Armchair Theatre Season 10, Episode 1: The Paraffin Season

The Gong Game

Once, long ago, Clive Breeze was a hero whose bravery won him a medal. Now, he's a middle-aged failure who's in big, big troub

60 min

A Cold Peace

60 min

The Sweet War Man

60 min

Ready for the Glory

A marriage bureau pairs a three times married, alcoholic titled lady with an able seaman from the navy. On visiting her villa he finds it also occupied by an eccentric ex-husband, a daughter and another man she calls her 'companion'

60 min

Neighbours

The Robinson's like to see themselves as liberals. So when their new black neighbours the Kingsbury's move into their apartment block they are invited for drinks but things don't quite go as they imagined it would.

60 min

The Pity of it All

Young miner's widow Nancy Harper works in a sweet shop to support her little daughter, who is killed when accidentally struck by the car driven by Walter Daymer. Nancy drifts into an affair with Walter, not suspecting that he is already married.

60 min

Man Without a Mortgage

60 min

The Battersea Miracle

Joey, a performer in Bancroft's circus, also keeps his own set of performing fleas. One day a flea speaks to him and persuades him to go public with a microphone. The flea's act is a great success, but not everybody is pleased with its message.

60 min

The Night Before the Morning After

The night before the wedding, the Bride-to-be can't stop worrying about foolish doubts about her future husband, keeping her parents up all night. Meanwhile, the Groom is having second thoughts as his flatmate and a party girl distract him

60 min

Don't Utter a Note

Two well meaning spinsters plans in reforming an old jailbird, receive a set back, when unexpectedly into their possession comes a substantial amount of money, which was not made by the Royal Mint

60 min

Daughter of the House

The Walls Came Tumbling Down

The Match

Pretty Polly

A girl's Cinderella existence crashes to an abrupt end when her wealthy, cantankerous aunt dies on a cruise ship.

The Wager

During a general election a politician impedes his performance because he has placed a bet against himself winning.

The One-Eyed Monster

Great Big Blonde

A barmaid returns home to Dublin, to find things are not quite what she expected to be.

A Fair Swap

Peter Baynes's business is doing well until he has a visitor from his past.

The Signal Box of Grandpa Hudson

Wendy is reluctant to take her new boyfriend home, as there are certain aspects of her family that she is embarrassed about.

The Noise Stopped

A man is facing a crisis with his neurotic wife, dropout son and bullying, oily boss, who he must suffer while facing office personnel cutbacks. When his job and wife slip away,he finds some redemption in his son's plans for a new life.

Dead Silence

A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.

Barrett Keller: His Mark

Light the Blue Touch Paper

June Elliott is happily married with a small baby but when an old friend from college, Dennis Sage, asks for a reference she is visited and interrogated her about her past. June begins to put things together and fears Sage in a spy.

The Tilted Screen

The girls in his native Australia regard Morrie as a joke, but on a trip abroad he finds there is much more to life than his home town.

The Three Barrelled Shotgun

A grieving widow returns home from a holiday, to find her flat occupied by an amiable young man.

The Long Nightmare

A chance meeting enables Arthur to confront his past.