Armchair Theatre (Season 2)

Off the Deep End (Episode 1)

Writer: Guy Verney

Air date: 1957-09-08

Runtime: 60 min

Now Let Him Go (Episode 2)

Writer: J. B. Priestley

Air date: 1957-09-15

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Ghosts (Episode 3)

Writer: Henrik Ibsen

Air date: 1957-09-22

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Policy for Love (Episode 4)

Writer: Jerrard Tickell

Air date: 1957-09-29

Runtime: 60 min

The Pier (Episode 5)

Writer: James Forsyth

Air date: 1957-10-06

Runtime: 60 min

Inch from the Heart (Episode 6)

Writer: Stephen Clarkson

Air date: 1957-10-13

Runtime: 60 min

Trial By Candlelight (Episode 7)

Air date: 1957-10-20

Runtime: 60 min

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

Ann Veronica (Episode 8)

Writer: H. G. Wells

Air date: 1957-10-28

Runtime: 60 min

The Last Mile (Episode 9)

Writer: John Wexley

Air date: 1957-11-03

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Great City (Episode 10)

Writer: James Parish

Air date: 1957-11-10

Runtime: 60 min

Man in a Moon (Episode 11)

Writer: Michael Pertwee

Air date: 1957-11-17

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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?.

The Human Touch (Episode 12)

Writer: Dudley Leslie

Air date: 1957-11-24

Runtime: 60 min

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

Sister (Episode 13)

Writer: Sidney Carroll

Air date: 1957-12-01

Runtime: 60 min

The Mortimer Touch (Episode 14)

Writer: Eric Linklater

Air date: 1957-12-08

Runtime: 60 min

The Dividing Line (Episode 15)

Writer: Edward Cranstone

Air date: 1957-12-15

Panther 140 (Episode 16)

Writer: Patrick Alexander

Air date: 1957-12-22

The Shining Hour (Episode 17)

Writer: Keith Winter

Air date: 1960-01-05

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

Man in the Corner (Episode 18)

Air date: 1960-01-12

The Master Builder (Episode 19)

Writer: Henrik Ibsen

Air date: 1960-01-19

Overview: 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.

Tragedy in a Temporary Town (Episode 20)

Writer: Reginald Rose

Air date: 1960-01-26

Night of the Ding-Dong (Episode 21)

Writer: John Nelson-Burton

Air date: 1960-02-02

The Five Dollar Bill (Episode 22)

Writer: Tad Mosel

Air date: 1960-02-09

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

The Lady of Camellias (Episode 23)

Writer: Norman Ginsbury

Air date: 1960-02-16

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

A Gust of Wind (Episode 24)

Writer: Philip Saville

Air date: 1960-02-23

Murder Story (Episode 25)

Writer: Ludovic Kennedy

Air date: 1960-03-02

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

Vendetta (Episode 26)

Writer: Morris L. West

Air date: 1960-03-09

The One Who Came Back (Episode 27)

Writer: John Nelson-Burton

Air date: 1960-03-16

Overview: 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?

A Man's Woman (Episode 28)

Writer: Paul Vincent Carroll

Air date: 1960-03-23

The Emperor Jones (Episode 29)

Writer: Terry Southern

Air date: 1960-03-30

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

Miss Olive (Episode 30)

Writer: David D. Osborn

Air date: 1960-04-06

Wolf Pack (Episode 31)

Writer: Jon Manchip White

Air date: 1960-04-13

The Rat Wife (Episode 32)

Writer: Henrik Ibsen

Air date: 1960-04-20

Overview: 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.

Fifty Fifty (Episode 33)

Writer: Harry Green

Air date: 1960-04-27

Breach of Marriage (Episode 34)

Writer: Dan Sutherland

Air date: 1960-05-04

Hanging Judge (Episode 35)

Writer: Raymond Massey

Air date: 1960-05-11

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

Paid in Full (Episode 36)

Writer: Mordecai Richler

Air date: 1960-05-18

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

Death of Satan (Episode 37)

Writer: Ronald Duncan

Air date: 1960-05-25

The Widower (Episode 38)

Writer: Cyril Campion

Air date: 1960-06-01

Overview: 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.

No Flags for Geebang (Episode 39)

Air date: 1960-06-08

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

Homecoming (Episode 40)

Writer: Nelson Bond

Air date: 1960-06-15

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

Trial by Candlelight (Episode 41)

Writer: John Kruse

Air date: 1960-06-22

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

The House of Bernarda Alba (Episode 42)

Writer: Mordecai Richler

Air date: 1960-06-22

Overview: 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.

Wings of the Wind (Episode 43)

Writer: Alexandre Rivemale

Air date: 1960-06-29

Noon on Doomsday (Episode 44)

Writer: Rod Serling

Air date: 1960-07-06

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

The Sins of Simone (Episode 45)

Writer: Ivan Staff

Air date: 1960-07-13

The Woman in Question (Episode 46)

Writer: Miguel Mihura

Air date: 1960-07-20

The Travelling Lady (Episode 47)

Writer: Horton Foote

Air date: 1960-08-03

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