Armchair Theatre - Season 2

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 which 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.

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

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

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 ensues among the other daughters.

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