Wednesday, Nov. 29 - Philo Vance's Secret Mission

Philo Vance's Secret Mission (1947)

Publisher Martin Jamison sends for Philo Vance as he wants to hire him to write a true unsolved mystery. Paul Morgan, Morgan's partner, regards the plan as foolish. Jamison tells his secretary Mona Bannister to bring Vance to his home that night and he will reveal the solution to the seven-year mystery of the killing of Sam Philips, former partner in the firm. Philips ex-wife, now a receptionist for the company, is alarmed when she overhears. As Vance and Mona drive up, two shots are heard and Jamison's body is later found in the trunk of Vance's car.

Tuesday, Nov. 28 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Jolly Hangman

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Jolly Hangman (Season 1 | Episode 28 - aired 9 May 1955) 

A traveling salesman is found hanged in his hotel room. Although the police eventually rule it to be a suicide, his widow thinks otherwise and asks Holmes to investigate the mysterious "suicide" further.

Monday, Nov. 27 - A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Episodes 1 & 2

A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987–1995): Episode #1.1 (Season 1 | Episode 1 - aired 13 January 1989)

Sketches include Fry as headmaster and Laurie as a parent with child "poisoned by randy sex talk" in Biology Class; Laurie reads Fry poetry suitable for daily and vacation uses; Fry plays a minister who simply wants kids to stay away from his bloody car; Fry plays recruiter and Laurie is applicant to a perverted SAS; Fry is a Tally-Ho librarian who proviides patrons like Laurie with severely edited texts which extol Mother England; Laurie plays an odd psychic who claims he can bend spoons on Fry's talk show; F&L tongue-in-cheek skit poking fun at the thought police which culminates in epic tune, "Bitchmother, Come Light My Bottom." Fry plays a demented barber and Laurie the customer who asks for all of his hair cut and taunts the barber, who is distressed and brings a chainsaw.

A Bit of Fry and Laurie (1987–1995): Episode #1.2 (Season 1 | Episode 2 - aired 20 January 1989)

A man quizzes an Information Desk attendant. Derek Nippl-e reports a car mishap to the police. A conversation about the uniqueness of Language and how it defines us. Performance of the three word song, "America". A cad of a talk show host gets a dressing down by a guest author. Expositional news of blown covert ops is delivered to, and read by the rather pleasant commander of MI-5. A beggar is accosted for busking, which devolves into a debate of Classism and Democracy. An anemic program of Hand Exercise. Troubleshooting board members plot and booze it up.

Sunday, Nov. 26 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Perfect Husband

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Perfect Husband (Season 1 | Episode 27 - aired 2 May 1955)

Russell Partridge announces to his wife Janet one day that he is in fact a killer who has murdered his six previous wives, and notifies her that she has one day to live and get her affairs in order before he murders her, too. Janet can get no one to believe her tale, except Holmes and Watson, who must devise a plan to trap the killer before Janet's time runs out.

He announces to her after a party that he has killed seven other women and she is going to be the eighth. He even announces when he will kill her. Unfortunately, her pleas are seen as female hysterics (it's another time). Also, the man is an art collector of great repute and he is admired everywhere. He sets her up so that no one will believe her story; no one, that is, except Sherlock Holmes. His keen insights make him suspicious and although he screws up a couple times, he maintains his relentless bloodhound mentality.

Saturday, Nov. 25 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids

Sherlock Holmes (1954–1955): The Case of the Baker Street Nursemaids (Season 1 | Episode 26 - aired 25 April 1955)

A baby in a basket is delivered to the bachelors at 221B Baker Street. The child was sent by Mme. Durand, wife of the kidnapped French inventor, for safe keeping. Holmes deduces the Durands have been taken by representatives of a foreign government anxious to possess Dr. Durand's new creation, the submarine. Once they determine which country, Holmes and Watson use an ingenious plan to gain entry to their embassy; they simply walk in announced.

Friday, Nov. 24 - The House of the Arrow

The House of the Arrow (1953)

Inspector Hanaud is called in by a jealous heir to probe the death of his wealthy sister-in-law. The complaining heir suggests his sister-in-law was murdered by her adopted daughter, the beautiful Betty Harlowe. Hanaud's probe quickly dismisses the brother-in-law's claim. The man, upset at being shut out of his sister-in-law's will, created the story in the hopes of getting his hands on the estate. But the mystery is not over. Although the brother-in-law's charge has been dismissed, Hanaud has come to believe that the old woman was indeed murdered - by an arrow tipped in poison.

