Armchair Theatre

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Armchair Theatre was a pioneering British television drama anthology series that became highly influential in the development of modern TV drama.

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instanceOf British television anthology series
television drama series
broadcastFormat single-play drama
broadcastOn ITV network across the UK
Sunday evenings
countryOfOrigin United Kingdom
era 1960s
early 1970s
late 1950s
executiveProducer Sydney Newman
filmingLocation Didsbury Studios, Manchester
Teddington Studios, London
firstAired 1956
genre anthology
drama
hasFormat self-contained episodes
hasSubject contemporary British society
influenced British television drama
Play for Today
The Wednesday Play
inPublication Radio Times listings
knownFor kitchen sink realism
pioneering modern TV drama form
socially conscious drama
lastAired 1974
laterChannelRegion ITV London weekday franchise
laterRecordedOn videotape
notableEpisode A Night Out
Hot Summer Night
No Trams to Lime Street
The Criminals
The Trial of Dr Fancy
notableProducer Leonard White
notableWriter Alun Owen
Clive Exton
Dennis Potter
Harold Pinter
John Mortimer
numberOfEpisodes ~426
numberOfSeasons 14
originalChannelRegion ITV weekend franchise for the North and Midlands
originalLanguage English
originallyBroadcastLive true
originalNetwork ITV
pictureFormat black-and-white (early years)
colour (later years)
productionCompany ABC Weekend TV
Thames Television
targetAudience adult viewers

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Sydney Newman notableWork Armchair Theatre