Tuesday, October 31, 2023

Monday, October 30 - From Hell It Came

From Hell It Came (1957)

A group of scientists on a remote island are trying to provide medical care to the locals, but the witch doctor and new tribal chief will have none of it. They execute Kimo (Gregg Palmer), son of the previous chief, for having the audacity to accept the help of these meddling Americans. But Kimo vows to return, and so he does, as something called the Tabanga, a lumbering humanoid walking tree (played by wrestler turned stuntman & actor Chester Hayes), and he proceeds to get his revenge.

Monday, October 30, 2023

Sunday, October 29 - One Body Too Many

One Body Too Many (1944)

Insurance salesman Albert Tuttle arrives at the Cyrus J. Rutherford estate to sell the millionaire some life insurance. Rutherford is already dead and his heirs have gathered at the mansion to hear the reading of the will. Rutherford's will won't be read until he is properly entombed and the heirs are forced to stay on the premises or be denied their inheritance. Tuttle soon finds himself mixed up in shenanigans involving Rutherford's niece, secret passages, a missing body and murder.

Sunday, October 29, 2023

Saturday, October 28 - Bourbon Street Beat: Secret of Hyacinth Bayou


Cal gets a note from a man living deep in the bayou. Just getting to meet the man creates challenges and a string of strange encounters with the inhabitants of the local town. Once he meets the man, he is told a story that leads to possible fatal circumstances.

Oh for crissakes! Possible fatal circumstances? The old geezer is killed and Cal is framed for the murder.

There's also a girl and a whole slew of gators!

Saturday, October 28, 2023

Friday, October 27 - Burke's Law: Who Killed the Kind Doctor?


Dr. Eric Techman, a fashionable LA psychiatrist, telephones Burke to warn him of an impending murder by one of his patients -- his own. But Techman is gunned down before he can name the killer.

Friday, October 27, 2023

Thursday, October 26 - Highway Patrol: Typhoid Carrier & Hot Rod


Under the name "Lenny Frazier", typhoid carrier Leonard Forbes obtains a job on Hank Dooley's farm (he's already working there when the show starts). When Dooley's young daughter dies of the disease, the Health Department investigates. Forbes knows that he is in violation of the registration requirements for typhoid carriers, so he flees with his wife Helen (he actually flees before the daughter dies). Dan Mathews learns of Forbes' background and orders an intensive search. Helen learns of the Highway Patrol's involvement and convinces Forbes that he needs to turn himself in and face the grief-stricken (and vengeful) Hank Dooley. Dan and Officer Larrabee hear of the Forbes' plans and arrive at the Dooley farm just as the distraught father is attempting to extract armed revenge for his daughter's death.


Ex-con Harry Burke and his brother Tommy (a skilled mechanic and sometime stock car racer) stage a series of armed robberies, using a hand-built supercharged roadster to escape pursuing Highway Patrol officers. When one of their getaways results in the hit-and-run death of an innocent woman, Dan Mathews and Officers Dorsey and Larrabee redouble their efforts. They obtain assistance from Bert Case, the head of the local hot rod club, to determine who may have a car fitting the description of the Burkes' roadster. They also prepare to quickly establish roadblocks so that they will be in position to intercept the Burkes if they strike again. When the Burkes commit another holdup, they are unaware that Dan and Officer Dorsey have already eliminated the other possible suspects and are headed for the Burkes' home, where an armed confrontation becomes inevitable.

Thursday, October 26, 2023

Wednesday, October 25 - The Jokers

The Jokers (1967)

Having been booted out of the army for cheating during a training exercise, Michael Tremayne (Michael Crawford) decides to get even with the British establishment by making an extravagant gesture, hence he and brother David (Oliver Reed) execute a brilliantly conceived scheme to steal The Crown Jewels from the Tower of London.

They plan to elude justice by leaving letters with solicitors stating that their intention was not to permanently deprive the Monarchy of their beloved trinkets (apparently, this loophole in British law actually exists).

The public takes the thieves to their hearts (echoes of The Great Train Robbers). But then something goes wrong. Unbeknownst to David, Michael did not submit his letter, leaving his brother to take the blame for the theft...

Wednesday, October 25, 2023

Tuesday, October 24 - Death is Nimble, Death is Quick

Kommissar X - Drei gelbe Katzen (1966)

Tom Rowland from the New York Police Department is sent to Colombo to investigate the murder of a US embassy official killed protecting the daughter of a wealthy expatriate American landowner. At the same time New York Private Investigator Joe Walker has been hired by the landowner's daughter to protect her father from being extorted for one million dollars. Through the Ceylon Police they discover a terrorist organisation known as the Three Golden Cats are responsible for both activities and a string of murders with the victims killed by karate blows or by biological chemicals.

