Armchair Theatre - Season 8

1. A Kind of Kingdom

Aired: 9/1/1963

2. The Front Room

Aired: 9/15/1963

A marriage is threatened by a wife's obsession with cleaning.

3. Mr. Big

Aired: 9/29/1963

Mr. Bigelow is a dwarf who works for a carnival. Each night after the customers have gone, he visits the Mirror Maze, where he stands before one mirror in particular, one that magnifies his image many, many times.

4. Little Doris

Aired: 10/13/1963

5. The Chocolate Tree

Aired: 10/27/1963

As independence for Africa draws near, a wealthy British trading family welcomes a future president of one country into their home, in an uneasy conversation that is tinged by condescension and racism, grudges and militant anger.

6. Long Past Glory

Aired: 11/17/1963

Two aging, shabby men inhabit a decaying sewer pumping station. They live by stealing things, including beds, a piano and a gramophone.They're joined by a younger man who disrupts their dreary small talk with angry, upsetting arguments.

7. The Higher They Fly

Aired: 12/1/1963

Test pilot Fleming's jet develops an undercarriage problem on a passenger flight, necessitating in-flight repairs -- and Fleming is on the ground.

8. The Swindler

Aired: 12/15/1963

Teacher Alec Waterman is released from jail after a sentence for fraud. Dick Sothers gets him a job with Lucas Builders but when Alec starts to make new friends he becomes trapped between his old life and his new life.

9. A Way of Living

Aired: 12/29/1963

10. Sharp at Four

Aired: 1/12/1964

Jean Hobley has a problem, trying to hold down a job that allows her to pick up her child from school.

11. Last Word on Julie

Aired: 1/26/1964

Beautiful 23-year-old Julie Lister has left home to enjoy the single life. Reckless with money her love life is a disaster but when friends and family receive letters they fear she may have committed suicide.

12. The Pretty English Girls

Aired: 2/16/1964

13. Realm of Error

Aired: 3/1/1964

14. Always Ask for the Best

Aired: 3/15/1964

An eternal triangle develops amongst shop keepers in shopping parade when an attractive young woman moves in.

15. Mug's Game

Aired: 3/29/1964

16. Prisoner and Escort

Aired: 4/5/1964

17. Cradle Song

Aired: 4/12/1964

18. A Nice Little Business

Aired: 4/26/1964

19. Pleasure Where She Finds It

Aired: 5/3/1964

20. A Jug of Bread

Aired: 5/17/1964

21. St. Ernie Leatherbound

Aired: 5/24/1964

A reformed alcoholic businessman wants to prove that his newfound religion works by letting an alcoholic tramp stay in his house and be subject to his preaching. He ignores the protests of his wife and son.

22. That's Where the Town's Going

Aired: 6/7/1964

23. Exit Joe - Running

Aired: 6/14/1964

24. A Certain Kind of Silence

Aired: 6/28/1964