Thursday, June 29 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Rodney Fails to Qualify & A Voice from the Past

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Rodney Fails to Qualify (Season 1 | Episode 6 - aired 28 May 1975)

This is the story of love among golfers. It shows how true love, even if it slides into troubled waters, can always get back on the fairway, though it may get rather wet.

Young William Bates is a torpid wooer who will not pop the question to Jill Packard, who is becoming dreamy and absent-minded, ever since reading 'The Love That Scorches' a romantic epic about the desert and people on camels and an Arab Chief with stern but tender eyes, and oases and mirages and things like that... The Oldest Member advises William to be quick about it and ask Jill to marry him before she becomes too entangled with romantic poet Rodney Spelvin. His advice to William is to engage Jill in a passionate exchange at the 6th hole in the large bunker there - a vast sandy waste where Jill may prove more susceptible to his wooing, and recommmends that before he even speaks to her, William is to clasp her in his arms and let his hot breath sear her face. But will William be in time? Even now Jill is walking in a romantic mist through the woods looking for bluebells and crocusses.

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): A Voice from the Past (Season 1 | Episode 7 - aired 4 June 1975)

"Tonight's story is called 'A Voice from the Past'. It tells of a young man who by means of tuition from a correspondence school developed an iron will. Eventually he decided he would be better without it."

P.G. Wodehouse Narrator

Encountering an old school chum, sturdy Muriel Mulliner recalls her eventful courtship. Her beloved goes to great lengths to fit into the rough-and-ready Mulliner mold until a chance encounter with an old nemesis causes him to revert to being the milquetoast Muriel adores.

Wednesday, June 28 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Lame Canary

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Lame Canary (Season 2 | Episode 30 - aired 27 June 1959)

After Ruth Prescott's husband Walter refuses to give her the divorce she's asked for, she runs out of the house and is nearly run over by a furniture delivery truck that rams a parked car severely injuring the occupant. Ruth is convinced that her husband tried to have her killed to get his hands on what is left of her inheritance. She calls Jimmy McLain who she is in love with who tells her to come to his apartment. When she arrives, Jimmy is gone but his gun holster is there - empty. She returns home to destroy love letters from Jimmy McLain but finds her husband dead on the floor and a gun lying on the carpet beside him. While burning the love letters, Walter's secretary Margaret Swaine walks in and leaves after seeing the body. Ruth takes the gun and a toppled bird cage with an injured canary. She consults Perry Mason who puts Paul Drake on the case to track down the people involved. Paul finds the the car that was struck has been found with the driver dead. Ruth is charged with her husband's murder and it's up to Perry to sort out just what happened.

Tuesday, June 27 - House of Mystery

Kraft Mystery Theater (1959– ): House of Mystery (Season 1 | Episode 10 - aired 16 August 1961)

A young house-hunting couple (Ronald Hines, Colette Wilde), driving through the English countryside, arrive at a quaint, attractive cottage, which is available for sale at an incredible bargain. When queried, the caretaker (Jane Hylton) casually mentions a haunting in its recent history, and relates the story of the previous residents. In flashback, we are introduced to a similarly young, married couple (Maurice Kaufmann, Nanette Newman), who encounter a ghost, when their home begins experiencing electrical problems.

Finding no ordinary causes for either the faulty power, or the silent, mysterious man they think they see in their home, they end up enlisting the aid of a parapsychologist (Colin Gordon), who overcomes their initial skepticism with rational-sounding scientific explanations, rather than the mystical hokum they were expecting. Eventually, he brings in a genuine psychic (Molly Urquhart), in an attempt to solve the mystery of the apparition. This leads to a further flashback, showing the ghost to be a rather brilliant electrical engineer (Peter Dyneley), embroiled in research in his backyard workshop, whose adulterous wife schemes with her lover to murder him in a staged 'accident'... but things don't quite go according to plan...

A pair of newlyweds visit an old cottage for sale in the country, and hear the housekeeper’s account of its macabre history. The previous owners had been disturbed by paranormal activity, and on calling in a medium, the ghost was identified as an eccentric and vengeful scientist, once resident in the cottage. The scientist was obsessed with electricity, and when his unfaithful wife and her lover attempted to murder him, he responded by electrifying the living room floor and fixtures, and challenging the couple to escape.