Thursday, Nov. 23 - Thank You, Mr. Moto & Once in a Lifetime

Thank You, Mr. Moto (1937)

Mr Moto competes with a gang of ruthless treasure-hunters for possession of seven scrolls which, when brought together, form a map which reveals the location of the tomb of Genghis Khan, reputed to contain fabulous treasure. Moto already has one scroll, but the rest are owned by Prince Chung and his mother, who consider it a sacred duty to their ancestors to protect the scrolls and the secret of the Khan's tomb.

Once in a Lifetime (1932)

The immense success of The Jazz Singer, the first all-talking picture, results in the cancellation of a booking for three song-and-dance vaudeville performers: Jerry Hyland, May Daniels and George Lewis. Jerry, convinced that talkies are the future, decides they will head to Hollywood to break into the fledgling movie industry before others get the same notion. May comes up with the idea to open a school of elocution to teach actors how to speak on film. On the train there, May encounters an old friend, Helen Hobart, an influential, nationally syndicated columnist. She offers to put them in touch with Herman Glogauer, the head of a major movie studio. George is smitten with another passenger, aspiring young actress Susan Walker.

They discover the movie world to be an eccentric place. George is unexpectedly appointed by Glogauer as supervisor of production, allowing him to promote Susan's career. Despite his incompetence (or rather because of it), his first picture turns out to be an critical and commercial smash hit, and Susan becomes a star.

Later, a very persuasive salesman gets George to buy 2000 airplanes, which causes Glogauer to fire him. However, air movies become very popular, and George has inadvertently cornered the market. The other studios are desperate to get airplanes from Glogauer at any price, and George is once again considered a genius.

Wednesday, Nov. 22 - Rumba

Rumba (1935)

The team of George Raft and Carole Lombard who at the time this film was made were doing a little off set kanoodling had scored well in Bolero, so much so that Paramount decided another dance film was in order for them. Instead of in Europe like Bolero, Rumba takes place in Cuba and then New York City, taking advantage of the current dance craze sweeping the country.

Raft's a half Cuban, half American living down there because he fled the country to avoid some gangsters he'd run afoul of. He's dancing first with Iris Adrian and then with Margo, but rich heiress Carole Lombard sweeps him off his nimble feet.

Tuesday, Nov. 21 - Challenge to Lassie (1949)

Challenge to Lassie (1949)

In Edinburgh in 1860, sheep herder Jock Gray finds a Collie puppy on the loose. When she is unclaimed, he takes her as his own and calls her Lassie. They are soon inseparable but when Jock dies and is buried in an unmarked grave, Lassie takes to sleeping in the churchyard to be near him. Jock's good friend John Traill is prepared to find a good home for Lassie but no matter how hard he tries, she always manages to get away and despite any obstacles put in her way, manages to get back to Jock's grave. It all comes to a head when a local magistrate orders her destroyed for not having a license leading Traill to take his case to a higher court.

Monday, Nov. 20 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo (Season 3 | Episode 7 - aired 12 December 1978)

Tonight's story, Mulliner's Buck-U-Uppo tells of the Reverend Augustine's experience with a wonder tonic capable of transforming a pale young curate, timidly in love with his vicar's daughter, into a - but let's start at the beginning, with our pale young curate.

Sunday, Nov. 19 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Big Business

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Big Business (Season 3 | Episode 6 - aired 5 December 1978)

"Tonight's story, 'Big Business', is about Reginald Mulliner, a young man of slender means and slighter intellect who before the dramatic change in his fortunes had only two assets in his life -the love of Amanda Biffen and the ability to sing Old Man River, a talent we discover him exercising in anticipation of the annual church concert in the village of Lower Smattering On The Whistle,Worcestershire..." Agreeably addle-brained Reginald Mulliner loses a fortune and a girl while preparing for his big moment on stage at the Christmas show. But from the depths of despair, he finds a new voice.

Saturday, Nov. 18 - The 3 Worlds of Gulliver

The 3 Worlds of Gulliver (1960)

In 1699, Dr Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Mathews) is an impoverished surgeon who seeks riches and adventure as a ship's doctor on a voyage around the world. His fiancée Elizabeth (June Thorburn) strongly wishes for him to settle down, and the two quarrel.

