Saturday, April 29 - All Through the Night

All Through the Night (1942)

Runyonesque Broadway gamblers turn patriotic when they stumble onto a cell of Nazi saboteurs.

When noted gambler Alfred "Gloves" Donahue (Humphrey Bogart) makes a trip to his local bakery to see why his cheesecake hasn't been delivered, he sees nightclub singer Leda Hamilton (Kaaren Verne) leaving the bakery, and finds that his favorite baker has been murdered. Donahue becomes the prime suspect in the case, so he has to take matters into his own hands to clear his name. Things take a shocking turn when he discovers that a Nazi spy ring may have had a hand in the poor baker's death.

Friday, April 28 - Checkmate: Terror from the East

Checkmate (1960–1962): Terror from the East (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired 7 January 1961)

A missionary arrives from the east and contacts Checkmate to warn them about a plot to kill Tom Lin, a Chinese patriot currently in hiding in San Francisco; he has apparently been shot in the arm while trying to find Lin and warn him of the danger he is in. It soon turns out, however, that the missionary is actually an assassin sent to kill the daughter of Win Lee, a former Chinese warlord also residing in San Francisco.

In his next to last acting role Charles Laughton plays a clergyman recently returned from the Far East looking for someone of prominence in the San Francisco community of Chinatown. Upon disembarking from the boat he gets shot by some Oriental gentleman who later turns up dead.

As it turns out, Laughton is on his way to hire the Checkmate team to find the individual in Chinatown he's looking for.

Thursday, April 27 - It Happened in Hollywood

It Happened in Hollywood (1937)

Orphaned and hospitalized, young Billy (Billy Burrud) is thrilled when his favorite silent movie hero, Tim Bart (Richard Dix), visits and invites the boy to drop by his California ranch house when he recovers. Unfortunately, when the advent of talking pictures destroys Tim's career, the cowboy actor goes bankrupt and loses his home. Meanwhile, Billy has fled the sick ward to find his idol, and Tim must enlist the help of his actress pal, Gloria (Fay Wray), to convince the lad he's still a star.

The central sequence in the film is the party Bart throws for little Billy. This features the real-life stand-ins for a number of Hollywood's biggest names: Charlie Chaplin, Victor McLaglen, Bing Crosby, Harold Lloyd, W. C. Fields, Greta Garbo, Mae West...

Wednesday, April 26 - The Cabin in the Cotton

The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)

Young Marvin Blake (Richard Barthelmess) is the bright son of a poor tenant farmer in the American South, but he hopes to escape poverty by getting an education. When his father dies, Marvin is put through school by plantation owner Lane Norwood (Berton Churchill), and he becomes romantically involved with Lane's daughter, Madge (Bette Davis). But as time goes by, the nearby tenants claim they are being exploited by Lane, forcing Marvin to choose sides.

Tuesday, April 25 - Jeeves and Wooster: Brinkley Manor

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Will Anatole Return to Brinkley Court? (or, the Matchmaker) (Season 1 Episode 5 - aired 13 May 1990)

It is also called "Brinkley Manor", "The Matchmaker" or "Jeeves' Arrival."

Adapted from Right Ho, Jeeves.

Bertie is offended because Jeeves was dispatched to convince Anatole to return to Brinkley Court, so he continues to attempt to reunite Tuppy and Angela and bring Gussie and Madeline together; consequently, Gussie and Angela wind up engaged, and Madeline expects Bertie himself to marry her.

In order to bolster Gussie Fink-Nottle's courage to deliver the prizes and propose to Madeline Bassett, both Bertie and Jeeves spike his orange juice. Jeeves finally sorts out all the fractured relationships with a plan to set off the fire alarm.

Not to mention bicycling in the rain.

Monday, April 24 - Jeeves and Wooster: Hunger Strike

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): How Does Gussie Woo Madeline? (or, Hunger Strike) (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired 13 May 1990)

Bertie tries to play Cupid without Jeeves' help. His friend Gussie is in love with Madeline, who happens to be staying at Bertie's Aunt Dahlia's house, so Bertie arranges for him to visit. Meanwhile, Aunt Dahlia is desperate to coax 500 pounds out of her husband for her failing magazine, and Tuppy's engagement to Angela Travers is off. Bertie's recommendation to both of them is the same: don't eat the wonderful food of Aunt Dahlia's chef Anatole at dinner, to show how lovelorn and miserable they are. But they become much more miserable when Anatole gives notice.

