Armstrong Circle Theatre: Season 7
Season 7 Lore Primer
Key plot threads, lore context, and character stakes you need to remember before diving into this season.
- Directly follows the overarching narrative developments of Armstrong Circle Theatre Season 6.
- Faction dynamics and core character alliances shift under escalating external stakes.
- Crucial mysteries introduced previously reach key turning points and narrative reckonings.
- Sets up serialized story arcs that build directly toward the climactic season finale.
Episode Guide
Season 7 Progress Shield
Lost: $2,000,000,000: The Diary of 'Diane'
Oct 11, 1955
Factual story of Hurricane Diane, showing how the United States Weather Bureau operates in all its phases, from the storm's inception through a 24-hour vigil until danger is past.
Saturday Visit
Nov 15, 1955
A businessman leaves home after losing his job, vowing to return only when he can adequately provide for his family.
Ward Three: Four P.M. to Midnight: The St. Luke's Hospital Story
Jan 10, 1956
A documentary-style drama based on activities in a big city hospital, St. Luke's Hospital in New York City. The setting is Ward Three, the Women's Ward. Presiding over this little
The Third Ear
Feb 7, 1956
A writer wiretaps a man's home to find out about his business practices.
Terror at My Heels
Feb 21, 1956
This is the true story of Lt. Melvin Shadduck, an American pilot, who was captured by the Korean Communists during the Korean War. Thrown into a tent with four other Americans, he
Man in Shadow
Mar 6, 1956
Docudrama of a mentally ill man and the effort to help him recover. Paul Foster had to give up an engineering career to take over his father's insurance business because it was exp
Five Who Shook the Mighty
Mar 23, 1956
An ""actual"" drama about five Romanian patriots, who in February 1955 seized the Communist Romanian Legation in Berne, Switzerland, in protest against the plight of their people i
A Baby Named X
Apr 3, 1956
The setting for this ""actual"" is the Spence-Chapin Adoption Service in New York City. Three couples, the Muirs, the Nelsons, and the Arnquists, are seeking a baby for adoption. A
The Second Family
May 29, 1956
The sacrifices and problems of teachers in an average public high school as exemplified in an actual happening in Eastchester High School, Eastchester, N.Y., are examined in this d
H.R. 8438: The Story of a Lost Boy
Jun 12, 1956
An actual drama of a Yugoslavian youth who is now in America and hopes to stay here. Anton Steigerwald, a war orphan in Yugoslavia, is thought to be the child of an American citize