Wednesday, August 30 - Jeeves and Wooster: Hot Off the Press

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Sir Watkyn Bassett's Memoirs (or, Hot Off the Press) (Season 3 | Episode 5 - aired 26 April 1992)

Jeeves does not approve of Bertie's new betrothed, bossy Lady Florence Craye - author of 'Strength Through Willpower', particularly when, during a weekend party at Totleigh Court, she orders Bertie to steal and destroy Sir Watkyn Bassett's memoirs,whose publication could cause large scale embarrassment. Wooster steals the manuscript and gives it to Jeeves, who, as always, knows best. Suffice to say, the engagement is soon over. Jeeves is more sympathetic to Gussie Fink-Nottle, when Stiffy Byng, by whom he is captivated, persuades him to retrieve her dog,who has bitten and been confiscated by P.C. Oates during rehearsals for the annual village variety show.

Tuesday, August 29 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: The Power of Positive Thinking

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963) The Power of Positive Thinking (Season 1 | Episode 20 - aired 16 February 1960)

Thalia has dumped Dobie for wealthy Chatsworth Osborne, Jr. It isn't because Chatsworth is rich, but because he can dominate her, which is what she wants in a man, and something she believes romantic, soft-hearted Dobie can never do. So when Dobie meets Professor Dobkin, Dobie believes he's found a way to win back Thalia. Professor Dobkin espouses the power one can obtain through harnessing the Earth's electromagnetic energy, that power which includes domination over anyone and anything. So for $2.99, Dobie buys the professor's book to use as his bible. What Dobie is unaware of is that the professor is a shyster and his theories a bunch of hokum. So when a series of events occur that Dobie believes was his doing through his new found power, including getting a date with Thalia, Dobie helps the professor spread the word, all at the professor's benefit of $3.99 a book. When Dobie learns the truth behind the professor, he also learns a little bit about the power within himself.

Monday, August 28 - Side Streets

Side Streets (1934)

Tim O’Hara (Paul Kelly) is a down-and-out sailor who is shown kindness by Bertha Krasnoff (Aline MacMahon), a spinster who owns a fur shop. The two marry but personal tragedy and Tim’s philandering ways threaten to tear them apart.

Aline MacMahon plays Bertha Krasnoff, owner of a San Francisco fur shop who takes in a penniless, homeless sailor (Paul Kelly), first as her employee, then as her husband. It soon becomes clear, however, especially after Miss Dvorak shows up, that Bertha's hubby is a womanizer who only married her for her money. After a string of extra-marital affairs and childbirth traumas, the husband realizes Bertha is the woman for him after all.

Aline McMahon is Bertha, a "side street" furrier. She's not one of the big outfits so she has to be cagey and good with the customers to make a respectable but not great living, and she does. She meets a down and out sailor, Tim (Paul Kelly). She's lonely, he needs room and board, she offers him a job, he takes it. It isn't long before it's obvious he's just milking the situation and doing as little as possible to earn his keep, probably sensing Bertha's loneliness will keep a roof over his head. He strengthens his position even more when he marries her.

After marriage, Tim is kind enough to Bertha, but a new sweetie soon has his eye in the person of Marguerite (Ann Dvorak). He's thinking about heading back out to sea but then he finds a bill for an obstetrician visit among Bertha's things and suddenly becomes a changed man. He makes as close to a confession to Bertha as you'd ever get of a slicky boy like Tim, and Bertha says she's known all along and forgives him. Tim breaks it off with Marguerite, determined to turn over a new leaf, but there's one thing with Marguerite he can't break off - to wit, another baby!

Sunday, August 27 - Dance, Girl, Dance

Dance, Girl, Dance (1940)

Judy O'Brien is an aspiring ballerina in a dance troupe. Also in the company is Bubbles, a brash mantrap who leaves the struggling troupe for a career in burlesque. When the company disbands, Bubbles gives Judy a thankless job as her stooge. The two eventually clash when both fall for the same man.

Saturday, August 26 - Wodehouse Playhouse: The Luck of the Stiffhams

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): The Luck of the Stiffhams (Season 3 | Episode 4 - aired 21 November 1978)

Passionate but penniless Adolphus "Stiffy" Stiffham seeks his fortune in America to win the hand of his love, Lady Geraldine. But he doesn't appear to have a ghost of a chance of succeeding.

Adolphus Stiffham and Lady Geraldine Spettisbury wish to marry but her father, the Earl of Wivelscombe is against it. Stiffham's luck is with him as he conjures up a ghostly plan!

