Sunday, November 3 - Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire (1941)

A group of eight professors are writing an encyclopedia. The naive professor of English Bertram Potts concludes that he needs field research to update the slang in his article and he goes to the streets and to a night-club. He meets the sexy singer Sugarpuss O'Shea, who is the mistress of the mobster Joe Lilac, and invites her to participate of the meetings of his research in the foundation that is promoting the encyclopedia. When she learns that the police have arrested Joe Lilac and are chasing her to testify against him, she decides to meet Prof. Potts and stay in the foundation. She becomes the pride and joy of the seven old man and Prof. Potts falls for her and proposes to marry her. Meanwhile Joe Lilac decides to get married to Sugarpuss to avoid her testimony in the court.

Saturday, November 2 - Wise Blood

Wise Blood (1979)

After being decommissioned from the US Army, strong minded Hazel Motes decides to relocate to the city rather than go back to his small southern town where he no longer has any family, or any semblance of a home, either emotional or physical. In meeting Asa Hawks, a blind sidewalk preacher, and his assistant daughter, Sabbath Lily, Hazel, reacting against Asa's preachings and perhaps in knowing that they are perpetrating a scam, decides to start his own sidewalk church, one that does not believe in God, sin or evil, or that will collect offerings. In doing so, Haze, in turn, garners strong reactions from various people he meets. Asa doesn't like what "business" Haze may take away from him, while Lily is attracted to him. Haze obtains a groupie in the form of Enoch Emory, relatively new to the city and without friends, he searching for his place in life and something in which to believe. Another sidewalk preacher, Hoover Shoates, wants to profit off of what Haze has started. And while Haze initially lives with Leora Watts, who operates a "rooming house" which is more a single person brothel, he ends up moving into the same rooming house where Asa and Lily live, the landlady who has a motherly attachment to him. Through all these encounters, Haze ultimately demonstrates how strong his devotion is to his beliefs regardless of anyone or anything else.

Friday, November 1 - Honeymoon in Bali

Honeymoon in Bali (1939)

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue department store, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the window washer who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. She learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She returns to New York City. . .

Thursday, October 31 - Highway Patrol: Psycho

Highway Patrol: Psycho (Season 2 Episode 20 - aired 1957)

Dan Mathews and Sergeants Walters and Merritt answer a call in a remote area concerning a man with a rifle who is taking potshots. The man is on a hill and takes several shots and Dan and the two sergeants, but they are eventually able to search his car. The search reveals that he is novelist Guy Pemberton and that he is undergoing psychiatric treatment and taking a powerful drug for arthritic symptoms. They send for Pemberton's psychiatrist, who advises them that the writer is having a psychotic reaction to the drug and is "acting out" the ending of his latest novel. Since the novel ends with the protagonist's suicide, Dan acts quickly and takes a high-risk course of action that will enable him to get close enough to try to subdue Pemberton and end the standoff.

Wednesday, October 30 - Newsfront

Newsfront (1978)

Phillip Noyce's historical and oddly prophetic first feature traces the story of two newsreel photographers in post-war Australia. Starting from the first waves of European post-war immigration, the storyruns through to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. As colour narrative and genuine black-and-white newsreel footage merge together with brilliantly recreated events(the 1954 Maitland flood scenes slip from story to newsreel quite seamlessly) so the stories of the characters, the newsreel industry (eventually to fall to television's instant power) and indeed the political development of the nation itself are cleverly intertwined in a multi-layered tour de force by editor John Scott.

Tuesday, October 29 - Weird Woman

Weird Woman (1944)

Professor Norman Reed falls in love with and marries a woman named Paula while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his hometown, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Ilona, who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings.

Monday, October 28 - The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage

The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage (Season 2 Episode 22 - aired Feb 28, 1974)

An old college friend of Steve's is now a father - and part of a vigilante group fed up with the rampant crime in their neighborhood. Their latest crackdown, however, leaves a police informer dead.

Sunday, October 27 - Calling Dr. Death

Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.