Tuesday, October 24, 2023

Monday, October 23 - Hawaiian Eye: Dangerous Eden


Film legend Marta Gregory is making a movie on an Oahu beach with her crew. Hawaiian Eye has been hired to provide security. When Tracey Steele visits the filming, he learns that Marta's stand-in, Kay Laniel, is threatening to sue the star for slander. Marta has accused the younger woman of having an affair with her boyfriend Philip. Max Stanley, Marta's old friend and producer, asks Steele to dig up evidence to support Marta's accusation. Steele suspects there is something more behind the lawsuit threat than infidelity. His suspicions are borne out when he learns that Marta has been sending checks to her former colleague, David Evarts, for fifteen years...

Monday, October 23, 2023

Sunday, October 22 - The Champions: The Invisible Man


London, England: A banker named Sir Frederick Howerd is terrified by an apparently invisible man, and by strange sounds that he hears inside his head.

Craig receives a tip-off that a Swiss bank is due to receive a consignment of stolen gold worth thirty-million dollars from a bank robbery carried out in England, but when he investigates, he finds Sir Frederick to be particularly unhelpful. When the banker is found murdered, Craig follows the trail to Doctor Hallam, but is then captured and taken to Holland.

Doctor Hallam has performed some special surgery on Sir Frederick as part of his plan to steal the gold; now, when Craig wakes up by the side of a road, he too hears voices inside his head, which begin giving him orders…

Sunday, October 22, 2023

Saturday, October 21 - Richard Diamond, Private Detective: The Torch Carriers & The Pete Rocco Case


Richard Devon escapes from prison after David 'Richard Janssen' Diamond put him behind bars years ago. Devon's brother Charles Bronson and mother Marga Ann Deighton enlist Janssen's help to catch Devon again, thinking he's the only one who can bring him in alive and before he goes back to his criminal ways again. Police lieutenant Regis Toomey thinks Devon is out for revenge and wants to put a security detail on Janssen, who'll have none of it. He locates an old pal of Devon's and lo and behold, Devon is also there, promising to kill Janssen after retrieving some old loot. But Janssen, and Devon, have another enemy lurking in the shadows.


Syndicate gangster Marty Skopka goes into hiding when he is wrongly accused of murder. Richard Diamond couldn't care less but an attractive young woman sends him on a search for the gangster. When Diamond finds out that he has been used to locate Marty, he has to run against time to stop a young woman from making a terrible - and deadly - mistake.

Saturday, October 21, 2023

Friday, October 20 - The Human Jungle: The Lost Hours


Julie Gray is behaving erratically and she even tries to kill herself. She is convinced that her husband, Henry (Leonard Sachs) a business executive is having an affair.

Dr Corder is treating Julie but his attention soon turns towards Henry Gray's strange behaviour.

Is he really having an affair or is it something to do with a childhood trauma.

There is a switcheroo as the story becomes all about Henry. He missed out on adolescence so he tries to relive his youth.

Friday, October 20, 2023

Thursday, October 19 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Tiger Moth


An old friend of Rex's asks him for $1000 but won't tell him why. Rex declines, and later regrets it, only to find his friend has committed suicide - maybe. Rex had seen the man with a woman with a sex drive that caught his attention, but not in a good way. He's certain she has something to do with his friend's death. He goes looking for her, to be led to an old family with another young woman who is the opposite - plain, soft-spoken, but dedicated to her father. Rex is entranced, feeling like the girl is being imprisoned into a childhood of her father's making. Rex is led deeper into the mix of characters until he finally learns this family is far more complex than he imagined.

Thursday, October 19, 2023

Wednesday, October 18 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Wade Walker?


Wealthy Wade Walker is killed when his plane blows up in mid-air. Burke's investigation concentrates on four women - a nurse, a singer, a beauty queen and an explosives expert.

Wednesday, October 18, 2023

Tuesday, October 17 - Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite

Torchy Blane.. Playing with Dynamite (1939)

While in traffic court, Torchy bumps into Jackie Maguire, girlfriend of the notorious hoodlum Denver Eddie, who is sentenced to jail for shoplifting. Torchy gets herself thrown into jail by turning in false alarms and ultimately befriends Maguire. With police collusion, she escapes to San Francisco taking Maguire with in in hopes of capturing Denver Eddie. Steve and Gahagan follow undercover in hopes of collecting the $5000 reward as a down payment for house for him and Torchy, but not before Steve is spotted and Gahagan ends up in the wrestling ring and gets a chance to settle a score with an old opponent.