Friday, August 25 - Route 66: Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl

Route 66 (1960–1964): Who in His Right Mind Needs a Nice Girl (Season 4 | Episode 18 - aired 7 February 1964)

Lee Philiips returns, this time as a murderer on the lam, (no he didn't kill his wife: he dumped an aged couple overboard after agreeing to take them on a motor boat trip and they drown). He holes up in, of all things, a mobile library annex run by Lois Smith, (making her third appearance in the series), a lonely, impressionable librarian. The boys show up and Linc senses something is wrong and decides to hang around. Tod, as usual is detached and doesn't want to get involved. Phillips romances the impressionable Smith, (although he seems to see the possibilities of another life with her), and convinces her to help him out. Linc tries to convince her to break away from him. The police eventually catch up and Phillips is killed in a shoot- out. She's back to her lonely life.

Thursday, August 24 - Thriller: Portrait Without a Face

Thriller (1960–1962): Portrait Without a Face (Season 2 | Episode 14 - aired 25 December 1961)

This is about an arrogant, egocentric artist who has great talent but no compassion. He is hateful to everyone. One night, someone stands above the skylight and fires an arrow from a crossbow into his head, killing him instantly. Because he has a huge backlog of paintings, a curator is brought in to catalogue them. His wife is in possession of the paintings, but they ultimately belong to a big gallery. Soon a painting starts to form on a blank canvas, leading to the thought that the artist was returning from the grave to give up his murderer.

Narcissistic artist, Robertson Moffat, gets an arrow to the head by a hooded shooter with a bow and arrow who stood on a balcony and shot through an open skylight. Several months after his death, a gallery representative, Arthur Henshaw, comes to take some of the paintings back, presumably to sale. The wife unlocks and opens the studio door and tells him he can take any and all that he wants, even the blank canvas. Of course when Arthur looks at that canvas there's a partially finished painting showing the upper torso painted of the dead artist in the crime scene. As the story goes on more of the painting gets filled in and the killer will soon be revealed. Furthermore an expert in Moffat's art (Banner) incredibly concludes that it must be the artist although he can't believe that's possible.

Wednesday, August 23 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Partner

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): The Partner (Season 5 | Episode 1 - aired September 1963)

Shady dealings and a duplicitious accountant put studio head Wayne Douglas and his new Oriental actress Lin in peril.

A tax avoidance scheme by a film producer leads to murder and the theft of £300,000.

An accountant is murdered while working on a deal with a film producer. The usual suspects are corralled and the blame is placed on a private detective who was hired to shadow the accountant.

Tuesday, August 22 - Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947)

A gang of criminals, which includes a piano player and an imposing former convict known as 'Gruesome', has found out about a scientist's secret formula for a gas that temporarily paralyzes anyone who breathes it. When Gruesome accidentally inhales some of the gas and passes out, the police think he is dead and take him to the morgue, where he later revives and escapes. This puzzling incident attracts the interest of Dick Tracy, and when the criminals later use the gas to rob a bank, Tracy realizes that he must devote his entire attention to stopping them.

Monday, August 21 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Trouble Down at Tudsleigh

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Trouble Down at Tudsleigh (Season 3 | Episode 2 - aired 7 November 1978)

"Tonight's story, Trouble Down at Tudsleigh, is about Freddie Widgeon of whom it's been said that if all the girls he's loved and lost were laid end to end they would reach from Piccadilly Circus to Hyde Park Corner, possibly further, for many of them were quite tall, as indeed was April Carroway whom Freddie met while on a duty visit to Lady Carroway at Tudsleigh Court." One look at April Carroway and Freddie Widgeon falls hard. To impress her, he does battle with the perplexing Lady of Shallott and April's dangerous younger sister, Prudence.

Freddie Widgeon visits Tudsleigh Hall and falls for April Carroway. He's hampered by her athletic and violent suitor Captain Bradbury and loses his dignity and clothing in pursuit.

Sunday, August 20 - The Net

Project M7 (1953) The Net (original title)

A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists secretly. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious accident, and there are many arguments concerning the flight itself; some think it should be ground-controlled while Heathley (James Donald) wants it to be a manned flight with himself at the controls. Conflict also arises when one of his fellow scientists, taking advantage of Heathley's lack of attention toward his wife, Lydia (Phyllis Calvert), makes some moves on her. Then there is the question of just who is the enemy agent on the project. The single-minded Heathly, much to his dismay and little to his credit, uncovers him when he chooses his co-pilot.

Saturday, August 19 - Wodehouse Playhouse: The Code of the Mulliners

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): The Code of the Mulliners (Season 2 | Episode 6 - aired 7 May 1976)

"Tonight's story, The Code Of The Mulliners, is of Archibald, who had two great advantages in his life, his love for Aurelia Cammarleigh and his ability to imitate a hen laying an egg - the latter is being imitated at this very moment at the Drones Club in Dover Street."

