First, Flash has to fight a masked swordsman. And then the second match of the tournament is Flash versus a giant horned ape. Meanwhile, Dale screams every once in a while and Aura just stands looking terrified.
Wednesday, January 31, 2018
Tuesday, Jan. 30 - Flash Gordon: Episode 8
First, Flash has to fight a masked swordsman. And then the second match of the tournament is Flash versus a giant horned ape. Meanwhile, Dale screams every once in a while and Aura just stands looking terrified.
Tuesday, January 30, 2018
Monday, Jan. 29 - Route 66: Hey, Moth, Come Eat the Flame
Tod and Buz are in St. Louis, Missouri working as laborers at a gravel quarry. They attempt to help a 13 year old boy who is a neighbor in their apartment building. The boy is living there with his widowed father, a habitual alcoholic. The man cannot seem to relate to his son and make any sense out of his life.
Monday, January 29, 2018
Sunday, Jan. 28 - Show Business
A song-and-dance man and his comic partner undergo romantic ups and downs when they team up with a female duo and transition from burlesque to vaudeville.
Sunday, January 28, 2018
Saturday, Jan. 27 - Mr. Lucky: Hijacked
An armed robbery of the Fortuna II curiously includes the taking of personal checks which were used to pay off gambling losses. This oddity leads Mr. Lucky and Andamo to the true reason for the crime - and very nearly to Davy Jones' Locker.
Saturday, January 27, 2018
Friday, Jan. 26 - Route 66: Poor Little Kangaroo Rat
Tod and Buz, traveling along the California coast, go to work as "shark hunters" for a doctor using sharks as lab specimens to study the effects of cholesterol. The doctor, working under a research grant, has an unhappy bored wife who wants him to return to private practice. Their son is caught in the middle of the turmoil.
Friday, January 26, 2018
Thursday, Jan. 25 - Naked City: One, Two, Three, Rita Rakahowski
Actor Anthony Franciosa goes completely ape sh*t in this stranger then strange "Naked City" episode as BoBo Ba Boom also known as the Gorilla who takes a monkey shine for pretty office clerk Rita Rakahowski, Carol Eve Rossen, at his place of employment on the Brooklyn waterfront. It's the new boss at the packing wear-house Mr. Buberone, Nehemiah Persoff, who's also taken a shine to Rita which drives poor BoBo or Gorilla totally wild with jungle or monkey passion. Passion enough to make Buberone's job at the wear-house as miserable as possible. Swinging from the rafters like they were jungle vines BoBo gets so out of control that Buberone fires him and orders the hot in the pants, for Rita, gorilla man to leave the premises at once. This leads to a job action by BoBo or the Gorilla's fellow workers who feel that without him and his expertise in throwing things all over the place and in the right places the work there would never be done.
Thursday, January 25, 2018
Wednesday, Jan. 24 - Mr. Wong, Detective
Factory owner Simon Dayton (John Hamilton) visits the office of private detective James Lee Wong (Boris Karloff) in San Francisco's Chinatown, claiming to be in danger. When Dayton is murdered, suspicion falls on scientist Carl Roemer (John St. Polis), who had recently accused Dayton of stealing his latest findings. With the help of the captain of police (Grant Withers) and Dayton's comely secretary (Maxine Jennings), Wong pursues the case, which grows more complex when a second body is found.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
Tuesday, Jan. 23 - Naked City: The S.S. American Dream
An emotional scrap dealer wants to purchase a ship bound for salvage, but he needs at least $3000 ($30,000, wasn't it?). When his business partner refuses to help, the scrapper flies into a rage and murders him at a construction site. He then turns to an unscrupulous loan shark, but can only get some of the money and the deal runs out as his conscience bears down on him.
Tuesday, January 23, 2018
Monday, Jan. 22 - Thriller: The Innocent Bystanders
Jacob Grant and John Paterson, a pair of Victorian-era bodysnatchers, turn to murder to supplement their income. First they take Grant's visiting sister-in-law, then set their sights on the unsuspecting boarders.
