Armchair Theatre – Season 8
Episodes
A Kind of Kingdom
The Front Room
A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.
Mr. Big
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.
Little Doris
The Chocolate Tree
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.
Long Past Glory
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.
The Higher They Fly
Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.
The Swindler
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.
A Way of Living
Sharp at Four
Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.
Last Word on Julie
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.
The Pretty English Girls
Realm of Error
Always Ask for the Best
An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.
Mug's Game
Prisoner and Escort
Cradle Song
A Nice Little Business
Pleasure Where She Finds It
A Jug of Bread
St. Ernie Leatherbound
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.