Believing his mother to be insane, Archie Mulliner feels compelled to break off his engagement to Aurelia Cammarleigh. But a Mulliner never fails to honour a commitment, so he needs to find a way to get her to do the breaking up. Yvonne, an inventive actress, offers him a sure-fire plan.

Friday, August 18 - Wodehouse Playhouse: The Smile That Wins

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): The Smile That Wins (Season 3 | Episode 1 - aired 31 October 1978)

Starring John Alderton. Detective Mulliner has never smiled then a Doctor orders that he must smile! He develops an unnerving smile which has interesting results and wins him his heart's desire.

Deadly serious young private detective Adrian Mulliner looks like an underdog when he takes on the British aristocracy. On doctor's orders, he goes in smiling.

Thursday, August 17 - Only Fools and Horses.... Big Brother & Go West Young Man

Only Fools and Horses.... TV Series (1981–2003)

Classic comedy following the misadventures of two Wheeler Dealer brothers Del Boy and Rodney Trotter who scrape their living by selling dodgy goods believing that next year they will be millionaires.

Only Fools and Horses.... (1981–2003): Big Brother (Season 1 | Episode 1 - aired 8 September 1981)

Del employs younger brother Rodney as a member of Trotters' Independent Traders, despite warnings from his business colleagues. When Rodney decides to become the Trotters' financial adviser - monitoring the accounts and keeping Del's dodgy dealings in check - Del has second thoughts about their partnership. Cracks show in the partnership when Rodney inadvertently bungles a deal with Trigger. But despite Del's anger, it turns out that Rodder's advice would have prevented the purchase of 25 briefcases that are locked with the serial number inside. Del and Rodney have yet another row and 'Little Bruv' plans a career change. Desperate to make his mark on the world, Rodney decides to leave for Hong Kong - a great plan, if only he'd remembered his passport.

Only Fools and Horses.... (1981–2003): Go West Young Man (Season 1 | Episode 2 - aired 15 September 1981)

Del and Rodney are once again hunting for bargains. And after stopping off at Boycie's car lot they spy a Mark II Cortina that's being used as a part-exchange for a Vanden Plas. Del knocks the asking price down to £25, so long as he houses Boycie's E type jag for a week - Del hopes to use the Jag to impress his bit on the side. Del ups the price tag of the Cortina to £199 and gets interest from an Australian buyer. And with cash in their pockets, a Jag to drive, and both of them single, Rodney talks Del into heading off for a night on the tiles. The Trotters' night out doesn't start too well, as they are chatted up by a pair of transvestites in a nightclub. But their luck changes in the form of Nicky and Michelle, who they manage to chat up and persuade them to write their telephone numbers on Del's cigar pack, with the promise of a date next Friday. On their way home, Rodney accidentally throws the cigar pack out of the window of the Jag, and when Del makes an emergency stop, a car smashes into the back of Boycie's pristine E-type. To top it off, the car responsible for writing-off the Jag is none other than the clapped out Cortina.

Wednesday, August 16 - Jeeves and Wooster: Right Ho! Jeeves

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993) Bertie Takes Gussie's Place at Deverill Hall (or, Right Ho! Jeeves) (Season 3 | Episode 4 - aired 19 April 1992)

Bossy Aunt Agatha orders Bertie to go to Deverill Hall and woo Gertrude Winkworth. Gussie Fink-Nottle is due to go to the hall to impress Dame Daphne, Gertrude's mother and godmother to his beloved Madeleine Bassett. When Gussie is arrested for trying to catch newts in Trafalgar Square fountain, Bertie sees the chance to obey Agatha by going to the hall and also save the day for Gussie by impersonating him. When Gussie eventually turns up he has to pretend to be Bertie. Gertrude is captivated by him, romance blooms and Gussie writes to Madeleine to end their relationship. Bertie's efforts to retrieve the letter leads to his arrest and, worse, the attentions of Madeleine before Jeeves rescues him yet again.

Tuesday, August 15 - Thriller : The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk

Thriller (1960–1962): The Remarkable Mrs. Hawk (Season 2 | Episode 13 - aired 18 December 1961) 

Cissy Hawk's farm keeps gaining massive blue ribbon hogs, while the passing drifters she hires magically disappear. Well-read grifter Jason Longfellow figures he'll last a lot longer at her Isle of Aiaie via blackmail, but seductive Cissy keeps local Sheriff Ulysses wound around her finger tighter than a pig's tail.

