Armchair Theatre

Season 3

52 episodes · Sep 14, 1958

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  • S3E1

    The Pillars of Midnight

    Sep 14, 1958

    A smallpox outbreak hits an English city.

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  • S3E2

    The Web of Lace

    Sep 21, 1958
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  • S3E3

    The Franchise Affair

    Sep 28, 1958

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

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  • S3E4

    Murder in Slow Motion

    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.

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  • S3E5

    I Can Destroy the Sun

    Oct 12, 195860m

    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?

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  • S3E6

    Time of Your Life

    Oct 19, 1958

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

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  • S3E7

    The Terrorist

    Oct 26, 1958
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  • S3E8

    The Witching Hour

    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.

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  • S3E9

    The Greatest Man in the World

    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.

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  • S3E10

    Please Murder Me

    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.

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  • S3E11

    The Boy with Meat Axe

    Nov 23, 195860m
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  • S3E12

    Underground

    Nov 30, 1958
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  • S3E13

    The Report on Jessie Dean

    Dec 7, 195860m

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

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  • S3E14

    Dangerous World

    Dec 14, 195860m

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

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  • S3E15

    The Deaf Heart

    Dec 21, 195860m
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  • S3E16

    The Criminals

    Dec 28, 195860m

    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.

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  • S3E17

    The Sentry

    Jan 4, 195960m

    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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  • S3E18

    The Break

    Jan 11, 195960m
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  • S3E19

    Soundings

    Jan 18, 195960m

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

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  • S3E20

    Love and Money

    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.

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  • S3E21

    Hot Summer Night

    Feb 1, 195960m

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

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  • S3E22

    Ernie Barger Is 50

    Feb 8, 195960m

    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.

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  • S3E23

    The Thug

    Feb 15, 195960m

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

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  • S3E24

    To Ride a Tiger

    Feb 22, 195960m

    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.

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  • S3E25

    The Fabulous Money Maker

    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.

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  • S3E26

    The Bird, the Bear and the Actress

    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.

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  • S3E27

    No Gun, No Guilt

    Mar 15, 1959

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

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  • S3E28

    Strange Meeting

    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.

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  • S3E29

    Star in the Summer Night

    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.

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  • S3E30

    The Angry Flower

    Apr 5, 1959
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  • S3E31

    The Trouble with Benny

    Apr 12, 1959
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  • S3E32

    Parole

    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.

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  • S3E33

    The Shadow of the Ruthless

    Apr 26, 1959
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  • S3E34

    Hand in Glove

    May 3, 1959
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  • S3E35

    Till Death Do Us Part

    May 10, 1959
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  • S3E36

    The Big Client

    May 17, 1959

    A satire set in the advertising industry.

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  • S3E37

    The Girl on the Beach

    May 24, 1959

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

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  • S3E38

    Wedding Day

    May 31, 1959
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  • S3E39

    My Guess Would Be Murder

    Jun 7, 1959
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  • S3E40

    The Devil's Instrument

    Jun 14, 1959
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  • S3E41

    The Model Marriage

    Jun 21, 1959
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  • S3E42

    Guest Appearance

    Jun 28, 1959
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  • S3E43

    My Lost Saints

    Jul 5, 1959
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  • S3E44

    If You Loved Me

    Jul 12, 1959
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  • S3E45

    The Grandma Bandit

    Jul 19, 1959
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  • S3E46

    A House of His Own

    Jul 26, 1959
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  • S3E47

    The Garden Party

    Aug 2, 1959
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  • S3E48

    Lysette

    Aug 9, 1959
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  • S3E49

    You'll Never See Me Again

    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.

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  • S3E50

    Black Laughter/Double Exit

    Aug 23, 1959
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  • S3E51

    Invitation to Murder

    Aug 30, 1959
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  • S3E52

    Young David

    Sep 6, 1959

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

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