Monday, June 26 - Thriller: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Thriller (1960–1962): Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Season 1 | Episode 28 - aired 11 April 1961)

70 years after the Jack the Ripper killings in London, Sir Guy (John Williams) convinces the police that Jack may still be alive, eternally young, and still killing, currently in New York.

The basic premise of this is that the character of Jack the Ripper transcends decades and reappears regularly. A man comes to the police and says he can predict when the Ripper will strike again. Much of the episode involves trying to convince the police that such a character exists.

Sunday, June 25 - Hunt the Man Down

Hunt the Man Down (1950)

When loner Bill Jackson (James Anderson) prevents a robbery at the bar where he works, the ensuing media attention reveals that he is actually Richard Kinkaid, a fugitive wanted in connection with a decade-old murder case. Public defender Paul Bennett (Gig Young) believes that Kinkaid is innocent, but lacks fresh evidence to make his case. Now, with an innocent man's freedom in the balance, Bennett must find and interview the crime's original seven witnesses.

Saturday, June 24 - In Name Only

In Name Only (1939)

While out riding in the country, wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets young widow Julie Eden, and a relationship quickly develops. However, Alec has not told her that he is already locked into a loveless marriage to the avaricious Maida, who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife. A completely coincidental car crash alerts the two women to each other's existence, a situation to which they react very differently.

Friday, June 23 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Spanish Cross

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Spanish Cross (Season 2 | Episode 28 - aired 30 May 1959)

Collector Curtis Runyan owns a precious art object called "The Spanish Cross," which Felix Karr wishes to buy but they cannot agree on the price. After Karr leaves, Runyan and his secretary Everett Wormser return to find the cross missing. Runyan suspects that it was taken by Jimmy Morrow who is working nearby. Jimmy who is on probation for grand theft auto, works as a gardener for the Runyans. Wheelchair bound Grace Runyan and her husband are estranged, and she has taken a motherly interest in Jimmy. Runyan threatens to call the police and slaps Jimmy who knocks Runyan down. He runs to Mrs. Runyan and then runs off. Felix Karr calls on Perry Mason to defend Jimmy, who has disappeared but Perry refuses his money. However, Perry contacts his father who is a drunk but tells Perry Jimmy did not even steal the car and he knows who did. Later, Runyan is shot and Jimmy is seen holding a gun over the body. Perry must first find his client before he can defend him in court.

Thursday, June 22 - Jeeves and Wooster: Jeeves, the Matchmaker

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker) (Season 2 | Episode 6 - aired 19 May 1991)

Bertie decides he would like a child to brighten up his mundane life and considers adoption. After being mistaken for a burglar, he is coerced into giving a speech at a girls' school, which sours his view of children and knocks the idea on the head. Tuppy suffers broken bones whilst playing in a brutal village rugby match to impress new flame Daisy and Bingo subjects his uncle to endless readings from romantic novels to sweeten him up when Bingo starts dating a waitress. Such extreme behaviour convinces Bertie that he is better off single.

Wednesday, June 21 - I'll Tell the World

I'll Tell the World (1934)

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal’s I’ll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown (Tracy) nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke (Onslow Stevens) on behalf of his wire service.

Film follows a renowned American newspaper reporter who always manages to be in the right place at the right time to cover major events, while competing with a rival colleague. The main headliner is his uncovering a plot to assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand (not the WWI Ferdinand), and a plan to install an exiled royal family into power (somewhere).

Tracy plays a devil-may-care reporter, working in Europe, who loves scooping his rivals. Then he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a deposed princess!

Tuesday, June 20 - Seven Keys

Seven Keys (1961)

It starts in a prison where Alan Dobie inherits 7 keys from an inmate who dies, a man he barely knew. Dobie is a burglar and very smart, which seems to be why the man left him the keys. It was so that he'd locate the money, clear his name and punish those who were responsible for taking it from him. This requires some detective work and that's what Dobie attempts to do, with the help of the dead man's former secretary, Jeannie Carson.

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.