Wonderful black comedy stars Jo Van Fleet in the title role of Mrs. Cissy Hawk, a lonely widow who runs a prize-winning pig farm, with a penchant for picking up young male loners as potential husbands or handymen. Scheming blackmailer Jason Longfellow (John Carradine), Latin scholar and railroad hobo, sends his confederate Johnny Norton (Bruce Dern) to check out the premises, disappearing after an aborted attempt at robbery. An undeterred Jason then tries using another accomplice, Pete Gogan (Hal Baylor), passing himself off as the young man's uncle. Paul Newlan plays the local sheriff, who ferrets out the blackmail scheme but cannot solve the many disappearances, avoiding the widow's advances all the while.

Monday, August 14 - Dick Tracy's Dilemma

Dick Tracy's Dilemma (1947)

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

Sunday, August 13 - Stablemates

Stablemates (1938)

Mickey is a stable boy for Lady Q, a race horse that has the potential to be a champion. When drunken bum Tom Terry brusquely moves into the stable with him, they are constantly at odds. Because Lady Q loses a big race, her owner plans to sell her to the glue factory, but Mickey buys her with his meager savings. Mickey learns from Tom that Lady Q has a tumor on her foot, and discovers that the derelict was once a brilliant veterinarian. Mickey convinces Tom to operate on Lady Q, and despite his alcoholic shakes, the operation is succcessful. The two take the horse on the road, and soon become very close. Because Mickey is an orphan, he suggests that they "legally" adopt each other. Tom is reluctant, but soon agrees and the two plan to enter Lady Q in a big race. To make money for the entrance fee, they stay at a farm owned by five-time widow Beulah Flanders. When they have almost earned the entrance fee, Tom, who is now a sober and devoted father, tells Mickey to go to the track to get an application blank. While there, Mickey runs into detective Barney Donovan, who reveals that Tom is wanted for his part in the death of a horse and jockey in a fixed race. When Mickey returns to the farm, he pretends that he doesn't care for Tom anymore, strikes him, and leaves with the horse. The next day he is able to get the money he needs by impressing Mrs. Shepherd, a stable owner. Lady Q develops a sore hoof, though, and is only saved by Tom, who arrives with a special shoe for her. Mickey finally confesses that it was his fear for Tom that made him act as if he didn't care, and the two realize that they are truly father and son. Tom is supposed to leave right away to avoid capture, but instead watches Mickey win the race. Although he now has enough money to become a veterinarian, like his father, Mickey is heartbroken when Donovan apprehends Tom. The two have an emotional farewell, but Mickey is relieved when Mrs. Shepherd tells him that Tom will serve no more than a year in jail.

Saturday, August 12 - The Bride Wore Black

The Bride Wore Black (1968) La mariée était en noir (original title)

After trying to commit suicide, the widow Julie Kohler (Jeanne Moreau) pretends to her mother that she will leave her town. Actually she stays, chases and assassinates the five men that accidentally killed her beloved husband in the stairs of the church immediately after their wedding ceremony.

Friday, August 11 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: The Double

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): The Double (Season 4 | Episode 7 - aired April 1963)

A man (Alan MacNaughton) suffering from amnesia, false memory and paralysis of his legs returns to England with his nurse (Jeanette Sterke). He believes he killed his partner 6 months earlier, but the body was never found. They are to stay with her sister (Jane Griffiths) while she continues to try to overcome his handicaps. They are spotted at the airport by the secretary (Anne Lawson) of Basil Henson, who has kept tabs on his movements. Sterke gets engaged in following the trail, which begins with a solicitor and leads to Henson who is a successful stock broker with the same name as MacNaughton's partner.

A man who has been left for dead by the impostor who takes his place returns to bring him to justice.

Thursday, August 10 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Downfall

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): Downfall (Season 5 | Episode 4 - aired January 1964)

The story has a successful defense attorney (Maurice Denham) winning a case at the outset that frees a man (T.P. McKenna) tried for murder. Denham insists on the man's innocence unlike those around him, who make a case that he's a psychopath who kills when frustrated by a female. Denham is not getting along with his wife, Nadja Regin. He'd like to be free of her. Denham hires McKenna as the family chauffeur and sees to it that McKenna and Regin have plenty of time together. Denham also buys a gun and lets McKenna know where it is when he leaves for some over night work in Dorset with his assistant whom he has a desire for.

This all works out in surprisingly ironic ways.

