A wealthy businessman who had asked Tracy to protect him is found murdered. Tracy's friend, a reporter (a reporter? Are you sure about this?), had been investigating the businessman and had a notebook full of information about him, but it was stolen not long before the murder, and contained damaging information about some very powerful people.
Wednesday, January 31, 2024
Tuesday, January 30, 2024
Monday, January 29 - The Princess Comes Across
A Swedish princess boards an ocean liner in Europe en route to an acting career in America, and finds herself getting inconveniently attached to a bandleader returning home. To complicate matters, a blackmailer on board apparently knows she is not who she claims to be - and he has his sights set on other passengers with secrets of their own. In the meantime an escaped killer has stowed away under someone else's identity, and is killing again to cover his tracks; five international police detectives on board are heading the investigation to find him. When evidence points to the princess and bandleader, they must find the killer themselves - before he finds them.
Monday, January 29, 2024
Sunday, January 28 - The Invisible Man: 3 Episodes
Identical twin sister entertainers visit London as guests of the government. Brady becomes involved when one of the sisters disappears, and there seems to be a possibly spy scandal behind the disappearance.
An important scientist decides to walk away from his groundbreaking research just as he makes an important discovery involving a gravity-defying hamster. Brady must locate him and convince him to return to his work before foreign agents step in and steal his secrets.
In this episode Brady is helping Zean Fleming uncover gun runners after a family is shot down in a market. It is one of these dodgy north African dictatorships. Fleming had already done an investigation for a UN type organisation but now wants to uncover proof.
With the help of Brady they find guns in boxes marked with a big X. However the authorities are in on it and Fleming's life is in danger.
Sunday, January 28, 2024
Saturday, January 27 - Hot Rod Rumble
This movie begins with a young man named "Arnie Crawford" (Richard Hartunian) entering a local diner in search of his former girlfriend "Terri Warren" (Leigh Snowden). As it so happens, Arnie is a member of a hot rod club known as the "Red Devils" and several of his fellow club members frequent this particular establishment as well. However, he is not well liked by many of them because of his hot temper and this is the primary reason that Terri has decided to temporarily end their relationship. To that end, Terri is now dating another young man named "Hank Adams" (Larry Dolgin) and this has made Arnie extremely jealous.
If that wasn't bad enough, Arnie's best friend, "Ray Johnson" (Wright King) is also in love with Terri but doesn't dare let Arnie know of it because he is scared of how he might react. Be that as it may, Arnie becomes outraged when he sees Terri and Hank dancing together and after a brief scuffle the owner throws Arnie out of the diner.
Not long afterward, when Hank takes Terri home a high-speed chase from another vehicle results in the death of Hank and an injury to Terri. Naturally, everybody immediately blames Arnie even though he professes his innocence and there is no evidence tying him to the hit-and-run. . .
Saturday, January 27, 2024
Friday, January 26 - The Tip-Off
Tommy Jordan (Eddie Quillan), a radio repairman, makes a house call and finds himself the focus of the flirtatious Baby Face (Ginger Rogers), who's the girlfriend of boxer Kayo McClure (Robert Armstrong). Tommy fends her off, but then falls in love with the even more dangerous Edna Merino (Joan Peers), the lover of Kayo's manager, mobster Nick Vatelli (Ralf Harolde). When Edna tells Tommy she wants to escape Nick, he helps her get away, causing the gangster to plot his revenge on the pair.
Friday, January 26, 2024
Thursday, January 25 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Eleanora Davis?
When an unidentified brunette is discovered in a fake electric chair at a run-down amusement park/sideshow run by ""Professor"" Kingston, Burke has to track several elusive clues back to a modeling agency and the three somewhat odd people who run it, a blackmail scheme, eloping tennis players, and a feisty old Irish landlady. With the help of a vital piece of information gathered by Burke's girlfriend Juliet and the assistance of three young boys, the case is solved.
Thursday, January 25, 2024
Wednesday, January 24 - Mandrake, the Magician: Episodes 2- 4
Episode 2 - Trap Of The Wasp
Episode 3 - City Of Terror
Episode 4 - The Secret Passage
The Wasp will stop at nothing to steal the scientist's invention. His evil machinations to obtain the device include blowing up a radio station.
In Episode 3, Tommy overhears the henchmen's plan and stows away in the rumble seat of their car. As soon as Tommy finds out what he wants to know, he jumps from the car so he can notify Mandrake what's going on.
Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Tuesday, January 23 - It's Love I'm After
Basil Underwood and Joyce Arden are an egotistical acting team known for their romantic scenes on stage and fiery temperaments off. Although they deeply love each other, their frequent spats over the years have kept them from tying the knot.
Comic complications ensue when Basil postpones their latest marriage plans in order to attempt to diminish the ardor of star-struck heiress Marcia West at the request of her fiancé Henry Grant. When Basil's boorish behavior fails to bother Marcia, who is all-too-willing to submit to his charms, he begins to capitalize on her infatuation with him, much to Joyce's dismay.
Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Monday, January 22 - The Human Jungle: The Two Edged Sword
The two-edged sword is a reference to hypnotism and the fact that it can produce good or bad effects. In the case of Fay Bridges who, years earlier was hypnotised by a quack doctor, it has had a lasting unfortunate effect in her relationship with her husband. Dr. Corder, however, is able to use it to the good in the case of Doreen Stokes in helping her come to terms with the baby she has rejected.
Monday, January 22, 2024
Sunday, January 21 - Hawaiian Eye: Three Tickets to Lani
Legendary Los Angeles private eye Stu Bailey (who doesn't actually appear in the episode) has tracked an embezzler to Hawaii, and asks Tom and Tracy for help. Their investigation leads to a travel agency that's a front for a swindle/murder racket involving a beautiful local girl and wealthy visitors to the islands.
Sunday, January 21, 2024
Saturday, January 20 - Mr. and Mrs. North
Publisher Jerry North (William Post Jr.) returns home exhausted from a business trip only to be stunned when he and his scatter-brained wife, Pam (Gracie Allen), find a dead body in a closet. The subsequent investigation reveals that Pam has surprising knowledge about an affair between a friend and the wife of the murdered man. The police question Jerry, Pam and a wide array of suspects from a door-to-door salesman to a secretary to a patent attorney, before deciding that Jerry is the killer.
Saturday, January 20, 2024
Friday, January 19 - The Champions: Happening
The Champions are Down Under and Richard has infiltrated a terrorist group who have planted a radioactive device in the Simpson Desert. He attempts to arrest them whilst in a helicopter but falls out and when he comes to he has lost his memory. He comes across a derelict bar, meeting an old prospector, Banner B. Banner, who has refused to move out despite government warnings of nuclear testings, He is then bitten by a snake but Sharron links up with him telepathically and saves his life. When he regains his memory he sees that the group have got hold of the nuclear device and are planning to detonate it, in the process obliterating large occupied areas. He has three minutes to stop them...
Friday, January 19, 2024
Thursday, January 18 - Roar of the Press
Married only a few hours, small-town girl Alice makes her first visit to New York with new husband Wally Williams, a hotshot reporter for the Globe.
A body falls from a building. Williams steals the identification and calls in the story to city editor MacEwen, who makes Wally follow it up. Reporters' wives warn Alice to expect this kind of thing.
A personal ad leads Wally to a second corpse. The police read about in the Globe and angrily haul Wally in for questioning. Alice's irritation grows, as does that of reporters from other newspapers at Wally's continued scoops.
Evildoers from an anti-American organization kidnap Wally, and when he won't reveal how he gets his information, they grab Alice as well. Sparrow McGraun runs a numbers racket but likes Wally better than these foreigners, so he saves the newlyweds. A grateful Wally gives this scoop to every paper except the Globe.
Thursday, January 18, 2024
Wednesday, January 17 - Moment of Indiscretion
Lana Morris is married to Ronald Howard. She used to be engaged to another guy, so when he calls her and says he's leaving the country and would like to say goodbye to her, she agrees to meet him, even though she has promised Howard to never see him again.
Afterwards, while leaving, she sees a woman being murdered and runs away. She doesn't say anything, until the police, in the person of Denis Shaw comes calling. She explains, but claims she cannot really describe the murderer.
Shaw says that to clear her, she must meet the murdered woman's upstairs neighbor. It's Robert Dorning, who identifies her as the woman she saw arguing with the murder victim a month earlier. Miss Morris faints, and later identifies Dorning as the murderer. However, Shaw dismisses her accusation and arrests her. Now it's up to Howard to find the proof of her assertions.
Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Tuesday, January 16 - Love in High Gear
Wealthy Harrison Ford (as Donald Ransome) arrives late for a wedding; there, he makes off with not only a string of pearls, but also lovely Alberta Vaughn (as Betty)'s attention. When the pearls are discovered missing, Mr. Ford uses Ms. Vaughn as an unwitting accomplice; he stashes the necklace in her belongings, to retrieve at a later date. But, Vaughn is engaged to Tyrell Davis (as Ronnie Courtney), who becomes jealous of Ford. When Ford goes to retrieve the stolen pearls from Vaughn, comic complications ensue.
Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Monday, January 15 - Danger - Love at Work
Jack Haley plays Henry, an attorney who is charged with getting the eight members of the Pemberton finally to sign papers so that a hunt club can buy their farm property. He is actually taking over the job from another attorney whose nerves are shot and can't handle it any longer.
Henry has his work cut out for him, but he has help - the beautiful Pemberton daughter (Sothern). She is a half-step or so above the others - she's engaged but doesn't like her fiancé (Horton). She is, however, engaged to him because he is forceful. He's as whacky as the rest of them, interrogating Henry and sure he's out to cheat them.
One of her relatives (Maurice Cass) has given up on society and lives like a Neanderthal. Two aunts have a rifle in a setup on the front stairs to shoot criminals. Another relative (Carradine) paints everything in sight. The child in the family is a ten-year-old high school graduate and makes Henry miserable. There are more.
Monday, January 15, 2024
Sunday, January 14 - Night Alarm
A reporter itching to get off the boring gardening "beat" gets a chance to investigate a series of arson fires that have been plaguing the city. He believes the fires are tied into a web of political corruption involving a wealthy businessman, the mayor and the police chief. Complications ensue when the girl assigned to help him turns out to be the businessman's daughter.
Sunday, January 14, 2024
Saturday, January 13 - Bourbon Street Beat: Light Touch of Terror
Kenny becomes involved in a case when it appears one of New Orleans most famous criminals "The Axe Murder" has re-emerged.
Saturday, January 13, 2024
Friday, January 12 - Dance, Fools, Dance
After her father Stanley Jordan loses his wealth in market, Bonnie (Joan Crawford) goes to work as a cub reporter. Her brother Rodney (William Bakewell) is the wheelman in a gangland massacre. Bert (Cliff Edwards), a reporter on Bonnie's paper, is murdered while investigating. Bonnie gets to know gang leader Jake Luva (Clark Gable) and learns how the gang works and that her brother is involved. By the time it's over, her wealthy friend Bob (Lester Vail) sees how wonderful she is and falls in love with her for good.
Friday, January 12, 2024
Thursday, January 11 - By Candlelight
Josef is the valet for Count von Rommer and well-trained in his master's philandering ways. Mistaken for the Count by Marie, a maid whom he thinks is an aristocrat, Josef shows her a merry time at the Count's Monte Carlo villa. Meanwhile, the Count escapes a situation with Countess von Rischenheim when her husband Count von Rischenheim makes an unscheduled appearance, by posing as the butler.
Thursday, January 11, 2024
Wednesday, January 10 - That Woman Opposite
At a seaside town on the French coast, a series of robberies occurs. An English lord (Wilfrid Hyde White) thinks he recognizes the man who committed the robberies but he is murdered before he can make a positive identification. When his son's (Jack Watling) fiancee, a wealthy American (Phyllis Kirk), is accused of the murder, an insurance investigator (Dan O'Herlihy) sets out to prove her innocence.
Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Tuesday, January 9 - The Third Alibi
Musicals composer Norman Martell (Laurence Payne) is having an affair with his wife Helen's (Patricia Dainton) divorced half sister, Peggy (Jane Griffiths). Peggy repeatedly asks him to obtain a divorce and marry her; he finally agrees when she becomes pregnant.
His wife refuses his request out of sibling rivalry, saying that their parents had always made her give way to Peggy's demands, but she would not give in to her this time. She suggests that the child's father may be someone else. Martell cannot just leave his wife, as she manages his royalty income. Instead, he plots her murder with Peggy, intending to use the tape recorder he uses in his composing to establish an alibi.
Helen, however, has decided to allow the divorce, and goes to tell her sister, but when she goes to Peggy's house, she overhears their plans, and uses them to devise a murder plan herself.
Tuesday, January 9, 2024
Monday, January 8 - Honey West: A Neat Little Package & A Stitch in Crime
Francis Grady is a newspaper seller who has amnesia after a car accident and found himself in possession of a hotel key and a $100 bill. Later he found $150,000 in the trunk of his car.
A couple of hoodlums are looking for Grady. A property developer Addison who buys newspapers off him is also enquiring about Grady.
Sam and Honey later find Addison dead.
A couple of hoodlums are looking for Grady. A property developer Addison who buys newspapers off him is also enquiring about Grady.
Sam and Honey later find Addison dead.
Honey and Sam are hired to deliver gowns valued at over $100,000 to a fashion show. When their cargo is hijacked, the detectives race to recover the garments before the program or else their employer, a new dress designer, will be ruined.
Monday, January 8, 2024
Sunday, January 7 - The Man from Planet X
The reporter John Lawrence visits Dr. Robert Blane and learns that his friend, Prof. Elliot has discovered a new planet that is in route toward Earth and has moved to an observatory on the Burry Island to observe from a closer location. John heads to the Scottish island and is welcomed by Prof. Elliot's daughter Enid Elliot, who is now a beautiful young woman. They go to the observatory to meet Prof. Elliot and John finds Dr. Mears, who is his disaffection. When Enid returns home after driving John to an inn in the town, she has a flat tire and finds a spacecraft landed on the island with a weird alien inside that follows her home. While Prof. Elliot and John want to investigate the reason why the alien landed on Earth, Dr. Mears has second thoughts...
Sunday, January 7, 2024
Saturday, January 6 - The Invisible Man: The Vanishing Evidence & The Prize
A spy kills a British professor and steals an important file, and Peter travels to Amsterdam to help recover it.
A Russian (are you sure she's not East German?) writer scheduled to attend a prize ceremony in the West is arrested by her government for crimes against the state. When Peter learns of the arrest, he crosses a minefield and breaks into the military headquarters to rescue her. However, the commissar in charge anticipates Peter's arrival and sets a trap.
Saturday, January 6, 2024
Friday, January 5 - You Can't Have Everything
Starving playwright Judith Wells meets playboy writer of musicals George Macrae over a plate of stolen spaghetti. He persuades producer Sam Gordon to buy her ridiculous play "North Winds" just to improve his romantic chances, and even persuades her to sing in the sort of show she pretends to despise. But just when their romance is going well, Gordon's former flame Lulu reveals the ace up her sleeve.
Friday, January 5, 2024
Thursday, January 4 - Big Man Japan
The film takes the form of a mockumentary that follows Masaru Daisatou. Daisatou is an otherwise normal Japanese citizen except for an inherited ability to grow to a height of approximately 30 meters in response to the application of high voltage electricity. As both his father and grandfather before him, Daisatou has accepted the duty to protect Japan against various giant monsters while working for a sub-division of the defence ministry called the Ministry of Monster Prevention.
The Battles with the monster are televised, and the ratings appear to drop or pick up depending on the event, most of the monsters have obscure abilities, and he generally defeats them. Despite his great powers, he increasingly finds himself mocked by his fellow citizens while struggling under the burden of living up to a heroic lineage that increasingly overshadows his own mediocre accomplishments as a monster fighter.
To further complicate matters, he is deeply estranged from his own wife and child, who aren't living with him. Eventually, he encounters a particularly formidable monster, said not to be from Japan but from Korea. He runs away from it, which just results in more ridicule. Eventually, he receives assistance from a family of Ultraman-styled monster fighters to challenge it.
Thursday, January 4, 2024
Wednesday, January 3 - Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Episodes 19 & 20
(Fri, Mar 25, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 37 Fractured Fairy Tales "Little Red Riding Hood" Peabody's Improbably History "P. T. Barnum" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 38
S1.E20 ∙ The Boundary Bounders or Some Like It Shot/The Washington Whirl or Rocky Off the Record
(Fri, Apr 1, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 39 Fractured Fairy Tales "King Midas" Peabody's Improbably History "Stanley & Livingstone" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 40
Wednesday, January 3, 2024
Tuesday, January 2 - Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Episodes 16 - 18
(Fri, Mar 4, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 31 Fractured Fairy Tales "The Elves and the Shoemaker" Dudley Do-Right, Story 3 Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 32
S1.E17 ∙ Avalanche Is Better Than None or Snows Your Old Man/Below Zero Heroes or I Only Have Ice for You
(Fri, Mar 11, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 33 Fractured Fairy Tales "Sleeping Beauty" Peabody's Improbably History "William Tecumseh Sherman" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 34
S1.E18 ∙ The Snowman Cometh or An Icicle Built for Two/The Moonman Is Blue or The Inside Story
(Fri, Mar 18, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 35 Fractured Fairy Tales "Pinocchio" Peabody's Improbably History "First Kentucky Derby" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 36
Tuesday, January 2, 2024
Monday, January 1 - Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Episodes 13 - 15
(Thu, Feb 11, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 25 Aesop & Son "The Mice in Council" Peabody's Improbably History "The Wright Brothers" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 26
S1.E14 ∙ Dancing on Air or The Pottsylvania Polka/Axe Me Another or Heads You Lose!
(Thu, Feb 18, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 27 Fractured Fairy Tales "Dick Whittington" Peabody's Improbably History "George Armstrong Custer" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 28
S1.E15 ∙ The Pen-Pals or Rock Hocky Rocky/The Fright-Seeing Trip or Visit to a Small Panic
(Thu, Feb 25, 1960)
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 29 Fractured Fairy Tales "Cinderella" Peabody's Improbably History "Alfred Nobel" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 30
Monday, January 1, 2024
Sunday, December 31 - Rocky & Bullwinkle & Friends: Episodes 10 - 12
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 19 Fractured Fairy Tales "Princess and the Pea" Peabody's Improbably History "Annie Oakley" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 20
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 21 Fractured Fairy Tales "Sweet Little Beat" Dudley Do-Right, Story 1 Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 22
Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 23 Fractured Fairy Tales "The Fisherman and His Wife" Peabody's Improbably History "Jesse James" Rocky & Bullwinkle, "Jet Fuel" Part 24
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