Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake head to a small town to defend a young man who is charged with poisoning a blackmailer.
Wednesday, July 31, 2013
Tuesday, July 30 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Drowning Duck
Perry Mason, Della Street, and Paul Drake head to a small town to defend a young man who is charged with poisoning a blackmailer.
Tuesday, July 30, 2013
Monday, July 29, 2013
Sunday, July 28 - One Touch of Venus
Fantasy comedy about a young window dresser who kisses a statue of Venus, which then comes to life in the form of Ava Gardner. The problems begin, however, when Venus falls in love with him.
Sunday, July 28, 2013
Friday & Saturday, July 26 & 27 - Fast and Furious
Joel and Garda Sloan, a husband and wife detective team, who also sell rare books in New York, take a vacation to Seaside City. At Seaside, Joel's pal, Mike Stevens is managing and preparing for their beauty pageant. Joel is made one of the judges plus he has invested $5,000 in it, to Garda's dismay. Eric Bartell, promoter, arrives to dupe Stevens. When Ed Connors, New York racketeer arrives, Bartell is mysteriously murdered. Joel and Garda set out to investigate the murder.
Wednesday, July 24, 2013
Tuesday, July 23 - Foyle's War:
Foyle's War: Season 5, Episode 2 Casualties of War (15 Apr. 2007)Foyle has his hands full dealing with illegal gambling, sabotage, and his needy goddaughter who shows up on his doorstep with her traumatized son.
Tuesday, July 23, 2013
Monday, July 22 - Cover Girl
Chorine Rusty Parker wins out in a cover girl contest for 'Vanity' magazine because she's the image of her grandmother...the lost love of magazine mogul John Coudair. But her instant fame throws a spanner in her romance with Danny McGuire, her dancing mentor.
Monday, July 22, 2013
Sunday, July 21 - That Cold Day in the Park
A bizarre story with Sandy Dennis as a spinster who takes in a handsome young man (Michael Burns) who is pretending to be mute. She imprisons the boy and supplies his every need, including a prostitute (Luana Anders).
Sunday, July 21, 2013
Saturday, July 20 DOUBLE FEATURE! - Mr. Soft Touch & Melissa (1997): Episode 2
Just before Christmas, Joe Miracle, a returning WWII war hero, comes home to learn that gangster Barney Teener has taken over his nightclub and murdered Joe's partner. Joe loots the club's safe for $100,000 and then finds sanctuary in a settlement house ran by Jenny Jones. Mistaking him for a down-and-out musician, she helps him understand the importance of her work. "Early" Byrd, a newspaper columnist, learns Joe's true identity and writes a column that puts Barney on his trail. The gangsters recover the money, after setting fire to the settlement house, but Joe steals it again, and returns to the gutted welfare house disguised as Santa Claus, and gives the money to Jenny to rebuild. There, Tenner and his gang catch up to Joe.
The finger of suspicion falls on Guy...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
Friday, July 19 - Department S: The Pied Piper of Hambledown
Needing to wake early next day to participate in a beauty contest Susan Grant,staying at her father's pub in the village of Hambledown takes a sleeping pill but wakes in the night to see flashing blue lights. The entire population of Hambledown are being helped into trucks by military men. Next morning she finds herself the only person in the village.When Department 'S' comes to investigate, a patch of scorched earth in a field where a gate post has been freshly painted seems to point to evacuation from an ecological disaster.
Friday, July 19, 2013
Thursday, July 18 - Melissa (1997): Episode 1
Award-winning war correspondent Guy Foster (Tim Dutton), distraught after the loss of his first wife, joins a cruise to Cape Town, where he meets beautiful and mysterious Melissa (Jennifer Ehle). A sophisticated blonde, PR girl, Melissa is travelling with an exuberant group of media friends. Guy falls desperately in love with the exotic Melissa and she seduces him very happily into marriage. But while they celebrate, dark events begin to take place. An elderly widower is 'accidentally' lost overboard. The bodies of a middle-aged couple are discovered in Cape Town. Then one of Melissa's friends is brutally killed. The finger of suspicion falls on Guy...
Melissa: Season 1, Episode 1 Episode #1.1 (12 May 1997)
Thursday, July 18, 2013
Wednesday, July 17 - Charlie Is My Darling
Two days in the life of the Rolling Stones during their tour of Ireland in 1965.
Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Tuesday, July 16 - Experiment Alcatraz
John Howard plays one of a group of scientists who gather some criminals off of Alcatraz and offer them their freedom if they'll take part in an atomic experiment. Before this is carried off one of the men murders another but a nurse ends up taking the fall for it. Howard and the nurse end up teaming up to try and find out what really happened and why.
Tuesday, July 16, 2013
Monday, July 15 - Special Branch: Red Herring
There has been a series of bombings in London. At the last one an Army demolition expert is killed. Special Branch men, George Swell and Roger Rowland are called in to help track the bombers down...
Monday, July 15, 2013
Sunday, July 14 - The Mask of Dimitrios
A mystery writer named Leyden is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, to learn more about the man. Along the way, he is joined by mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Sunday, July 14, 2013
Saturday, July 13 - Endless Night
Michael Rogers is a chauffeur with little money, but big dreams. Foremost of these is building his dream house on the perfect piece of land. Michael gets his chance when his new girlfriend, Ellie, turns out to be an extremely wealthy heiress. The two are wed and are soon living in a modern home on Gipsy's Acre. Their idyllic life shatters around them with a series of bizarre events and threats. Micheal comes under the disapproving eye of both Ellie's greedy family and her interfering best-friend Greta. On top of that, local legend says their property is cursed.
