Armchair Theatre

Armchair Theatre
StarringHarry H. Corbett
Paul Whitsun-Jones
Billie Whitelaw
Neil McCallum
Madge Ryan
Ronald Lewis
Ann Lynn
Paul Curran
Donald Morley
Donald Houston
Peter Sallis
George Baker
Eddie Byrne[1]
Country of originUnited Kingdom
No. of episodes426 (258 missing) (list of episodes)
Production
Production companies
Original release
NetworkITV
Release8 July 1956 (1956-07-08) –
9 July 1974 (1974-07-09)
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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 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, during what is generally considered to have been its best era[according to whom?], and produced 152 episodes.[2]

  1. ^ "Armchair Theatre (1956-1974)".
  2. ^ White, p. 33.