Monday, June 19 - Thriller: Late Date

Thriller (1960–1962): Late Date (Season 1 | Episode 27 - aired 4 April 1961)

"Late Date" is an absorbing Cornell Woolrich crime story featuring Larry Pennell as a carefree beach boy who arrives home one afternoon to find his beloved brother (Edward C. Platt from GET SMART) paying an unexpected visit, and the strangled corpse of his unfaithful sister-in-law lying on her bedroom floor. He refuses to allow his brother to confess to the police as he'd always known about her infidelity and offers to dispose of the body while Platt establishes an alibi back in the city. A phone call from the dead woman's lover gives him the opportunity to provide a frame-up, but first he has to contend with his brother's unsuspecting step-daughter (Jody Fair), her hep cat boyfriend (Steve Mitchell), a nosy neighbor (Ruth Warren), and a suspicious truck driver (Richard Reeves).

Sunday, June 18 - The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story (1954)

Too many years in the Orient have made a bitter man of Dr. Dan Maynard (Edmond O'Brien), an American surgeon, and too little emotional stability has tarnished the Tangier-born Rita King (Ruth Roman). They meet when a night-raid by Shanghai's police chief brings all westerners together in the Waldorf House Hotel, where they are interned under the guardianship of the coldly cruel Major Ling Wu (Philip Ahn). Only Rita is free to come and go due to her friendship with Shanghai's new police chief, Colonal Zorek (Marvin Miller. The liberty and luxury in which she lives arouses Maynard's contempt. But his opinion changes when she is instrumental in getting Major Wu replaced and punished, and when she arranges for a young girl, Penny Warren (Jeanne Perreau'), to be taken to a hospital for an emergency operation. But when a spy hunt reaches a bitter climax, and an internee is shot down while trying to escape, Maynard believes the tip-off came from Rita.

Saturday, June 17 - You'll Like My Mother

You'll Like My Mother (1972)

Patty Duke portrays a pregnant widow who goes to visit her mother-in-law for the first time in frigid Minnesota and quickly finds herself unable to flee.

Friday, June 16 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Rivals

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): The Rivals (Season 4 Episode 8 - aired May 1963)

Basically what happens is that a daughter of a wealthy father is kidnapped.The gang are about to deliver a ransom note to the father.The note is left in a car.this car is stolen by a gang of car thieves.naturally they find the note and decide to cut themselves in on the action by pretending to be the kidnap gang.One added complication is that the secretary to the father is also part of the kidnap gang.Eventually at the end the gangs inevitably meet up.

A pair of hoodlums steal a car in which there is a note - a ransom letter - directed to a wealthy man whose daughter has just been kidnapped. The two gangsters stole the abductor's car and when they find the note, they decide to take advantage of the situation and collect the money.

The story opens with three crooks in a car, about to heist an automobile in the suburbs. The driver is a blonde, and the other two are young male thieves who are the car theft racket. The owner of the car, another young woman, comes out to find it stolen. She re-enters her home and we now see that she's part of a kidnap gang of three other men. They've kidnapped the daughter of a wealthy guy with whom the woman is associated. The kidnappers were about to make their demands, which are in a package in the car that contains the daughter's hat. But the car thieves discover this and, after some conflict, decide to substitute themselves for the actual kidnappers and collect the ransom. Meanwhile the kidnappers are not asleep. They begin to search the underworld to find a chop shop that took the stolen car

Thursday, June 15 - Ever in My Heart

Ever in My Heart (1933)

In 1909 Mary Archer, daughter of small-town bluebloods, awaits the return from Germany of sometime beau Jeff. But Jeff brings with him a German friend, Hugo Wilbrandt, who loves and marries Mary. Hugo joins the faculty of a small college and the Wilbrandts prosper...until the advent of World War I brings a storm of anti-German hatred. Resulting troubles so embitter Hugo that he regrets his American citizenship...

Wednesday, June 14 - Thriller: Papa Benjamin

Thriller (1960–1962): Papa Benjamin (Season 1 Episode 26 - aired 21 March 1961)

John Ireland plays a successful bandleader and composer named Eddie Wilson. One day, he overhears one of the band members humming some unusual music that intrigues him, so he later follows the man to a voodoo ceremony where he is discovered, and forced to join the group, and if he betrays it, will die horribly. Of course, Eddie doesn't listen, and when he plays the forbidden music in public, brings the wrathful curse down on his head, forcing him to take drastic action.

Tuesday, June 13 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Five to One

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): Five to One (Season 5 Episode 3 - aired December 1963)

Alan Roper (John Thaw) tells Turf Accountant Larry Hart (Lee Montague) that he is planning to steal £60,000 and Hart offers to launder the money for him at his usual rate ('Five to one', ie £12,000). What Hart doesn't know is that it is actually his money Roper intends to steal, ie the £12,000 Hart will gather to pay him.