Monday, January 22, 2018
Sunday, Jan. 21 - The Jazz Loft According to W. Eugene Smith
WNYC's Sara Fishko (Fishko Files) recreates the vibrant culture of New York's mid-century jazz era for the modern day viewer: in the 1950s, dozens of jazz musicians - Thelonius Monk, Hal Overton, Ronnie Free, and many more - jam night after night in a run down New York loft, unaware that all is being captured in sound and pictures by acclaimed LIFE Magazine photographer W. Eugene Smith.
Sunday, January 21, 2018
Saturday, Jan. 20 - The Young in Heart
A swank family of swindlers that includes father "Sahib," (Roland Young), wife Marmy (Billie Burke), son Richard (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.) and daughter George-Anne (Janet Gaynor), fall upon hard times in France and return home to London, destitute. The family befriends a wealthy spinster, Miss Ellen Fortune, and after they rescue her when their train crashes, she invites them to stay with her. Initially planning to prey on Miss Ellen, the family is swayed by her goodness and begins to change in surprising ways.
Saturday, January 20, 2018
Friday, Jan. 19 - Lovejoy: Never Judge a Book by Its Cover
While attending a book fair in Cambridge in order to buy rare books to stock Charlie Gimbert's library at Felsham Hall, Lovejoy answers a call from two aging spinster sisters who need money to stay in their home. The only thing of real value is a historic 16th Century Marston Bible, the first Bible translated into English. Unfortunately it is jointly owned by their younger brother, a Cambridge professor who plans to donate it to the University library upon his promotion to Master. When Lovejoy discovers the Bible is a fake, Professor Doncaster admits that he had to sell the Bible years before to support his sisters and now needs the upcoming promotion and its subsequent pay-raise to ensure their security. As a sidebar, Tink and Charlotte try unsuccessfully to convince Beth's dad that he should allow his daughter to remain an apprentice to Lovejoy.
Friday, January 19, 2018
Thursday, Jan. 18 - Union Depot
Among the travelers of varied backgrounds that meet and interact on one night at Union Depot, a metropolitan train station, are Chick and his friend Scrap Iron, both newly released from prison after serving time for vagrancy. Hungry and desperate for a break, Chick fortuitously comes across across a valise abandoned by a drunken traveler. In it he finds a shaving kit and a suit of clothes with a bankroll, which help transform the affable tramp into a dashing gent. After buying himself a meal, Chick seeks some female companionship among the many hustlers who walk the station. He propositions Ruth Collins, a stranded, out-of-work showgirl and takes her to the station's hotel. However, he quickly realizes she's not a streetwalker but another hard luck victim of the Depression. Touched by the Ruth's sincerity, he vows to help her buy a ticket to Salt Lake City, where a job awaits her. Scrap Iron is lucky too, stumbling across a wallet with a claim check discarded by a pickpocket. When Chick claims the violin case, he finds it filled with cash, unbeknownst to him, counterfeit. As he buys Ruth a new dress and train ticket, the real counterfeiter and secret servicemen begin closing in on them.
Thursday, January 18, 2018
Wednesday, Jan. 17 - The Man Who Died Twice
A nightclub singer loses her husband in an automobile accident, and soon afterward witnesses the murders of two narcotics agents, and suffers a nervous breakdown. The police come to believe that all three murders are related, as they had suspected her husband was involved in a heroin smuggling ring, and now they think she may have been involved in it - especially after they find a large stash of heroin hidden in her apartment.
Wednesday, January 17, 2018
Tuesday, Jan. 16 - Jeeves and Wooster: The Once and Future Ex
In a New York Bookshop where he is buying Jeeves a birthday present Bertie meets forceful old flame Lady Florence Craye who has rowed with fiance 'Stilton' Cheesewright and decides she wants to get engaged to Bertie again. 'Stilton' decides he wants to do Bertie a mischief. Florence's father Lord Worplesdon, Aunt Agatha's second husband, is in New York to sell his boats to businessman J. Chichester Clam but the deal is meant to be secret and the press keep pursuing Clam - even on the hotel fire escape. His Lordship's niece Nobby will benefit by the deal as it will gain her the money needed for her beau George Caffyn to put on his play. Jeeves decides that to preserve anonymity everyone should meet in disguise at a penthouse fancy dress party, leading to confusion in high places.