Tuesday, October 17, 2023

Monday, October 16 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Strange Event at Roman Fall & The Headless Hat


A man is murdered on the docks of Marseilles. The only evidence found at the murder scene is the killer's sailor hat, although the police are sure the murder has to do with smuggling. As it happens, March is supposedly vacationing in France for the sun and relaxation as he tells Mrs. Sargent, the Englishwoman who owns the small hotel where he's staying. March's vacation is interrupted when his old friend, Inspector Goron asks for his help with investigating the murder. Turns out that Mrs. Sargent was a friend of the victim back from their Resistance days and provides Goron and March with information about the suspected killer and possible motive. It also turns out that March isn't actually on vacation but is also after the smugglers.


Helen Rune (Rachel Kempson) buys an old and isolated mansion on the coast near Roman Fall. Her husband is a best-selling mystery writer who is also a recluse. Soon thereafter Helen is at a restaurant having lunch with an old beau, Professor John Hamilton. At a nearby table, Colonel March is unabashedly eavesdropping on their conversation. A somewhat shady Hollywood agent approaches Helen as he wants to buy the screen rights to her husband's novels. A reporter who wants an exclusive interview with Rune is also nosing about. When Helen notifies the police that her husband has fallen over the sea cliff to his death, she is soon approached by a blackmailer who says he has evidence that she killed her husband.

Monday, October 16, 2023

Sunday, October 15 - Honey West: Live a Little... Kill a Little & Whatever Lola Wants....


Honey has been hired to find a woman. However someone is also out to kill that woman.

Sam is not keen that Honey has got herself in danger once more.

Honey goes undercover in a dance bar to find more about this woman.

Sam gets hit on the head by a tall man.

It seems the missing woman was mixed up with a gambling mobster. Now she is meant to be shut up for good.


It starts off with a man being pursuit by someone who kills him. The killer turns out to be Honey West's latest client.

He is pursuing some baddies who embezzled millions and left his brother top carry the can.

He wants Honey to go to a lavish party so the baddies can be cornered.

It is a case where Honey West should had listened to Sam as they land even deeper in trouble.

Sunday, October 15, 2023

Saturday, October 14 - The Champions: The Beginning

The Champions - TV Series (1968–1969)



Sharron MacReady, Craig Stirling and Richard Barrett work as agents for international law enforcement bureau Nemesis, based in Geneva, Whilst returning from a mission in China with bacteriological material stolen from the Chinese, their plane is shot down over the Himalayas. They survive and are nurtured by a Tibetan tribe, presided over by an elderly lama, who give them super-human strength, telepathic powers and augmented hearing. This allows them to best their pursuers and return to Geneva, though they keep their promise to the old lama not to divulge to their boss Tremayne - or anybody - how they have obtained their new strengths.

Saturday, October 14, 2023

Friday, October 13 - Gang War

Gang War (1958)

A Los Angeles high-school teacher's problems begin when he happens to witness a gangland killing and agrees to identify the murderers. Not realizing this will cause the underworld to retaliate "big time".

Friday, October 13, 2023

Thursday, October 12 - She Wouldn't Say Yes

She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945)

Tightly buttoned psychiatrist Susan Lane (Rosalind Russell) resists the romantic overtures of freewheeling cartoonist Michael Kent (Lee Bowman), whose popular comic strip advocates giving in to one's desires. While attempting to treat suicidal Allura (Adele Jergens), a single woman who is convinced that every man who kisses her will die, Dr. Lane gets caught up in a convoluted plot hatched by her own puckish father (Charles Winninger) to trick her into marrying Kent.

Thursday, October 12, 2023

Wednesday, October 11 - Torchy Runs for Mayor

Torchy Runs for Mayor (1939)

Angry about newspaper articles by Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell) accusing him of taking bribes in collusion with the mayor, Dr. Dolan (John Miljan) withdraws advertising revenue from her paper. Undaunted, Torchy convinces Hubert Ward (Irving Bacon), the editor of an independent paper, to publish them. When Ward, who is running as a reform mayoral candidate, is murdered, Torchy's fiancé, detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane), nominates Torchy to run for mayor, and she accepts the challenge.

Wednesday, October 11, 2023

Tuesday, October 10 - The Rocket Man

The Rocket Man (1954)

Wacky complications ensue when a little boy comes into possession of a ray gun that compels anyone caught in its beam to tell the truth. He uses it to prevent his orphanage from being shut down by creditors and to help a cute couple fall in love.

Tuesday, October 10, 2023

Monday, October 9 - Torchy Blane in Chinatown

Torchy Blane in Chinatown (1939)

Police Detective Steve McBride (Barton MacLane) grudgingly takes along his friend, reporter Torchy Blane (Glenda Farrell), to protect three men, including a doctor and a military captain, who are under threat for procuring three Chinese jade tablets at the behest of Sen. Baldwin (Henry O'Neill). Despite written warnings, the men fall victim to mysterious murders -- and after one body and the tablets go missing, Steve and Torchy receive a ransom demand for the priceless jade.