Saturday, October 26 - Horror of Dracula

Horror of Dracula - Original title: Dracula (1958)

Jonathan Harker unsuccessfully tries to stake and kill Count Dracula at the latter's remote castle in Transylvania but becomes one of the count's victims. The vampire later insinuates himself into the Harker family, seeking more blood and vengeance. The only person who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow vampirologist, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Friday, October 25 - The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir, but, due to a streak of insanity running in the family, a second will has been made in case Joyce falls victim to it. This puts Joyce in danger. Suddenly, Miss Lu, Cyrus' maid, appears and warns them that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night. Following this, Hendrick, a prison guard, warns them that, "The Cat", a homicidal maniac has escaped. This sets up Cyrus' relatives with a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.

Thursday, October 24 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): When Did You Start to Stop Seeing Things?

My Partner the Ghost: When Did You Start to Stop Seeing Things? (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Nov 23, 1969)

Marty is confused when Jeff fails to acknowledge him and even more so when he sees Jeff kill Tully, an employee of the Towler Corporation, whose stock market leaks Jeff has been investigating. In fact it is not Jeff but an actor in a mask made to resemble him and in the pay of Laker, the Towler Corporation's general manager, out to make a killing in the market from the information supplied by the real Jeff, who will be disposed of when he has no further purpose. Laker ends up in a room with both Jeffs and about to shoot one. Fortunately Marty hypnotises Sir Oliver, a confused psychiatrist, into leaping into action and saving the real Jeff.

Wednesday, October 23 - The Birthday Present

The Birthday Present (1957)

Tony Britton is the top salesman of his toy manufacturer. On a selling trip to Germany, he finds some German goods and arranges for a contract for his company to manufacture them, if his boss agrees. He's also bought a nice diamond watch for wife Sylvia Sym's birthday. He tries to smuggle it past customs, but fails. When he goes before a magistrate, he's not assessed costs and penalties. He's thrown into prison for two months. When the directors of his company find out, they insist on his firing, despite his boss's protests. . .

Tuesday, October 22 - Crucible of Terror

Crucible of Terror (1971)

Struggling art dealer John Davies (James Bolam) needs to make money quickly to clear some business debts that he has run up. His boozy partner Michael (Ronald Lacey) shows him some pictures and sculptures produced by his father, which both men agree are good enough to revive their flagging fortunes. There is, however, one problem: Michael's father, Victor (Mike Raven), is a reclusive and violent madman who does not produce art for fame or profit but rather for personal gratification.

Undeterred, John persuades Michael to set up a meeting at his father's remote coastal house so that they can negotiate a purchase. Along for the trip are Michael's unhappy wife Jane (Beth Morris) and John's nervy girlfriend Millie (Mary Maude). The house is located near to an abandoned tin mine, closed since a fatal accident and rumoured to be haunted. The whole place seems cursed with an air of dread, and Millie especially is affected by being there - she feels constant unease and has a nagging sense of deja vu that she has been there before. A series of murders further heightens the terror, but who is the killer?

The evidence would suggest demented Victor is the one responsible, perhaps planning to restart his weird old hobby of casting dead bodies in bronze. But as the mystery unfolds it becomes apparent that perhaps more supernatural forces are at work.

Monday, October 21 - The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary (1978)

Cyrus West has a huge fortune to leave. Twenty years after his death he still holds the strings to his family, he arranges for his family, solicitor and faithful housekeeper to gather for the reading of his will. It's 1934 and Glyncliffe Manor plays host. Cyrus was considered an eccentric, ahead of his time, he presents his bequest via moving pictures, presenting his legacy from beyond the grave. His fortune is left to the beautiful Annabelle, just because she shared the same surname, West. Wanting to put a bittersweet twist on the affair Cyrus added a proviso, should the heir die or be judged insane in a twelve hour period the legacy would go to a second heir. Events that evening are made all the more complicated when Doctor Hendricks bursts in with a warning, an escaped psychopathic killer is on the loose, he believes he's a cat, killing his victims with his bare hands. Annabelle has a tough night ahead, a killer on the loose and a greedy grouping of dubious relatives.

