Thursday, Feb. 27 - Dying Day: Parts 3 & 4

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 15 Dying Day: Part 3: Mr. Skipling Fights Back (19 Feb. 1980)

Skipling finds more fuel for his imagination in the new husband of his bigamous wife.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 16 Dying Day: Part 4: Mr. Skiplng's Day of Reckoning (21 Feb. 1980)

Skipling braces himself as the fateful day of February 28 approaches.

Wednesday, Feb. 26 - Dying Day: Parts 1 & 2

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 13 Dying Day: Part 1: Mr. Skipling is Sentenced to Death (19 Oct. 1982)

An unassuming everyday man hears a tape recording of two men plotting to kill him, but when he plays the tape for the police the conversation is missing. He tries to unscramble the mystery of why anyone would want to kill him, and why he is the only person who can see what is happening.

Armchair Thriller: Season 3, Episode 14 Dying Day: Part 2: Mr. Skipling Finds a Friend (14 Feb. 1980)

The police disbelieve Skipling's story of the man bleeding from the eyes. Later, Skipling receives an unwanted visit from a doctor and a welcome visit from his "befriender".

Tuesday, Feb. 25 - The Garden Murder Case

The Garden Murder Case (1936)

Someone has shot and killed Lowe Hammle and everyone at his 22 room apartment is a suspect. The reasons are as varied as the number of people there. There is Dr. Garden, whose son Floyd was killed at the track in a mysterious way which is thought to be a suicide. There is Mrs. Fenwicke-Ralston who was supposed to complete a deal on a horse. There is the blackmailing Nurse Beeton and the niece Zalia, who knows that Uncle is trying to break up her relationship with Woode. Since there is no powder marks on the body, Vance knows that it is murder and believes that a woman did the job. But he has to find the killer and the motive.

Monday, Feb. 24 - Girls in Prison

Girls in Prison (1956)

Protesting innocence (of course), 21-year-old Anne Carson, convicted as an accomplice to a bank robbery, finds herself in prison with 3 equally glamorous cellmates in form-fitting uniforms: tough Jenny, unbalanced Dorothy, and deceptive, sweet-talking Melanee who (it's implied) makes unwanted lesbian advances toward Anne. The prison chaplain takes an interest in her case...or is it in her? As Anne meets the darker side of prison life, she learns that her greatest danger is the existence, somewhere out there, of unrecovered bank loot everyone thinks she hid.

Sunday, Feb. 23 - Foyle's War: Broken Souls & The Glass Cage

Foyle's War: Season 6, Episode 2 Broken Souls (20 Jul. 2008)

Foyle has a number of apparently unrelated investigations under way. The most serious is the murder of Dr. Julian Worth who worked at a nearby hospital for mentally disturbed soldiers and airmen. He is found in his office stabbed in the chest with a letter opener. Worth was much disliked by his colleagues and was about to leave for a new job. The police also search for a 15-year old boy who has run away from his London home and may have returned to the area to where he was evacuated. Finally, they investigate the murder of a German POW who spent his days working on a local farm but who was no longer welcome when the owner returns after spending five years as a German prisoner of war.

The Glass Cage (1964)

Two police detectives investigate the murder of a businessman who was shot while breaking into the apartment of a young woman. Their inquiries reveal that the businessman was actually involved with the woman's gold-digging sister, who has been the parental figure for her more fragile sibling in the absence of their evangelist father. Lonely and frustrated with the impersonal nature of police work, Kelljan begins a tentative relationship with Sax. But the sudden appearance of her father unleashes a torrent of long-dormant childhood traumas within Sax, who soon reveals that her relationship with her sister is much more complex -- and disturbing -- than it appears.

Saturday, Feb. 22 - Dinner at Eight

Dinner at Eight (1933)

Millicent Jordan is pre-occupied with the plans she is making for a high-class dinner party. Her husband Oliver is in failing health, and he is also worried because someone is trying to buy up the stock in his shipping business - even his old friend Carlotta wants to sell her stock. Hoping to get help from businessman Dan Packard, he persuades Millicent, against her wishes, to invite Packard and his wife to the dinner. As Oliver's problems get worse, Millicent is increasingly quick-tempered because the plans for the party are not going smoothly. As the time for the dinner approaches, it appears that the hosts and the guests will all have plenty on their minds.