Hart tells his clerk not to bank his takings that week because he will need at least £12,000 of ready cash for a business deal, in fact it is to cover his arrangement with Roper. Meanwhile Roper has set up his girlfriend Pat (Ingrid Hafner) to have a sexual liaison with married insurance broker Deighton (Ewan Roberts) at a flat where Pat is babysitting. Roper and his associate Len (Brian McDermott) pose as Pat's husband and a private detective threatening to site Deighton as a co-respondent in their divorce. Roper blackmails Deighton into revealing details of Hart's insurance policy at the shop which include security information and the safe combination.

When they receive the policy details from Deighton they discover that his company have only overseen the insurance for his house, not his shop. So Roper and his gang engineer a complex plan. They break into Hart's home after drugging him and make copies of his house and shop keys. They then stage a dummy break-in at the betting shop but get away before they are caught. This forces Hart to put the £12,000 into his safe at home where Roper's gang plan to steal it. This all goes according to plan except Hart had his suspicions and had the combination of his safe changed after transferring the cash. However determined not to be outdone Roper and Lea mess up the house and wait until Hart arrives home. When he opens the safe to check it they knock him out and steal the cash...

Monday, June 12 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Dubious Bridegroom (Season 2 Episode 29 - aired 13 June 1959) 

Perry Mason is taken by surprise while working late one night when a beautiful blond enters his office from the balcony. When Perry turns on the lights, she quickly tosses her revolver into a flower pot next door. She claims to be Virginia Colfax, a secretary who works in the office next door. She says she had to make a quick exit when her boss' wife showed up unexpectedly. The next day, the man from the office next door, Ed Garvin, consults Perry on a proxy battle with his ex-wife. He also assures Perry that he has only recently re-married and is certainly not having an affair with an attractive blond. When Garvin returns to his office he finds the gun which he locks in his desk as he must leave. When Perry determines that his quickie Mexican divorce may not be legal, he tells Garvin and his mew bride to go to Mexico and stay there until he can figure out just what is going on. The next thing Perry hears is that the first Mrs. Garvin has been found murdered in San Diego and Ed has ...

Sunday, June 11 - The Gay Desperado

The Gay Desperado (1936)

Mexican gangster Pablo Braganza (Leo Carillo) plays by his own rules. When a movie theater owner stops an altercation by having famous singer Chivo (Nino Martini) entertain, Pablo kidnaps Chivo and takes over a radio station on his behalf. Later, inspired by the American gangster movies he loves, Pablo abducts two more innocents and set out to find American gangster Butch (Stanley Fields). His hope is that the American bad guy will teach him how to be more like screen mobster George Raft.

Chivo, a singer who works in a movie theater providing live entertainment, is and apprehended by a music-loving Mexican bandit Braganza who wants to make Chivo part of his band. Braganza, who admires American gangsters, also kidnaps Jane and her rich boyfriend, Bill. to become more like the American movie gangsters he admires.

Saturday, June 10 - The Kiss of the Vampire

The Kiss of the Vampire (1963)

Gerald and Marianne Harcourt are traveling by car when the car breaks down and they have to spend a few days in a small, remote village. It doesn't take long before they are invited to Dr. Ravna's castle. Without their knowledge, Dr. Ravna is the leader of a vampire cult, and he has become astonished by Marianne's beauty.

Gerald (Edward de Souza) and Marianne Harcourt (Jennifer Daniel), are a honeymooning couple in early 20th-century Bavaria who become caught up in a vampire cult led by Dr. Ravna (Noel Willman) and his two children Carl (Barry Warren) and Sabena (Jacquie Wallis). The cult abducts Marianne, and contrive to make it appear that Harcourt was traveling alone and that his wife never existed. Harcourt gets help from hard-drinking savant Professor Zimmer (Clifford Evans), who lost his daughter to the cult and who finally destroys the vampires through an arcane ritual that releases a swarm of bats from hell.

Friday, June 9 - The Kiss Before the Mirror

The Kiss Before the Mirror (1933)

When a lawyer defending his best friend for murdering his unfaithful wife discovers how the accused discovered his wife was in love with another man, the lawyer begins to see the same patterns in his own wife's behavior, and suspects she too is being unfaithful. Promising his friend that a defense of momentary insanity will acquit him, he also promises to kill his own wife if the defense actually works.