Sunday, October 20 - Hawaiian Eye: Danger on Credit

Hawaiian Eye: Danger on Credit (Season 1 Episode 22 - aired Mar 2, 1960)

Cricket finds herself pursued by good-looking Somerset Jones, a clerk pretending to be his boss, a department store owner. Jones, in the bar, accidentally comes into possession of a credit card that belongs to Victor Brindisi, the intended victim of a professional hired assassin. Jones uses the card to wine and dine Cricket thus making himself and Cricket the targets of the hitman who overhears Jones being called "Mr. Brindisi" by a waiter. An initial attempt on Jones and Cricket in Kim's cab fails. Tom Lopaka and Tracy Steele then have to find the killer before it's too late and he's one big step ahead of them.

Saturday, October 19 - Echo of Diana

Echo of Diana (1963)

Dermott Walsh has disappeared. His wife, Betty McDowall, believes his private plane has gone down, and him with it. Then the radio announces that authorities believe they have found the crashed plane near the Turkish border, and her friend, Clare Owen, points out a notice in the personal ads of a paper: "In Memoriam, Philip Scott (Walsh), killed in an air crash June 4; Fondest love. No regrets. Diana."

Miss McDowall is called into Scotland Yard, where Geoffrey Toone tells her there are spy matters going on. At that point, things become confused.

Friday, October 18 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Death in the Dressing Room

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Death in the Dressing Room (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Mar 10, 1956)

Colonel March happens to be at a night club with its owner watching a Javanese dance takes place when a murder occurs.

The Javanese dancer Francine Rapport is found dead in her dressing room. Minutes before her performance she was accused of blackmail by Joan Forsythe over some letters her fiancee had written. The club owner had some stern words with her.

Forsythe is the main suspect but Colonel March saw the dancer perform movements that indicated a cry for help. Something he thought was strange.

Thursday, October 17 - The Time Tunnel: Massacre

The Time Tunnel: Massacre (Season 1 Episode 8 - aired Oct 28, 1966)

Doug and Tony are transported to the summer of 1876 and witness soldiers slaughtered by Indians in the middle of the desert. They are hunted and captured by three Indians; however Doug is rescued by the Trumpeter Tim that survived the massacre and is bringing a dispatch from General Crook to General George Armstrong Custer. Doug escapes but the leader of the Indians, Crazy Horse, brings Tony to the Indian camp to get information about the "Yellow Hair". Meanwhile, the Time Tunnel personnel summon the specialist in the Indian Wars period and Sioux descendent Dr. Charles Whitebird to provide information about the location. The researcher advises that the place is Montana and the day is the eve of the day of The Battle of the Little Bighorn, where Custer and the 7th Cavalry Regiment where defeated and annihilated by the Indians led by Sitting Bull.

Wednesday, October 16 - The Streets of San Francisco: The Hard Breed

The Streets of San Francisco: The Hard Breed (Season 2 Episode 21 - aired Feb 21, 1974)

At a rodeo in San Francisco's Cow Palace, a bronc rider dies in what appears to be an accident. A rodeo clown looks around the scene after the police leave and discovers the rider's rope -- which was cut almost halfway through before it broke, leaving the bronc free to throw him. The police come back to investigate the scene, and before long the chief suspect is also murdered in another "accident."

Tuesday, October 15 - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Quadripartite Affair

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Quadripartite Affair (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired Oct 6, 1964)

UNCLE agents Napoleon Solo and Illya Kuraykin face a four-cornered conspiracy comprised of an ambitious woman (Gervaise Ravel), her wealthy boyfriend (Harold Bufferton), a disgraced military officer and a scientist who has devised a chemical that induces fear. Solo and Kuryakin are helped by the daughter (Marion Raven) of a man killed as a result of the conspiracy.

Monday, October 15 - Scarlet Thread

Scarlet Thread (1951)

Laurence Harvey plays a young down-and-out hoodlum, Freddie, who Sydney Taffler (Marcon) employs to help him on a smash and grab raid. But this isn't just any robbery but the theft of a piece of rare ceremonial jewellry in Cambridge associated with a University college. 

All goes well until a man stands in the way of them and their getaway car and Freddie shoots the man who falls into the getaway car. Freddie and Marcon flee pursued by a gang of college students and take refuge in a college garden. Meanwhile the getaway driver Sam (Harry Fowler) dumps the car ensuring that the body, and the man's identity, isn't discovered until much later in the day. 

Marcon and Freddie pose as two college visitors and befriend Josephine (Kathleen Byron), the daughter of a professor, while they plan their escape. Eventually they are caught when it is revealed that their victim's identity is the college professor and the missing jewellry is discovered.

Sunday, October 13 - Mandrake, the Magician: Episodes 10 - 12

Mandrake, the Magician (1939)

Episode 10: The Unseen Monster

Episode 11: At the Stroke of Eight

Episode 12: The Reward of Treachery

Mandrake and his allies finally catch up to "The Wasp" and discover the crime lord is actually scientist Dr. Andre Bennett, posing as a close friend of Houston.

Saturday, October 12 - Rotten to the Core

Rotten to the Core (1965)

Rogues Jelly Knight, Scapa Flood, and Lennie the Dip leave prison expecting boss The Duke to have their stash ready to share out. Instead, Duke's girl Sara gives them the news Duke is dead and the money gone on nursing care. They soon discover that Duke is actually running Hope Springs Nature Clinic with the help of most of the local villains. Very strange - and the nearby army camp and Sara's encouragement of Lieutenant Vine would seem to be no coincidence either.

Friday, October 11 - Shanghai Express

Shanghai Express (1932)

In Peking, China, during a civil war, British Capt. Donald Harvey (Clive Brook) meets his old flame Magdalen (Marlene Dietrich) and learns with dismay that she has become a prostitute known as Shanghai Lily. Both are traveling to Shanghai via train, and while they grow reacquainted, they remain unaware that they are traveling with spy and rebel army leader Henry Chang (Warner Oland). On Chang's orders, his forces attack the train, terrorize the passengers and hold Donald hostage.

Thursday, October 10 - The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Vulcan Affair

The Man from U.N.C.L.E.: The Vulcan Affair (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired Sep 22, 1964)

In the pilot episode, UNCLE agent Napoleon Solo is assigned to foil an assassination plot by Thrush. The criminal organization's target is a delegation from the newly independent African nation, Western Natumba. The plot is under the supervision of Andrew Vulcan, a U.S. industrialist secretly working for Thrush. Solo recruits an old flame of Vulcan's as part of his plan.

Wednesday, October 9 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Missing Queen

Bourbon Street Beat: The Missing Queen (Season 1 Episode 23 - aired Mar 14, 1960)

A beauty pageant contestant goes missing the same night that her would-be blackmailer is found murdered.

Tuesday, October 8 - The Untouchables: The Unhired Assassin: Part 1

The Untouchables: The Unhired Assassin: Part 1 (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired Feb 25, 1960)

Major changes are on their way, including the end of Prohibition, when Franklin Delano Roosevelt is elected President in the fall of 1932. The Chicago mob, led by Frank Nitti, is out to get control of the upcoming Chicago World's Fair with it's lucrative concessions and other revenue streams. When they are unable to bribe the mayor, Anton J. Cermak, they decide to track his movements and assassinate him. They know he goes to same coffee shop every day at the same time so that becomes the obvious site for the hit. When Eliot Ness learns of the their plans, he races to save the Mayor. In Florida meanwhile, a mentally disturbed man, Giuseppe 'Joe' Zangara, decides to assassinate the President-elect.

Monday, October 7 - Naked City: A Run for the Money

Naked City: A Run for the Money (Season 3 Episode 22 - aired Mar 14, 1962)

A middle aged hired killer, who committed his first murder for pay at age 14, is hunted both by organized crime which has put out a contract on his life and the police. Needing a bankroll for leaving the country, the killer hires an "arm". The expert craps player he has chosen to win him money is as unpredictable as the roll of the dice.

Sunday, October 6 - The Streets of San Francisco: Inferno

The Streets of San Francisco: Inferno (Season 2 Episode 20 - aired Feb 14, 1974)

Two firemen are killed in a warehouse fire, one of them Stone's friend, and he and Keller are drawn into an arson investigation.

Saturday, October 5 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): The House on Haunted Hill

My Partner the Ghost: The House on Haunted Hill (Season 1 Episode 9 - aired Nov 16, 1969)

Jeff is asked to investigate whether Merston Manor, a house which is impossible to sell, is really haunted after two previous psychics were scared off. He is looking into a jewel theft and sends Marty to the manor instead. Marty initially believes the ghostly sounds to be genuine but they are actually being made by the jewel thieves who are using the house as their den and want to scare off visitors.

Friday, October 4 - The Champions: The Interrogation

The Champions: The Interrogation (Season 1 Episode, 19 - aired Feb 5, 1969)

On return from a mission to Hong Kong Craig is captured (before the show starts) and subjected to a brutal cross-examination from a pitiless interrogator who keeps asking him about the 'Retford Case'. He finds out that he is actually in the Nemesis head-quarters and the man is a Nemesis agent anxious to find out how he came by his super-human powers. Sharron and Richard are unable to help because they dare not expose their secret and,when Tremayne eventually calls off the questioning, all three Champions feel hostility towards him.

Thursday, October 3 - Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Landlady & The Throwback

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Landlady (Season 6 Episode 19 - aired Feb 21, 1961) 

Billy Weaver's just moved to a small English village, and sees an advert for a room. The landlady's quite pleasant. He's perplexed when she later mentions two others are also staying; he's never seen nor heard of them before, so, who are these tenants?

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Throwback (Season 6 Episode 20 - aired Feb 28, 1961)

When Enid's boyfriend Eliot presses her, she finally admits that she has been seeing another man, Cyril Hardeen. She agrees to break it off with Cyril whom she describes as an older, gentler man who wouldn't harm a flea. When they finally meet, Eliot finds Cyril much as Enid described him. In fact, Cyril describes himself as a throwback - someone who values honor and civility above all else. Cyril also has no intention of giving Enid up and so puts into action a plan to ensure that she will remain his.

Wednesday, October 2 - The Human Jungle: Skeleton in the Cupboard

The Human Jungle: Skeleton in the Cupboard (Season 2 Episode 7 - aired Nov 9, 1964)

Grace Charlton wants to contest her father's will. That the balance of his mind was disturbed when he made the will in 1944. He died in 1958.

Her father Sir William Bridley was a famous financier and Grace Charlton needs the money as her husband is severely injured.

The beneficiaries of her father's will are other family members who are elderly and likely to die soon. Then the money will go to charity.

Dr Corder has to go back in time. Only to get differing accounts of Sir William Bridley especially from his wife and his sister.

Corder ends up unlocking family skeletons and people with motives.

Tuesday, October 1 - The Devil's Girls

The Devil's Girls Original title: Das Rasthaus der grausamen Puppen (1967)

Rogue couple Betty Williams and Bob Fishman attempt to rob a jewelry store in Glasgow. The plan fails and a policeman is killed. Betty is sent to prison, then escapes with 4 other girls. Mayhem ensues.

Monday, September 30 - The Streets of San Francisco: A String of Puppets

The Streets of San Francisco: A String of Puppets (Season 2 Episode 19 - aired Feb 7, 1974)

Det. Keller goes undercover as an ex-con musician to bust a crooked parole officer and his ring of parolees.

Sunday, September 29 - Hawaiian Eye: Fatal Cruise

Hawaiian Eye: Fatal Cruise (Season 1 Episode 21 - aired Feb 24, 1960)

Tom is hired by Ginger Martin to find her missing husband John, who's been gone for two years. Tom's investigation results in his finding John as the captain of rich Verna Collins' yacht--and her unwilling lover. When Verna is murdered, John is charged with her killing and jailed. Tom doesn't believe he did it and sets out to find the real killer.

Saturday, September 28 - Mandrake, the Magician: Episodes 7 - 9

Mandrake, the Magician (1939)

Episode 7 - Gamble for Life

Episode 8 - Across the Deadline

Episode 9 - Terror Rides the Rails

Friday, September 27 - Hammett

Hammett (1982)

The novel writer Dashiell Hammett is involved in the investigation of the mysterious disappearance of a beautiful Chinese cabaret actress in San Francisco.

