Friday, Sept. 29 - Adventures of Captain Marvel: Chapter 1 - Curse of the Scorpion

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941)

To protect a magic talisman from being used for evil, a teenage boy named Billy Batson is given the power to become an adult superhero, Captain Marvel, with a single magic word: "Shazam!"

Chapter 1 - Curse of the Scorpion

On a scientific expedition to Siam young Billy Batson is given the ability to change himself into the super-powered Captain Marvel by the wizard Shazam, who tells him his powers will last only as long as the Golden Scorpion idol is threatened. Finding the idol, the scientists realize it could be the most powerful weapon in the world and remove the lenses that energize it, distributing them among themselves so that no one would be able to use the idol by himself.

Thursday, Sept. 28 - The Veil: Vision of Crime & Girl on the Road

The Veil TV Mini-Series (1958– )

An anthology of horror stories hosted by actor Boris Karloff.

The Veil (1958– ): Vision of Crime (Season 1 | Episode 1)

While on a boat trip to Paris, a man has a vision in which he sees his brother murdered. He returns to England to discover that his brother has been killed and that a man he knows isn't the murderer is the prime suspect.

The Veil (1958– ): Girl on the Road (Season 1 | Episode 2)

A young man helps a beautiful, young woman who is stranded by the side of the road...her car's gas tank is empty. He drives her to town to get gas and have a drink. When a bartender calls someone named "Morgan Debs" (Karloff), the girl panics and leaves, but promises the young man she will meet with him later and tell him who "Morgan Debs" is.

Wednesday, Sept. 27 - Mannix: Run, Sheep, Run

Mannix (1967–1975): Run, Sheep, Run (Season 1 | Episode 13 - aired 16 December 1967)

Intertect is retained by the police department to help transport a woman informant to safety. At least that's the story Mannix is told by a police inspector. But the case proves more complicated -- and very deadly. The informant turns out to be an undercover policewoman and Mannix is really a decoy. The policewoman is killed and Mannix remains the target of crooked cops.

Tuesday, Sept. 26 - Every Night at Eight

Every Night at Eight (1935)

Alice Faye, Frances Langford and Patsy Kelly lose their jobs and can't afford to pay the rent. They enter an amateur contest at a local radio station as a singing trio, but lose to a big band led by George Raft when Langford passes out mid-song due to lack of food. Raft asks them to join his band, and they become famous, which throws obstacles in the way of a romance between Raft and Langford.

Monday, Sept 25 - Route 66: Shadows of an Afternoon

Route 66 (1960–1964): Shadows of an Afternoon (Season 3 | Episode 30 - aired 17 May 1963)

Tod and Linc in Punta Gorda, Florida are working at a Shell plant. They are living at a rented house and responsible for lawn/garden work and the family dog. The dog becomes injured and a respected neighbor accuses Linc of having "cut the dog with pruning shears". Linc is arrested and assumed guilty by the angry townsfolk.

Sunday, Sept. 24 - Experiment in Terror

Experiment in Terror (1962)

A psychotic killer, Garland "Red" Lynch, uses a campaign of terror to force San Francisco bank teller Kelly Sherwood to steal $100,000 from the bank for him. Despite his threat to kill her or her teenaged sister Toby if she goes to the police, Sherwood contacts the San Francisco office of the FBI, where agent John Ripley takes charge of the case.

Ripley interviews a woman who implies that she's involved in some way in a serious crime, but before she can give Ripley the details, Lynch murders her. Sherwood continues to be terrorized with phone calls, an asthmatic condition making the unseen Lynch's voice all the more sinister.

The FBI identifies the criminal, noting that Red Lynch has a record of convictions for statutory rape, forgery, criminal assault, armed robbery, and murder. They track down his girlfriend, Lisa Soong, whose 6-year-old son has just had a hip replaced. Lynch is paying all the hospital bills. Because of this, Lisa refuses to believe that Lynch is a criminal and will not cooperate with the investigation. Ripley nevertheless manages to get some information about "Uncle Red" from the boy.

Lynch finally gives Sherwood a time and date to steal the money, and just to make sure that she does, he kidnaps her sister Toby and holds her captive. The climax is a chase through Candlestick Park after a nighttime baseball game between the San Francisco Giants and the Los Angeles Dodgers. On-field action includes several close-ups of Dodger pitcher Don Drysdale. Ripley and his men ultimately surround Lynch on the infield of the stadium. As Lynch takes aim at a police helicopter, Ripley shoots him and he dies on the pitchers mound.

Saturday, Sept. 23 - A Family Affair

A Family Affair (1937)

Judge James K. Hardy (Lionel Barrymore) causes an uproar in the small Midwestern town of Carvel when he issues a temporary order restraining the building of a nearby aqueduct. With contractor Hoyt Wells (Selmer Jackson) and newspaper publisher Frank Redmond (Charley Grapewin) threatening to get him thrown out of office, the entire town turns against the judge. The controversy even affects his family, including his teenage son, Andy (Mickey Rooney).

