Wednesday, June 29 - Double Harness

Double Harness (1933)

Beautiful Ann Harding is seen cooking and explaining to her engaged sister (Lucile Brown) that to men, business is business but that marriage is the business of women. Harding sets her sights on William Powell, a super smooth playboy who inherited a struggling shipping line. She sets a trap arranging for her sister to send their father (stern Henry Stephenson) to Powell's apartment for the purpose of catching Harding and Powell alone. To save face, Powell agrees to marry Harding, at least for a while. On the honeymoon, Powell suggests a divorce, while Harding coolly recommends they wait six months so as not to seem too obvious. She then starts steering him to leading his company back to profitability by looking at it as a challenge. With his talents now attending to business and not bedroom conquests, Powell starts to enjoy his newfound success and begins to fall in love with his bride. In the meantime Harding's jealous sister, now unhappily married, has been living beyond her means and needs money fast. She blurts out the truth of the marriage trap when Harding refuses to again pay off her debts. Powell leaves, disillusioned. Harding's father has arranged for a huge business deal to be offered to Powell at a formal dinner party at their home that very night. As Powell is making time with a former flame, his frazzled wife is at home greeting guests and trying to maintain composure. One by one, each guest is involved in a personal crisis and is pulled away from this dinner party from hell, presided over by blustery Reginald Owen as the butler.

Tuesday, June 28 - Studio One in Hollywood: Two Sharp Knives

Studio One in Hollywood (1948–1958): Two Sharp Knives (Episode aired 14 November 1949)

A man steps off the train with his ten-year-old daughter, expecting to find the wife he hasn't seen since the girl was born. Instead, he meets the chief of police, who recognizes his face from a wanted poster. The man is shocked. Supposedly he is wanted in Philadelphia for the murder of a man he's never heard of. But the small-town chief is no fool. Something stinks about the wanted poster, the murder rap and everything else. The Chief will endure the dirty politics of a dishonest district attorney, a murder made to look like a suicide, and a betrayal by a trusted friend, before he learns the truth.

Monday, June 27 - Perry Mason): The Case of the Lost Last Act

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Lost Last Act (Episode aired 21 March 1959)

At a script read-through of a new play by Ernest Royce, the last act has been stolen. Royce has words with the producer, John Gifford, and the publicist, Jim West, who think the new play is dreadful. None of the Royce written plays produced by Gifford have had good revues or produced a profit. The new play may even be a roman a clef that could be hurtful to the real people characterized. Royce threatens Gifford with exposure if the play is not produced. Meanwhile, Royce is having an affair with Faith Foster, the ingenue of the play. Tough guy Frank Brooks who has a mob related background has $75K, and his girlfriend Faith, invested in the play, and he wants his assets back. Brooks rather rough request for his money back to Royce is recorded on Royce's Dictaphone. Royce is murdered, and Brooks consults with Perry Mason, who is concerned the New York City mob may be involved.

Sunday, June 26 - Phantom Lady

Phantom Lady (1944)

Unhappily married Scott Henderson spends the evening on a no-name basis with a hat-wearing woman he picked up in a bar. Returning home, he finds his wife strangled and becomes the prime suspect in her murder. Every effort to establish his alibi fails; oddly no one seems to remember seeing the phantom lady (or her hat). In prison, Scott gives up hope but his faithful secretary, "Kansas," doggedly follows evanescent clues through shadowy nocturnal streets.

Saturday, June 25 - Diary of a Bachelor

Diary of a Bachelor (1964)

A wealthy young woman about to marry a noted playboy comes across his diary, and as she reads it, she begins to discover that her intended husband isn't quite what he seems to be.

Friday, June 24 - Ladies Crave Excitement

Ladies Crave Excitement (1935)

Don Phelan, the ace newsreel reporter falls in love with Wilma Howell, the daughter of the owner of another newsreel company that is a bitter rival of the one Don Works for. The rivalry between the two companies, with cameramen nudging each other out of the way, sabotage acts by one against the other, and reporters fighting to get the 'scoop' does not bode well for the romance.