Thursday, June 8 - Million Dollar Legs

Million Dollar Legs (1932)

While visiting the mythical country of Klopstokia on business, brush salesman Migg Tweeny (Jack Oakie) collides with a young woman (Susan Fleming) on the street and the two fall instantly in love. Her name is Angela—all the women in Klopstokia are named Angela, and the men are named George—and she is the daughter of Klopstokia's President (W. C. Fields), whose country is bankrupt, and who relies upon his great physical strength to dominate a cabinet that is conspiring to overthrow him. Tweeny, hoping to win the hand of The President's daughter in marriage, presents him with a plan to remedy Klopstokia's financial woes: The President is to enter the 1932 Summer Olympics, win the weightlifting competition, and collect a large cash reward that has been offered to medalists by Tweeny's employer. Tweeny then sets out to find athletes to make up Klopstokia's Olympic team, and quickly discovers that the country abounds in athletes of preternatural abilities. The team, with Tweeny as their trainer, boards a steamship bound for America.

Meanwhile, the rebellious cabinet ministers, who are determined to sabotage Klopstokia's Olympic bid, have enlisted the services of "Mata Machree, the Woman No Man Can Resist" (Lyda Roberti), a Mata Hari-based spy character who sets out to destroy the Klopstokian team's morale by seducing each athlete and then setting them against each other in a collective brawl. Her efforts have the intended effect: when the team arrives in Los Angeles they are in no condition to compete. After a pep talk from Tweeny fails to inspire them, Angela tracks down Mata, defeats her in an underwater fight, and forces a confession from her before the assembled team, which restores the athletes' fighting spirit. They take to the field and begin winning events.

By the time the weightlifting competition begins, Klopstokia needs only three more points for victory. In the film's final scene, Tweeny excites The President's fierce temper in order to inspire him to a final superhuman effort. The President throws a 1000-lb weight at Tweeny, missing him but winning both the weightlifting competition and the shot put for Klopstokia.

Wednesday, June 7 - Dark Hazard

Dark Hazard (1934)

Jim is a compulsive gambler. He meets Marge at a boarding house and they get married. His gambling causes problems. When he runs into old flame Valerie, Marge leaves him. After a few years he returns, but she is now in love with old flame Pres. Jim buys racing dog Dark Hazard and makes a fortune which he loses on roulette.

A weak-willed gambler's compulsion destroys his life in this dramatic character study. He falls in love with his disapproving landlady's daughter, who ignores her mother's advice and marries him. On their wedding day, he vows to never gamble again, but soon he is back to his old tricks.

Tuesday, June 6 - Jeeves and Wooster: Kidnapped

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): The Mysterious Stranger (or, Kidnapped) (Season 2 Episode 5 - aired 12 May 1991)

Barmy has put together a group of alleged musicians to play in blackface at his aunt's 50th anniversary party. Pauline, in London, is alarmed because a man is following her, so Bertie is drafted to escort her to Chuffnell Hall in her car. Naturally, they run out of gas and have to spend the night at a little pub. Chuffy is understanding when Stoker blabs about the two of them spending the night on the road, which offends Pauline; doesn't he care enough to be jealous of her? Stoker lures Bertie onto his yacht and locks him in a stateroom until a forced marriage can take place; Jeeves liberates Bertie, who escapes by posing as one of the blackface musicians. Bertie, Stoker, Sir Roderick, and all Barmy's musicians wind up arrested in blackface in front of Chuffy as the local magistrate.

Monday, June 5 - Route 66: Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma?

Route 66 (1960–1964): Ever Ride the Waves in Oklahoma? (Season 3 Episode 4 - aired 12 October 1962)

Tod and Buz, driving up the California coast, give a ride to a surfer heading to Huntington Beach to challenge the local "king". When the surfer is killed in his attempt, Buz vows to bring the king down. It becomes a battle between Buz who is "locked into the world" and the king who has "walked away from the whole gritty world".

Sunday, June 4 - Secrets of the French Police

Secrets of the French Police (1932)

A burglar is recruited to aid the police in finding his kidnapped girlfriend, a lovely but impoverished flower girl. Meanwhile, a deranged Russian emigre has been claiming that his ward is actually Princess Anastasia, last survivor of the Tsar's family--but she seems to behave strangely in the presence of flowers.