Armchair Theatre

Synopsis

Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

First Air Date: 1956-07-08

Last Air Date: 1974-09-03

Number of Seasons: 18

Number of Episodes: 444

Created By: Sydney Newman

Networks: ITV1

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Top Cast

Harry H. Corbett as Mears
Donald Churchill as N/A
Neil McCallum as Roy Barger
Rupert Davies as Ramon Cintos
Ann Lynn as N/A
Billie Whitelaw as Agnes Mawson
Peter Bowles as Dermot Llewelyn
Colin Blakely as William Pierce
Norman Rossington as Sydney Martin
Alfred Burke as Gland

Seasons

Specials (Unknown Year) - (1 Episodes)

Season 1 (1956) - (42 Episodes)

Season 2 (1957) - (47 Episodes)

Season 3 (1958) - (52 Episodes)

Season 4 (1959) - (40 Episodes)

Season 5 (1960) - (40 Episodes)

Season 6 (1961) - (17 Episodes)

Season 7 (1962) - (25 Episodes)

Season 8 (1963) - (24 Episodes)

Season 9 (1964) - (21 Episodes)

Season 10 (1965) - (27 Episodes)

Season 11 (1967) - (30 Episodes)

Season 12 (1968) - (16 Episodes)

Season 13 (1969) - (10 Episodes)

Season 14 (1970) - (16 Episodes)

Season 15 (1971) - (11 Episodes)

Season 16 (1972) - (12 Episodes)

Season 17 (1973) - (10 Episodes)

Season 18 (1974) - (4 Episodes)

Specials

No overview available for this season.

Episodes:

Ep. 1: Three on a Gas Ring

Producer: Sydney Newman. Written by David Osborn. Starring: Joanna Dunham, Alan Bates, Sheila Allen. A young single girl finds herself pregnant. The play proved to be controversial and was not transmitted on grounds of decency because the girl showed no remorse about the condition she found herself in.