Wednesday, February 28 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Jason Shaw?

Burke's Law: Who Killed Jason Shaw? (Season 1 Episode 15 - aired Jan 3, 1964)

Millionaire police captain Amos Burke investigates a range of colorful suspects after a strange girl finds a corpse in the shower.

Tuesday, February 27 - The Champions: The Survivors

The Champions: The Survivors (Season 1 Episode 7 - aired Nov 6, 1968)

The Champions are sent to Austria to investigate the murder of three students looking for Nazi treasure at the bottom of a lake. Craig and Richard run into similar trouble when they are shot at. What they find is a map that shows the Nazis may have stashed their weapons in an abandoned iron mine. Upon investigation, they find more than weapons - they find soldiers unaware the war has been over for 20 years.

Monday, February 26 - The Informers

Underworld Informers Original title: The Informers (1963)

A lead detective tells his subordinates to stop using informants because he believes they should transition to more modern methods. But inspector Johnnoe does not intend to take a useful tool out of his toolbox just because he needs to add some additional tools. So he disobeys orders and continues using them, and one in particular - Jim Ruskin.

There have been a string of bank robberies going on in London, and Jim has a tip on who is involved. But the crooks see Jim watching them, and his drunk routine does not fool them. They take Jim prisoner and murder him, but not before he phones Johnnoe's house and leaves a message as to who is responsible for the robberies. So now as a result Johnnoe is hanging around and bothering the thieves and they have to do something to discredit him, because murdering an inspector will just get more heat on them.

As Johnnoe closes in on the villains, they frame him for corruption and he is arrested and held in prison. With few friends left on his side of the law, his wife enlists the help of the murdered man's brother.

Sunday, February 25 - Hawaiian Eye: Secret of the Second Door

Hawaiian Eye: Secret of the Second Door (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Dec 9, 1959)

Tom is hired to track down some missing money, and finds himself up against four hired killers.

Saturday, February 24 - Honey West: A Million Bucks in Anybody's Language

Honey West: A Million Bucks in Anybody's Language (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Dec 3, 1965)

Honey investigates the death of a fellow private investigator found dead in an explosion. The trail leads to a set of counterfeit plates to be used to print phony British pounds.

Friday, February 23 - Lucky Partners

Lucky Partners (1940)

As David Grant passes neighbor Jean Newton on the street in Greenwich Village, he impulsively wishes her good luck. Although she doesn't know him, she intuitively asks him to become her partner in an Irish Sweepstakes ticket. David agrees on the condition that she go on a world tour with him if they win the $150,000 prize as an "experiment." She reluctantly agrees over the initial objections of her oafish fiancé Fred, who agrees to hold the ticket. 

When it turns out that they have drawn a horse in the race, Fred urges them to sell the ticket for the $12,000 asking price, but they turn him down. Although their horse loses, Jean is furious to learn that Fred had sold her half of the ticket. Even though David doesn't know about it, she feels obligated to share the $6000 with him. After he buys her a car with her half, she agrees to a scaled-down version of their tour to Niagara Falls, where they register as brother and sister. 

What Jean doesn't know is that David is actually a famous painter living under an assumed name after serving three years in prison.

Thursday, February 22 - Exposure

Exposure (1932)

The film begins with Andy Bryant destroying his career as a reporter in New York. After going off on an alcoholic bender, he finds himself on the West Coast and out of a job. However, he doesn't stay destitute for long and gets himself a job running a dying newspaper. The Dispatch is being crushed by its competitor and Andy convinces the lady who owns the paper to give him a chance--and his sort of sensationalistic journalism saves the day...

Wednesday, February 21 - The Passionate Friends

The Passionate Friends (1949)

Former lovers Mary Justin (Todd) and Steven Stratton (Trevor Howard) meet accidentally at a New year's party and rekindle lost feelings. Trouble is she is married to a wealthy banker Howard Justin (Claude Rains) and Stratton's in a committed relationship. Justin discovers the affair however and puts an end to it. Nine years pass and they meet again while vacationing. Stratton is now married with kids but Howard thinks otherwise and files for divorce. Mary becomes desperate and suicidal.

Tuesday, February 20 - Vacation Days

Vacation Days (1947)

Miss Hinklefink (Belle Mitchell) inherits a western ranch and, in order to spend the summer with Professor Owen Townley (Milton Kibbee), she invites students Freddie Trimball (Freddie Stewart), Dodie Rogers (June Preisser), Betty Rogers (Noel Neill), Lee Watson (Warren Mills) and Roy Donne (Frankie Darro) to spend their vacation on the ranch if Townley will help chaperone the kids. Real estate agent Tom Sneed (Hugh Prosser) tries to persuade her to send the kids home when desperadoes rob the bank. In the saloon, Sneed's henchman Charlie (Terry Frost) mistakes Freddie for a baby-faced killer, who was blamed for a murder actually committed by Sneed, and ranch foreman Big Jim (John Hart), also working for Sneed, tries to kill Freddie.