Friday, Sept. 22 - Nobody's Baby

Nobody's Baby (1937)

After trying to break into show business, two mismatched girlfriends become nurses. One of their patients is a new mother who has hidden her pregnancy from her husband, the nightclub dancing partner she had secretly married. When she asks the two nurses to watch her baby while she goes to tell her husband, complications ensue.

Thursday, Sept. 21 - One Hour Late

One Hour Late (1934)

When the romance between radio-singer Eddie Blake and Bessie Dunn goes sour through a series of misunderstanding, Bessie packs to take a week-end trip with the station boss,Stephen Barclay, and Eddie proposes to Hazel, who appears to be open to any kind of proposal. With all of the principals involved and in the office elevator, a cable breaks and the elevator is suspended between floors...and the resolvements begin.

In this romance a shipping clerk aspires to be a singer. For love, he consorts with a young stenographer. He wants to marry her, but she keeps putting off their engagement while simultaneously flirting with her boss. When he gets trapped in an elevator with the boss' wife and the president of a radio station, he gets his big chance to make it as a singer.

Wednesday, Sept. 20 - Mind Your Own Business

Mind Your Own Business (1936)

A newspaper nature columnist is inspired by his wife to use wildlife critters to report city gossip. He soon becomes the toast of the town. But when she passes on scuttlebutt from her beauty salon and a politician is "rubbed out," the police and the culprits wonder how he knew in advance to report it. All mayhem breaks loose and the gangsters kidnap the couple. He leaves signs on the trail through the woods and gets one of his captors to go on a snipe hunt. Members of his alligator patrol scouts come to his rescue.

Tuesday, Sept. 19 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Return to Sender

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): Return to Sender (Season 4 | Episode 5 - aired 12 March 1963)

A corporate fraudster is arrested for stealing a large sum of money from his partners. He is informed that a particularly brilliant and persistent barrister will lead the prosecution against him. To undermine the credibility of the barrister, the fraudster engages the services of a sleazy individual who specialises in dirty tricks and smear tactics. The plan is set in motion but the fraudster intends to twist it to ruin both the barrister and the scheme's architect.

Monday, Sept. 18 - The Untouchables: The Frank Nitti Story

The Untouchables (1959–1963): The Frank Nitti Story (Season 1 | Episode 28 - aired 28 April 1960)

With Prohibition a thing of the past, mobster Frank Nitti focuses on something the mob knows how to do very well: extortion. The gangster focuses on the movie distribution industry, specifically theater owners. After blinding the owner of two theaters in Chicago as a warning to others, he sets his sights on the Star theater chain with ticket sales of $100 million a year. The head of the chain, J.N. Miller has no choice, as he sees it, but to give them what they want. A check of the company's books however, gives the Feds all the information they need to get Miller to cooperate. Ness also focuses on a Nitti associate, Sydney Rogers, to get the goods on the big hoodlum. In the end, the mob and Ness take care of Nitti but the cost is high, as one of Ness' men is killed.

Sunday, Sept. 17 - Small Town Girl

Small Town Girl (1953)

Rick Belrow Livingston (Farley Granger), in love with self-obsessed Broadway star Lisa (Ann Miller), is sentenced to 30 days in jail for speeding through a small town. Quite by accident, he meets the daughter of the judge, Cindy Kimbell (Jane Powell). He persuades her to let him out for one night, so that he can visit Lisa on the premise he is seeing his "poor sick mother" (Billie Burke) on her birthday. After tracking him down and bringing him back to town, Cindy starts to fall for Livingston, but Dr. Schlemmer (S.Z. Sakall) wants her to marry his son (Bobby Van) even though he desperately wants a career on Broadway.

Saturday, Sept. 16 - You Gotta Stay Happy

You Gotta Stay Happy (1948)

Indecisive heiress Dee Dee Dillwood is pushed into marrying her sixth fiancée, but unable to face the wedding night, she flees into the adjacent hotel room of commercial pilot Marvin Payne, who just wants to sleep. Somehow, she persuades him to take her to California. Her fellow passengers include a chimpanzee, a corpse (in a coffin), an absconding embezzler, and two smoochy newlyweds.

Friday, Sept. 15 - The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis: Dobie Spreads a Rumor

The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis (1959–1963): Dobie Spreads a Rumor (Season 1 | Episode 21 - aired 23 February 1960)

Dobie plots to make Zelda more appealing to other boys by spreading a rumor that Zelda's father is inheriting one million dollars.