Thursday, June 23 - The Avengers: The Removal Men

The Avengers (1961–1969): The Removal Men (Episode aired 1 February 1991?)

Steed sets himself up to become part of a team of assassins in order to prevent the murder of a young French sex-symbol film star who made the mistake of making political statements. Steed's plans go awry when Venus Smith, whom he had solicited to help, spots him with the film star and unwittingly tells one of the other assassins.

Wednesday, June 22 - Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone

Mrs. O'Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)

"Murder-on-the-train" mystery has lawyer Malone chasing his paroled embezzler client (Kepplar) who still hasn't paid Malone's $10,000 fee. When Kepplar jumps parole on a train to Chicago, Malone follows, in company with Kepplar's ex-wife, a police inspector and Mrs. O'Malley, a hearty radio contest winner from Montana. Kepplar is murdered, and a game of musical corpses commences, with hijinks in coach corridors as Malone and Hattie search for the killer.

Tuesday, June 21 - The Avengers: Mission to Montreal

The Avengers (1961–1969): Mission to Montreal (Episode aired 31 January 1991?)

A microfilm of North American early warning plans has been stolen and is believed to be somewhere in the luggage of a fading film star. Steed and Dr. King are assigned to retrieve it during a trip across the Atlantic on an ocean liner.

Monday, June 20 - Living on Love

Living on Love (1937)

Landlord Eli West needs to pay for his radio, so he leases Mary Wilson's apartment to the Ghonoff Brothers, but West arranges for Mary to live in the basement apartment, which just happens to be rented by struggling artist Gary Martin. No problem, however (thinks West) since Mary works as a saleslady by day, and Gary a night shift trucking manager by night, so they will never have to see each other. Conflicts soon arise with the two not being able to stand the other's habits and each tries to make the other fed up enough to leave. To further complicate things, Mary & Gary have already met and have developed a crush on each other, but circumstances will drive the two to stop seeing the other as well as the fact that the forces are about to reveal their apartment secret together.

Sunday, June 19 - Riptide

Riptide (1934)

Park Avenue party-girl Mary and staid English nobleman, Lord Phillip Rexford are married on a lark; they live happily in London. He must travel to America on business leaving her home alone. Lord Rexford's aunt invites Mary on a trip to the Riviera where she runs into an old flame, Tommie Treal. Under the spell of the sea breezes and the Mediterranean moon, Mary is the "innocent" victim of a romantic escapade that makes headlines as well as the scandal sheets. None of Mary's explanations can soothe Lord Phillip, his cold indifference drives Mary, who fights against it, closer to Tommie. As the two lovers surrender to their ardor, Lord R. learns from his lawyer that Mary had been telling the truth, and he calls for her to join him in Cannes with a clean slate. But it appears to be too late to save their marriage.

Saturday, June 18 - Tab Hunter Confidential & The More the Merrier

Tab Hunter Confidential (2015)

The story of matinee idol Tab Hunter from teenage stable boy to closeted Hollywood star of the 1950s and beyond.

The More the Merrier (1943)

It's World War II and there is a severe housing shortage everywhere - especially in Washington, D.C. where Connie Milligan rents an apartment. Believing it to be her patriotic duty, Connie offers to sublet half of her apartment, fully expecting a suitable female tenent. What she gets instead is mischievous, middle-aged Benjamin Dingle. Dingle talks her into subletting to him and then promptly sublets half of his half to young, irreverent Joe Carter - creating a situation tailor-made for comedy and romance.

Friday, June 17 - Banjo

Banjo (1947)

A Georgia orphan (Sharyn Moffett) and her dog, Banjo, go to live with her Boston aunt (Jacqueline White), who sends Banjo back.

Thursday, June 16 - Under Pressure

Under Pressure (1935)

Two members of a crew of "sandhogs", men who work on an underwater tunnel project, battle each other over the same woman and a rival team of sandhogs to see who will finish their half of the tunnel first, with the winning team getting more money and guaranteed future work.

