

Aug 12, 1956

Sep 16, 1956

Sep 23, 1956

Sep 30, 1956

Oct 7, 1956

Oct 14, 1956

Oct 28, 1956

After a five month trudge through Poland the Kosky family have reached an Austrian labour camp. Their hopes to emigrate to Canada take a desperate turn when Mrs Kosky is diagnosed with tuberculosis.

Nov 4, 1956

Nov 11, 1956

Nov 25, 1956

When someone is killed in a road accident, Bob Slater wants to "do the right thing". But will he?

Dec 2, 1956

Dec 9, 1956

The theme of Romeo and Juliet reworked in an orthodox Jewish household where Jeff who is a Christian falls in love with Juliet. Both families bitterly oppose the relationship. The story is set in wartime, in the East End of London.

Dec 16, 1956

Dec 16, 1956

Dec 23, 1956

Late 19th century. The young miss Julie lives in a mansion with her father. She has recently broken her engagement but is attracted to one of the servants, Jean. They spend the midsummer night together, telling each other their memories and of their dreams. Realizing that an affair between a man of the people and an aristocrat is impossible, they plan to escape to Switzerland.

Dec 30, 1956

Jan 13, 1957

Jan 20, 1957

Mrs. Kendrick borrows a jeweled necklace from a friend for an important social event. Afterwards it is stolen, and Mrs. Kendrick goes into debt to duplicate it. The thief discovers it's costume jewelry, but Mrs. Kendrick never learns the truth, and struggles for years to pay off the huge debt.

Jan 27, 1957

Feb 3, 1957

Feb 10, 1957

Feb 17, 1957

There are odd goings-on in the Turkish baths. Is the distinguished stranger among the Colonel Blimps really the "King of Iceland"?

Feb 24, 1957

Mar 10, 1957

Olivia Russell is outwardly a devoted wife and mother, the kind mistress of a happy home, and a sympathetic friend. But this suburban respectability conceals a sinister aspect of the feminine.

Mar 17, 1957

Deep beneath the streets of Italy lie the catacombs of the Montresors, filled with barrels of wine and the bones of the dead. One evening, friends Fortunado and Montresor venture below the city with promises of the rare vintage wine Amontillado and find themselves in a web of betrayal and revenge that changes their friendship forever. Based on the short story by Edgar Allan Poe.

Mar 24, 1957

What future is there for a forgotten star of the New York theatre?

Apr 7, 1957

Apr 14, 1957

Apr 21, 1957

May 5, 1957

A young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.

May 12, 1957

May 19, 1957

May 26, 1957

Jun 2, 1957

Jun 9, 1957

A famous (married) concert pianist falls in love with a young music student.

Jun 16, 1957

Jun 30, 1957

The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.

Jul 14, 1957

Jul 28, 1957

Aug 11, 1957

Aug 25, 1957

Sep 8, 1957

Sep 15, 1957

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.

Sep 22, 1957

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

Sep 29, 1957

Oct 6, 1957

Oct 13, 1957

Oct 20, 1957

Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

Oct 28, 1957

Nov 3, 1957

Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

Nov 10, 1957

Nov 17, 1957

A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.

Nov 24, 1957

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

Dec 1, 1957

Dec 8, 1957

Dec 15, 1957

Dec 22, 1957

Jan 5, 1960

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

Jan 12, 1960

Jan 19, 1960

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

Jan 26, 1960

Feb 2, 1960

Feb 9, 1960

An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

Feb 16, 1960

A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

Feb 23, 1960

Mar 2, 1960

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

Mar 9, 1960

Mar 16, 1960

An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?

Mar 23, 1960

Mar 30, 1960

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Apr 6, 1960

Apr 13, 1960

Apr 20, 1960

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

Apr 27, 1960

May 4, 1960

May 11, 1960

A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

May 18, 1960

The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.

May 25, 1960

Jun 1, 1960

Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

Jun 8, 1960

In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

Jun 15, 1960

Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

Jun 22, 1960

In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

Jun 22, 1960

A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.