Thursday, Sept. 14 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Night Train Riddle

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955) The Case of the Night Train Riddle (Season 1 | Episode 24 - aired 11 April 1955)

A young boy and his father are traveling on a train, and after they have a fight, the boy runs out of the compartment and seems to have vanished into thin air. (That's not what happens, but I don't have time to fix it.) Although his governess thinks he has simply run away, Holmes begins to suspect something a bit more serious, and his investigation leads him to a nearby circus.

Wednesday, Sept. 13 - The Spider

The Spider (1945)

An ex-cop who is now a private detective is hired by a woman to be the go-between in retrieving an important envelope from his partner. The detective has the partner come to his apartment to give him the envelope, but someone sneaks into his apartment and strangles her while the detective is in another room. Fearful that the police will suspect him of the murder, he brings the woman's body back to her own apartment, but the police find out and suspect him of the murder anyway. He must find out who is framing him for the murder and why, before the police catch him.

Tuesday, Sept 12 - Stranger in Town

Stranger in Town (1931)

Chic Sale plays Ulysses Crickle, a man who stops "going west" when he gets a boil on his butt from riding in a Conestoga wagon. He decides the start a town on the spot. Fifty years later, we see Crickle as the leading citizen of his Arkansas town. He's the postmaster and he owns the general store. His granddaughter (Ann Dvorak) comes home from business college, and everything seems fine.

But being 1931, things are changing fast. A chain supermarket decides to open a store in town, right across the street from Crickle's. The man sent to open the store (David Manners) falls for Dvorak and becomes Crickle's enemy. The chain store, being a big corporation, fights dirty to drive Crickle out of business. Crickle can't compete with their prices so he institutes a barter system so the locals can get food even when they have no money. Of course Manners is innocent of his company's shenanigans and helps Crickle beat them in the end.

Monday, Sept. 11 - Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride

Route 66 (1960–1964): Who Will Cheer My Bonnie Bride (Season 3 | Episode 29 - aired 10 May 1963)

Tod and Linc driving to Cape Coral, Florida run out of gas. Linc goes for help and is "aided" by two men who involve him in a stick-up and shooting. Despite being part of a statewide manhunt, Linc offers first aid to one of the men who has been shot. The two men (and Linc) then continue on to their original destination - a wedding!

Sunday, Sept. 10 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Tangled Hearts

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Tangled Hearts (Season 3 | Episode 3 - aired 14 November 1978)

At the golf club, bossy Smallwood Bessemer and burly Carter Muldoon inadvertently exchange fiancees. Non-golfer Bessemer must play his way out of the rough.

Saturday, Sept. 9 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: On the Run

The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre (1960–1965): On the Run (Season 4 | Episode 4 - aired 1 November 1967)

Model prisoner Frank Stewart, convicted for burgulary, escapes from prison with the help of Jock Mackay, an associates for his boss Wally Lucas, who plans to track down Stewart to know the location of stolen bonds.

This is a fairly routine entry in the Edgar Wallace series, featuring double cross, the smooth villain, and the woman who for no understandable reason allows an escaped prisoner to stay with her.

Friday, Sept. 8 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Christmas Pudding

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Christmas Pudding (Season 1 | Episode 23 - aired 4 April 1955)

Just before the Christmas holiday, John Norton is convicted of murder and is sentenced to death. In the courtroom, Norton threatens Sherlock Holmes, and swears to kill the detective before the execution takes place. Although Norton has murdered five wives, his sixth wife still believes in his innocence. Shortly after she delivers Norton a Christmas pudding at his request, the convict escapes, despite the many precautions that prison authorities had taken. In the middle of the night, Holmes is informed of the escape, and he knows that he must take action at once.

Thursday, Sept. 7 - We Have Our Moments

We Have Our Moments (1937)

Taking a cruise to Europe, a schoolteacher gets involved with a gang of crooks.

Mary Smith, a schoolteacher in the small town of Battleburo, is planning to marry Clem Porter in September, but he insists on a honeymoon in nearby Sioux City so as not to conflict with his fall bowling schedule. Tired of small-town life, Mary books passage on a cruiser bound for Europe. On the ship, Mary poses as a sophisticate and meets Mr. and Mrs. Frank Rutherford and their accomplice, "Smacksey," who has just stolen $100,000 from a U.S. bank. Also on the boat are British "gentleman" Joe Gilling, and American detective John Wade, who says he is a schoolteacher...

Wednesday, Sept. 6 - Thriller: An Attractive Family

Thriller (1960–1962): An Attractive Family (Season 2 | Episode 15 - aired 1 January 1962)

The Farringtons have made a practice of offing new additions to the family, inheriting the wealth of their dearly departed along the way. Their latest plan goes awry when they find they need to rid themselves of a new sister-in-law (Bulifant), or risk losing the part of the family fortune they haven't already spent.