Sunday, April 23 - Malaya

Malaya (1949)

Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, cynical former newspaper correspondent John Royer (James Stewart) devises a scheme with his old editor and government agents to return to the Far East and smuggle out a vast amount of rubber for the war effort. Demanding the freedom and company of his ex-friend, Carnahan (Spencer Tracy), whom he betrayed in an exposé years earlier, Royer sails off into the hands of the Japanese with a motley crew, gold and the promise of covert government aid.

Saturday, April 22 - -30- & A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Pilot

-30- (1959)

Managing Editor Sam Gatlin arrives in the afternoon and departs early the next morning, having assembled a morning newspaper for Los Angeles. During this implausibly active day in the life of a metropolitan newspaper, Sam and his wife Peggy argue about adopting a child. The reporter's grandson pilots a military plane from Honolulu to New York. A child is lost in the LA sewers (Gatlin composes a warning headline with picture: "Children Stay Out of These"). And copy boy Earl Collins considers quitting after failing to properly deliver a bet by city editor Jim Bathgate on the gender of children being born to a famous actress.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987–1995): Pilot (Season 1 Episode 0 - aired 26 December 1987)

This episode's sketches are: Cold Open (Tango 1 and Tango 2); Vacation Pictures; Stephen & Hugh Address the Audience (Eye Problems); Privatized Police Force; Argue the Toss/Up the 'Arts'; Deodorant Commercial by William Wegman; Monologue: Stephen's Loveliness; There's Something Wrong with My Suit; Hugh Sings "Mystery"; Executive Breakfast Lounge; Toy Car Salesman; Australian Soap Opera.

Friday, April 21 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Deadly Toy

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Deadly Toy (Season 2 Episode 27 - aired 16 May 1959)

In San Francisco, Claire Alison and Dick Benedict try to avoid Martin Selkirk, who wants to break up their romance. Claire is upset because she is receiving letters from Selkirk containing articles about women who jilted their fiancés. The envelopes appear to have been addressed on a printing press. Selkirk finds them and breaks Benedict's jaw in a fight with brass knuckles. In Los Angeles Lorraine Jennings, Selkirk's former wife, contacts Claire offering help if Claire will testify on Lorraine's behalf in a custody battle over young David Selkirk. Claire visits them while Dick recuperates in the hospital. Claire spends the night at the Jennings home and hears a mysterious shot fired in the night. When she gets up to get a blanket, she finds a printing press in the linen closet. Claire leaves the house contacting Perry the next morning. The next day Ralph Jennings walks with a pronounced limp saying it is arthritis and Selkirk is found murdered at his beach house...

Thursday, April 20 - Gangs of New York

Gangs of New York (1938)

Crime lord Rocky Thorpe is impersonated by police officer John Franklin in order to infiltrate his organization and bring an end to it once and for all.

When the film begins, you learn that although the evil mobster, Rocky, is in prison, he's still running his criminal empire—and the police seem unable to stop them. But, when it just happens that there is an identical copy of Rocky and he works for the police, they decide to release the fake Rocky and have him infiltrate the mob and get evidence on their actions. However, because he doesn't know everything the real Rocky is supposed to know and because he doesn't act like the old Rocky, some of the gang becomes suspicious. But, when the REAL Rocky escapes , you know that something bad will happen…and fast!

Wednesday, April 19 - Jeeves and Wooster: The Purity of the Turf

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): The Village Sports Day at Twing (or, the Gambling Event) (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired 6 May 1990)

When Bertie is instructed by Aunt Agatha to break up his uncle's engagement to a young waitress, he arranges a luncheon for his uncle and the girl's aunt, a common, gaudy woman -- who turns out to be the uncle's long-lost barmaid love. To escape Aunt Agatha's wrath, Bertie and Jeeves travel to the country residence of a friend to enjoy the local fair, where the bookie manages to handicap all the entrants on which Bertie and his friends bet.

Tuesday, April 18 - Fight for Your Lady

Fight for Your Lady (1937)

"Honest" Ham Hamilton needs money. A wrestling promoter in London, he places a wager and tells his champion Mike Scanlon to lose on purpose, but Mike wins anyway to impress Marcia Trent, an actress who has bet on him to win. Hamilton ingratiates himself with Marcia and her betrothed, singer Robert Densmore, then sees Robert become suicidally depressed after Marcia leaves him for Mike. On a night In Budapest, a drunken Robert is persuaded by equally inebriated reporter Jim Trask make a play for a nightclub singer, Marietta, and incur the wrath of her jealous beau, Spadissimo. He will be challenged to a duel and that will grant Robert's wish to die. Trouble ensues when Marietta becomes genuinely attracted to Robert and lies that his mother desperately needs him. Spadissimo takes pity until Marcia informs him Robert has no mother. The duel is on until Hamilton throws himself at the swordsman's mercy on Robert's behalf, disguised as his mother.

