"Armchair Theatre" (1956)TV series 1956-1974

Seasons:

1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | unknown

Genre:

Comedy | Drama | Musical | Romance

Awards:

2 wins

Cast

Harry H. Corbett	...	Frank Dolan / ... (13 episodes, 1957-1968)
Neil McCallum	...	Clive Mostyn / ... (10 episodes, 1957-1961)
Billie Whitelaw	...	Lena / ... (9 episodes, 1956-1971)
Ann Lynn	...	Claire Williams / ... (8 episodes, 1958-1970)
Donald Churchill	...	Frank / ... (8 episodes, 1961-1973)
Ronald Lewis	...	Derek Ballantyne (8 episodes, 1956-1970)
Paul Whitsun-Jones	...	Charles Kellogg / ... (8 episodes, 1958-1966)
Katharine Blake	...	Chris Nourse / ... (7 episodes, 1959-1973)
Madge Ryan	...	Mrs. 'Nana' Weston / ... (7 episodes, 1959-1970)
Colin Blakely	...	AS. Walter Edge / ... (7 episodes, 1960-1972)
Donald Pleasence	...	Arthur Gladwell / ... (7 episodes, 1957-1967)
Susannah York	...	Cecily Cardew / ... (7 episodes, 1959-1972)
Aubrey Morris	...	Felix / ... (6 episodes, 1959-1963)
Donald Houston	...	Art / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1967)
John Robinson	...	Det. Sgt. Leith / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1965)
Peter Butterworth	...	Albert Potter / ... (6 episodes, 1956-1962)
Eddie Byrne	...	Father Ignatious (6 episodes, 1958-1967)
J.G. Devlin	...	Dad Greevey / ... (6 episodes, 1959-1974)
Adrienne Corri	...	Angela (6 episodes, 1956-1960)
Paul Stassino	...	Fortunato / ... (6 episodes, 1957-1966)
Richard Pasco	...	Brian (6 episodes, 1958-1968)
Gwen Watford	...	Bertha / ... (6 episodes, 1958-1968)
Rupert Davies	...	Miffin (6 episodes, 1959-1966)
Dandy Nichols	...	Marjorie / ... (6 episodes, 1961-1973)

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Series Directed by
Philip Saville		(43 episodes, 1956-1972)
Charles Jarrott		(32 episodes, 1959-1969)
Guy Verney		(28 episodes, 1957-1970)
Ted Kotcheff		(28 episodes, 1958-1964)
Dennis Vance		(26 episodes, 1956-1973)
Alan Cooke		(21 episodes, 1959-1970)
George More O'Ferrall		(19 episodes, 1957-1959)
John Llewellyn Moxey		(16 episodes, 1959-1966)
Jonathan Alwyn		(16 episodes, 1963-1972)
Wilfred Eades		(11 episodes, 1957-1959)
John Knight		(10 episodes, 1956-1961)
Stuart Latham		(10 episodes, 1956-1958)
Bill Bain		(10 episodes, 1964-1971)
Alvin Rakoff		(9 episodes, 1958-1967)
Don Leaver		(9 episodes, 1964-1972)
Patrick Dromgoole		(9 episodes, 1964-1969)
Kim Mills		(9 episodes, 1966-1974)
Piers Haggard		(9 episodes, 1967-1974)
Peter Duguid		(8 episodes, 1969-1972)
John Nelson-Burton		(7 episodes, 1956-1958)
Mike Vardy		(7 episodes, 1969-1972)
Jim Goddard		(5 episodes, 1970-1974)
James Ferman		(4 episodes, 1958-1959)
Robert Tronson		(4 episodes, 1959-1968)
Peter Hammond		(4 episodes, 1963-1972)
Joan Kemp-Welch		(4 episodes, 1966-1973)
James Gatward		(4 episodes, 1970-1971)
Jack Dixon		(3 episodes, 1958-1960)
Ronald Weyman		(3 episodes, 1959-1960)
Desmond Davis		(2 episodes, 1957-1958)
Stephen Clarkson		(2 episodes, 1957)
Philip Dale		(2 episodes, 1957)
Peter Potter		(2 episodes, 1957)
David Greene		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
James Ormerod		(2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Christopher Morahan		(2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Toby Robertson		(2 episodes, 1964-1968)
Basil Coleman		(2 episodes, 1964-1966)