Tuesday, January 16, 2018
Monday, Jan. 15 - Flash Gordon: Episodes 6 & 7
Upon landing in the Sky City, Flash and his friends are immediately taken prisoner by Vultan who demands that Dale renounce Flash forever.
Episode 7: Shattering Doom
Flash is threatened by Vultan's atom furnaces and electro-charged mechanical devices.
Monday, January 15, 2018
Sunday, Jan. 14 - Invisible Stripes
Cliff and Chuck leave prison together. Cliff tries the straight life but falls back into crime with Chuck and his gang. When he makes enough to enable his brother Tim to buy a garage and marry his sweetheart, Cliff quits crime again. But when he tries to help Chuck later on, he's implicated again.
Sunday, January 14, 2018
Saturday, Jan. 13 - A Woman's Vengeance
Henry Maurier (Charles Boyer) is forced to care for his demanding invalid wife, Emily (Rachel Kempson), but he is secretly having an affair with young Doris Mead (Ann Blyth). When Emily dies suddenly of a heart attack, he is free, and quickly gets married to Doris. The coincidence proves too much for investigators, who find arsenic in Emily's system, and Henry goes on trial for murder, facing the death penalty. His friend Dr. Libbard (Cedric Hardwicke) may be his only hope. And don't forget neighbor Janet Spence, who loves him.
Saturday, January 13, 2018
Friday, Jan. 12 - Mysterious Mr. Moto
The film opens with a daring escape from the French penal colony on Devil’s Island. Mr. Moto, pretending to be Ito Matsuka, a Japanese murderer, is in the company of Paul Brissac, who belongs to a group of assassins. Brissac changes his name to Romero when they arrive in London and Moto stays on as his houseboy.
Moto then uncovers a plot to assassinate pacifist industrialist Anton Darvak.
Friday, January 12, 2018
Thursday, Jan. 11 - Thriller: Man of Mystery
An author is murdered when his book exposing an ex-employer, a secretive international financier, is to be published. A reporter tracks the case, but everyone he tries to interview dies under suspicious circumstances. Meanwhile, the financier gets a comic fired because he's obsessed with ensnaring (the financier is obsessed, not the comic) the funny-man's girlfriend, a leggy nightclub chanteuse (also know as Mary Tyler Moore)
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Thursday, January 11, 2018
Wednesday, Jan. 10 - Topper Takes a Trip
To gain entry to heaven, ghost Marion Kirby (Constance Bennett) has to do some good on earth. That means reuniting a divorcing couple, Cosmo (Roland Young) and Clara Topper (Billie Burke). To be fair, Marion played a part in their troubles: Clara mistakenly thought Marion was Cosmo's mistress. Making peace between the pair will mean accompanying Cosmo on a trip to the French Riviera and employing plenty of otherworldly tricks -- with the help of a canine spirit named Skippy (Atlas).
Wednesday, January 10, 2018
Tuesday, Jan. 9 - Route 66: Every Father's Daughter
Tod and Buz are in Cleveland, Ohio working for a road construction company as laborers. Their boss encourages them to meet his attractive, yet erratic, daughter. The father has hidden from her the fact that she suffers from the same medical problem that killed her mother. An operation may or may not save her. They're Serbian, there's a brother, the obligatory fistfight occurs early in the show, the girls paints pictures of spiders...
Tuesday, January 9, 2018
Monday, Jan. 8 - Thriller: Kill My Love
Richard Carlson stars as Guy Guthrie, a traveling salesman and seemingly happy husband and father who in reality is having an affair with a woman (played by Kasey Rogers) who threatens to expose him unless he gets a divorce, which he is unwilling to do, so he kills her and when he gets home, his wife (played by K.T. Stevens) becomes suspicious and attempts to blackmail him into staying home, which of course backfires on her, though his son Julian (played by David Kent) finds out about everything, and despite his father's devotion, isn't safe either.
Monday, January 8, 2018
Sunday, Jan. 7 - All in a Night's Work
Tony Ryder's uncle, the wealthy owner of a newspaper, has just died. The young playboy Tony inherits the paper but is left with a board of directors that thinks he's unsuited for the task, plus a hotel detective who thinks Tony should know about a girl who was seen running away from his uncle's Palm Beach hotel room, wearing nothing but a Turkish towel and an earring, on the night of his death.