Ham Hamilton knows that gold-digger Marcia Trent is only after Robert Densmore for his money, so he tells Marcia that Robert is broke and she calls off the announced wedding. Disappointed and ready to die, Robert goes to Budapest, with Ham as his companion, where he decides he can best accomplish his death wish by making love to Marietta, whose husband, Spadissimo is the finest swordsman in all of Europe and will surely kill him in a duel. The duel is on and Robert is very quickly on the losing end when Ham, knowing that Spadissimo has a mother complex, poses as Robert's mother and Spadissimo breaks down in tears, while Robert, Marietta and Ham make a quick exit stage left. Marcia, having learned that Robert is not broke enters ready to renew the romance, but takes her romance notion in another direction when the sees the size of the castle of the recently-jilted Spadissimo.

Monday, April 17 - Smooth as Silk (1946)

Smooth as Silk (1946)

An attorney, engaged to an actress, gains acquittal for a wealthy playboy accused of manslaughter. The actress, anxious to play the lead in a production backed by the uncle of the playboy, neglects her fiancée in favor of the playboy. The enraged attorney kills the playboy's uncle and makes plans to kill the playboy.

Attorney Mark Fenton (Kent Taylor) clears young playboy Don Elliot (Danny Morton) of murder. As Don's uncle, Stephen (John Litel), is a famous theatrical producer, Fenton hopes to impress his aspiring-actress girlfriend, Paula (Virginia Grey), by using his connection with Don to secure her a part in Stephen's latest play. When Stephen refuses, Paula takes matters into her own hands, romantically using Don and later Stephen to deceive Elliot and win the role, leading to betrayal and murder.

Sunday, April 16 - Son of Lassie

Son of Lassie (1945)

Laddie follows in the paw prints of his heroic mother in this sequel to "Lassie Come Home." Laddie's owner, Joe Carraclough (Peter Lawford), enlists during World War II, and the pup joins him at his military camp to train as a war dog. After sneaking onto Joe's airplane for an ill-fated bombing mission, Laddie finds himself trapped behind enemy lines with Joe. Together they try to evade the Nazis forces. But when Joe gets injured, it's up to Laddie to come to his rescue.

Saturday, April 15 - Another Man's Poison & Jeeves and Wooster: Tuppy and the Terrier

Another Man's Poison (1951)

Mystery writer Janet Frobisher lives alone in a dark English country house, when she's not philandering with her secretary's fiancée. At an extremely awkward moment, she has an unwelcome visitor: George Bates, who claims to be the partner in crime of Janet's estranged husband. George insinuates himself into Janet's home and life despite her efforts to get rid of him; the tangled relationships develop into a macabre, murderous cat-and-mouse game.

Bette Davis is Janet Frobisher, a successful mystery writer living in a mausoleum of a house out on the moors. When her husband's partner in a bank robbery comes there looking for him, Frobisher announces that he's in the study - dead from the poison she gave him (medicine intended for her beloved horse, Fury). While they're attempting to dispose of the body, Frobisher's paramour, whom she summoned earlier, arrives with his fiancé (who is also Frobisher's secretary). The bank robber, named George Bates, introduces himself as Frobisher's estranged husband and settles in.

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Bertie Is in Love (or, Golf Tournament) (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired 29 April 1990)

(Also known as, Tuppy and the Terrier, The Dog McIntosh, Bertie Is in Love, and Golf Tournament.)

Bertie's current love interest sets him up by giving both him and his rival Barmy the same idea for a practical joke, then gives away the terrier belonging to his Aunt Agatha which he is dog-sitting. Then Bertie is told to break up his friend Tuppy's interest in an opera singer.

Bertie Wooster is made to watch Aunt Agatha's over-pampered dog McIntosh and is horrified when Roberta ("Bobbie") gives the dog to the spoilt son of a Broadway producer. Tuppy Glossop is infatuated with an opera singer, Cora Bellinger, and has dropped Bertie's cousin Angela. Her mother, Aunt Dahlia, wants this affair over with, and Jeeves produces a plan which involves Bertie singing in public.

