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Armchair Thriller

Season 2 1980 - 1981

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z on ITV
  • 25m
  • 14h 15m (34 episodes)
  • United Kingdom
  • English
  • Drama
How do ordinary people react when confronted by extraordinary circumstances--when their mundane worlds are turned upside down by unforeseen events? How do they respond to danger, to evil, to loss? Each eerie episode probes these haunting questions while you watch from the safe distance of your own armchair.

34 episodes

Season Premiere

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x01 The Victim (Part 1)

Season Premiere

2x01 The Victim (Part 1)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

When kidnappers abduct his teenage daughter, Sue, industrialist Vincent Craig could easily raise the ransom money. But Craig intends to do things his own way.

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x02 The Victim (Part 2)

2x02 The Victim (Part 2)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

Craig believes he knows who is behind the kidnapping--and that the motives are personal, not financial. Shaking off the police, he heads to the town of Hepton to begin his search.

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x03 The Victim (Part 3)

2x03 The Victim (Part 3)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

Enlisting the help of a local crime reporter, Craig tracks down a disgruntled ex-employee named George Neecham.

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x04 The Victim (Part 4)

2x04 The Victim (Part 4)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

While Craig's desperation mounts, Sue becomes increasingly comfortable with her kidnappers--especially with a young man named Frankie.

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x05 The Victim (Part 5)

2x05 The Victim (Part 5)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

Detectives trace Craig to Hepton, but he has moved on to the abandoned factory where his daughter is being held.

1980-01-08T20:30:00Z

2x06 The Victim (Part 6)

2x06 The Victim (Part 6)

  • 1980-01-08T20:30:00Z25m

Craig confronts his daughter's captor, but Sue--very much her father's daughter--does the unexpected.

1980-01-29T20:30:00Z

2x07 Dead Man's Kit (Part 1)

2x07 Dead Man's Kit (Part 1)

  • 1980-01-29T20:30:00Z25m

interesting drama enfolding of dodgy goings on in the navy, where all is not as it seems when an officer is witnessed being a bit sleazy in a casino, but later denies to the person who saw him that he was even there.
Then the guy who insisted that he did see him, gets bumped off, and our hero (Lamb) sets about proving that Officer Cabal really was where he was seen and that the navy are covering up something they shouldn't. Actually he is meddling in something he should really have left alone, but he isn't to know that, and this is what makes the story: what happens as a result of his meddling.

1980-01-31T20:30:00Z

2x08 Dead Man's Kit (Part 2)

2x08 Dead Man's Kit (Part 2)

  • 1980-01-31T20:30:00Z25m

1980-02-02T20:30:00Z

2x09 Dead Man's Kit (Part 3)

2x09 Dead Man's Kit (Part 3)

  • 1980-02-02T20:30:00Z25m

1980-02-04T20:30:00Z

2x10 Dead Man's Kit (Part 4)

2x10 Dead Man's Kit (Part 4)

  • 1980-02-04T20:30:00Z25m

1980-02-12T20:30:00Z

2x11 Dying Day (Part 1)

2x11 Dying Day (Part 1)

  • 1980-02-12T20:30:00Z25m

On the commute home one evening, Antony Skipling picks up a cassette tape left behind by a strange man. What he hears on it will change his life forever.

1980-02-12T20:30:00Z

2x12 Dying Day (Part 2)

2x12 Dying Day (Part 2)

  • 1980-02-12T20:30:00Z25m

Convinced there is a plot to kill him, Skipling goes to the police, who dismiss him as a crank. He then turns to a counseling service and reconnects with Susie, a female "befriender" that the service assigned to him years ago.

1980-02-12T20:30:00Z

2x13 Dying Day (Part 3)

2x13 Dying Day (Part 3)

  • 1980-02-12T20:30:00Z25m

Skipling suspects that his ex-wife and the new man in her life have planned his murder. He confides in Susie, the only person who sympathizes--and whose friendship turns more intimate by the day.

1980-02-12T20:30:00Z

2x14 Dying Day (Part 4)

2x14 Dying Day (Part 4)

  • 1980-02-12T20:30:00Z25m

With time running out, Skipling becomes increasingly desperate. And on the morning of February 28, while waiting on the platform for his train, he encounters the man he believes has come to kill him.

1980-02-26T20:30:00Z

2x15 Fear of God (Part 1)

2x15 Fear of God (Part 1)

  • 1980-02-26T20:30:00Z25m

A journalist finds his life is in danger when he investigates the death of a woman who was involved with a religious cult.

1980-02-28T20:30:00Z

2x16 Fear of God (Part 2)

2x16 Fear of God (Part 2)

  • 1980-02-28T20:30:00Z25m

1980-03-04T20:30:00Z

2x17 Fear of God (Part 3)

2x17 Fear of God (Part 3)

  • 1980-03-04T20:30:00Z25m

1980-03-06T20:30:00Z

2x18 Fear of God (Part 4)

2x18 Fear of God (Part 4)

  • 1980-03-06T20:30:00Z25m

1980-03-11T20:30:00Z

2x19 High Tide (Part 1)

2x19 High Tide (Part 1)

  • 1980-03-11T20:30:00Z25m

Peter Curtis (Ian McShane) has just been released from prison in England, his crime was manslaughter --- Now Curtis is parked on a English country road when a driver appears out of nowhere and hits and kills his dog --- The man stops and Curtis in a rage attacks him thus he dies from a heart attack --- Before dying he mutters a few words --- A stranger approaches Curtis later in the story and asks what those final words were that the dying man had muttered --- And the puzzle begins about the words that Curtis finally remembers is "high tide" and why is there so much interest --- The direction is first rate with some beautiful coastal scenery and paced very nicely this mystery unfolds with numerous characters showing up here and there

1980-03-13T20:30:00Z

2x20 High Tide (Part 2)

2x20 High Tide (Part 2)

  • 1980-03-13T20:30:00Z25m

1980-03-18T19:30:00Z

2x21 High Tide (Part 3)

2x21 High Tide (Part 3)

  • 1980-03-18T19:30:00Z25m

1980-03-20T19:30:00Z

2x22 High Tide (Part 4)

2x22 High Tide (Part 4)

  • 1980-03-20T19:30:00Z25m

2x23 The Circe Complex (Part 1)

  • 1980-03-25T19:30:00Z30m

With Tom Foreman serving life for murder, jewellery that he hid before his arrest makes his beautiful wife Val an even more attractive proposition for a string of men.

2x24 The Circe Complex (Part 2)

  • 1980-03-27T19:30:00Z25m

2x25 The Circe Complex (Part 3)

  • 1980-04-01T19:30:00Z25m

2x26 The Circe Complex (Part 4)

  • 1980-04-03T19:30:00Z25m

2x27 The Circe Complex (Part 5)

  • 1980-04-08T19:30:00Z25m

2x28 The Circe Complex (Part 6)

  • 1980-04-10T19:30:00Z25m

2x29 The Chelsea Murders (Part 1)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m

A series of brutal murders take place in the Chelsea area. A local reporter and three students making a film are the only links to the victims. The killer wears a mask identical to one of the costumes used in their film. The killer also selects victims with initials of Chelsea's former literary residents.

2x30 The Chelsea Murders (Part 2)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m

2x31 The Chelsea Murders (Part 3)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m

2x32 The Chelsea Murders (Part 4)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m

2x33 The Chelsea Murders (Part 5)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m

2x34 The Chelsea Murders (Part 6)

  • 1981-01-01T20:30:00Z25m
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