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Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute UK television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960–1965. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White. It was a spin-off from the successful Armchair Theatre series.
Armchair Mystery Theatre is a 60-minute United Kingdom television anthology mystery series. Thirty-four episodes aired from 1960-65. It was hosted by Donald Pleasence and produced by Leonard White. Stars. Donald Pleasence. Ian Hendry. Thomas Heathcote. See production info at IMDbPro. Add to Watchlist. Episodes 34. Browse episodes. 3 seasons 3 years
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- 1960-06-05
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Armchair Theatre is an anthology series of one-off plays that aired on the ITV network between 1956 and 1974. A total of 426 episodes were produced over 19 series. The series was initially produced by ABC Weekend TV until 1968, and subsequently by Thames Television from 1969 onwards.
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Intent
Armchair Theatre filled a Sunday-evening slot on ITV, Britain's only commercial network at the time, in which contemporary dramas were the most common form, though this was not immediately apparent. The series was launched by Howard Thomas, head of ABC at the time,who argued that "Television drama is not so far removed from television journalism, and the plays which will grip the audience are those that face up to the new issues of the day as well as to the problems as old as civilisation." T...
Writers and production staff
A script editor, Peter Luke, was the first to become aware of the writers Clive Exton, who contributed eight plays to the series, Alun Owen, who wrote No Trams to Lime Street (18 October 1959),) and Harold Pinter, who contributed A Night Out (24 April 1960).) Owen's play was the first of a trilogy transmitted during 1959 and 1960, which was completed by After the Funeral (3 April 1960) and Lena, O My Lena(26 September 1960). Ratings for the series were regularly about 15 million with the seri...
Spin-offs and influence
The programme occasionally spun off ideas into full-blown series such as Armchair Mystery Theatre, hosted by Donald Pleasence, which specialised in crime and mystery thrillers. A 1962 adaptation of John Wyndham's short story Dumb Martian, scripted by Clive Exton, was a deliberate showcase for the spin-off science fiction anthology Out of This World. Two 1967 episodes became series. One of these was developed into the sitcom Never Mind the Quality, Feel the Width, while the other, A Magnum for...
A DVD boxset featuring eight colour episodes from 1970 to 1973 was released by Network DVD in January 2010. It contains the following episodes: 1. Say Goodnight to Your Grandma 2. Office Party 3. Brown Skin Gal, Stay Home and Mind Bay-Bee 4. Detective Waiting 5. Will Amelia Quint Continue Writing 'A Gnome Called Shorthouse'? 6. The Folk Singer 7. A...
Sun, Jun 6, 1965. Add a plot. Rate. S3.E4 ∙ Man and Mirror. Sun, Jun 13, 1965. Mrs Isobel Manners lives a large Victorian house with her two grown up sons; Geoffrey and Edward. Mrs Manners is convinced that someone is trying to murder her. Everything points to Edward who prowls the stair at night. Rate. S3.E5 ∙ Time and Mr Madingley.
Armchair Mystery Theatre (1960) ← Back to main. Season 1 1960 • 13 Episodes Season 1 of Armchair Mystery Theatre premiered on June 5, 1960. Season 2 1964 • 6 ...
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Machinal: Directed by Philip Saville. With Donald Pleasence, Joanna Dunham, Gary Cockrell, Sean Sullivan. A young Woman works as a low level stenographer and lives with her mother.