Wednesday, June 15 - Having Wonderful Crime

Having Wonderful Crime (1945)

This lighthearted mystery finds the recently married Jake (George Murphy) and Helene Justus (Carole Landis) unable to avoid trouble, even on their honeymoon. After the couple witnesses a stage magician's disappearance that isn't part of the act, they enlist their sleuthing lawyer friend, Michael J. Malone (Pat O'Brien), to help them get to the bottom of the vanishing. The clues lead straight to a hotel where a murderer seems to be on the loose, and danger runs amok.

Tuesday, June 14 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Stuttering Bishop

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (Episode aired 14 March 1959)

Perry Mason becomes involved in the case of a Australian Bishop who is searching for a young woman who was abandoned as a child. Bishop Mallory has been putting vague ads in local newspapers to try and find the girl, the granddaughter of the rich Charles Burrows. The grandfather disinherited his son when he married and the son died before the missing daughter was born. The baby was then given up for adoption. He thinks he's found the right girl in Carol Delaney even though she doesn't believe him but it's clear that others have interest in the Burrows estate, especially Wallace Lang who has the Bishop beaten up to get him to leave town. Burrows himself thinks he's already found his granddaughter and is prepared to change his will in her favor regardless of the relationship. When Burrows is found stabbed to death in his study, Carol is charged with murder and Perry defends her plus the Bishop is missing.

Monday, June 13 - Thriller: The Bride Who Died Twice

Thriller (1960–1962): The Bride Who Died Twice (Episode aired 19 March 1962)

Joe De Santis plays an evil Latin American Colonel named Sangriento who is determined to marry the beautiful daughter(played by Mala Powers) of a general (played by Eduardo Cianelli) or risk death, despite the fact that the daughter is already betrothed to a Captain Antonio, whom the general sends on a dangerous mission hoping it will mean his death, but fate will not be kind to any of them.

Sunday, June 12 - The Private Affairs of Bel Ami

The Private Affairs of Bel Ami (1947)

Georges (George Sanders) is a womanizer out to increase his social status. He attends a party with his friend Charles (John Carradine) and Charles' wife, Madeleine (Ann Dvorak). There, he meets Madeleine's friend Clotilde de Marelle (Angela Lansbury). Clotilde and Georges fall in love, but when Charles dies Georges marries Madeleine for her money. He then frames Madeleine for adultery, and marries Suzanne Walter (Susan Douglas), but his social climbing catches up with him after they divorce.

Saturday, June 11 - Candy

Candy (1968)

A naive blond beauty (Ewa Aulin) meets a Mexican gardener, boozing Welsh poet (Richard Burton), hunchback, guru (Marlon Brando), surgeon and general. Candy, an innocent high-schooler, encounters numerous colorful characters and humorous sexual situations while attempting to find meaning in life.

Friday, June 10 - Rafter Romance

Rafter Romance (1933)

To collect back rent from tenants Jack Bacon (Norman Foster) and Mary Carroll (Ginger Rogers), landlord Eckbaum (George Sidney) suggests that the two strangers split the use of the attic, since Jack works nights and Mary is on days. Both protest, but Eckbaum moves them anyway. Although they never meet, a series of misunderstandings leads Jack and Mary to hate each other. One day at a deli, Mary meets Jack and the two share instant attraction -- with no idea they already live together.

Thursday, June 9 - Thriller: 'Til Death Do Us Part

Thriller (1960–1962): 'Til Death Do Us Part (Episode aired 12 March 1962)

Undertaker Carl Somers murders his nagging wife so he can head west to marry a wealthy spinster. The joke's on him though: eloping with the old maid gets her disinherited, leaving him with another unwanted wife. A new doctor in town hiding from a murder charge comes in handy at this point.

Wednesday, June 8 - Route 66: Kiss the Monster - Make Him Sleep

Route 66 (1960–1964): Kiss the Monster - Make Him Sleep (Episode aired 24 January 1964)

Tod and Linc are in Minneapolis working in construction on a River Lock Project. Linc becomes "involved" with the sister of their boss. She resents her brother being overprotective and buying off her men friends. Linc tries to help her make it on her own but later finds she has neuroses involving dependency and nymphomania. Not to mention a visit from Linc's mother and his troubled relationship with his father.