Friday, April 14 - Jeeves and Wooster: Jeeves' Arrival

Jeeves and Wooster TV Series (1990–1993)

Bertram Wooster, a well-intentioned, wealthy layabout, has a habit of getting himself into trouble and it's up to his brilliant valet, Jeeves, to get him out.

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993) In Court After the Boat Race (or, Jeeves' Arrival) (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired 22 April 1990)

Bertram Wilberforce "Bertie" Wooster returns home with a hangover when a valet named Jeeves rings the doorbell. He fixes Bertie his special hangover cure, and when it proves effective Jeeves is immediately engaged. Bertie has lunch with his aunt Agatha - "the nephew crusher" - at which she announces he must marry, and that the suitable candidate is Honoria Glossop. Bertie has no intention of marrying anyone, and discovers that Bingo Little is in love with Honoria. He hatches a brilliant plan to get Honoria out of his hands and in to Bingo's.

Thursday, April 13 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Room at the Bottom

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963): Room at the Bottom (Season 1 Episode 19 - aired 9 February 1960)

Thalia talks Dobie's parents into sending him to Willoughby, a local prep school. He doesn't attend, but Mr. Gillis has a dream in which he imagines Dobie with a rich roommate.

Thalia wants Dobie to go to Willoughby Hall, an exclusive eastern school, and befriend the sons of wealthy bankers (an idea that also captures Mr. Gillis' fancy in a dream sequence). All Dobie wants is Thalia's love, but to win her heart he must get a 100 on his math test.

Wednesday, April 12 - One Hour with You

One Hour with You (1932)

Andre (Maurice Chevalier) and Colette (Jeanette MacDonald) have been married for three years when temptation pays a visit. Colette's schoolmate, Mitzi (Genevieve Tobin), stops by and takes a liking to Andre. While Mitzi's advances toward Andre intensify, Colette is being romantically pursued by Andre's good friend Adolph (Charles Ruggles). Colette, oblivious to Mitzi's intentions, assumes her husband's infidelities are focused elsewhere. Similarly, Andre doesn't suspect his pal's advances.

Tuesday, April 11 - The White Trap

The White Trap (1959)

Paul Langley (Lee Patterson) has made several unsuccessful escape attempts from prison. When he learns that his wife, Joan (Felicity Young), is pregnant he is determined to make one last attempt in order to be with her. In view of his repeated escape attempts, the prison governor decides to transfer him to Dartmoor prison. Langley manages to prize a nail out of a bench and uses it to pick the lock on his handcuffs. He overpowers his guards and escapes from the prison van. However, the police, Inspector Walters (Michael Goodliffe) and Sgt Marsden (Conrad Philips) have his flat and the hospital where Joan has been admitted surrounded by cops. With the help of fellow crook, Harry (uncredited), he secures access to into the hospital and makes plans to flee the country taking both Joan and her newborn child with him. But, it turns out that she requires an operation in order for her baby to be born and her chances of survival are slim.

Monday, April 10 - Route 66: What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant

Route 66 (1960–1964): What a Shining Young Man Was Our Gallant Lieutenant (Season 3 Episode 27 - aired 26 April 1963)

Tod and Linc, in the Tampa, Florida area, visit Linc's former platoon leader. Unknown to Linc,the one-time peerless leader has suffered a brain injury which has reduced him mentally to a child. The sad story does not affect Linc's loyalty to the man but frustrates Tod when Linc decides to stay and help.

Linc finds out his old Lieutenant, (Dick York), for whom he had much respect, is living nearby and decides to pay him a visit. He finds him in his lieutenant's uniform. But something is missing. He doesn't recognize Linc. It turns out he's sustained a brain injury that deprived him of all his memory after the age of 8. In fact he thinks that he is age 8 and has the personality of a child, even if he retains some of the skills he learned as an adult.

His dream is to refurbish an old, wheel-less car that sits on cement blocks. He has succeeded and he dreams of driving around the country in it. It represents something he can control. When Linc obtains some tires, the lieutenant doesn't want them to be put on the car. Once someone else had put something on it, it's no longer his. Tod, again playing the skeptic rather than the dreamer, recognizes this and tries to convince Linc not to be "drawn into his 8 year old world", even threatening to drive off and leave him there. Eventually they drive off down the road the lieutenant will never see as he sits in his car with his proud, sad family and runs the engine for the car that can't go anyplace, except in his mind.

