Vivian Milroy

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.

The Three Wise Men from the East follow the star to Bethlehem, but hostile spirits try to stop them on their journey.

A greedy woman tries to poison her nephew's bride in a dark mansion.

A young man inherits an Irish castle and finds it full of smugglers.

Hans Christian Andersen’s Thumbelina told the tale of a tiny girl grown from seed to be a companion to an old woman, Reiniger has her Thumbelina born spontaneously and magically from a flower, beholden to none but herself.

Wishing to take power for himself, a magician tricks his nephew, The Caliph of Baghdad, into sniffing a powder which turns him into a stork.