Armchair Theatre Season 2, Episode 17: The Shining Hour

Off the Deep End

60 min

Now Let Him Go

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.

60 min

Ghosts

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

60 min

Policy for Love

60 min

The Pier

60 min

Inch from the Heart

60 min

Trial By Candlelight

Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

60 min

Ann Veronica

60 min

The Last Mile

Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

60 min

The Great City

60 min

Man in a Moon

A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.

60 min

The Human Touch

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

60 min

Sister

60 min

The Mortimer Touch

60 min

The Dividing Line

Panther 140

Man in the Corner

The Master Builder

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

Tragedy in a Temporary Town

Night of the Ding-Dong

The Five Dollar Bill

An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

The Lady of Camellias

A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

A Gust of Wind

Murder Story

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

Vendetta

The One Who Came Back

An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?

A Man's Woman

The Emperor Jones

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

Miss Olive

Wolf Pack

The Rat Wife

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

Fifty Fifty

Breach of Marriage

Hanging Judge

A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

Paid in Full

The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.

Death of Satan

The Widower

Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

No Flags for Geebang

In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

Homecoming

Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

Trial by Candlelight

In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

The House of Bernarda Alba

A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.

Wings of the Wind

Noon on Doomsday

After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

The Sins of Simone

The Woman in Question

The Travelling Lady

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.