Monte Doyle

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.

Taking place almost entirely over the course of one stormy night, a woman is terrified when an accused murderer escapes from a mental hospital and seeks refuge in her home.

An escaped mental patient from an asylum for the criminally insane, reported to be homicidal, hides out in a woman's rural home.

A Chief Inspector of Police is behaving rather erratically during a murder investigation.