Gulliver embarks on the voyage and is soon discovered that Elizabeth has stowed away aboard his ship to be near him. A storm develops and sweeps him overboard. Gulliver is washed ashore on Lilliput, a land of tiny humans who see him as a threatening giant. The Lilliputians are afraid of Gulliver and tie him down with stakes to the beach, but he eases their fears by performing several acts of kindness. An old quarrel between Lilliput and neighboring Blefuscu is revived, and Gulliver lends a hand by towing Blefuscu's warships far out to sea. Lilliput's Emperor (Basil Sydney) then views the giant as a threat to his throne after Gulliver is critical of the reasons for the war. Gulliver escapes in a boat he had previously built when the Emperor orders his execution.

He makes his way to a large isle Brobdingnag, unaware that it was inhabited by Brobdingnagians, a race of 60 foot giants. After making shore, he encounters a very kind 40 foot peasant brobdingnagian girl named Glumdalclitch (Sherry Alberoni) finds him on the shore and carries him to the castle of King Brob (Grégoire Aslan) Their law requires that all tiny people be brought to the King, who has a collection of "tiny animals". Gulliver is delighted to find Elizabeth, who was washed ashore following a shipwreck. The King installs the two in a dollhouse and lets Glumdalclitch look after them.

The King marries Gulliver and Elizabeth. After the wedding. Gulliver and Elizabeth go outside to celebrate but are attacked by a giant squirrel, which drags Gulliver into its burrow. Glumdalclitch, however, is alerted and saves Gulliver by pulling him out of the burrow using her hair. When Gulliver later defeats the King at Chess and cures the Queen (Mary Ellis) of a simple stomach-ache, Prime Minister Makovan (Charles Lloyd-Pack) accuses Gulliver of witchcraft. Gulliver's attempts at explaining science to them, but this is taken as further "proof". The King orders his execution and pits his pet alligator against Gulliver, who is able to slay the creature. The King orders him burned, but Glumdalclitch saves Gulliver and Elizabeth from the pursuing Brobdingnagians by placing them in her sewing basket and tossing the basket into a brook that flows out to the sea.

Gulliver and Elizabeth wake on a beach with Glumdalclitch's small basket behind them. A passer-by of their own size indicates they are only a short distance from their home in England. Elizabeth asks if it had all been a dream. Gulliver, now happy to settle down with Elizabeth, replies that the bad qualities of the pettiness of Lilliput and ignorance of Brobdingnag are inside everyone. When Elizabeth asks about Glumdalclitch, Gulliver gives her a knowing look and says that she has yet to be born.

Friday, Nov. 17 - One of Our Spies Is Missing

One of Our Spies Is Missing (1966)

Someone is using cats in experiments to develop a machine that can reverse the aging process, meanwhile a famous scientist (Dr Lancer) has gone missing, only for him to reappear looking 30 years younger. UNCLE agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuryakin are sent to investigate the plot in Europe - Illya is sent to London to discover who is abducting cats while Solo travels to Paris where Dr Lancer's daughter is working as a fashion model. They uncover a plot by female members of the fashion business to develop the anti-aging machine for their own use, however the suave THRUSH agent Jordin has other plans. Thus a race begins between UNCLE and THRUSH to take control of the machine.

Thursday, Nov. 16 - Tobor the Great

Tobor the Great (1954)

To avoid the life-threatening dangers of manned space exploration, Professor Nordstrom has created a highly advanced form of artificial intelligence capable of piloting a starship to other worlds. In order to transmit alien data, the extraordinary robot is infused with a powerful telepathic device that enables it to instantly read and even feel emotions. Danger strikes when a sinister band of covert agents kidnaps Gadge, the professor’s 10-year-old grandson. But Gadge has a powerful ally. For he has developed a psychic, emotional bond with his grandfather’s robot. And now Gadge’s captors must suffer the wrath of his protective friend.

Wednesday, Nov. 15 - The Mad Doctor

The Mad Doctor (1940)

A crazed physician marries a wealthy women and, with the help of his demented assistant, murders them for their money.

Tuesday, Nov. 14 - House of Numbers

House of Numbers (1957)

Arnie Judlow, an inmate at San Quentin prison serving a life sentence for murder, devises a daring plan with his wife and his brother Bill to help him escape, part of which involves Bill and Arnie's wife posing as a married couple and moving to a house near the prison. Although the plan appears to go smoothly at first, it soon runs into a few snags--the couple move next door to a suspicious prison guard who knows Arnie and, more importantly, Bill and his brother's wife begin to find themselves attracted to each other.

