Armchair Theatre
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For the album by Jeff Lynne, see Armchair Theatre (album).
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.
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Starring | Harry 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 origin | United Kingdom |
No. of episodes | 426 (258 missing) (list of episodes) |
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Network | ITV |
Release | 8 July 1956 (1956-07-08) ā 9 July 1974 (1974-07-09) |
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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, and produced 152 episodes.[2]