Tuesday, Sept. 5 - Jeeves and Wooster: Comrade Bingo

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Aunt Dahlia, Cornelia and Madeline (or, Comrade Bingo) (Season 3 | Episode 6 - aired 3 May 1992)

Wearing a false beard, Bingo Little pretends to be a friend of the workers to impress Charlotte Corday Rowbotham, daughter of a socialist orator, to the disgust of her other admirer Comrade Butt. Fortunately Jeeves is on hand to scupper Bingo's romance, leading to a free-for-all at the races (horse, that is) but Bertie has a bigger problem. In order to get in with novelist Cornelia Fothergill whose stories she wants to publish in her magazine, Aunt Dahlia charges Bertie to steal a hated painting by Mrs. Fothergill's father-in-law which has long blighted her marriage. Bertie is, of course, a hopeless thief, and, somewhat surprisingly, the fearsome Spode comes to his rescue - along with Jeeves of course.

Monday, Sept. 4 - Love Me Tonight

Love Me Tonight (1932)

When Parisienne tailor Maurice Courtelin learns that one of his aristocratic clients, the Viscount Gilbert de Varèze, is a deadbeat who never pays for the merchandise he acquires, he heads off to try and collect what is owed to him. He gets little in the way of cash from the Viscount who is desperate that his uncle, the Duke D'Artelines not learn of his debts. He suggests that Maurice spend a little time at the chateau until the money can be found. The Duke takes an immediate liking to Maurice - who's been introduced as a Baron - but that's not the case for the Princess Jeanette who, after an encounter with him him on the road earlier that day. Over time Jeannette falls in love with him. However, when the truth gets out about Courtelin's humble identity, he risks losing her.

Sunday, Sept. 3 - The Skull

The Skull (1965)

In the 1800s, Pierre, a phrenologist (Maurice Good), robs the grave of the recently buried Marquis de Sade. He takes the Marquis' severed head and sets about boiling it (acid, actually) to remove its flesh, leaving the skull. Before the task is done, Pierre meets an unseen and horrific death.

In modern-day London, Christopher Maitland (Cushing), a collector and writer on the occult, is offered the skull by Marco (Wymark), an unscrupulous dealer in antiques and curiosities. Maitland learns that the skull has been stolen from Sir Matthew Phillips (Lee), a friend and fellow collector. Sir Matthew, however, does not want to recover it, having escaped its evil influence. He warns Maitland of its powers. At his sleazy lodgings, Marco dies in mysterious circumstances. Maitland finds his body and takes possession of the skull. He in turns falls victim as the skull drives him to hallucinations, madness and death.

Saturday, Sept. 2 - Merton of the Movies & Just a Cute Kid

Merton of the Movies (1947)

In a small Kansas town, theater usher Merton Gill (Red Skelton) has aspirations to become a silent movie actor like his hero, Lawrence Rupert (Leon Ames). When Merton manages to thwart a robbery attempt by mimicking his favorite screen star, he's dispatched to Hollywood on a publicity junket to help rejuvenate Rupert's flagging film career. But Merton's own attempts to break into show business are ridiculed by all except a friendly stuntwoman named Phyllis Montague (Virginia O'Brien).

A Kansas bumpkin goes to Hollywood to become a movie star and gets a job burlesquing his favorite actor - only he thinks the role is serious.

In 1915, Kansas theatre usher Merton Gill is a rabid silent-movie fan. When he brings Mammoth Studios free publicity by imitating star Lawrence Rupert's heroics, they bring him to Hollywood to generate another headline; he thinks he'll get a movie contract. Disillusioned, he haunts the casting offices, where he meets and is consoled by Phyllis Montague, bit player and stunt-woman. When Merton finally gets his "break," though, it's not quite what he envisioned.

Just a Cute Kid (1940)

When he has to pay a debt to a fearsome money lender, Cliff Edwards accepts the help of his pal Frank Faylen who takes him to a scientist where he can sell his body, but things get worse than expected in this Damon Runyon story.

Friday, Sept. 1 - Edgar Wallace Presents: Crossroads to Crime

Crossroads to Crime (1960)

PC Don Ross suspects that a gang of lorry hijackers, operating from a transport café, is behind a series of vehicle thefts. When his suspicions are dismissed by his superiors, Ross decides to conduct his own undercover investigation, and sets out to collect vital evidence that could convict the gang.

Thursday, August 31 - The Sport Parade

The Sport Parade (1932)

Dartmouth football stars Sandy Brown and Johnny Baker follow different paths after college: Baker becomes a sports reporter while pal Brown chases the money of the pro game, but ends up as a wrestler with big debts. Irene Stewart is the woman that comes between them, and a bored radio announcer adds the few light moments as he follows their careers.