Jun 29, 1960

Jul 6, 1960

After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

Jul 13, 1960

Jul 20, 1960

Aug 3, 1960

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.

Sep 14, 1958

A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

Sep 21, 1958

Sep 28, 1958

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

Oct 5, 1958

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

Oct 12, 1958

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?

Oct 19, 1958

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

Oct 26, 1958

Nov 2, 1958

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, the youth kills an enemy of Brookfield's while under the 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.

Nov 9, 1958

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.

Nov 16, 1958

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

Nov 23, 1958

Nov 30, 1958

Dec 7, 1958

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

Dec 14, 1958

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

Dec 21, 1958

Dec 28, 1958

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.

Jan 4, 1959

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.

Jan 11, 1959

Jan 18, 1959

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

Jan 25, 1959

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.

Feb 1, 1959

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

Feb 8, 1959

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.

Feb 15, 1959

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

Feb 22, 1959

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.

Mar 1, 1959

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

Mar 8, 1959

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.

Mar 15, 1959

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

Mar 22, 1959

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.

Mar 29, 1959

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

Apr 5, 1959

Apr 12, 1959

Apr 19, 1959

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

Apr 26, 1959

May 3, 1959

May 10, 1959

May 17, 1959

A satire set in the advertising industry.

May 24, 1959

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

May 31, 1959

Jun 7, 1959

Jun 14, 1959

Jun 21, 1959

Jun 28, 1959

Jul 5, 1959

Jul 12, 1959

Jul 19, 1959

Jul 26, 1959

Aug 2, 1959

Aug 9, 1959

Aug 16, 1959

Jim Mason's wife Molly vanishes after purportedly leaving to visit her parents. When Jim calls the in-laws he has never met, he discovers she never arrived. As the mystery deepens, the police suspect Jim of a sinister crime.

Aug 23, 1959

Aug 30, 1959

Sep 6, 1959

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

Sep 13, 1959

Aboard a BOAC plane departing an unnamed Iron Curtain country, a stowaway has convinced a flight attendant to conceal him so he can defect on arrival in London. However, a high-ranking secret police officer posing as a passenger informs her that the man she's protecting is not wanted for his politics; actually, he is a murderer.

Sep 20, 1959

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.

Sep 27, 1959

Oct 4, 1959

Oct 11, 1959

Oct 18, 1959

Oct 25, 1959

Nov 1, 1959

Nov 8, 1959

Nov 15, 1959

Nov 22, 1959

Nov 29, 1959

Dec 6, 1959

Dec 13, 1959

Dec 20, 1959

Dec 27, 1959

Jan 3, 1960

Jan 10, 1960

Jan 17, 1960

Jan 24, 1960

Jan 31, 1960

Feb 7, 1960

Feb 14, 1960

Feb 21, 1960

Feb 28, 1960

Mar 6, 1960

Mar 13, 1960

Mar 20, 1960

Mar 27, 1960

Apr 3, 1960

Apr 10, 1960

Apr 17, 1960

Apr 24, 1960

May 1, 1960

May 8, 1960

May 15, 1960

May 22, 1960

May 27, 1962

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

Jun 10, 1960

Sep 1, 1963

Sep 11, 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.

Sep 18, 1960

Sep 25, 1960

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

Oct 2, 1960

Oct 9, 1960

Oct 16, 1960

Oct 23, 1960

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

Oct 30, 1960

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

Nov 6, 1960

Nov 13, 1960

Nov 20, 1960

Nov 27, 1960

Dec 4, 1960

Dec 11, 1960

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

Dec 18, 1960

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

Dec 25, 1960

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

Jan 1, 1961

Jan 8, 1961

Jan 15, 1961

Jan 22, 1961

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

Jan 29, 1961

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

Feb 5, 1961

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

Feb 12, 1961

Feb 19, 1961

Feb 26, 1961

Mar 3, 1961

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.

Mar 12, 1961

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.

Mar 26, 1961

Apr 9, 1961

Apr 23, 1961

May 21, 1961

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.

May 21, 1961

Apr 23, 1961

Apr 30, 1961

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

May 7, 1961

May 14, 1961

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

May 21, 1961

May 28, 1961

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.

Jun 4, 1961

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

Jun 11, 1961

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.

Sep 10, 1961

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

Sep 24, 1961

Oct 8, 1961

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

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.

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.

Nov 19, 1961

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

Dec 3, 1961

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

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.

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.

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.

May 13, 1962

May 27, 1962

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

Jun 10, 1962

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.

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.

Jul 22, 1962

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.

Sep 2, 1962

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

Sep 16, 1962

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.

Sep 30, 1962

An agent invites his young starlet to a party so she can meet all the right people and have a chance to move on from the commercials she has been doing, to bigger roles and possible stardom. However while she is there, she realizes that there is a price to pay.

Oct 14, 1962

Relatives gathered for a funeral tea get unexpected news.

Oct 28, 1962

Nov 11, 1962

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.

Nov 25, 1962

Dec 9, 1962

Dec 23, 1962

Jan 6, 1963

Jan 20, 1963

Feb 3, 1963

Feb 17, 1963

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.

Mar 17, 1963

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.

Mar 31, 1963

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

Apr 14, 1963

Apr 28, 1963

May 12, 1963

May 26, 1963

Jun 9, 1963

Jun 23, 1963

Jul 7, 1963

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 their age difference becomes a rift between them.

Jul 21, 1963

Aug 4, 1963

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.

Aug 18, 1963

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.

Sep 1, 1963

Sep 15, 1963

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

Sep 29, 1963

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.

Oct 13, 1963

Oct 27, 1963

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.

Nov 17, 1963

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.

Dec 1, 1963

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

Dec 15, 1963

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.

Dec 29, 1963

Jan 12, 1964

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

Jan 26, 1964

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.

Feb 16, 1964

Mar 1, 1964

Mar 15, 1964

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

Mar 29, 1964

Apr 5, 1964

Apr 12, 1964

Apr 26, 1964

May 3, 1964

May 17, 1964

May 24, 1964

A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.

Jun 7, 1964

Jun 14, 1964

Jun 28, 1964

Sep 13, 1964

A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.

Sep 27, 1964

University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior office. During an afternoon in a pub she become intrigued by Bill Hemmings, a failed salesman who supplies toppings.

Oct 4, 1964

Oct 18, 1964

Oct 25, 1964

Nov 15, 1964

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

Nov 29, 1964

Dec 6, 1964

Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked his mistress to paint his mother he had not taken into account the sisterhood, and discovers his habits and foibles provide extensive conversation and much merriment amongst the women.

Dec 13, 1964

Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.

Jan 3, 1965

Jan 10, 1965

As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds himself out of his depth and humiliated.

Jan 24, 1965

Feb 14, 1965

Feb 28, 1965

Mar 7, 1965

The romantic entanglements of a hairdresser, a driving instructor and a wife.

Mar 14, 1965

Mandy is in a dark place on the brink of suicide, can Geoffrey persuade her otherwise?.

Mar 15, 1965

Mar 21, 1965

After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world destroyed by a secret organization with nuclear weapons.

Apr 4, 1965

A spoof on Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' as three Irish labourers take on Birmingham.

Apr 18, 1965

Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and call Dr Clarkson but find his behaviour very strange.

Apr 25, 1965

Dec 4, 1965

Dec 11, 1965

Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big troub

Dec 18, 1965

Jan 1, 1966

Jan 8, 1966

A marriage bureau pairs a three times married, alcoholic titled lady with an able seaman from the navy. On visiting her villa he finds it also occupied by an eccentric ex-husband, a daughter and another man she calls her 'companion'

Jan 15, 1966

The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would.

Jan 22, 1966

Young miner's widow Nancy Harper works in a sweet shop to support her little daughter, who is killed when accidentally struck by the car driven by Walter Daymer. Nancy drifts into an affair with Walter, not suspecting that he is already married.

Mar 19, 1966

Mar 26, 1966

Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. One day a flea speaks to him and persuades him to go public with a microphone. The flea's act is a great success, but not everybody is pleased with its message.

Apr 2, 1966

The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping her parents up all night. Meanwhile, the Groom is having second thoughts as his flatmate and a party girl distract him

Apr 9, 1966

Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint

Apr 16, 1966

Apr 23, 1966

Apr 30, 1966

Jul 23, 1966

A girl's Cinderella existence crashes to an abrupt end when her wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.

Jul 30, 1966

During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.

Aug 6, 1966

Aug 13, 1966

A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.

Aug 20, 1966

Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.

Aug 27, 1966

Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed about.

Sep 3, 1966

A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing office personnel cutbacks. When his job and wife slip away,he finds some redemption in his son's plans for a new life.

Sep 10, 1966

A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.

Sep 17, 1966

Sep 24, 1966

June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.

Oct 1, 1966

The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than his home town.

Oct 8, 1966

A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.

Oct 15, 1966

A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.

Jan 28, 1967

Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.

Feb 4, 1967

The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.

Feb 11, 1967

Pompous film director David endures a boring existence with his wife Hilary, a children's-book author--and has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline, she decides to befriend her, then update him.

Feb 18, 1967

Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.

Feb 25, 1967

Mar 4, 1967

Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.

Mar 11, 1967

Mar 18, 1967

Mar 25, 1967

Set in a future where the three-day working week is the norm, the play asks what human qualities will the games people play bring out--love or hate?

Apr 1, 1967

A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to steal her husband.

Apr 8, 1967

A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.

Apr 15, 1967

Apr 22, 1967

A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing had prepared her for meeting the likes of John Dolby. Later remade for the Shadows of Fear series.

Apr 29, 1967

Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end of the day her marriage is in trouble.

May 6, 1967

The safe with the takings from an all-night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains until some policemen and a gun become involved.

May 13, 1967

An electronics expert takes revenge on his wife's lover.

May 20, 1967

When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.

Jul 1, 1967

Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.

Jul 8, 1967

Jul 15, 1967

Jul 22, 1967

A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.

Jul 29, 1967

Aug 5, 1967

Aug 12, 1967

Aug 19, 1967

Handbag maker and shy bachelor Henry Sunday is enticed by his landlady and daughter into joining a computer dating agency.

Aug 26, 1967

The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.

Sep 2, 1967

Sep 9, 1967

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

Sep 16, 1967

Sep 23, 1967

Feb 3, 1968

It is Mrs Capper's 50th birthday and for years she has quietly gone about doing her best to help others. Her kind gestures have not gone unnoticed with her employers and friends joining together to give her night to remember.

Feb 10, 1968

Honeybone is an engineer and is contacted by Killick to be told that he is a test for a possible mole in the department and Honeybone's role is to say that he will give away secrets.

Feb 17, 1968

Feb 21, 1968

Mar 2, 1968

Mar 9, 1968

A man admits to the police a murder in London's busy Soho district, but cannot remember where he left the body.

Mar 15, 1968

A highly-influential religious celebrity's public image is in danger of shattering when a plane must make an unexpected landing.

Apr 18, 1968

A housewife finds herself pregnant again just as she is due to attend her daughter's marriage. She recalls her politician husband's reaction to the birth of her daughter over twenty years ago, and contemplates whether she wants to go through it all again.

May 4, 1968

Adjusting to a new life in South Africa is no easy walk for Adrian.

May 11, 1968

May 18, 1968

May 25, 1968

Jun 1, 1968

Jun 8, 1968

Felix visits a health farm with his third wife, only to discover that his second wife, his daughter by his first marriage, and his stepdaughter are also present.

Jun 13, 1968

Jul 27, 1968

Jan 6, 1969

While the owners of a country house are away, the servants play a game of impersonating their employers.

Jan 13, 1969

David's mother thinks he would make a good salesman, but he looses his nerve every time he meets a new customer.

Jan 20, 1969

Angela, whose husband is abroad, wakes to find she has been sharing a bed with a strange man....and he's dead.

Jan 27, 1969

Stanley Marsden is putting himself forward for a top job in the Civil Service, however he is only a grammar school boy, will the old public school boy network hamper his chances?..he must get by that somehow.

Feb 3, 1969

Ledbetter works for 'The Ministry of Social Welfare' he is very enthusiastic about getting old people to use the many facilities available to him.

Feb 10, 1969

Eddie the son that made good in Canada, returns on a trip to see his London Mum, he has been quite happy to contribute to her welfare but discovers she has a young tenant that has been living rent free for several months.

Feb 17, 1969

Feb 24, 1969

Nobody takes Edward seriously causing him to seek attention by regularly visiting the police station to confess to the latest murder. However a new guest at his landlady's house is about to give him all attention he seeks.

Mar 3, 1969

Brian a young man, gatecrashes a lively party and intrigues some of the guests with his sombre stories which involves them. There is something ethereal about Brian but is he worth taking seriously?

Mar 10, 1969

A New York businessman and his wife on a much holiday needed in Miami find the staff are treating him as if it's his very last holiday

Jun 8, 1970

A couple rebel against being forced out of their home (in the name of progress) and into a high rise publicly owned apartment.

Jun 15, 1970

Robert and Claire are troubled that their home is also housing somebody else they don't know.

Jun 22, 1970

Harry Steffans and his coloured wife, Annie, find it difficult to rent a flat.

Jun 29, 1970

On the Edinburgh to London night train, two strangers in an otherwise empty carriage start to reveal some shocking facts about themselves which turn the journey into a nightmare for one of them.

Jul 6, 1970

What seems to be a major problem turns out to be a false alarm.

Jul 13, 1970

The Prime Minister's career starts to suffer from his daughter's antics and peccadilloes ..but he loves her.

Sep 15, 1970

Essentially a piece about wife and husband swapping, partially used for revenge.

Sep 22, 1970

Cockney Albert must choose between two women..one who empties his wallet regularly and another who is a cook and feeds him heartily.

Sep 29, 1970

A man who has become a slave to buying luxuries tells his wife that he is being interviewed for a higher-paid position at work.

Oct 6, 1970

Agnes realizes 'the other woman' in her and Bob's family life is the company he works for. 'The Company' demands total priority and loyalty in Bob's life.

Oct 13, 1970

Nineteen-year-old Bambi is upset when her husband is late arriving to see their new-born child, especially when she discovers that the wine he has brought is not intended for her.

Oct 20, 1970

With the help of her sister and daughter, Mrs Davenport lures her husband's lover to her country house. However the girl denies ever having met him, and Mrs Davenport begins to doubt herself.

Oct 27, 1970

A dangerous game of oneupmanship develops between three women - a wife, her mother, and her mother-in-law - when they gather around the newest born addition to the family.

Nov 3, 1970

Anna can't seem to help ending up with the wrong partner in a line of disastrous affairs. Her hope now lies with a young man from the pop music scene.

Nov 10, 1970

After his wife miscarries, a doctor hires on a private live-in nurse to look after her. As their marriage becomes more strained, the relationship between the two women becomes increasingly close.

Nov 17, 1970

A forgotten and aging actress tries to recapture her youth through her actress daughter's life. Her husband understands what is going on but invariably blames the daughter for his wife's disappointments.

Aug 3, 1971

A play that examines the casualties in a war, such as truth, loyalty, and death.

Aug 10, 1971

A couple buying a cheap painting begin to think that it maybe unique and valuable.

Aug 17, 1971

Men behave in a beastly, chauvinistic manner at an office party, turning what should be a fun break from work into an exercise in bad taste.

Aug 31, 1971

Mary's husband works away on nights- after returning home from a party she has an unexpected caller.

Sep 7, 1971

In this sad world where words unspoken do more damage than words spoken too much, a woman and her lodger are destined to stay on separate paths.

Sep 14, 1971

A cat and mouse game develops between a big man of crime and a young detective constable. But the big man doesn't realize, that this mouse roars.

Sep 21, 1971

A 'lorry driver groupie' decides to start a new life.

Sep 29, 1971

They write so many innocent words, but what are the authors of your children's stories really like?