Sunday, April 9 - Unholy Partners

Unholy Partners (1941)

Newspaperman Bruce Corey returns from World War I with new ideas and wants to start his own tabloid. For want of other financing, he takes on as silent partner Merrill Lambert, gangland gambling kingpin. Thus is born the New York Mercury. Though its standards are not of the cleanest, Corey does fight to keep his paper's voice independent of Lambert. The two men's clash reaches a climax just as unsuspecting young reporter Tommy becomes Lambert's rival for lovely Gail Fenton.

Saturday, April 8 - Hired to Kill

The Italian Connection (1972) La mala ordina (original title)

Two professional hit men from the States are hired to track down a small-time pimp Luca Canali in Milan, as this man was accused of the disappearance of a shipment of heroin between Milan and New York. Well that's what they are to believe by local crime boss Don Tressoldi. Their job is to brutally kill Luca and make a message of it. However Luca doesn't know why they want him and he won't go down too easy, as he tries to get to the bottom of it.

Friday, April 7 - Gold Rush Maisie

Gold Rush Maisie (1940)

On the way to an audition at the Hula Parlor Café, singer Maisie Ravier (Ann Sothern) gets trouble with her car in the middle of nowhere in Arizona. She manages to get to a ranch nearby, owned by a grumpy man named Bill Anders (Lee Bowman), who starts to get overly friendly during the night.

Maisie barricades herself in her guest room and leaves early the next morning. When she finally arrives at the café, her position is already filled. Maisie meets a little girl named Jubie Davis (Virginia Weidler) and hears rumors about a gold rush in a nearby abandoned smalltown. The same day she leaves for Phoenix, riding with the Davis family, who are there because of the gold findings.

Maisie takes pity on the poor family who has been tricked to come to Arizona, and persuades them to set up camp on Bill's land instead of in the smalltown, where hustlers are working the new arrivals for their savings. Bill eventually gives in, letting the Davis family raise their tent on his ranch.

Maisie joins the family in their search of gold, making a deal with the head of the family, Bert Davis (John F. Hamilton). They dig for days without finding anything, but suddenly they strike upon a vein of gold. They report their finding and wait for the paperwork to be finished. Meanwhile, a storm comes in over the ranch, destroying the family's camp, forcing them to take refuge in Bill's house.

The next morning the family is informed that their gold vein is worthless, and the disappointed Davis family get ready to go back onto the road, looking for work elsewhere. Maisie explains to Bill that they never came to find a fortune, but to survive because they had nowhere else to go. Bill takes pity on the poor family and offers them to irrigate some land in a nearby valley with water from his estate, so that they can stay and become farmers. Maisie then leaves to find her own fortune.

Thursday, April 6 - Vagabond Lady

Vagabond Lady (1935)

Josephine Spiggins is thinking of marrying John Spear, the stuffed-shirt son of a department store owner. When John's free-spirit brother Tony returns from touring the South Seas in his boat, the "Vagabond Lady," Jo is attracted to him instead.

Department store owner R.D. Spear (Berton Churchill) is a stuffy businessman and his son Johnny (Reginald Denny) is following in his father's footsteps. But their orderly world is shaken up with the surprise return of Johnny's fun-loving brother Tony (Robert Young), who'd been sailing abroad for several years.

Jo Spiggins (Evelyn Venable), the daughter of Mr. Spear's old college chum, grew up with Johnny and Tony and now Johnny has asked her to marry him. But Tony really brings out the kid in Jo, and they both enjoy fun things like going to circuses and chewing on gumdrops. Johnny is all about dignity and highbrow culture (operas, etc.). He realizes that Jo doesn't share his tastes in the finer things, but hopes to groom her to be on his level of sophistication.

Wednesday, April 5 - Route 66: Peace, Pity, Pardon

Route 66 (1960–1964): Peace, Pity, Pardon (Season 3 Episode 26 - aired 12 April 1963)

Tod and Linc are living in a boarding house with two brothers who are jai alai players, (Alejandro Rey and Victor Junquera), and get to know them. There's a lot of exposition to introduce us to the sport, including the statement that's it's played almost exclusively by Basques. And yet the plot turns out to involve Cuba, where a third brother, (Michael Tolan) has become part of the Castro regime. Tolan wants his daughter to come to the US and arranges a secret rendezvous with Rey, who asks Tod and Buz to drive him there in a speedboat.

