Armchair Theatre (TV Series)

UK 1956-1974, 1500 minutes
Dir. Ted Kotcheff, Charles Jarrott, Alan Cooke, John Moxey, Joan Kemp-Welch, Peter Hammond, Piers Haggard, Peter Duguid, Voytek, Donal McCann, James Goddard

Synopsis: Volume One (In Colour):
"Say Goodnight to your Grandma" (1970)
"Office Party" (1971
"Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee" (1971)
"Detective Waiting" (1971)
"Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse' ?" (1971)
"The Folk Singer" (1972)
"A Bit of a Lift" (1973)
"Red Riding Hood" (1973)

Volume Two (In Colour):
"Wednesday's Child" (1970)
"Competition" (1971)
"The Left Overs" (1972)
"High Summer" (1972)
"The Creditors" (1970)
"The Death of Glory" (1973)
"The Square of Three" (1973)
"According to The Rules" (1974)

Volume Four - Part One (B/W):
"The Emperor Jones" (1958)
"The Greatest Man in the World" (1958)
"The Scent of Fear" (1959)
"After the Show" (1959)
"Lord Arthur Savile's Crime" (1960)
"The Trouble with Our Ivy" (1961)

Volume Four - Part Two (B/W):
"The Hard Knock" (1962)
"The Paradise Suite" (1963)
"Long Past Glory" (1963)
"The Importance of Being Earnest" (1964)
"I Took my Little World Away" (1965)
"The Night Before The Morning After" (1966)

Aroview: a British television anthology of single plays that ran on the ITV network from 1956 to 1974. It was originally produced by ABC Weekend TV. Its successor Thames Television took over from mid-1968.

The Canadian-born producer Sydney Newman was in charge of Armchair Theatre between September 1958 and December 1962, and produced 152 episodes. The scripts included works of comedy, drama and suspense written by contemporary writers as well as the occasional classic stageplay. Many episodes received critical accalim and awards at the time.