Oct 5, 1971

An out of work man must take his son to a school poetry competition while accompanied by his friendly neighbours, of which, he's not too secretly been having an affair with the wife.

Oct 12, 1971

A procedural routine murder investigation written by a former Detective Inspector Peter Hill.

Oct 19, 1971

A father who ditched his family life to be free and single again finds some unexpected guests left on his doorstep by his wife who has now done the same.

Aug 22, 1972

A blossoming friendship between a businessman and one of his flatmate's ex-girlfriends is challenged when she answers a phone call and inadvertently reveals to his boss that he has been fraudulently claiming expenses.

Aug 29, 1972

Peter feels his life has to change, but should he risk his marriage with another woman?

Sep 5, 1972

An Amateur Drama Troupe putting on a show at an old people's home, start to improvise the script with their own personal problems.

Sep 12, 1972

The peace of an aristocratic cricketing weekend at a large English country mansion in the early 20th century is disturbed when the wayward Bohemian son of the owning family returns unexpectedly to claim his inheritance.

Sep 19, 1972

A grandson's attempt to help his grandma produces problems for the family.

Sep 26, 1972

Ernie decides to pack up and go to sea, however he had not taken into account the repercussions that would be felt by those around him.

Oct 3, 1972

Roy and Jean's happy life is shattered by Jean's sudden illness and actually finding a doctor who can help her.

Oct 10, 1972

Gustave meets a man called Adolph, who tries to show him that Gustave's fiancee doesn't love him.

Oct 17, 1972

As the Allies prepare for invasion in 1944, concerns are raised about Colonel Keyser and his reputed psychopathic personality as a good or bad thing when leading his men into D-Day.

Oct 31, 1972

Jennifer visiting her Dad living on a Mediterranean Island, finds his way of life is now being threatened by local politics.

Nov 7, 1972

A successful folk singer and his entourage are locked down in a Belfast hotel during the Troubles as the authorities demand him to identify himself as either a Catholic atheist or a Protestant atheist.

Dec 11, 1972

Alfred decides his business must keep up and move on with the times, but discovers that the biggest obstacle to change is his own son.

Sep 11, 1973

Prevented by health reasons from joining the Army, a man lives out his military fantasies by leading a failing marching band. His life changes when he discovers his beloved ex-Army father has a secret.

Sep 18, 1973

A couple invite an old school friend for a reunion dinner, it is during the conversation (with the friend now an eminent surgeon) the couple come to the stark realization that their son is showing symptoms of a looming brain tumour.

Sep 25, 1973

A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

Oct 2, 1973

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

Oct 9, 1973

A repressed junior librarian, frustrated with looking after her sick father, finds herself drawn into a dangerous relationship with the man who might have murdered her mean-spirited grandmother.

Oct 16, 1973

An army private decides one day that he's not taking any more orders, precipitating a crisis of confidence for the Medical Corps major assigned to investigate his case.

Oct 23, 1973

An affluent, happy and conventionally married couple have their preconceptions about life questioned by their guest (an underground American film maker) as they get more and more involved in his latest project.

Oct 30, 1973

A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.

Nov 6, 1973

It's 1865, Fiodor in St, Petersburg is reluctantly supporting his dead wife's family, when he meets new love in the form of Anna and a new life beckons escaping away and traveling Europe.

Nov 13, 1973

At the gathering of a North Country wedding, the prospective husband starts to have doubts about going ahead as he observes what marriage has done to the guests.

May 15, 1974

Middle-aged Trevor has been estranged from his young wife and son, but when they meet again there are potential problems looming.

May 22, 1974

Barbara lives in her own dream world and imagines becoming a pilot like her heroine Amy Johnson.

Jun 24, 1974

Three Irish bachelors value their celibacy and try to resist the temptations of the flesh, which usually involves some heavy drinking.

Sep 3, 1974

When an aging ex-IRA man is found dead, a Garda inspector suspects the involvement of his old comrade, now a powerful politician and industrialist. But pursuing the case will likely have consequences for the policeman and his family.