Monday, February 19 - The Lady Is a Square

The Lady Is a Square (1959)

The story concerns an aspiring pop/rock 'n' roll singer who falls for an upper class beauty whose mother controls her life and definitely does not approve of rock 'n' roll. In fact, she's a benefactor of a celebrated classical pianist (pianist? Orchestra, you mean, surely). If she ever found out about her daughter liking a pop singer, she'd flip out.

The singer hangs out in a music store and auditions a new song, "Honey Bunny Baby" for his friend and agent. The agent gets him a recording deal and we see him in the studio recording the tune. Meanwhile the singer pretends to be a piano tuner so he can get into the house of the girl he fancies. He winds up being a butler for the evening and then stays on longer.

It turns out the mother has just gone bankrupt and her electricity is about to be turned off. The singer gets some money from his record label to pay to keep her lights on. She still doesn't approve of rock 'n' roll so he sings to her: "The Lady is a Square." In the end the old bag changes her tune! Hooray for rock 'n' roll.

Sunday, February 18 - Beautiful Stranger

Twist of Fate Original title: Beautiful Stranger (1954)

Johnny Victor's in love with an international businessman, Louis Galt, who is actually the head of a syndicate which mints illegal coins for the Continental market. But she soon learns that Galt has been deceiving her, and has no intentions of divorcing his wife. So she meets Pierre Clemont, a potter, and falls for him (onscreen and off). Into this little slice of life comes Emil Landosh, a confidence man, and he steals a bracelet that Galt had given Victor and uses it to pay a debt. Enter a twist-of-fate, and it ends up in Galt's hands. Strained credibility aside since many, many films depend on beating the coincidental odds, Galt assumes that Landosh is Victor's lover, and this isn't a good assumption on his part since Landosh kills him and then makes it appear as if Victor and Clermont did the deed.

Saturday, February 17 - Newman's Law

Newman's Law (1974)

Vince Newman (George Peppard), a hard-nosed Los Angeles cop, is loyal to his partner Garry (Roger Robinson), devoted to his family and far too principled to take a bribe. So when he gets booted from duty after being falsely accused of extortion, he decides to go rogue and keep investigating an organized crime case he was working on. As he digs deeper, he stumbles upon a conspiracy that might extend beyond the local mob scene, perhaps even to the highest reaches of his own department.

Friday, February 16 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Golden Beetle

Bourbon Street Beat: The Golden Beetle (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Dec 14, 1959)

A missing man, a stolen talisman and some vanished letters are all connected as the detectives search for answers and find pirate treasure.

Thursday, February 15 - The Terrorists

The Terrorists Original title: Ransom (1974)

A small group of terrorists have seized the British ambassador to the fictitious country of "Scandinavia", and are holding him hostage in his residence. Scandinavia's head of security, Col. Nils Tahlvik, wants to take an uncompromising position, but he is overruled by the governments of both Scandinavia and Britain, who insist that all of the terrorists' demands be met.

A passenger aeroplane arriving at the airport of Scandinavia's capital city is hijacked by another small group of terrorists, led by Ray Petrie. The aeroplane ends up parked on an isolated taxiway, and Petrie demands that he be put in touch with Martin Shepherd, leader of the group holding the British ambassador hostage. Petrie, who is known by Shepherd, convinces Shepherd that his group and his hostages should leave on the hijacked airplane, not on a military plane as originally planned.

Tahlvik and his group of military commandos make several attempts to thwart the terrorists' plans, but nothing seems to work out for them. At the last minute, Tahlvik figures out that the "terrorists" on the airplane are actually British secret operatives intent on capturing Martin Shepherd, and that the British officials have been misleading the Scandinavian authorities and undermining Tahlvik's efforts to capture the two terrorist groups. He boards the aeroplane alone just before it is to take off, precipitating a shootout between the two groups that leaves both Shepherd and Petrie dead.

Wednesday, February 14 - Let 'em Have It

Let 'em Have It (1935)

We follow the training and adventures of a team of young federal anti-gangster agents, Mal Stevens, Van Rensseler, and Tex Logan. After foiling a kidnap attempt on socialite Eleanor Spencer (an old flame of Van's), Mal falls for her; but they're at odds over her belief in the innocence of her chauffeur Joe Keefer (whom Mal knows was involved) and her young brother Buddy's desire to join the federal agents. This conflict climaxes with the pursuit of an Ohio bank-robbing gang.

Tuesday, February 13 - Step Down to Terror

Step Down to Terror (1958)

Charles Drake shouts at his landlady who has taken some of the cash he has lying about. She says the next time the policemen ask if he's in, she'll tell them. So Drake goes on the lam, back to his mother's home in California, where he makes nice to her, to Colleen Miller, widow of his brother, and her son, Ricky Kelman. As he courts Miss Miller -- as does plainclothesman Rod Taylor, something darker than expected begins to emerge.

It's a remake of Hitchcock's SHADOW OF A DOUBT.

Monday, February 12 - Stop-over Forever & Mandrake the Magician (2 Episodes)

Stop-over Forever (1964)

A woman checks into a hotel in Taormina under an assumed name and is promptly murdered by a black gloved assassin. The woman with the real name Sue Chambers, who knew the woman as they were flight attendants checks into the same room which is rightly hers and begins to fear that the killer may be after her once she hears of the demise of her friend. Is it the policeman she has a bad history with or the air pilot keen on her or the amiable drunk yachtsman or the married man with whom she is having an affair?

Mandrake, the Magician (1939)

Episode 5 - The Devil's Playmate

Episode 6 - The Fatal Crash

Sunday, February 11 - First Love

First Love (1939)

In this reworking of Cinderella, orphaned Connie Harding is sent to live with her rich aunt and uncle after graduating from boarding school. She's hardly received with open arms, especially by her snobby cousin Barbara. When the entire family is invited to a major social ball, Barbara sees to it that Connie is forced to stay home. With the aid of her uncle, who acts as her fairy godfather, Connie makes it to the ball and meets her Prince Charming in Ted Drake--her cousin's boyfriend.

Saturday, February 10 - Wedding Present

Wedding Present (1936)

Charlie Mason and Rusty Fleming are star reporters on a Chicago tabloid who are romantically involved as well. Although skilled in ferreting out great stories, they often behave in an unprofessional and immature manner. After their shenanigans cause their frustrated city editor to resign, the publisher promotes Charlie to the job, a decision based on the premise that only a slacker would be able crack down on other shirkers and underachievers. His pomposity soon alienates most of his co-workers and causes Rusty to move to New York. Charlie resigns and along with gangster friend Smiles Benson tries to win Rusty back before she marries a stuffy society author.

Friday, February 9 - Here's Flash Casey

Here's Flash Casey (1938)

Flash is a freshly-minted college graduate and aspiring news photographer..

He lucks into a job with a gruff editor and romances the society columnist, who helps him get a big scoop for a kindly old man who runs a rival publication.

A rotten racketeer gets hold of some of Flash's photos, then doctors them up into blackmail material. In the unlikely third act, there's a shooting, a kidnapping, a couple of car chases, and a stolen ambulance.

Thursday, February 8 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Beau Sparrow?

Burke's Law: Who Killed Beau Sparrow? (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired Dec 27, 1963)

Burke is at a poolside party when he sees artist Beau Sparrow take a hard dive into a pool---a dive which kills him. Investigation shows the diving board's catapult was deliberately tampered with. Or so it seems...

Wednesday, February 7 - Hands Across the Table

Hands Across the Table (1935)

Regi Allen (Carole Lombard) is working as a manicurist at a hotel as she tries to find a rich husband. Soon she meets wealthy Allen Macklyn (Ralph Bellamy), who falls for her. Regi also goes out with Theodore Drew III (Fred MacMurray), member of a prominent family, only to find out that the Drews have lost their fortunes due to the stock market crash, and Theodore plans to marry an heiress for money himself. As feelings between Regi and Theodore develop, their careful plans start to change.

Tuesday, February 6 - The Champions: Operation Deep-Freeze

The Champions: Operation Deep-Freeze (Season 1 Episode 6 - aired Oct 30, 1968)

A party of scientists from the Scott Base in Antarctica, sent to investigate an explosion, goes missing, as do two subsequent search groups and Richard and Craig are sent to investigate.They find the body of one of men from the search parties shot dead in the snow and send a telepathic message back to the main base. They are however captured by a crazed Latin American dictator,Gomez, who is behind the nuclear explosions and who aims to hold the major governments to ransom with threats of nuclear detonation. He locks the lads in a deep freeze room but they are able to tele-communicate with Sharron back at Nemesis headquarters by transferring their feelings of extreme cold to her.She tells Tremayne to send a message to the main Scott Base but he is reluctant and it looks as if it is down to her to save her colleagues from an icy death.

Monday, February 5 - Highway Patrol: Hot Cargo & Oil Lease

Highway Patrol: Hot Cargo (Season 2 Episode 8 - aired Nov 26, 1956)

Harry Wilkerson and his partner Bemis pull a series of truck hijackings by staging fake accidents, knowing that most truck drivers will stop and attempt to render whatever assistance they can. They rely upon their confederate "Pop" (the owner of a roadside diner) to supply information concerning which drivers are carrying particularly valuable cargo. After one hijacking, Dan Mathews and Sergeant Walters use tire impressions and testimony from a victim and a hitchhiker to steadily narrow the focus of their investigation. They trap Bemis at the chicken ranch where the stolen goods were unloaded, but must use a ruse in order to trick "Pop" into leading them to the warehouse where the goods are stored.

Highway Patrol: Oil Lease (Season 2 Episode 9 - aired Dec 3, 1956)

Using a bazooka stolen from a U. S. Army facility, supposed Korean War veteran Virgil Stocker and his partner Alfred Davidson rob a $33,000 payroll from the Reiner Oil Company. When they find themselves bottled in by Highway Patrol roadblocks, they return to the oil field and threaten to use the bazooka to destroy the storage tanks and wells if they are not permitted to go free. Dan Mathews and Army Detective Fletcher (a former tank operator) are able to use a scraper with a heavy blade to get within handgun range of the two. Stocker reveals himself to be a pusillanimous fake who never actually saw combat. When he flees, he is easily captured by Fletcher and Davidson finds himself facing Dan Mathews alone.

Sunday, February 4 - Three Blind Mice

Three Blind Mice (1938)

Three sisters take their small inheritance and move from Kansas to California in search of rich husbands. To start with, Pamela poses as a socialite and Moira and Elizabeth pretend to be her staff.

Saturday, February 3 - Impulse

Impulse (1954)

Alan Curtis is an American estate agent living in England, dissatisfied with his humdrum life. With his wife Elizabeth on a short break visiting her mother, he gives a lift to sultry nightclub singer Lila when he finds her stranded on the road at night. Curtis becomes romantically involved with her and Lila tells him that her brother is in trouble over a jewel robbery.

In reality Lila wants the stolen stones for herself. She tricks the wayward Curtis into believing that he killed a man so that he buys them two tickets out of the country. He decides that it is better to face the music, opting to stay and confess. Lila, too, reconsiders, staying with Curtis until his name is cleared. After the true killers are revealed, Lila goes to jail as a participant in the robbery and Curtis returns to his wife, who forgives him.

Friday, February 2 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: 2 Episodes

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Devil Sells His Soul (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Jan 7, 1956)

When Lord Telford is found dead. Colonel March discovers that many people had a motive to kill him.

Lord Telford was a dislikeable man. The people only stayed in the mansion with him out of fear or they were coerced.

Colonel March uses mass hypnotism on five people with their agreement. He will play Telford and the others will act around him as if he was still alive.

Colonel March hopes that the real murderer would slip up.

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Murder Is Permanent (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Jan 14, 1956)

There is murder at the beauty parlour.

Mrs Greer is an old friend of Colonel March who has sent Colonel Ames to see her because Mrs Greer's dog was poisoned.

Ames was not too pleased with this assignment. Later Mrs Greer is found dead in her beauty parlour.

Suspects range from Mrs Greer's staff to her daughter in law. None of whom liked her very much

Colonel March seems to have got all of them to confess but only one of them is the real murderer.

Thursday, February 1 - The Cheaters

The Cheaters (1945)

Billie Burke and Eugene Palette are the heads of a supposedly wealthy New York family living a facade who bring into their home a downtrodden man (Joseph Schildkraut) who was once a legendary actor, now missing. Schildkraut basically becomes "The Man Who Played God" as he sets out to turn this family's life around, as well as a woman (Ona Munson) whom Burke claimed was a distant relative in attempts to fleece her for a fortune she really didn't have.

Wednesday, January 31 - The Racing Strain

The Racing Strain (1932)

A race driver has a fatal accident on the track in front of his four year old son, Billy. The dying man's last wish is that his sidekick look after Billy and make him the best racer in the world. Ten year's later the two are driving across the desert on an unmade track(!?) in a beat up Flivver when the come across a large stranded limousine whose passengers are a beautiful young woman and her aunt. They tow the car to the nearest gas station, on the way picking up Togo, the Japanese chauffeur, sent ahead to get gas, but frightened up a tree by a passing bull (actually only a cow). The girl recognises the man as a former racer, King Kelly, disqualified for drunkenness. Having fallen for him, she gets her father, a wealthy gas and oil man, to get him back into racing, to the annoyance of her boyfriend, another racer. Meanwhile Billy is scared of racing, and everybody brands him as yellow. However, he likes flying and is very good at it, despite not having a licence (or insurance). A friendly barnstormer loans him his plane (possibly a Stearman, though I can't find one with the right combination of undercarriage and tailfin), as Billy is a natural, finding stunt flying safer than racing. At the Legion Ascot Raceway (now defunct as it killed too many people, but near Lincoln Hills, LA), the boyfriend makes rude remarks about Billy and a fight ensues. Togo saves Billy using ju-jitsu, and then teaches him some basic manoeuvres, and also how to shout Banzai!, which he says means Whoopee...

Whew! And there's more!