Armchair Theatre - Season 2 (1957)

A world-class painter is taken ill and lies in the bedroom of an inn while people down below squabble over his paintings and inheritance. The wily old man is unperturbed, even regarding the infernal trumpet sound that plays throughout.

A young student idealizes the lives of the inhabitants of a stylish apartment building in Stockholm only to find that it is a nest of betrayal and sickness.

Never Broadcast on this date. It was rescheduled to become episode 41.

Mears, a convicted killer, is determined not to walk that "last mile" - to his execution.

A convicted murderer is chosen by an obscure country with limited funds as their candidate to be the first man on the moon. Their reasoning being that they might be able to land him there.. but may not be able to bring him back?.

A doctor pioneers the use of chloroform as an anesthetic during operations, but meets with huge resistance from established medical figures.

A nightclub dancer marries into society and has to contend with her jealous sister-in-law.

A successful, ego-maniacal architect who has spent a lifetime bullying his wife, employees and mistresses wants to make peace as his life approaches its final act.

An American couple discover that their 17-year-old son Ralph has stolen a few dollars of housekeeping money.

A naive young man falls in love with a beautiful, dying courtesan.

Last fortnight in the life of a youth who was sentenced to death for the killing of a police constable.

An ex-Luftwaffe pilot is sent to work in the English village where he was captured during the war. What will happen if the villagers recognise him?

Unscrupulously ambitious Brutus Jones escapes from jail after killing a guard and through bluff and bravado finds himself the emperor of a Caribbean island.

A writer is trapped in a loveless, unfulfilled marriage to a wealthy woman. The death of their disabled son wreaks havoc on their relationship as they struggle to find redemption for their personal failures.

A judge notorious for his severity becomes implicated in a murder case and learns a lesson in humanity.

The rescue of a boy trapped for eighteen hours down a well and the subsequent after effects of those involved in his plight.

Paris in spring and a lonely widower Paul Marley leaves a pearls necklace at the table of a young woman. She returns them but agrees to take a room in his home unaware that his secretary is her former boyfriend Gilbert.

In a pub in the small Australian bush town of Geebang the locals look forward to an unexpected visit by the Queen.

Charles Preston, who is running his dead brother's business, increasingly becomes the suspect in a murder investigation.

In Tangiers, a sensitive girl commits suicide. Or was it murder?

A domineering, reclusive, and ostentatiously pious widow in a small Spanish town keeps such close watch on her daughters that they are unable to have normal social lives. However, the eldest is allowed to become engaged to an unprincipled young man, primarily for the financial advantages it will bring the mother, Bernarda. Jealousy and envy ensue among the other daughters.

After a racist murder, a judge confronts an entire community over its role in the crime.

Georgette Thomas struggles to keep her family together, but her husband will keep getting into trouble with the law.