Series Writing credits
Donald Churchill		(13 episodes, 1962-1973)
Clive Exton		(8 episodes, 1960-1964)
Robert Muller		(7 episodes, 1962-1968)
Allan Prior		(6 episodes, 1956-1966)
Tad Mosel		(6 episodes, 1958-1964)
Ray Rigby		(6 episodes, 1958-1961)
Alun Owen		(6 episodes, 1959-1962)
Hugh Leonard		(6 episodes, 1962-1974)
Emanuel Litvinoff		(6 episodes, 1967-1970)
Donal Giltinan		(5 episodes, 1959-1963)
Robert Holles		(5 episodes, 1967-1973)
Norman Ginsbury		(4 episodes, 1957-1959)
Mordecai Richler		(4 episodes, 1958-1961)
Malcolm Hulke		(4 episodes, 1958-1960)
Eric Paice		(4 episodes, 1958-1960)
Alexander Baron		(4 episodes, 1960-1963)
Robert Storey		(4 episodes, 1962-1965)
Bill MacIlwraith		(4 episodes, 1970-1972)
John Kruse		(3 episodes, 1956-1958)
Peter John Dyer		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Henrik Ibsen		(3 episodes, 1957-1958)
Philip Saville		(3 episodes, 1958-1972)
Robert Rietty		(3 episodes, 1958-1961)
Rod Serling		(3 episodes, 1958-1961)
Peter Luke		(3 episodes, 1959-1961)
Oscar Wilde		(3 episodes, 1960-1964)
Kenneth Jupp		(3 episodes, 1960-1963)
Ken Taylor		(3 episodes, 1960-1963)
Christopher Hodder-Williams		(3 episodes, 1961-1965)
John Hopkins		(3 episodes, 1964-1970)
William Marchant		(3 episodes, 1964-1968)
Fay Weldon		(3 episodes, 1967-1970)
Guy Slater		(3 episodes, 1968-1972)
William Corlett		(3 episodes, 1968-1969)
Dominic Behan		(3 episodes, 1971-1974)
Douglas Livingstone		(3 episodes, 1971-1974)
August Strindberg		(2 episodes, 1956-1972)
Winston Clewes		(2 episodes, 1956-1957)
H.V. Kershaw		(2 episodes, 1956)
Maurice Edelman		(2 episodes, 1957-1970)
James Forsyth		(2 episodes, 1957-1958)
Sidney Carroll		(2 episodes, 1957)
Miles Fleetwood		(2 episodes, 1957)
James Parish		(2 episodes, 1957)
Ronald Duncan		(2 episodes, 1958-1970)
Giles Cooper		(2 episodes, 1958-1967)
Jimmy Sangster		(2 episodes, 1958-1961)
Dail Ambler		(2 episodes, 1958)
Pierre Boileau		(2 episodes, 1958)
Robert Hall		(2 episodes, 1958)
Thomas Narcejac		(2 episodes, 1958)
John Nelson-Burton		(2 episodes, 1958)
Wolf Mankowitz		(2 episodes, 1959-1966)
John D. Stewart		(2 episodes, 1959-1961)
John Chandos		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Stuart Douglass		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Stanley Mann		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Lester Powell		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Gerald Savory		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Angus Wilson		(2 episodes, 1959-1960)
Ted Willis		(2 episodes, 1959)
Lou Shaw		(2 episodes, 1960)
Peggy Shaw		(2 episodes, 1960)
Ted Allan		(2 episodes, 1961-1969)
James Mitchell		(2 episodes, 1961-1967)
David Perry		(2 episodes, 1961-1963)
Bill Naughton		(2 episodes, 1961)
Gerald Vaughan-Hughes		(2 episodes, 1962-1966)
Bruce Stewart		(2 episodes, 1962-1963)
Lynne Reid Banks		(2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Andrew Sinclair		(2 episodes, 1963-1964)
Hugo Charteris		(2 episodes, 1964-1966)
John Hale		(2 episodes, 1966-1972)
Noel Robinson		(2 episodes, 1966-1970)
Noel Coward		(2 episodes, 1966-1968)
Derek Ford		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Donald Ford		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Jack Rosenthal		(2 episodes, 1966-1967)
Michael Harald		(2 episodes, 1966)
Roger Marshall		(2 episodes, 1970-1972)
Roy Clarke		(2 episodes, 1971-1973)

Series Produced by
Leonard White	....	producer (117 episodes, 1963-1969)
Sydney Newman	....	producer / executive producer (78 episodes, 1958-1964)
Lloyd Shirley	....	executive producer / producer (42 episodes, 1967-1974)
John Kershaw	....	producer (18 episodes, 1970-1971)
Kim Mills	....	producer (15 episodes, 1972-1974)
Joan Kemp-Welch	....	producer (11 episodes, 1973-1974)
Jacqueline Davis	....	associate producer (8 episodes, 1971)
Dennis Vance	....	producer (4 episodes, 1956-1958)

