Armchair Theatre (Season 9)

The Trial of Doctor Fancy (Episode 1)

Writer: Clive Exton

Air date: 1964-09-13

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Cherry on the Top (Episode 2)

Writer: Donald Churchill

Air date: 1964-09-27

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Something To Declare (Episode 3)

Writer: William Marchant

Air date: 1964-10-04

Runtime: 60 min

Old Soldiers (Episode 4)

Writer: Andrew Sinclair

Air date: 1964-10-18

Runtime: 60 min

They Throw It At You (Episode 5)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1964-10-25

Runtime: 60 min

The Importance of Being Ernest (Episode 6)

Writer: Oscar Wilde

Air date: 1964-11-15

Runtime: 60 min

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

The Girl in the Picture (Episode 7)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1964-11-29

Runtime: 60 min

Sally (Episode 8)

Writer: William Woods

Air date: 1964-12-06

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

The Hothouse (Episode 9)

Writer: Donald Churchill

Air date: 1964-12-13

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

I've Got a System (Episode 10)

Writer: Allan Prior

Air date: 1965-01-03

Runtime: 60 min

The Gaming Book (Episode 11)

Writer: Simon Raven

Air date: 1965-01-10

Runtime: 60 min

Overview: 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.

Putty Metal (Episode 12)

Writer: Robert Storey

Air date: 1965-01-24

Runtime: 60 min

The Lady with the Albatross (Episode 13)

Writer: Robert Storey

Air date: 1965-02-14

Runtime: 60 min

The Vanishing Trick (Episode 14)

Air date: 1965-02-28

Runtime: 60 min

Keys of the Cafe (Episode 15)

Writer: Edna O'Brien

Air date: 1965-03-07

Runtime: 60 min

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

I Took My Little World Away (Episode 16)

Writer: John Hopkins

Air date: 1965-03-14

Runtime: 60 min

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

A Fearful Thing (Episode 17)

Air date: 1965-03-15

Runtime: 60 min

A Voice in the Sky (Episode 18)

Writer: Christopher Hodder-Williams

Air date: 1965-03-21

Overview: 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.

I Loved You Last Summer (Episode 19)

Writer: Hugh Leonard

Air date: 1965-04-04

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

The Man Who Came to Die (Episode 20)

Writer: Reginald Marsh

Air date: 1965-04-18

Overview: 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.

The Incident (Episode 21)

Writer: Norman Bognor

Air date: 1965-04-25