Saturday, July 13, 2013
Friday, July 12 - Terror on a Train
When a terrorist plants a bomb on board a train, the police call in an army bomb disposal expert to find, and dismantle it, but after it has been made safe, he has another shock in store.
Friday, July 12, 2013
Thursday, July 11 - Melissa: Episode 3
...until a chance comment he happens to make tells Detective Chief Inspector Carter (perfectly played by a suavely genteel Philip Voss) that the fantastic stories he's been telling are the real truth.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
Wednesday, July 10 Double Feature! - Melissa: Episode 2 & Red Dwarf: Balance of Power
By the time a second murder occurs, Foster is so wrapped up in elaborately phony (and highly unlikely) stories (although from his perspective, they are all perfectly true) he has nowhere to turn...
Lister wants to go on a date with the hologram of navigation officer Kristine Kochanski, much to Rimmer's disapproval. Lister decides to do a cooking exam so he can outrank Rimmer. But Rimmer has a cunning plan.
Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Tuesday, July 9 - Melissa: Episode 1
A writer who's been going through some tough times without a steady income allows his wife (Melissa) to go to a party with friends without him; when she calls him later to meet her somewhere, he goes, only to find her dead and all of the evidence pointing directly to him, and he has no alibi.
Melissa: Season 1, Episode 1 Episode #1.1 (4 Dec. 1974)
Worse, a doctor specializing in neurological cases swears to the police that he was a recent patient, and so does his nurse, while Guy Foster, that's his name (played by a suitably rumpled and increasingly haggard Peter Barkworth) knows he has never seen either one before in his life.
More funny business continues...
Tuesday, July 9, 2013
Monday, July 8 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Nervous Accomplice
A wealthy woman hires Mason to buy stock in her husband's land company, hoping to force his mistress out. But her plan goes awry when she is charged with murder.
Monday, July 8, 2013
Sunday, July 7 - Butterfield 8
Beautiful Gloria Wandrous, a New York fashion model engages in an illicit affair with married socialite Weston Liggett. However, Gloria's desire for respectability causes her to reconsider her lifestyle.
Saturday, July 6, 2013
Saturday, July 6 - Mister Buddwing
An amnesiac wanders the streets of Manhattan, trying to solve the mystery of who he is.
Friday, July 5 - Loophole
Barry Sullivan is very good as a bank teller victimized in a brazen robbery scheme: he is responsible for nearly $50,000 that goes missing. As his wife, Dorothy Malone looks terrific and adds an enjoyable smartness to what could have been a humdrum role. Most interesting of all is Charles McGraw as the tenacious insurance investigator, Gus Slavin. He is convinced Sullivan is faking innocence and biding his time. McGraw has several enjoyable opportunities to harrass Sullivan, and he also sabotages the poor teller's attempts to get on with his life.
Friday, July 5, 2013
Thursday, July 4 - The Private Affairs of Bel Ami
Writer Georges Duroy (George Sanders) is one social-climbing S.O.B. who does most of his climbing over the warm (and cold) bodies of women. He begins with Rachel (Marie Wilson), a hanger-on in the cafes and Folies Bergere crowd, and then moves on to dally with Clotilde de Morelle (Angela Lansbury.) Always striving to move upward on the social scale, he ditches her to marry Madeleine Forestier (Ann Dvorak). Now he gets on the fast track. He persuades Madame Walter (Katherine Emery), the wife of his publisher, to fall in love with him, and then compromises Madeleine to frame a divorce, so he can pursue Madame Walter's daughter, Suzanne (Susan Douglas, before somebody decided her later-married name was her most-often used screen name.) He moves along so well that ere long he is in legal position to usurp the title of one of France's most noble houses. The moral, at the end, is it is okay to mess with French women, but triffling with French titles is going too far.
Thursday, July 4, 2013
Wednesday, July 3 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Sleepwalker's Niece
When his stepbrother is found dead, a man is charged with murder and is accused of using his sleepwalking as a cover-up.
Wednesday, July 3, 2013
Tuesday, July 2 - Fast and Loose
The scrap of the Shakespeare manuscript is priceless. Nick Torrent owns it and is selling it. But then he is murdered and the manuscript is stolen. Joel Sloane is a rare book dealer and part time detective. Since he was trying to buy the manuscript for Mr. Oates, he is a suspect so he tries to solve the case. As the bodies pile up, Joel must solve the case or else Garda will be wearing black.
Tuesday, July 2, 2013
Monday, July 1 - Department S: A Cellar Full of Silence
Four men in fancy dress costumes are celebrating committing a robbery in a house near a building site when they are gunned down. When a man's body is recovered, locked in a trunk in a car that was pushed into a lake, the bullets that killed him match those from the gun of one of the murdered quartet. Stewart follows the trail to piece together the connection and to unmask the person who hired the robbers and who is holding Libby, a witness to the robbery, captive.
Monday, July 1, 2013
Sunday, June 30 - Murders in the Rue Morgue
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1971)"Murders in the Rue Morgue" is set at a theater in Paris, where the respectable top artist Cesar Charron and his ensemble depict Poe's oeuvre on stage, but the actual plot of the movie simultaneously borrows elements from that other great and legendary story by Gaston Leroux; "The Phantom of the Opera". Charron's young and beautiful wife Madeleine suffers from recurring nightmares featuring an axe murderer, a falling rope and an old dark house. Meanwhile a masked maniac is brutally killing off Charron's friends and old co-actors with acid.
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