Monday, Nov. 13 - Rendezvous

Rendezvous (1935)

In 1917 Lt. Bill Gordon is headed for France when he meets and becomes friendly with Joel Carter, niece of the Asst. Secretary of War. Finding out that he is an expert on codes, she gets her uncle to cancel Bill's orders and has him reassigned to break enemy codes. In his new assignment he becomes involved with beautiful Russian spy Olivia Karloff, who is working for the Germans, and must juggle Joel's affection and his pursuit of Karloff's connections to retrieve a stolen code book.

Sunday, Nov. 12 - Adventures of Captain Marvel - Chapter 5: The Scorpion Strikes & Girls Town

Adventures of Captain Marvel - Chapter 5: The Scorpion Strikes (1941)

Captain M saves Betty and heads for an abandoned mine - the headquarters of the Scorpion. The Scorpion, outside, aims the ray at the mouth of the cave, the rocks melt, the passageway is filling with molten lava and Cap is about to be encased in solid rock.

Girls Town (1959)

Mamie van Doren is Silver, a sexy juvenile delinquent accused of pushing her boyfriend over a cliff. She is committed to a reform school run by nuns, where she encounters nice girl Gigi Perreau and bitchy Gloria Talbott. Meanwhile, sleazy drag racer Mel Torme tries to blackmail Silver's sister Elinor Donahue (the real murderess) into being his drag race partner! Also figuring into the mix are Paul Anka, Ray Anthony, The Platters, Dick Contino, Maggie Hayes, Jim Mitchum, Charles Chaplin, Jr., Harold Lloyd, Jr., and Norman Grabowski!

Saturday, Nov. 11 - Adventures of Captain Marvel Chapter 4:Death Takes the Wheel & The Late George Apley

Adventures of Captain Marvel (1941): Death Takes the Wheel

Billy survives the plane explosion, but gets tied, gagged and locked in a Chinamans's vault. Meanwhile, the girl ends up unconscious behind the wheel of a car careening down the ramps of a 9-story parking garage.

The Late George Apley (1947)

George and Catherine Apley of Boston lead a proper life in the proper social circle, as did the Apleys before them. When grown daughter Eleanor falls in love with Howard (from New York!), and son John with Myrtle (from Worcester!), the ordered life of the Apley home on Beacon Street is threatened, as is the hoped-for union of John and Apley-cousin Agnes.

Friday, Nov. 10 - Wide Open

Wide Open (1930)

A nervous woman-shy office clerk, already troubled by an amorous female co-worker, suddenly has to deal with a very forward and attractive young woman who has sneaked into his apartment - and doesn't want to leave.

Thursday, Nov. 9 - Million Dollar Weekend

Million Dollar Weekend (1948)

Nicholas Lawrence, a young stockbroker, embezzles a million dollars worth of cash and stock, planning to flee to Shanghai. En route, he meets Cynthia Strong, who is fleeing Los Angeles after the suspicious death of her husband. When a blackmailer tries to force her to pay him or he'll accuse her of murder, she appeals to Nicholas for assistance. During a layover in Honolulu, while Nicholas and Cynthia are eating dinner, the blackmailer steals the attaché case containing the stolen loot. Nicholas and Cynthia pursue the thief to San Francisco in a desperate attempt to recover the stocks and money before Nicholas' now regretted embezzlement is discovered.

Wednesday, Nov. 8 - The Preview Murder Mystery

The Preview Murder Mystery (1936)

The star of "Song of the Toreador" receives threatening messages that he will not survive the preview screening of the film. The studio publicist works with the Director, the Producer and the police, to discover who is behind the threats.

Murder stalks a movie studio and a Shadow-like villain is roaming the backlot. A public relations man sets out to solve the myster of a movie star before another victim is claimed.

Tuesday, Nov. 7 - Tijuana After Midnite

Tijuana After Midnite (1954)

It's South-of-the-Border Burlesque with Tijuana After Midnight, an "Intimate and Daring Expose of Nite Life in the Naughtiest City in the World!" If you're lookin' for chicks, you'll find more here than in a henhouse -- along with some of the hens, too! So all you rubbernecks take a seat in one of Tijuana's top hot spots and let our Mex-Master of Ceremonies (CHARLES CRAFTS, Ed Wood's drag queen buddy in Glen or Glenda) open the show with plumed MITZI DOERRE! This saucy striptease, with tortilla-sized pasties, has got more parts movin' than a centipede in a light socket! Ay Carumba!