Thursday, September 26 - The Untouchables: The Big Squeeze

The Untouchables: The Big Squeeze (Season 1 Episode 19 - aired Feb 18, 1960)

Larry 'Ace' Banner is considered to be the creme de la creme of bank robbers. He plans his robberies meticulously, never uses a gun himself and the result is usually a large haul and little for the police to go on. With a huge increase in bank robberies throughout the Midwest, the Federal District Attorney, Beecher Ashbury, is just itching to do something about it. Unfortunately, he can't since bank robbery isn't a Federal offense. That doesn't stop him from asking Eliot Ness to see what he can find on Banner. The master thief has just completed a $450,000 haul - in part because he managed to blackmail the manager into giving him security information - and has now decided to retire to the good life of a wealthy bachelor. When the government finally makes bank robberies a federal offense, Ness waits patiently knowing that it is only a matter of time before Ace will strike again.

Wednesday, September 25 - The Time Tunnel: Revenge of the Gods

The Time Tunnel: Revenge of the Gods (Season 1 Episode 7 - aired Oct 21, 1966)

Doug and Tony are transported to 1200 BC in the middle of the war between Greeks and Trojans. They are captured by Ulysses' men and their knowledge of history makes Ulysses believe that they are gods from the Olympus. When Doug is captured by the traitor Sardis and brought to Troy, he meets Helen of Troy and proves to Paris that he might be a god. Meanwhile Tony witnesses the construction of the Trojan Horse and joins the team that will break in Troy inside the horse to rescue Helen and Doug.

Tuesday, September 24 - Naked City: Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming

Naked City: Today the Man Who Kills Ants Is Coming (Season 3 Episode 21 - aired Mar 7, 1962)

John Larch stars as Officer Clinton--a cop who's feeling overwhelmed and at the end of this ropes. When the show begins, his wife is talking to him about all their expenses and it's obvious Clinton is at a loss what to do. When he gets to work, Clinton finds out that there's been a complaint made about him. And, as the show progresses, Clinton behaves sicker and sicker in the mind. It's obvious he's having some sort of nervous breakdown or schizophrenic break but why the time others realize it, it's too late--Clinton loses his mind and is now a danger to himself and others.

Monday, September 23 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying?

My Partner the Ghost: Whoever Heard of a Ghost Dying? (Season 1 Episode 8 - aired Nov 9, 1969)

A villain called Hellingworth uses medium Cecil Purley to prove that Marty is indeed a ghost and, posing as an insurance salesman, approaches Jeff for alleged help with robberies in the knowledge that Marty will eavesdrop on the gang and report back to Jeff. This happens but Marty is being used purely as a decoy whilst the gang rob other venues. Eventually Hellingworth decides to get rid of Marty and calls Purley in to exorcise him. For once it is Jeff rushing against time to save Marty rather than the reverse.

Sunday, September 22 - The Champions: A Case of Lemmings

The Champions: A Case of Lemmings (Season 1 Episode 17 - aired Jan 22, 1969)

In Paris three Interpol agents each separately and inexplicably commit suicide in public by different means and Nemesis is brought in to investigate. Sharron recalls a newspaper cutting with reference to a Mafia Don, whose enemies all committed suicide. His name is Del Marco and the Champions fly to Rome to visit his casino. Sharron gains his confidence when she tells him she is being followed by a man, who is Craig. Craig confronts Del Marco, claiming he is out for revenge against him following the murder of his brother. Craig is seen off the premises and one of Del Marco's henchmen shakes his hand. He is wearing a glove soaked in a poison which will induce a desire to commit suicide by the recipient of the handshake and Craig climbs to the top of a high building to throw himself off. Richard and Sharron have to communicate with him to avert disaster.

Saturday, September 21 - Hawaiian Eye: Cut of Ice

Hawaiian Eye: Cut of Ice (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired Feb 17, 1960)

A very expensive diamond that was in the care of Tracy and Tom is stolen. Their investigation leads them to believe that there is a security leak in their office - Kim!

