Saturday, June 29 - Danger Man: View from the Villa

Danger Man (1960–1962) TV Series

John Drake was a special operative for NATO, specializing in security assignments against any subversive element that threatened world peace. The series featured exotic locales from all over the world, but it was relatively down-to-earth and realistic--especially when compared to its successor, "Secret Agent".

Danger Man: Season 1, Episode 1 View from the Villa (11 Sep. 1960)

The killing of a man who embezzled five millions dollars of gold bullion prompts secret agent John Drake to investigate. He questions various people around Rome in an attempt to find the victim's girlfriend, whom he suspects will be his best lead, but no one seems to know just who or where she is. A clue on a painting finally leads him to a country residence. There, he discovers the stash of gold and the identity of the missing girlfriend. But it soon becomes apparent that others, including the murderer, are in search of the stolen loot and will do anything to get their hands on it.

Friday, June 28 - Department S: The Trojan Tanker

Department S: Season 1, Episode 2 The Trojan Tanker (16 Mar. 1969)

In rural England a petrol tanker skids and collides with a van,killing its driver. When the van driver investigates,he finds that the tanker is not carrying fuel but its interior is decked out like the cabin of a yacht and there is a young woman in a bikini,apparently injured,inside. However,when the police arrive she has disappeared. Jason King finds a lighter with an insignia which he recognizes as belonging to an old acquaintance and so begins a trail leading to France and to South Africa.

Thursday, June 27 - Department S: Six Days

Department S (1969–1970) TV Series

An elite department within Interpol, Department S inherited those cases which the other member groups had failed to solve. The brains of the group was Jason King, a hedonistic maverick who wrote mystery novels and solved real-life crimes by projecting himself into the shoes of his fictional hero, Mark Caine. American Stewart Sullivan was the fighter and pragmatist of the group--as down to earth and cynical as Jason was flighty and flamboyant. Annabelle Hurt was their scientist and analyst, whom Jason often accused of loving nothing in the world except her computer. Although there was strong loyalty among the trio, there was also a lot of competition, especially between Annabelle and Jason, who seldom agreed on any theory and were continually trying to show each other up by solving the case using their preferred methods. The head of Department S was Sir Curtis Seretse.

Department S: Season 1, Episode 1 Six Days (9 Mar. 1969)

An air-liner arriving in London from Rome is not thirty minutes early,as the pilot assumes, but in fact six days late. None of the crew or passengers - who have a mysterious bruise on their arms - can account for the missing six days,no extra fuel has been used and the plane has not been tampered with in anyway. An Eastern bloc pilot is among the names on the passenger list but he is killed before he can be interviewed,and he is not the only casualty. As Sir Curtis was on board the plane Department 'S' has an interest in investigating what happened.

Wednesday, June 26 - Fast Company

Fast Company (1938)

Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. He finds stolen or lost rare books for the insurance companies and gets a reward for their return. But this is a little different. Otto Brockler, a rare book dealer with questionable ethics, has been murdered. The list of suspects is long. Ned, who Otto sent to prison to get insurance money and keep him away from Leah. Leah, who is in love with the falsely convicted Ned. Elias, a silent partner in stolen and forged books. Sydney, a master forger of rare books. Julia, Otto's secretary who has expensive clothes and jewelry. Joel is the one who must find the murderer before he becomes the next victim.

Tuesday, June 25 Double Feature! - Casanova: Window, Window & Red Dwarf: Future Echoes

Casanova: Season 1, Episode 4 Window, Window (7 Dec. 1971)


The episode flashes back and forward between Casanova trying to seduce Anne Roman-Coupier, even though his friend strongly discourages this, and him trying to receive some books while being in prison. He is also haunted by memories of watching a man being executed and him smashing a window with a stone in Venice.

Red Dwarf: Season 1, Episode 2 Future Echoes (22 Feb. 1988)

Holly navigates Red Dwarf during light speed. But when Red Dwarf goes through light speed 24-hours early, the crew witnesses strange events and they find they are witnessing "Future Echoes" images of events that will happen in the future.

Monday, June 24 - Special Branch: Polonaise

Special Branch: Season 3, Episode 5 Polonaise (2 May 1973)

Special Branch officers North and Craven are asked to protect a former Nazi collaborator. Although they have contempt for the man and their assignment, they must shield him from those who remember his old war crimes.

Sunday, June 23 - House of the Long Shadows

House of the Long Shadows (1983)

Young American author Kenneth Magee (Desi Arnaz Jr.) makes a ridiculous bet with his English publisher that he can write a novel as great as Emily Bronte's "Wuthering Heights" within 24 hours. His publisher therefore sends him to a Welsh manor, where Kenneth is supposed to have the necessary quietude to work effectively. Soon after his arrival, however, some strange guests show up, amongst them some of our favorite Horror icons.

Saturday, June 22 Double Feature! - Owning Mahowny & Van der Valk: The Rainbow Ends Here

Owning Mahowny (2003)

Dan Mahowny was a rising star at the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce. At twenty-four he was assistant manager of a major branch in the heart of Toronto's financial district. To his colleagues he was a workaholic. To his customers, he was astute, decisive and helpful. To his friends, he was a quiet, but humorous man who enjoyed watching sports on television. To his girlfriend, he was shy but engaging. None of them knew the other side of Dan Mahowny--the side that executed the largest single-handed bank fraud in Canadian history, grossing over $10 million in eighteen months to feed his gambling obsession.

Van der Valk: Season 2, Episode 7 The Rainbow Ends Here (10 Oct. 1973)

The sister of tycoon Evert Stolle is kidnapped, but her brother does not want the police to get involved.

Friday, June 21 - Blonde Dynamite

Blonde Dynamite (1950)

While Louie is on vacation, the boys turn The Sweet Shop into an escort service, and soon find a group of beautiful girls as their first clients. What they don't know, however, is that the girls are part of a gang of bank robbers who want to use the Sweet Shop in order to tunnel into the vault of a bank next door.

Thursday, June 20 - Red Dwarf: The End

Red Dwarf: Season 1, Episode 1 The End (15 Feb. 1988)

Liverpudlian caretaker Dave Lister is sentenced to 18-months in suspended animation for smuggling his pregnant cat Frankenstine on-board. But Dave awakes from Suspended animation, only to find he's been frozen for 3 million years and the crew have been wiped out in a radioactive disaster.

Wednesday, June 19 & Thursday, June 20: Late Extra

Late Extra (1935)

When a bank robber shoots a policeman, London's Daily Gazette offers a large reward for his capture. Reporter Janet Grahame, however, is more interested in capturing the story. She is both aided and hindered by her fellow reporters on the Gazette, particularly the double-crossing Carson (Ian Colin) and the sweet-talking, self-centered charmer, Jim Martin (James Mason).

Tuesday, June 18 - Secret Agent (aka Danger Man): Judgement Day

Secret Agent: Season 2, Episode 8 Judgement Day (29 Jan. 1966)

On his way home to London, Drake finds himself diverted in the Middle East. He is required to go to Bir Azhad to pick up a scientist, Dr Garriga. However, Dr Garriga is very nervous as somebody tried to kill him with a bomb hidden in a book and he is reluctant to travel with Drake. The more Drake stays with him, he realises that there is something else going on. As they are flying back from Bir Azhad to the international airport, there is plane trouble and they have a forced landing. However, it turns out that it is all part of a plot to punish the doctor, who has a abominable past.

Monday, June 17 - Secret Agent (aka Danger Man): The Outcast

Secret Agent (1964–1966) "Danger Man" (original title)

Three years after the original "Danger Man" series concluded, it was revamped and continued in a longer format. (1 hour/episode instead of 30 minutes). John Drake was now a Special Security Agent for MI9, getting his exotic assignments exclusively from Her Majesty's Secret Service. This version of the series introduced far more Bond-like gadgets, from exploding tie-pins to tape-recording shavers, and emphasized fast action.

Secret Agent: Season 2, Episode 9 The Outcast (22 Jan. 1966)

A WREN is murdered and Drake is sent to investigate. Her body is found with some top secret signals and he is to find out how and why she has the secrets. The only clue is a radio operator who disappeared just after she was killed. Drake's will try to befriend him and get him to open up about his role in the affair. Drake tracks him down and finds him working in a hotel. Things become complicated when an attempt is made on the suspect's life so Drake must work quickly to get him to confess.

Sunday, June 16 - I Thank a Fool

I Thank a Fool (1962)

Dr. Christine Allison (Hayward) is convicted of manslaughter for the mercy killing of her terminally ill, married lover. After serving two years in prison, she is unable to find work. Help comes from a surprising source -- she is approached by Stephen Dane (Finch), the man who prosecuted her, to look after his disturbed wife Liane (Cilento).

Saturday, June 15 - Greed in the Sun

Greed in the Sun (1964) "Cent mille dollars au soleil" (original title)

A double-crossing Moroccan truck driver and his lover hijack a company rig that's laden with valuable cargo. They flee into the North African desert, where a former colleague turned bounty hunter gives chase.

Friday, June 14 - Shed No Tears

Shed No Tears (1948)

A wife convinces her husband to fake his death so they can collect on the life insurance. However, he doesn't know that she has been having an affair for some time, and she has plans for the money - and they don't include him.

Thursday, June 13 - Special Branch: Assault

Special Branch: Season 3, Episode 4 Assault (25 Apr. 1973)

Haggerty's father is beaten into a coma in the latest of a series of attacks on travelers. At first the case falls outside of Special Branch's jurisdiction, but when sensitive government documents are stolen from the next victim, the team launch a manhunt.

