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Armchair Theatre

1956-07-08 · 60 min / episode · ★ 6.0

Drama

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 Associated British Corporation, and later by Thames Television from mid-1968.

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Sydney Newman
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