Monday, Nov. 6 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Bartered Bikini

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Bartered Bikini (Season 3 | Episode 8 - aired 5 December 1959)

In this episode we have a murder that is connected to a fashion design company that is having their secret new designs stolen even before they can get the clothing to the manufacture stage. In this situation it is designs for a new bikini designed by ladies-man Rick Stassi for Dunbar Designs. The day after the designs were final the morning paper already had knock-offs for sale that matched the design. Some one had again stolen the designs.

It is not long before Rick Stassi is murdered and a sweet young bikini model is accused of the death and also stealing designs from Dunbar. But with Perry Mason defending the young girl, we know that someone else is bound to have committed the heinous act and the confession will be available in the witness box at the County courthouse.

Sunday, Nov. 5 - Hell on Frisco Bay

Hell on Frisco Bay (1955)

When ex-cop Steve Rollins is released from San Quentin after five years, his only thoughts are of revenge on the men who framed him for manslaughter. Back in San Francisco, his quest for the truth brings him up against ruthless waterfront gang boss Victor Amato.

Saturday, Nov. 4 - Portrait of Jennie

Portrait of Jennie (1948)

In Depression-era New York, painter Eben Adams (Joseph Cotten) despairs at his lack of success. One cold winter evening in Central Park, he meets an enigmatic, old-fashioned little girl, Jennie Appleton (Jennifer Jones), who captures his fancy when she asks him to wait for her to grow up. Soon after, Eben sells a sketch of Jennie to kindly art dealer Miss Spinny (Ethel Barrymore) and, as he meets the oddly mutable Jennie in fleeting moments, begins to realize they share a special destiny.

Friday, Nov. 3 - But the Flesh Is Weak

But the Flesh Is Weak (1932)

The Clements father and son live by the generosity of rich women. Max, the son, sets his sites on Lady Joan, who is rich, but down-to-earth and charming. At her house he meets Rosine Brown, an Austrian widow involved with a rich man. Instantly infatuated with her, Max pursues Rosine until she relents and agrees to marry him. But the elder Clement loses 4500 pounds gambling and Max decides he must marry Joan to prevent his father's imprisonment.

Florian and Max Clement, played by Sir C. Aubrey Smith and Robert Montgomery, are a father and son looking for wealthy women to keep them in the style to which they'd like to remain accustomed. Max falls in love with a poor widow, Rosine (Nora Gregor), and pledges to go to work for her, but due to his father's financial crisis, Max ultimately decides he must marry rich Lady Joan (Heather Thatcher) instead. Joan is a wonderful woman who clearly loves Max, BUT THE FLESH IS WEAK and Max can't forget Rosine...

Thursday, Nov. 2 - The House on 56th Street

The House on 56th Street (1933)

In turn-of-the-century New York, young Peggy (Kay Francis) falls in love with the wealthy Monte (Gene Raymond), and they move into a luxurious home. But, just after Peggy gives birth to a daughter, an old lover confronts her in a jealous rage. The argument turns violent, the lover dies, and Peggy is sent to jail. Monte is killed in World War I, and, when Peggy is released, she falls in with an amoral gambler. Later, her life tragically intersects with the life of the daughter she never knew.

Wednesday, Nov. 1 - Judge Hardy's Children

Judge Hardy's Children (1938)

Judge Hardy (Lewis Stone) has been appointed chairman of a special committee in Washington, DC. The Judge's daughter Marian (Cecilia Parker) is intoxicated by Washington's social life, while son Andy (Mickey Rooney) falls for a pretty daughter of a French diplomat. Thus, the judge is obliged to juggle his committee duties with his efforts to keep his children from making fools of themselves.

Tuesday, Oct. 31 - Ladies of the Jury

Ladies of the Jury (1932)

Society Matron, Mrs. Crane, is selected as a juror in the trail of an ex-chorus girl, Yvette Gordon, who's accused of murdering her rich elderly husband. In court, Mrs. Crane is an unorthodox and disruptive juror. During the first ballot, Mrs. Crane brings in the only "not-guilty" vote, inspite of Evelyn Snow's damning testimony. Mrs. Crane and the other jurors are sent back to the jury room. Mrs. Crane persuades the other juror to take a closer look at the case and re-enact the night of Mr. Gordon's demise...