Friday, Feb. 21 - The Mad Magician

The Mad Magician (1954)

Don Gallico is a master at designing magical illusions which are sold by his employer, Mr. Ormond, to famous magicians such as Rinaldi. He is also a master of disguise and realistic mask design. When Don embarks upon his own career as Gallico the Great, showcasing his own masterful illusions, his dreams are shattered by Ormond and he turns to murder to vent his frustrations.

Thursday, Feb. 20 - Backlash

Backlash (1947)

A body, believed to be that of a criminal lawyer, sends the police hunting for the killer. The lawyer's wife, his partner, and an ex-convict are, in turn, suspected of the crime. But the body was incorrectly identified, and the lawyer is still alive. He murders his partner and is planning on killing his wife.

Wednesday, Feb. 19 - The Limbo Connection: Part 6 & The Ghost of Rashmon Hall

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 26 The Limbo Connection: Part 6 (18 May 1978)

Omney turns up the heat on Meadowbank, which is forced into the most desperate of measures.

The Ghost of Rashmon Hall (1947) "The Night Comes Too Soon" (original title)

A British newly wed couple after searching in vain for a home of their own reluctantly buys an old mansion with a spooky history and moves in. Soon after moving in they encounter ghosts, poltergeists and other spooky goings on. Realizing something must done, the husband brings in a doctor friend who is an expert on the the occult to rid the house of spirits.

Tuesday, Feb. 18 - The Limbo Connection: Parts 4 & 5

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 24 The Limbo Connection: Part 4 (11 May 1978)

Omney attends the funeral of one of the clinic's former residents, suspecting his wife's body lies inside the coffin. Later that night, he and Annabelle return to find out for themselves.

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 25 The Limbo Connection: Part 5 (16 May 1978)

The police catch Omney red-handed, and a deadly attack leaves him with only one way out.

Monday, Feb. 17 - The Limbo Connection: Parts 2 & 3

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 22 The Limbo Connection: Part 2 (4 May 1978)

Omney suspects that Clare is being held against her will at Meadowbank Clinic. Or has she finally left him, sick of his drunken and aggressive behavior?

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 23 The Limbo Connection: Part 3 (9 May 1978)

For help, Omney turns to Annabelle Fraser, his old girlfriend. He is convinced that a conspiracy is afoot--and that Clare is sending him covert messages.

Sunday, Feb. 16 - The Limbo Connection: Part 1

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 21 The Limbo Connection: Part 1 (2 May 1978)

After a bout of heavy drinking, Mark Omney cannot account for his movements over the last 12 hours. When he sobers up, he learns that his wife Clare, has had a car accident.

Saturday, Feb. 15 - Eye Witness

Eye Witness (1950) "Your Witness" (original title)

Adam Hayward (Robert Montgomery), a successful New York City defense lawyer, receives a cable that the British war buddy who saved his life at Anzio Beach is now in trouble with the law in England. Taking the advice of his secretary to go to England rather than wire money, Adam arrives in his friend's village to find him about to stand trial for the murder of the hired stable-hand, Lawrence. Hayward learns that a witness exists who can testify that his friend, Baxter, shot Lawrence in self-defense. But the other witness is a woman who fled the scene and will not want to expose herself by coming forward.

Wednesday, Feb. 12 - Breakdown

Breakdown (1952)

An ex-convict (William Bishop) becomes a rising heavyweight fighter and a championship contender--and then, on the eve of the big fight, finds the man who can prove that he was framed for the crime for which he served time.

Tuesday, Feb. 11 - Strictly Dynamite

Strictly Dynamite (1934)

Moxie Slaight is on the air, teaming with his lovely partner to send jokes and tunes into the living rooms of mainstream USA. But America is tuning out. Moxie needs a fresh gag writer to spark his radio show…and an opportunistic agent sets Moxie up with a hot new penman. And where does this creative scribe find his material? From the well-thumbed pages of old joke books!

Monday, Feb. 10 - Danger UXB: Dead Man's Shoes

Danger UXB (1979– )

Brian Ash (Anthony Andrews) is a young lieutenant who is assigned to a UXB unit in the early days of World War II. UXB (UneXploded Bomb) is the signal that an aerial bomb has not exploded. Ash's job is to deactivate German bombs, some of which have fuses specifically designed to kill him. The series takes us through his maturation as an officer, a love story with Susan (Judy Geeson), and the stresses and strains of wartime on the civilians and military in England.