Tuesday, June 7 - Thriller: Flowers of Evil

Thriller (1960–1962): Flowers of Evil (Episode aired 5 March 1962)

A faithless wife and her lover murder her husband and sell his skeleton to a medical school. The skeleton keeps returning, however--and screaming.

Monday, June 6 - The Naughty Flirt

The Naughty Flirt (1931)

Coquettish socialite Kay Elliott has set her cap for Alan Ward, an associate in her father's law firm. But while pursuing Alan, she must fend off the advances of a greedy fortune-hunter, who is aided and abetted by his equally voracious sister.

Sunday, June 5 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Singing Violin

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Singing Violin (Episode aired 24 January 1955)

Betty is being tormented by apparent hallucinations, the latest of which she refers to as a 'singing violin'. Her stepfather brings her fiancé to see her in this condition, and he tells the young man that there can be no wedding, because Betty is going to be declared insane. The fiancé goes to consult Sherlock Holmes, but he is murdered before he can see the detective. When Inspector Lestrade consults Holmes about the murder, Holmes recognizes the name of the dead man and also of the step-father, who is the lone surviving partner in a large tea and spice business. Holmes quickly forms a theory about the murder, and sets out to prove it.

Saturday, June 4 - Panic in Year Zero!

Panic in Year Zero! (1962)

As the Baldwin family heads on vacation, their hometown of Los Angeles falls victim to a nuclear attack. Harry (Ray Milland), his wife, Ann (Jean Hagen), and their two teens head to their fishing retreat in the mountains, hoping to regroup and get more information. But they can't escape the frantic and irrational citizens, most of whom are dangerously deranged. Harry tries to stay calm during the nuclear-inspired end of days, but it's tempting to follow the masses' frenzied behavior.

Friday, June 3 - The Avengers: Bullseye

The Avengers (1961–1969): Bullseye (Episode aired 30 January 1991)

The Home Office becomes concerned when gunrunning to Africa increases and the stockholders of a prominent British gun manufacturer are being murdered one by one. Cathy buys 20 percent of the company's stock to investigate their activities.

Thursday, June 2 - After Office Hours

After Office Hours (1935)

Clark Gable is Jim Branch, the go-getter editor of a newspaper, who is hot on the trail of a society love triangle. Irritated with the music critic, Sharon Norwood (Bennett), he fires her, only to find out that evening that she is very good friends with all the parties. He then not so subtly tries to find out as much as he can. When the woman in the triangle is murdered, he's certain that he knows who did it - but since it's someone Sharon is close to, he's going to have a tough time of it.

Wednesday, June 1 - The Phantom of Crestwood

The Phantom of Crestwood (1932)

Jenny Wren (Karen Morley), a mistress to wealthy men, convinces one of her exes, banker Priam Andes (H.B. Warner) to throw a party and invite her other lovers without telling them she is involved. Once there, she announces her "retirement," after a young man committed suicide over her; she also demands blackmail money. However, thief Gary Curtis (Ricardo Cortez), sent to retrieve incriminating letters to Jenny from his boss, finds her murdered in a house full of prime suspects.

Monday, May 31 - Thriller: The Incredible Doktor Markesan

Thriller (1960–1962): The Incredible Doktor Markesan (Episode aired 26 February 1962)

Fred and Molly Bancroft, a pair of penniless newlyweds, are so desperate that they visit Fred's mysterious uncle Konrad Markesan, whom he hasn't seen in over twenty years. They are hoping to live in with him rent free until they can find jobs and be self-sufficient. The once-beautiful mansion is in a decrepitly musty state, filled with dust, cobwebs, and rats while Fred's once-kindly uncle is now a disheveled, cadaver-like figure who offers them shelter on condition that they never leave their room after dark, a condition that Markesan insures by locking them in at night.