Monday, October 9, 2023

Sunday, October 8 - Richard Diamond, Private Detective: The Big Score & The Chess Player


The show begins with a woman coming to Richard Diamond asking for his help. Her husband has been cheated and they cannot prove it. Diamond agrees to go under cover and sets the bait--posing as a rich and gullible business man on the same train the husband took when he met up with the con men. And, like clockwork, Diamond meets a new 'friend' who introduces him to the con. It seems that a guy has a system--he learns about the horse racing results just before they are broadcast and using this short delay, he's able to bet and win every time. Diamond and his 'friend' bet small and win--using this man's recommendation. So, the crooks have him hooked and plan on having Diamond bet much, much larger the next time--only the winner they give him won't be the winner after all.


This episode begins with a man nearly getting killed. He insists it's only an accident--his wife insists someone is trying to kill him. So, on the sly, she hired Diamond to be a shadow body guard. In other words, hang out with her stubborn husband and don't let him know he's being protected! But, the stubborn old guy is a bit of a misanthrope--and getting to know him will be impossible unless Diamond engages the man in a chess game--something the guy adores but a game about which Diamond knows little. I guess it's time for him to learn and learn fast...

Sunday, October 8, 2023

Saturday, October 7 - The Human Jungle: Run with the Devil


Dr Corder is concerned about a confused man who comes to his practice one evening.

Corder knows that the man has given a false name and he immediately believes that the man needs to be hospitalised.

Eventually Dr Corder finds out that the man is called Frank Hewitt. He is deeply religious and he has attacked a female shop mannequin.

Hewitt's wife has been away for a few days and when Corder meets her, she seems rather unconcerned or standoffish.

It is only when Dr Corder meets Hewitt's sister that he begins to put the pieces of the puzzle together...

Saturday, October 7, 2023

Friday, October 6, 2023

Thursday, October 5 - Hawaiian Eye: All Expenses Paid


The beautiful Marian Summers registers for a stay at the Hawaiian Village Hotel, attracting Tom's attention. What also attracts his attention is a series of burglaries at the hotel that just happened to begin soon after Marian checked in. It turns out that she is the girlfriend of a mainland gangster facing trial and has been packed off to Hawaii, so she won't testify--and her boyfriend's associates have sent a hitman along to make sure that she never does.

Thursday, October 5, 2023

Wednesday, October 4 - As Young as You Feel

As Young as You Feel (1951)

Monty Woolley is forced to retire from his job as a printer due to his age, even though he still feels young and vigorous. Everyone around him seems to agree that retirement shouldn't be forced upon you if you are still able and willing to work, but no one in this large company where he works seems to be able to anything about this rule--especially since the company is actually controlled by a huge corporation. They just keep saying it's company policy and they would change it if they could--maybe he should talk the the guy in charge to get the rule changed someone suggests. Unfortunately, no one seems to know exactly who that is or how to find him. Out of sheer frustration, he hatches a plot to impersonate the company's CEO and make the changes himself! Unfortunately, this relatively simple plan snowballs and lots of unforeseen problems arise.

Wednesday, October 4, 2023

Tuesday, October 3 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Billy Jo?


Pop recording star Billy Jo Tate is slain in front of all his guests at a party celebrating his latest hit. A "good-ol' boy", Billy Jo is surrounded by users and people he used - his agent, his ""best buddy"", a smarmy astrologer, a jive arranger, Tate's showgirl sister, the woman who discovered him, and a female (and married) admirer. When Tim spots a shady character at Billy Jo's funeral, Burke confronts the man and learns what prompted the singer's murder.

Tuesday, October 3, 2023

Monday, October 2 - Serenade for Two Spies

Serenade für zwei Spione (1965)

This Euro-spy film stars Hellmut Lange as Agent 006 and a half, and Tony Kendall from the Kommissar X films. Lange's mission is to retrieve a laser device from the bad guys and claim it for his own country. Barbara Lass, the unforgettable star of Werewolf in a Girl's Dormitory, is the woman in the case. While Bond had Goldfinger, this film featured Goldfeather, a bikini clad secret agent played by Heidelinde Weis. The film has its share of gadgets and even includes a dynamite breakfast roll. Lange plays Agent John Krim who is pursued across the US before being caught in the Nevada desert...

Monday, October 2, 2023

Sunday, October 1 - The Human Jungle: The Flip Side Man

The Human Jungle: The Flip Side Man (Season 1Episode 2 - aired Apr 6, 1963)

Danny Pace is a successful pop singer and recording artist. His career is beginning to suffer however as he is convinced that he can see his doppelganger and that somebody is out to sabotage him. Laurie Winters, his manager, refers him to Dr Corder.