Tony discovers that the young lady in question, Katie Robbins, is employed in his own research department. The board decrees that he must send in the detective to watch her and head off any attempts at blackmail. But the more time Tony spends trying to get Katie to open up about what her relationship to his uncle was, the less he cares. Complications ensue in the form of Ms. Robbins's fiancé—he's a strait-laced veterinarian—and the board's insistence that Katie be silenced at all costs.
Sunday, January 7, 2018
Saturday, Jan. 6 - Merrily We Live
Dizzy society matron Emily Kilbourne has a habit of hiring ex-cons and hobos as servants. Her latest find is a handsome "tramp" who shows up at her doorstep and soon ends up in a chauffeur's uniform. He also catches the eye of her pretty Geraldine.
Saturday, January 6, 2018
Friday, Jan. 5 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Marriage of Convenience
An imprisoned thief, Larry Wilson, uses a fake marriage appointment to escape from his guards and goes to find his old girlfriend who has been taking care of the proceeds from a previous robbery. But the girl has vanished, and so he spends the rest of the film tracking her down to discover what happened. Surprises ensue.
Friday, January 5, 2018
Thursday, Jan. 4 - Jeeves and Wooster: Return to New York
Bertie is back in New York and enamoured of portrait painter Gwladys Pendlebury but Aunt Agatha is not enamoured of the painting of her Bertie commissioned and she is even more annoyed when her wayward twin sons, charged to Bertie's care before being shipped off for colonial posts, give him the slip to pursue a cabaret singer and Tuppy Glossop arrives to sell his family recipe for cock-a-leekie to soup magnate Slingsby to finance his nuptials to Elizabeth but slimy ad man Lucius Pim steals Gwladys from Bertie and makes Aunt Agatha the unwitting face of Slingsby's soups on every billboard in New York.
Thursday, January 4, 2018
Wednesday, Jan. 3 - The Edgar Wallace Mystery Theatre: Clue of the New Pin
TV journalist Tab Holland assists Scotland yard with the murder of a reclusive millionaire whose corpse is discovered locked in a vault. The key to the vault is mysteriously found on the table beside the corpse.
Wednesday, January 3, 2018
Tuesday, Jan. 2 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Eiffel Tower
After a famous criminal (a spy, wasn't he?) is run over and killed by a milk wagon, Insp. Lestrade finds a mysterious coded note in the man's clothing. He asks Holmes to decipher it, and Holmes' subsequent investigation leads him to assume the dead gangster's identity and he follows a trail of clues to Paris and to the Eiffel Tower.
Tuesday, January 2, 2018
Monday, Jan. 1 - Flash Gordon: Episodes 3, 4 & 5
After thwarting Ming, in his intention to force Dale into marriage, Flash faces the terrors of the dreaded King Kala and his Shark Men.
When Aura cuts off the air supply to Kala's underwater palace, Flash rushes to the aid of Dale. And don't forget the sea beast!
Ming saves the doomed Shark City, and delivers Flash and his friends into the hands of the Hawk Men. At the same time King Vultan plots against the Prince of Justice.
Monday, January 1, 2018
Sunday, Dec. 31 - Mr. Moto's Gamble
Bad blood exists between Bill Steele and Frankie Stanton, the leading contenders for the heavyweight title, and a grudge match is scheduled. Steele's knockout victory is tainted by his opponent's untimely death, ostensibly from a concussion caused by hitting the canvas. A post-mortem reveals that poison was somehow introduced into a cut above Stanton's eye although it is unclear how and why. Gambling might seem to be the motive as several of the principle suspects, gamblers Clipper McCoy and Nick Crowder, Stanton's shady manager Jerry Connors, and fight promoter Philip Benton, all seemed to have made wagers on the fight. Benton's spoiled daughter and female reporter Penny Kendall are vying for the affections of Steele, who is now slated to fight for the championship against pugnacious Biff Moran. Lt. Riggs of New York Homicide and Moto, who were spectators at the fight, go on the trail of the murderer following the autopsy results.
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