Wednesday, June 12 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Restless Redhead

Perry Mason: Season 1, Episode 1 The Case of the Restless Redhead (21 Sep. 1957)

Perry's client is menaced by a car driven by a hooded assailant, whom she shoots at with a revolver that was planted in her room. When the guy winds up dead from a bullet wound, Perry confuses matters by firing an identical revolver at the scene of the crime, but after the fact.

Tuesday, June 11 - Alias Mr. Twilight

Alias Mr. Twilight (1946)

Geoffrey Holden is an elderly conman who is a lovable old man when providing his beloved granddaughter with the simple luxuries of life, yet has no qualms when working a racket devised to relieve his victims of their property. Corky Corcoran is the governess of the granddaughter, and is in love with a detective who is about to expose the old man's unsuspected activities.

Monday, June 10 - Van der Valk: Rich Man, Poor Man

Van der Valk: Season 2, Episode 6 Rich Man, Poor Man (3 Oct. 1973)

A worker at a firm that reconditions farm machinery is injured in an explosion at the premises. The man insists he caused the accident himself, but Van der Valk is convinced that he is covering up the truth.

Friday, June 7 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Demure Defendant

Perry Mason: Season 1, Episode 16 The Case of the Demure Defendant (4 Jan. 1958)

Nadine, a demure young woman, confesses to her psychiatrist on tape that she poisoned her uncle. Evidence has been tampered with and planted, and Perry is in hot water.

Thursday, June 6 - Special Branch: Inquisition

Special Branch: Season 3, Episode 3 Inquisition (18 Apr. 1973)

Craven busts a fraudster for carrying an unlicensed firearm and forged passport. But while his fellow officers question his holding the cooperative suspect without charges, the detective increases the pressure to get the information he's really seeking.

Wednesday, June 5 - Earthbound

Earthbound (1940)

Nick and Ellen's second honeymoon in Switzerland is interrupted when he is called back to Paris on business. But it turns out to be funny-business when he discovers his ex-mistress Linda sent him the telegram. Nick spurns her, leading her to shoot and kill him. His ghost cannot rest, though, since Linda's husband Jeff is arrested for the crime and tried. Nick hovers over Ellen guiding her to the evidence that will clear Jeff and convict Linda, at which point he can rest at peace.

Tuesday, June 4 - Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1929)

Writer William Magee accepts a wager that he can finish writing a book in 24 hours, and travels to the deserted inn Baldpate, a summer resort now in the midst of winter, including a blizzard, to finish his opus. Told his is the only key, Magee is interrupted numerous times in the first hours by a parade of characters who appear to be in search of $200,000 meant as a bribe for a local politician, and who all seem to have an only key. As the situations become as outlandish as any he could concoct for his novel, Magee lets his infatuation with one of the "guests" get in the way of writing and solving the plot behind all that's happening at Baldpate.

Monday, June 3 - Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)

Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)

Writer Kenneth Magee has bet that he can finish a story at rural resort Baldpate Inn, now closed for the winter. The owner has given him the "only" key to the front door. But there are six other keys, and peculiar characters, some of them up to no good, keep turning up as the mystery deepens.

Sunday, June 2 - Foyle's War: Bleak Midwinter

Foyle's War: Season 4, Episode 3 Bleak Midwinter (11 Feb. 2007) TV Episode

December 1942: DCS Foyle investigates the death of Grace Phillips who died in what appears to be an accident in a munitions factory. Grace, who had been living with her boyfriend Harry Osborne, had become very sad of late and had mysteriously mentioned something about thievery to a fellow worker just a week before her death. Sgt. Milner's estranged wife Jane, whom he's not seen for over two years, visits him unexpectedly. Jane knew the dead girl and had important information for her husband, but she is killed while on her way to tell him. When evidence points to Sgt. Milner as the perpetrator, Foyle is forced to suspend him. Meanwhile the staff at the police station are overly preoccupied with the evidence gathered in a racketeering case - especially a plump turkey.

Saturday, June 1 - So Sweet, So Dead & Scene of the Crime

So Sweet, So Dead (1972) "Rivelazioni di un maniaco sessuale al capo della squadra mobile" (original title)

A serial killer is on the loose. His victims are unfaithful wives and he always leaves compromising photographs at the crime scene.

Scene of the Crime (1949)

Homicide detective Mike Conovan investigates the shooting of fellow detective Monigan...who apparrently was moonlighting as guard for a bookie. He finds that all the bookies in town are being robbed, most upsetting to the racket bosses who can't get normal police protection. Mike encounters blind alleys and double crosses, and is distracted by his wife's growing disenchantment.

Friday, May 31 - Darkroom: Lost in Translation & Guillotine

Darkroom: Season 1, Episode 12 Lost in Translation (8 Jan. 1982)

An archaeology professor (Andrew Prine) seeks power over others through a magic formula.

Darkroom: Season 1, Episode 13 Guillotine (8 Jan. 1982)

A 19th-century Frenchwoman tries to save her lover from the guillotine.