Friday, September 20 - The Untouchables: Little Egypt

The Untouchables: Little Egypt (Season 1 Episode 18 - aired Feb 11, 1960)

The Governor asks Eliot Ness if he can help wipe out the mob in a crime ridden area of southern Illinois known as Little Egypt. There, the local syndicate headed by Major Charlie Byron has killed the just-elected reform mayor and are clearly gunning to get rid of the honest Sheriff. Ness is a little pressed with most of his men working on a case in New York so he agrees to send in a new agent, Cam Allison, undercover to infiltrate Byron's gang. Allison is supplied with carrier pigeons to supply Ness with regular reports but his situation becomes dangerous when he's uncovered.

Thursday, September 19 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Deadly Gift & The Case of the Lively Ghost

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Deadly Gift (Season 1 Episode 22 - aired Aug 14, 1956)

John Blake, an international jewel thief who died in a plane crash, leaves in his will a mysterious package to a barmaid to be given to her ten years after his death. In his instructions to his attorney, Harwood, he asks that not only the barmaid, Rosie Holland (known as 'The Duchess')' be present but also Colonel March. Blake and March knew each other and Blake thus knew of March's fondness for puzzles. As a frequenter of the pub where she worked, Blake only casually knew the Duchess but left her a gift as a token of his appreciation for her kindness. The gift turns out to be a worthless music box that plays the tune 'The Twelve days of Christmas.' The attorney is attacked and just before dying tells March and Ames that the attacker was after the supposed contents of the box - but there was nothing in the box . . .

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Case of the Lively Ghost (Season 1 Episode 23 - aired Dec 31, 1955)

Madame Richter, a con artist spiritualist come to see March with an odd story. He greets her with saying "My old fortune telling friend. People go to fortune tellers for one of two reasons - hope or fear." Madame Richter then tells him that one of her clients, Mrs. Fortesque, wanted to communicate with her dead son. But then during a séance the fake apparition didn't appear but a real one did! At the home of Mrs. Fortesque, Madame Richter shows March how her fake séance worked but he already knew many of the tricks of how phony spiritualism worked. Colonel March later participates in a séance and again strange happenings occur - including a murder . . .

Wednesday, September 18 - The Streets of San Francisco: Crossfire

The Streets of San Francisco: Crossfire (Season 2 Episode 18 - aired Jan 31, 1974)

A philandering professor is killed and his mistress shot by a sniper who has been terrorizing a college campus.

Tuesday, September 17 - The Human Jungle: Dual Control

The Human Jungle: Dual Control (Season 2 Episode 8 - aired Nov 16, 1964)

Jane is a young woman who is accident prone and steps out in front of a taxi on the main road.

This is not the first time Jane has ended up in hospital. Dr Corder discovers that her much older sister Stella is controlling of Jane.

She runs an employment agency and gets Jane jobs that she is unsuited to. When Jane gets a job she likes, Stella undermines her.

Jane's father is diffident. His wife ran off with his best friend. Jane thinks her mum died.

Dr Corder is faced with an older sister and a father who do not believe in psychiatry. He thinks that Jane has more sanity than the rest of her family.

Monday, September 16 - Honey West: A Nice Little Till to Tap & How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy

Honey West: A Nice Little Till to Tap (Season 1 Episode 16 - aired Dec 31, 1965)

A gang of thieves are robbing banks and knowing their way around the alarm systems.

Honey West is undercover as a bank teller. She is being schmoozed by a charmer who sees her as an inside woman.

Sam looks on in jealousy but Honey West's cover is blown.

Sam needs to rescue her in time.

 

Honey West: How Brillig, O, Beamish Boy (Season 1 Episode 17 - aired Jan 7, 1966)

Honey is faced with a dilemma when she's being paid to deliver a package with a half million dollars, but crooks kidnap Sam in order to trade his life for the money.

Sunday, September 15 - Winner Take All

Winner Take All (TV Movie 1975)

Shirley Jones plays a Los Angeles-area housewife, recently remarried to a widower with a small child, who has gambled away her new husband's savings; she's an addict who needs $30,000 to save her marriage.