Danger UXB: Season 1, Episode 1 Dead Man's Shoes (8 Jan. 1979)

(September 1940) Brian Ash, directly commissioned as an officer of the Royal Engineers after ten weeks of basic training at the Hampshire Depot, joins 97 Tunnelling Company.[n 2] Without the benefit of training, he is immediately put in charge of a section whose previous officer was blown to bits. The unexploded bombs they deal with have been armed by time-delayed electrical bomb fuses that activate after a bomb has already impacted and detonate when vibrations caused by movement or contact close the circuit. Under the tutelage of Sergeant James, he defuses a relatively straightforward type 15 fused bomb, but is dismayed to learn that the Germans have deployed an even deadlier fuse, the type 17, that is rigged with a clockwork long-delay detonator activated by the bomb's impact.

Friday, Feb. 7 & Sunday, Feb. 9 - The Debt Collector

The Debt Collector (1999)

The Debt Collector is a dark contemporary thriller set in Edinburgh. The protagonist, Nick Dryden, has just been released from prison after serving 16 years for murder. In his youth, he was Edinburgh's most notorious and violent criminal, but his rehabilitation has worked wonders. Now he is a free man, married to a successful journalist and admired in the art world for his strikingly disturbing sculptures. But for Gary Keltie, the policeman who arrested him, life has been different. Depressed by the futility of his job and alone in the world except for his aging mother, he resents Dryden's new-found success and vows to sabotage it. There is one more person who is also obsessed by Dryden: the seriously disturbed adolescent gangster Flipper, although his reasons are not hatred but hero worship. The three men are on a collision course in this modern Scottish myth which exposes the extremes of human nature.

Thursday, Feb. 6 - Teenage Doll

Teenage Doll (1957)

The Black Widows, a teenage girl gang, find one of their number killed; they suspect Barbara, sometime girlfriend of the leader of rival gang The Vandals. As the gangs prepare for a rumble, we glimpse the members' home lives, exaggerating every type of family dysfunction; but that of their "average American" quarry is no better. Full of shadowy urban night scenes.

Wednesday, Feb. 5 - The Kennel Murder Case

The Kennel Murder Case (1933)

Archer Coe has been found dead in his locked bedroom. The cops consider it suicide, but Philo believes otherwise. When the Coroner shows up, he finds that Archer had been hit with a blunt object, stabbed and shot - making suicide unlikely. When the evidence points to his brother, Brisbane is found stabbed to death in the closet. Archer had a number of enemies, any one of which would have been glad to knock him off, but which one did and how did the murder occur in a room looked from the inside. Only one man, the keen, fascinating, debonair detective Philo Vance, would be able to figure out who is the killer.

Tuesday, Feb. 4 - Carnival

Carnival (1935)

"Chick" Thompson is a puppet-master in a traveling carnival whose wife dies in childbirth and leaves him with an infant son he names "Poochy." His father-in-law and the baby's grandfather sues him for custody of the baby and Chick takes his son and hides out for a couple of years. He joins his former assistants, Daisy and "Fingers", in a circus act only to find that the persistent grandfather is still on his trail.

Monday, Feb. 3 - The Squeeze

Four Star Playhouse: Season 2, Episode 2 The Squeeze (1 Oct. 1953)

Stan, the son of the DA, is a secret gambler. He loses big in Willie's joint and pays by check. Stan's pretty sister shows up to ask Willie's help. Deras, a gangster up before the Grand Jury, wants to get hold of Stan's check to blackmail the DA.

Sunday, Feb. 2 - Thief

Thief (1981)

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specializing in high-profile diamond jobs. After having spent many years in prison, he has a very concrete picture of what he wants out of life--including a nice home, a wife, and kids. As soon as he is able to assemble the pieces of this collage, by means of his chosen profession, he intends to retire and become a model citizen. In an effort to accelerate this process, he signs on to take down a huge score for a big-time gangster. Unfortunately, Frank's obsession for his version of the American Dream allows him to overlook his natural wariness and mistrust, when making the deal for his final job. He is thus ensnared and robbed of his freedom, his independence, and, ultimately, his dream.

Saturday, Feb. 1 - Rachel in Danger

Armchair Thriller: Season 2, Episode 1 Rachel in Danger: (21 Feb. 1978)

Ten-year-old Rachel is sent to live with her estranged father. However, just hours before her arrival, her father is murdered and his identity stolen by a terrorist.

Friday, Jan. 31 - No Time to Be Young

No Time to Be Young (1957)

A melodrama about young adults growing up and facing the pressures of life.