Armchair Theatre Season 9, Episode 4: Old Soldiers

The Trial of Doctor Fancy

A Harley Street doctor is charged following the death of a patient. The court case exposes a series of bizarre operations.

60 min

The Cherry on the Top

University educated Audrey Inskip is tired of life in the RAF and particularly the constant attention of her senior office. During an afternoon in a pub she become intrigued by Bill Hemmings, a failed salesman who supplies toppings.

60 min

Something To Declare

60 min

They Throw It At You

60 min

The Importance of Being Ernest

In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.

60 min

The Girl in the Picture

60 min

Sally

Charles Drummond thought he had it made, with an understanding wife and a talented artistic mistress.But when he asked his mistress to paint his mother he had not taken into account the sisterhood, and discovers his habits and foibles provide extensive conversation and much merriment amongst the women.

60 min

The Hothouse

Harry H Corbett plays a tycoon husband Harry Fender, who has built up the supermarket business from the time he was a delivery boy in his teens - he's now over forty and obsessed with developing the exotic plants in his hothouse.

60 min

I've Got a System

60 min

The Gaming Book

As an experiment, an army junior officer is allowed to join a club of high ranking aristocrat officers. He quickly finds himself out of his depth and humiliated.

60 min

Putty Metal

60 min

The Lady with the Albatross

60 min

The Vanishing Trick

60 min

Keys of the Cafe

The romantic entanglements of a hairdresser, a driving instructor and a wife.

60 min

I Took My Little World Away

Mandy is in a dark place on the brink of suicide, can Geoffrey persuade her otherwise?.

60 min

A Fearful Thing

60 min

A Voice in the Sky

After a calamitous space trip, an astronaut returns to Earth to say that he has spoken to God and God wants the world destroyed by a secret organization with nuclear weapons.

I Loved You Last Summer

A spoof on Dumas's 'The Three Musketeers' as three Irish labourers take on Birmingham.

The Man Who Came to Die

Michael and Jo Richardson are celebrating their wedding anniversary at a secluded country cottage. Jo discovers the body of their friend Edward Fellowes in the bedroom and call Dr Clarkson but find his behaviour very strange.

The Incident