Series Original Music by
Norman Kay		(3 episodes, 1960-1963)
Paul Lewis		(2 episodes, 1963-1964)

Series Cinematography by
Ken Hodges		(1 episode, 1967)

Series Film Editing by
John Kershaw		(7 episodes, 1970-1971)

Series Casting by
Dodo Watts		(1 episode, 1962)

Series Production Design by
Voytek		(45 episodes, 1958-1965)
Assheton Gorton		(41 episodes, 1958-1970)
Bertram Tyrer		(34 episodes, 1956-1958)
Timothy O'Brien		(34 episodes, 1957-1964)
Reece Pemberton		(24 episodes, 1956-1972)
George Haslam		(20 episodes, 1958-1961)
James Goddard		(11 episodes, 1959-1963)
Patrick Downing		(11 episodes, 1961-1972)
David Marshall		(10 episodes, 1966-1974)
Stan Woodward		(9 episodes, 1964-1972)
Neville Green		(8 episodes, 1970-1972)
Frederick Pusey		(7 episodes, 1970-1974)
Roy Stannard		(6 episodes, 1957-1961)
Tom Spaulding		(5 episodes, 1959-1961)
Mike Hall		(5 episodes, 1967-1972)
Roger Allan		(5 episodes, 1970-1974)
Alpho O'Reilly		(4 episodes, 1958-1961)
Robert Fuest		(4 episodes, 1959-1965)
Peter Le Page		(4 episodes, 1967-1973)
Tony Borer		(3 episodes, 1969-1973)
Bill Constable		(2 episodes, 1958)
Peter Mullins		(2 episodes, 1960-1961)
Paul Bernard		(2 episodes, 1961-1963)
Ray Simm		(2 episodes, 1973)

Series Art Direction by
Timothy O'Brien		(1 episode, 1960)
Jack Shampan		(1 episode, 1967)

Series Makeup Department
Cathy Dawson	....	hair stylist (1 episode, 1967)
Jane Royle	....	makeup artist (1 episode, 1967)

Series Production Management
Ted Wallis	....	production manager (1 episode, 1967)

Series Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
John Cooper	....	assistant director (1 episode, 1967)

Series Art Department
Ralph Solomons	....	props (1 episode, 1962)
Ray Simm	....	set designer (1 episode, 1972)

Series Sound Department
David Hounsell	....	boom operator (1 episode, 1962)
Mike Pontin	....	boom operator (1 episode, 1962)
Peter Sampson	....	boom operator (1 episode, 1962)
John Tasker	....	sound mixer (1 episode, 1962)
Tony Dawe	....	sound designer (1 episode, 1967)
Robert T. MacPhee	....	sound mixer (1 episode, 1967)

Series Camera and Electrical Department
Tom Gregg	....	chief camera operator (1 episode, 1962)
Peter Kew	....	lighting director (1 episode, 1962)

Series Costume and Wardrobe Department
Pierre Balmain	....	wardrobe: Carroll Baker (1 episode, 1963)

Series Editorial Department
Del Randall	....	vision mixer (1 episode, 1962)

Series Music Department
Charles Mackerras	....	conductor (1 episode, 1961)
Ronnie Cass	....	music coordinator (1 episode, 1967)
Derek Scott	....	musician: piano (1 episode, 1967)

Series Other crew
Marian Lloyd	....	story editor / script editor (16 episodes, 1971-1974)
Monica Menell	....	story editor / script editor (11 episodes, 1970)
Andrew Brown	....	story editor / script editor (10 episodes, 1973-1974)
George Markstein	....	story editor / script editor (9 episodes, 1967-1971)
Brian Brooke	....	script editor / story editor (5 episodes, 1967)
Robert Banks Stewart	....	script editor (4 episodes, 1966-1967)
Norman Bogner	....	script editor (3 episodes, 1965)
Terence Feely	....	script editor / story editor (3 episodes, 1966-1967)
Irene Shubik	....	script editor / story editor (2 episodes, 1962-1963)

Production Companies

• ABC Weekend Television (1956-1968; 400 plays)
• Thames Television (1969-1973; 57 plays)

Distributors

• Independent Television (ITV)

Runtime:

60 min | 60 min (457 plays)

Country:

UK

Language:

English

Color:

Color | Black and White

Aspect Ratio:

1.33 : 1

Sound Mix:

Mono

Company:

ABC Weekend Television

Movie Connections:

Referenced in Verity Lambert: Drama Queen (2008) (TV)