Tod again assumes the old Buz role of the guy who doesn't want to get involved but does because his partner can't resist. Junqueral is also vary of the project and refuses to go along. The rendezvous ends in tragedy but they manage to bring the girl the girl back to Junquera who promises to raise her in honor of his brothers.

Tuesday, April 4 - Thriller: Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook

Thriller (1960–1962): Hay-Fork and Bill-Hook (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired 7 February 1961)

On the Welsh Border, an old man suspected of witchcraft is gruesomely murdered with a hay-fork and bill-hook. The Scotland Yard inspector investigating has to wade through a morass of superstition to uncover the killer, but when his wife starts having visions of the Black Dog, harbinger of death, the locals focus their suspicions on her.

Monday, April 3 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Portrait of a Disciplinarian & Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Portrait of a Disciplinarian (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired 7 May 1975)

Reggie Mulliner is invited to Bingley On Sea by his brother, Dr. Joe Mulliner, to visit their old Nannie, Nurse Wilks who lives on in Reggie's memory as being 7 feet tall, with stevedore shoulders, beetling brows and steel teeth. Noblesse Oblige requires Reggie to visit Nurse Wilks for afternoon tea with boiled eggs and fruit-cake. Upon arriving at 'Wee Holme' in Marazine Road, Nannie's address, he finds that she is also entertaining Jane Oliphant, Reggie's ex-fiancee, a girl with a heart of stone whom Reggie has reason to believe visited some people by the name of Ponderby and became engaged to a man named Dillingwater, all in the space of a week. It is up to Nurse Wilks to bring the two star-crossed lovers together. Reggie is locked in a cupboard because he refuses to kiss Miss Jane, and Jane follows Reggie into the cupboard when she forgets where she is and lights up a cigarette. There can be no person on earth more likely to strike terror into the human heart and mind than the English Nannie, and Nurse Wilks is no exception.

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Unpleasantness at Bludleigh Court (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired 14 May 1975)

Kindred spirits and fellow poets, Charlotte Mulliner (author of 'Vignettes in Verse') and Aubrey Trefusis (author of 'Pastels In Prose') meet at 'The Crushed Pansy' a club for the literati. It emerges that Charlotte Mulliner has been invited to stay at the home of Aubrey Trefusis' parents, Sir Alexander and Lady Bassinger. Bludleigh Court is a strange house - it exercises a ghastly spell that saps even the most humanitarian principles and turns the gentlest nature-lover into a monster of ravening bloodlust. At first Charlotte is inclined to scoff at Aubrey's warnings but upon arriving at the house, both young people soon fall under its spell. They find themselves pursuing Aubrey's Uncle Francis, whose sole topic of conversation is limited to gnus, and as far as Aubrey is concerned 'No gnus is good news'. Charlotte had never thought that she would be handy with an air rifle, but she turns out to be an excellent shot, pursuing Uncle Francis off the boathouse roof where he is sunbathing, but Uncle Francis is a good mover, having got that way by pursuing the nippier gnus. When both Aubrey and Charlotte come to themselves they leave Bludleigh Court for good, returning to London for a spot of tea and marriage.

Sunday, April 2 - Bulldog Drummond

Bulldog Drummond (1929)

Hugh 'Bulldog' Drummond is a British WWI veteran who longs for some excitement after he returns to the humdrum existence of civilian life. He gets what he's looking for when a girl requests his help in freeing her uncle from a nursing home. She believes the home is just a front and that her uncle is really being held captive while the culprits try to extort his fortune from him.

Saturday, April 1 - Vacation from Marriage

Vacation from Marriage (1945) Perfect Strangers (original title)

Robert and Catherine have a quiet little marriage until WWII separates them for three years. Serving in the navy dramatically transforms both of them and they realize how much they resented their old mundane life together. Both dread their inevitable reunion and separately decide to ask for a divorce.

Friday, March 31 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Romance at Droitgate Spa

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Romance at Droitgate Spa (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired 30 April 1975)

Magician Count Baloni blows up at his glamorous assistant Princess Annebel, because she's distracted on-stage by the constant attendance of the handsome Freddie Fitch-Fitch. Annebel doesn't care that Freddie's a freeloader, but Freddie views getting engaged as a way to pry loose his trust fund from his uncle Sir Aylmer Bastable. Bastable, confined to the snooty Droitgate Spa, has just lost his nurse, inspiring the not-very-bright Freddie to a scheme.

People can be so snobbish about illness. Freddie Fitch-Fitch requires the blessing from his uncle on a forthcoming marraige, however, he must use subterfuge to obtain it.