Armchair Theatre Season 5, Episode 15: Rain

Big Brain Man

Much to the delight of fellow tenants, a tenant becomes the landlord. Their delight is short lived when he starts behaving just like the previous landlord.

A Heart and a Diamond

Lena, O My Lena

Tom, a sensitive Liverpool student, takes a job on a loading dock in a Lancashire factory town. He becomes smitten with a girl named Lena who works in the machine shop next door, and despite a bullying driver who claims her for herself, he manages to take her out on a date.

Pig's Ear with Flowers

Thunder on the Snowy

The Siege at Killyfaddy

I'll Have You to Remember

A retired couple with many unresolved old scores to settle, argue and bicker while their world decays around them.

My Representative

Ambition takes hold of fashion-house salesman Ronnie Page as he forgets those closest to him in his desire for a successful career.

The Cake Baker

Hail the Conquering Hero

The Stranger

Mr Nobody

Clip Joint People

The Cupboard

When Fred Watson's wife and landlady disappear, and he is seen papering over two cupboards in his bedroom, the police are called in.

The Great Gold Bullion Robbery

Robbery from a moving train? Impossible.

A Head Full of Crocodiles

Till the Day I Die

The Mystery of Martin Wheeler

The Picture of Dorian Gray

A corrupt young man somehow keeps his youthful beauty, but a special painting gradually reveals his inner ugliness to all.

Honeymoon Postponed

Lancashire newlyweds Violet and Arthur Fitton are forced to postpone their honeymoon and move in temporarily with his parents.

A Degree of Murder

A man and his wife plan to murder his eccentric wealthy sister.

Strangers in the Room

The Money Makers

Tune on an Apron-String

The Big Deal

Unscrupulous business Sir Pierson Cale is determined to win the contract to build a power station. He sees John Hamilton as someone who can get the job done but he wants him to bid half a million less than his nearest competitor.

The Man Out There

A Russian astronaut trapped in space in a faulty rocket, has five hours to live when his radio makes contact with Marie, a hunter's wife also trapped, in a blizzard swept area of Canada. Her daughter is dying of diphtheria, he as a doctor can help her.

The Conscientious Gauger

The Way of Love

The Hero

Danger! Men Working

In Ulster, Major Trumbull is put in charge of overseeing the completion of a hospital on time. As the pressure increases, he replaces well-liked foreman Desmond Doherty with brash Scanling, which angers the men.

No Licence for Singing

Flying High

Man on a Mountain Top

A writer who lives in carefully-protected seclusion does not welcome a young woman's intrusion into his life.

Duel for Love

The Ship That Couldn't Stop

A ship powered by a nuclear reactor, is heading for the port of New York and is unable to slow down.

The Truth About Helen

The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz

The younger son of a working-class Jewish family in Montreal, Duddy Kravitz yearns to make a name for himself in society. This film chronicles his short and dubious rise to power, as well as his changing relationships with family and friends. Along the way the film explores the themes of anti-semitism and the responsibilities which come with adulthood.

The Typists

We see two typists aging as they spend 40 years together in the same office.

The Night of the Apes

After Clive is dishonourably discharged from the army for failing to shoot an unarmed terrorist, he finds his return to his hometown no easy matter.