Armchair Theatre Season 11, Episode 25: Marriage and Henry Sunday

The Floating Population

Nurse Marjorie and young tycoon Bernard play an unusual game of cards.

60 min

A Magnum for Schneider

The first adventure of David Callan, top agent for the S.I.S. Forcibly "retired" several years earlier because he had lost his nerve, Callan is called back into service to handle the assassination of Schneider, a German businessman who may be more than he seems. This could be Callan's last chance to prove he's still a worthy agent.

60 min

What's Wrong with Humpty Dumpty

Pompous film director David endures a boring existence with his wife Hilary, a children's-book author--and has a glamorous girlfriend, Caroline. When Hilary finds out about Caroline, she decides to befriend her, then update him.

60 min

Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width

Two partners in tailoring, one Catholic and the other Jewish, spend the time settling their differences.

60 min

Easier in the Dark

60 min

Reason For Sale

Ben Lewis works for an investment group looking buy the former home of Ferenc Davos. However Davos daughter Anna starts making strange claims that her step mother has murdered him and she knows where to body is buried.

60 min

The Happy Sacking

60 min

The Exploding Azalea

60 min

Any Number Can Play

Set in a future where the three-day working week is the norm, the play asks what human qualities will the games people play bring out--love or hate?

60 min

A World of Time

A young wife runs away to her sister, who discovers she has a serious problem with kleptomania which includes trying to steal her husband.

60 min

Call Me Daddy

A lonely middle-aged businessman blackmails a typist into spending the weekend at his large house in the country. She expects the worst, but he concentrates on something she doesn't expect - making her fall in love with him.

60 min

I Am Osango

60 min

Will You Come a Little Closer

A young woman is told to get a job meeting people to cure her shyness. However as a door to door representative nothing had prepared her for meeting the likes of John Dolby. Later remade for the Shadows of Fear series.

England My England

Happily married Maggie's birthday starts off in the normal way with deliveries of presents and visitors, but by the end of the day her marriage is in trouble.

In The Name of the Law

The safe with the takings from an all-night café seem easy picking for a trio of villains until some policemen and a gun become involved.

Depart in Terror

An electronics expert takes revenge on his wife's lover.

The Snares of Death

When Harold's undertaking business in a small town is not doing well, he hits on an unusual solution to balance the books.

Compensation Alice

Alice, married to a boring accountant, suddenly realises that she is no longer in step with the young person she once was. She becomes fascinated with the life of her Au Pair and starts hanging out with her and recaptures her youth.

60 min

A Slight Formality

Quite an Ordinary Knife

Another Branch of the Family

A loner, possibly autistic, is able to relate to the world through his pet monkey.

Love Life

The Education of Corporal Halliday

Nursery Tale

The Girl

The Greens' peaceful existence is interrupted by Felicity, a teenage girl claiming to be Mr Green's illegitimate child. Her friends are also on the way as more unexpected visitors.

Split Level

Poor Cherry

A politically-active couple's involvement in an election campaign threatens their marriage through personal entanglements with the candidate and other campaigners.

Don't Forget the Basics

The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick