Tuesday, June 29 - The Haunted

The Ghost of Sierra de Cobre (1964 - Alternate Cut)

Terrified of being buried alive by mistake, a woman puts a phone in her crypt to be able to call home if she needs help. She dies and nothing happens. One day, the phone suddenly rings. Paranormal investigator Nelson Orion (Martin Landau) is brought in.

Sunday, June 27 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: Mr. Blanchard's Secret & John Brown's Body

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962): Mr. Blanchard's Secret (Season 2 | Episode 13 - aired 23 December 1956)

A mystery writer's imagination gets her in trouble when she turns her overstimulated mind to her new next-door neighbors -- and wonders why she has never seen the wife.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962): John Brown's Body (Season 2 | Episode 14 - aired 30 December 1956)

John Brown and Company makes furniture and has been a solid business for years. But young Harold Skinner wants to shake things up and make modern furniture. John Brown will have none of it. Soon Harold meets John Brown's wife, an attractive woman in her 30s, who married for money -- though she denies it. Unlike her husband, she's excited about Skinner's modern ideas and wants to help him. Especially after the two of them become lovers. Harold comes up with a "wonderful horrible idea" to get John Brown out of the way: convince him he's losing his mind.

Saturday, June 26 - The Lad

The Lad (1935)

Bill Shane is The Lad, an opportunistic petty criminal mistaken for a private detective. When Shane arrives at a remote country estate, he's offered much money not to delve into the private affairs of the Fandon family. Shane is all for taking the money and duping the family, but on being reunited with ex-girlfriend, now the Fandon's maid, he decides to turn over a new leaf.

Friday, June 25 - Law and Disorder

Law and Disorder (1958)

When Percy Brand (Sir Michael Redgrave), a habitual confidence trickster, keeps being sent down, he goes to great lengths to ensure that his son Colin (Jeremy Burnham) does not find out about his criminal past. But when Colin becomes an assistant to Judge Sir Edward Crichton (Robert Morley), who is about to try Percy for his latest escapade, Percy and his gang have to come up with a plan, to stop them meeting in court.

Thursday, June 24 - Four Star Playhouse: With All My Heart & One Way Out

Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956): With All My Heart (Season 3 | Episode 30 - aired 21 April 1955)

Sarah is a plump schoolteacher who has been a good friend to Joe all of his life. Joe loves and marries someone else, but Sarah stays close to Joe and helps him raise his family when Joe's wife dies.

Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956): One Way Out (Season 4 | Episode 11 - aired 15 December 1955)

Diana finally leaves her playboy husband and moves to an apartment in New York. Soon after arriving at her new place, she finds herself locked in with no electricity and very little food. Gradually Diana becomes unhinged which is the goal of the husband and his girlfriend who booby-trapped the place to send her over the edge.

Wednesday, June 23 - Curtain Up

Curtain Up (1952)

In a small town in the 1950s, a repertory company meets on Monday morning to start rehearsing the following week's play. This is a ghastly thing written by the aunt of one of the theatre's directors. The producer doesn't try to hide his annoyance about it, and is further exercised when the authoress arrives to help. The cast have to try and sort out real-life problems that keep intruding as they wrestle with the play's dire dialogue.

Tuesday, June 22 - Massacre

Massacre (1934)

Chief Joe Thunderhorse (Richard Barthelmess) is the star of a wild west show at the Century of Progress in Chicago. Though he is the authentic son of a Native American chief, he has lived away from the reservation so long that he has lost all personal connection to them.

Joe and his valet (Clarence Muse) travel to the reservation where he grew up upon hearing that his father Black Pony is on his death bed. The terrible living conditions to which Joe's people are subjected to at the hands of white government agents are also revealed to him. Upon the death of his father, Joe's sister Jennie is raped by a government agent and, with the assistance of a college-educated reservation resident named Lydia (Ann Dvorak), Joe decides to take action.

Monday, June 21 - Four Star Playhouse: Masquerade & Eddie's Place

Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956): Masquerade (Season 2 | Episode 29 - aired 15 April 1954)

Kit and her fiancé are hosting a Mardi Gras costume party at her huge mansion when frightening news arrives. Her ex-husband, a crazed murderer, has just escaped from prison and is believed to be costumed as the corpse-like character from Poe's "The Masque of the Red Death."

Four Star Playhouse (1952–1956): Eddie's Place (Season 3 | Episode 24 - aired 10 March 1955)

Ellen is released from a punitive work farm without means, but Eddie befriends her and gives her a job at his restaurant. She wants to go straight, but Eddie pressures her to cover for some of his own shady activities.

Sunday, June 20 - It Takes a Thief: The Packager

It Takes a Thief (1968–1970): The Packager (Season 2 | Episode 6 - aired 29 October 1968)

Mundy is blackmailed by a wealthy man into stealing nuclear fuel capsules from a secure facility in Florida. Mundy faces a variety of roadblocks, including: getting into the walk-in safe where the capsules are stored, taking the capsules through the front gate without setting off the geiger counter alarm, and dealing with the man who hired him who'd just as soon see him dead.

Saturday, June 19 - Queen of Hearts

Queen of Hearts (1936)

Grace Perkins (Gracie Fields) is an ordinary working class seamstress who is mistaken as a rich patron of the arts. When she's asked to back a new show she plays along with the charade, hoping that she can become the production's leading lady. When the show opens Grace is a huge hit and goes on to become a glamorous star.

Friday, June 18 - The Raven

The Raven (1935)

A wealthy judge coaxes the brilliant but eccentric neurological surgeon Dr. Vollin (Lugosi), who also has an obsessive penchant for Edgar Allen Poe, out of retirement to save the life of his daughter, a dancer crippled and brain damaged in an auto wreck. Vollin restores her completely, but also envisions her as his "Lenore," and cooks up a scheme to kidnap the woman and torture and kill her fiance' and father in his Poe-inspired dungeon. To do his dirty work, Vollin recruits a wanted criminal (Karloff), and turns him into a hideous monster to guarantee his subservience.

Thursday, June 17 - Juggernaut

Juggernaut (1936)

Victor Sartorius (Karloff) is an ailing doctor working in Morocco. (He soon moves to France or is it England, where) He teams up with Lady Yvonne Clifford (Mona Goya) in a plot to poison her husband, Sir Charles Clifford (Morton Selten), so he can collect the 20,000 pounds necessary to save his experiments and his funding. Roger Clifford (Arthur Margetson), the son of Sir Charles has also been marked for death. The only one who can stop the murder plot of Sartorius is Nurse Eve Rowe (Joan Wyndham).

Wednesday, June 16 - Murders in the Rue Morgue

Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)

In 1845 Paris, mysterious Dr. Mirakle (Bela Lugosi) demonstrates his theories on evolution using his ape, Erik, at a carnival visited by medical student Pierre Dupin (Leon Waycoff) and his girlfriend, Camille Espanaye (Sidney Fox). Unknown to his audience, Mirakle performs experiments in his secret laboratory that involve mixing human blood with that of Erik's. After three prostitutes are found dead from being injected with a strange substance, Pierre is alarmed when Camille goes missing.

Tuesday, June 15 - The Black Cat

The Black Cat (1934)

Honeymooning in Hungary, Joan and Peter Allison share their train compartment with Dr. Vitus Verdegast, a courtly but tragic man who is returning to the remains of the town he defended before becoming a prisoner of war for fifteen years. When their hotel-bound bus crashes in a mountain storm and Joan is injured, the travellers seek refuge in the home, built fortress-like upon the site of a bloody battlefield, of famed architect Hjalmar Poelzig. There, cat-phobic Verdegast learns his wife's fate, grieves for his lost daughter, and must play a game of chess for Allison's life.

Monday, June 14 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Blushing Pearls

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Blushing Pearls (Season 3 | Episode 4 - aired 24 October 1959)

Hudson Nichols has Mitsou Kamuri arrested for switching his wife Thelma's string of expensive blush pearls, but offers to absolve her if she breaks off her relationship with his son Grove. Then her uncle who made the pearls is murdered.

Sunday, June 13 - Highway Patrol: Motorcycle A & Mental Patient

Highway Patrol (1955–1959): Motorcycle A  (Season 1 | Episode 27 - aired 2 April 1956)

Two bikers played by John Compton and a young Clint Eastwood arrive in town and go to the local hash house for some breakfast. Because a biker gang had been there before and trashed the town and crippled his wife Paula Houston, owner Jack Edwards orders them off the place and uses a shotgun as a convincer. Houston calls the Highway Patrol and the responding officer is killed in a collision with a truck.

Highway Patrol (1955–1959): Mental Patient (Season 1 | Episode 28 - aired 9 April 1956)

Clarence Miller has escaped from the state mental hospital and is heading toward a rural area. He becomes the primary suspect when local farmer Ed Burr is killed and his body is found severely mangled. Hungry and confused, he stops at the farm of Lucy Clifford and finds her willing to feed and talk to him. Dan Mathews and his officers converge on the area and find their search hindered by Milo Hobson, a shotgun-wielding friend of the dead man who matter-of-factly states that he has no intention of letting that "...homicidal maniac get off with an insanity plea." Dan learns of Miller's visit to Lucy's farm and he also learns that Burr actually died of a heart attack and that his body was subsequently trampled by livestock. He also learns that he has only minutes to find the confused young man before he becomes a victim of Hobson's shotgun.

Saturday, June 12 -

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Garrulous Gambler (Season 3 | Episode 3 - aired 17 October 1959)

At a beach-house poker game, Larry Benton accuses Mike Granger of cheating. They fight and Granger is killed with his own gun. Johnny Clay offers to dispose of the body. One of the poker players, Ben Wallace, tries to blackmail Larry, knowing that his brother is wealthy oilman Steve Benton. But the whole thing is a set-up because Granger is alive and in on the plot. Steve Benton confronts his brother with $20,000 of forged checks to Clay, then consults Perry Mason about the issue. Perry has Paul investigate the situation and learns that Clay has another name along with a wife and child he deserted. Perry decides to inform Clay's girlfriend Doris Shackley about the situation to stir things up. Larry steals $20,000 from Clay to cover the forged checks, but Steve goes to return the money. He finds Clay dead and wipes off fingerprints. Discovered in the act by Wallace, Steve is charged with murder. Perry proves there is no honor among thieves in solving the case.

Friday, June 11 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Watery Witness

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Watery Witness (Season 3 | Episode 2 - aired 10 October 1959)

After confronting Fred Bushmiller coming out of Lorna Thomas' home, George Clark seeks Perry Mason's help in helping him confirm that his wife Betty, who was given up for adoption in infancy, is in fact the daughter of famous movie star Lorna Thomas. Perry isn't very helpful pointing out that under the law, a child that is given up for adoption has no legal redress against a biological parent. Private eye Fred Bushmiller is also trying to establish Betty Clark's connection to Lorna but only has his own personal gain in mind. Lorna is hoping to make a comeback but has just decided to postpone her new movie, leaving producer Tony Raeburn in a lurch. With persuasion from her husband George, Betty visits Lorna to confront her interrupting Lorna's meeting with Tony. Lorna spurns Betty's request denying any connection. When Lorna is subsequently found dead, there is no shortage of suspects. One of her bracelets is found stuffed in the seat of George's car. It's George Clark however who is charged with murder and Perry agrees to defend him.

Thursday, June 10 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Spurious Sister

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Spurious Sister (Season 3 | Episode 1 - aired 3 October 1959)

Bruce Chapman is fed up with his wife Marie's lavish spending, especially her gambling addiction. As he leaves on a 6-week business trip, he puts Marie on a $50-a-week allowance, she threatens to divorce him and he suggests that she think about what's more important to her. Desperate for $2000, Marie pressures her ex-husband Walter Sprague and his new wife Helen to come up with the cash. Helen agrees to meet Marie at their summer cabin at 9:00 PM. Helen is discovered there by a neighbor out riding his horse; instead of Marie, they find a note from her. When Bruce returns early from his trip, he discovers that Marie's in Las Vegas and has filed for divorce. He contacts Perry about the implications of the divorce on his will and for general advice as he plans to pay her the $25,000 she asked for as a settlement. But when he goes to his weekend cabin, he finds Marie strangled. It's up to Perry to sort through the case that involves false identities and perjured testimony.

Wednesday, June 9 - Harmony Heaven

Harmony Heaven (1930)

The story begins with would-be- songwriter Bob Farrell (Stuart Hall, in his one and only lead role) trying to get his song pitched to the producers of a popular stageshow (called, conveniently, Harmony Heaven). His brief audition is a disaster and Bob finds himself being cruelly laughed off the stage by the cast and crew.

One of the girl dancers, Billie Breeze (Polly Ward) feels sorry for Bob and tries to cheer him up by making him dinner, and he soon takes a shine to her. She encourages him to write a better song, and he gets to work.

He returns to try and get his new song played and ends up unintentionally impressing the theatre director. When Stuart, the star of the show (a "swanker"), tries to trip Bob up, Bob retaliates and knocks Stuart out just as he was due on stage. With no choice, Bob takes to the stage himself and is a huge success, even dragging Billie on stage with him for a number.

As his fame grows, his relationship with Billie is put in jeopardy when he is introduced to the mysterious Lady Violet.

Tuesday, June 8 - Espionage: The Light of a Friendly Star

Espionage (1963–1964): The Light of a Friendly Star (Season 1 | Episode 9 - aired 4 December 1963)

A spy gets into the British embassy in West Germany. He manages to get some secrets, but to make good his escape, he reluctantly must kidnap the ambassador's 10 year old daughter.

Monday, June 7 - Espionage: To the Very End

Espionage (1963–1964): To the Very End (Season 1 | Episode 6 - aired 6 November 1963)

A young American in France joins a trio of French anti-nuclear protesters in the kidnapping of Professor Moreau, an eminent scientist. But one of them has another agenda - a personal revenge on the Professor.

Sunday, June 6 - The History of Blue Jeans

The History of Blue Jeans (1995)

They're sexy. And don't forget, they're sexy.

Saturday, June 5 - Over She Goes

Over She Goes (1937)

A musical-comedy about an ex-vaudevillian, Harry, who has inherited the title of "lord" and has invited friends to share in the fun at his estate. He and his two pals are all soon engaged to be married, when a woman Harry once promised marriage to appears on the scene. A would-be suiter of one of the gals also shows up, and hilarity ensues.

Friday, June 4 - Death Drives Through

Death Drives Through (1935)

The race car designer Kit Woods is in love with Kay Lord. Kay's father is against her relationship with Kit. Kit also has to do with the competition from his rival Garry Ames.

Thursday, June 3 - Hide and Seek

Hide and Seek (1963)

A professor of astronomy helping on a missile development program. An old friend of his is a Russian chess champion. The Russian is working with shady businessman Marek and they plan to kidnap the professor and make it look as though he has defected to the Soviet Union.

Wednesday, June 2 - Oasis of Fear

Oasis of Fear (1971) Un posto ideale per uccidere (original title)

Dick (Ray Lovelock) and Ingrid (Ornella Muti) are a young couple travelling around Europe. They pay their way by selling pornography. Unfortunately for them, their scheme is uncovered by the somewhat unforgiving Italian police and they are instructed to leave Italy at once.

On their way to the border, their car runs out of petrol and they are forced to seek help at a large, secluded villa. Here they meet Barbara Slater (Irene Papas), wife of the NATO colonel who owns the villa. Barbara seems edgy and nervous, especially when she finds them attempting to steal her husband's petrol, but nevertheless invites the couple to stay. It becomes increasingly apparent that Barbara is not to be trusted...

Tuesday, June 1 - Final Appointment

The Last Appointment (1954) Final Appointment (original title)

A newspaper reporter, Mike Billings, looking for a story is drawn to a series of deaths that might be linked. With the assistance of a police inspector and his girl friend the murderer is apprehended.

A solicitor named Hartnell is receiving threatening letters. A newspaper journalist is attempting to look into it.

It turns out a former soldier, who had been court-martialed during the Second World War, has been murdering the officers who had passed sentence on him. The journalist and his wisecracking girlfriend try to track down the killer.

Monday, May 31 - The Three Stooges in Color (2005)

The Three Stooges in Color (2005)

A quartet of colorized Three Stooges shorts, hosted by The Film Crew:

Disorder in the Court, Brideless Groom, Sing a Song of Six Pants, Malice in the Palace.