Wednesday, August 9 - Thriller: The Return of Andrew Bentley

Thriller (1960–1962): The Return of Andrew Bentley (Season 2 | Episode 12 - aired 11 December 1961)

The show begins with a couple going to see the husband's uncle. Amos Wilder turns out to be an eccentric sorcerer. Uncle Amos gets Ellis Corbett (John Newland) to promise a lot of strange things--such as to NEVER leave this mansion. In exchange, Ellis will inherit his uncle's fortune. Within a day, Uncle Amos is dead--having taken his own life! After Amos' death, however, a strange specter of a man, a man long dead, appears in the home and seems to be coming for the uncle's corpse.

Tuesday, August 8 - Daredevils of the Red Circle Parts 10, 11, 12

Part10 The Infernal Machine The Daredevils are wise to 39013's impersonation of Horace Granville. "39013' is wise to the boys' discovery of his secret. When the Daredevils make their move, 39013 makes his. Now the boys are wanted by the law! And the real Granville only has minutes to live!

Part11 The Red Circle Speaks Who is the mysterious informant known only as The Red Circle? Here is where we find out! Unfortunately, '39013' finds out too--and he wants to settle the score!

Part12 Flight to Doom Duration: 1005 Channel: shortfilms Daredevils of the Red Circle Part12 Flight to Doom The Daredevils have discovered 39013's secret, but capturing him may prove more difficult--especially when he holding Blanche Granville captive! If anyone makes a move to catch 39013, Blanche dies! This is the pulse-pounding conclusion!

Monday, August 7 - The Black Adder: Episodes 2 & 3

The Black Adder (1982–1983): Born to Be King (Season 1 | Episode 2 - aired 22 June 1983)

When Edmund's Scottish lands are given to the King's Supreme Commander, Douglas McAngus, he plots revenge.

The Black Adder (1982–1983): The Archbishop (Season 1 | Episode 3 - aired 29 June 1983)

Someone is assassinating the archbishops of England. Blackadder hopes that Harry will become the next archbishop of Canterbury, since this will make him the only heir of the throne. To his great surprise, the King chooses Blackadder instead.

Sunday, August 6 - The Hound of the Baskervilles

The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)

When Sir Charles Baskerville dies unexpectedly, his nephew and heir Sir Henry returns from South Africa. Dr. Mortimer. the local doctor, is concerned about Sir Henry's safety as he is convinced that Sir Charles was literally frightened to death. He consults Sherlock Holmes and recounts the tale of one Sir Hugo Baskerville who, several generations previously, had been killed by a huge hound and which now is believed by some to be a curse on the family. Holmes agrees to take on the case and it almost immediately becomes apparent that Sir Henry's life is in danger. Holmes doesn't believe in the legend of the Baskervilles or the supposed curse place upon them and sets out to find a more practical solution.

Saturday, August 5 - Johnny Come Lately

Johnny Come Lately (1943)

Oscar-winning small-town drama about an ex-reporter turned drifter who arrives in a town where corruption is rife. Jailed for vagrancy, on release, he meets up with Vinnie McLeod, editor of the local paper and one of the few honest citizens in town. Together, they set about exposing the corruption, thanks to the revelations of dowager Majorie Main, a woman with a murky past but an honest heart.

Friday, August 4 - Thriller: Dialogues with Death

Thriller (1960–1962): Dialogues with Death (Season 2 | Episode 11 - aired 4 December 1961)

Two tales of terror centering on communicating with the dead. In the first, an elderly morgue attendant can speak to the cadavers in his charge and he learns the identity of the gunman who killed a noted racketeer. In the second story, a greedy nephew returns to his family home in the Lousiana bayou to claim his inheritance but why does his dotty old aunt insist that he is dead?

Thursday, August 3 - Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence

Heaven with a Barbed Wire Fence (1939)

Joe (Glenn Ford), a clerk in New York City, hits the road to claim the land he bought in Arizona. But having spent all of his savings on the land, he must hitchhike. He meets a drifter named Tony (Nicholas Conte) and then Spanish refugee Anita (Jean Rogers). Together the three run into the "Professor" (Raymond Walburn), an erudite hobo. The quartet travel across the country, getting into scrapes, avoiding the police and encountering others hit hard by the Great Depression.

Wednesday, August 2 - Black Adder: The Foretelling

The Black Adder TV Series (1982–1983)

In the Middle Ages, Prince Edmund the Black Adder constantly schemes and endeavors to seize the crown from his father and brother.

The Black Adder (1982–1983): The Foretelling (Season 1 | Episode 1 - aired 15 June 1983)

Prince Edmund (Black Adder) arrives late to the Battle of Bosworth Field, accidentally killing King Richard III, thinking he was stealing his horse.

Monday, July 31 - Dick Tracy vs. Cueball

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946)

Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball.