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Armchair Theatre

Season 17 1972 - 1973

  • 1973-09-10T23:00:00Z on ITV
  • 50m
  • 10h (10 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
Armchair Theatre is a British television drama anthology series of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by Associated British Corporation. Its franchise successor Thames Television took over from mid-1968.

10 episodes

Season Premiere

1973-09-10T23:00:00Z

17x01 The Death of Glory

Season Premiere

17x01 The Death of Glory

  • 1973-09-10T23:00:00Z1h

Billy Turnbull despises his workmates - and is despised by them. In a house run with military precision, he lives with his father, an ex-sergeant major full of tales of past glory; Billy’s life is bound up with band practices and dreams of the army he could never hope to join. But are son and father both just dreamers?

1973-09-17T23:00:00Z

17x02 Beyond Our Means

17x02 Beyond Our Means

  • 1973-09-17T23:00:00Z1h

1973-09-24T23:00:00Z

17x03 A Bit Of A Lift

17x03 A Bit Of A Lift

  • 1973-09-24T23:00:00Z1h

A man meets a woman at a wedding and manages to sweet talk her, only to end up inadvertently helping out another male.

17x04 Brussels Sprouts-Boy Scouts

  • 1972-10-01T23:00:00Z1h

Two scout patrols from London's East End, meet up on a holiday in Kent and find it was not what they were expecting at all.

1973-10-08T23:00:00Z

17x05 Little Red Riding Hood

17x05 Little Red Riding Hood

  • 1973-10-08T23:00:00Z1h

For Grace, haunted by secret fears, the regular visit to her aged grandmother turns into a terrifying nightmare. But are the macabre events in that strange house reality, or the imaginings of somebody close to mental breakdown?

1973-10-15T23:00:00Z

17x06 The Square of Three

17x06 The Square of Three

  • 1973-10-15T23:00:00Z1h

Johnny Orange opted for a life in the regular army. He finds himself bored, disillusioned… and happy.

1973-10-22T23:00:00Z

17x07 Vérité

17x07 Vérité

  • 1973-10-22T23:00:00Z1h

Shirley and Clive, a happy and affluent married couple find their preconceptions about questioned by Mik, an underground film maker - as they become ever more involved with his latest project.

1973-10-30T00:00:00Z

17x08 The Golden Road

17x08 The Golden Road

  • 1973-10-30T00:00:00Z1h

A housewife, at first reluctant to have a girl lodger, finds the girl disturbs the home in a totally unexpected way.

1973-11-06T00:00:00Z

17x09 Russian Roulette

17x09 Russian Roulette

  • 1973-11-06T00:00:00Z1h

Season Finale

1973-11-13T00:00:00Z

17x10 That Sinking Feeling

Season Finale

17x10 That Sinking Feeling

  • 1973-11-13T00:00:00Z1h
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