Saturday, March 30 - Skip Tracer

Skip Tracer (1977)

An accomplished repo man from Vancouver takes a new hire under his wing, while their morals and limits are tested on the job.

Friday, March 29 - Naked City: The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff

Naked City: The Tragic Success of Alfred Tiloff (Season 3 Episode 6 - aired Nov 8, 1961)

Kidnappers target a millionaire to pay the ransom for their victim, a young girl from a poor family. The criminals are a husband who's failed at everything he's tried and a still-ambitious wife who'll leave him if he won't go along with her scheme. The child's mother is afraid to go to the police, but a nosy neighbor pieces together the story for the detectives. The husband is torn about the crime, because he loves children, but his wife is bitter from having to parent her younger siblings.

Thursday, March 28 - Pier 5, Havana

Pier 5, Havana (1959)

Miami businessman Steve Daggett (Cameron Mitchell) arrives in Havana in the wake of the revolution, looking for his army buddy Hank (Logan Field), a hard-drinking mechanic who has suddenly vanished. Steve follows a trail that leads him to the apartment of his old flame -- Hank's current wife, Monica (Allison Hayes) -- and to a boat shop where he is beaten up by strangers and warned to leave Cuba. He discovers that Hank's disappearance is linked to a conspiracy to depose Fidel Castro.

Wednesday, March 27 - Goodnight, My Love

Goodnight, My Love (TV Movie 1972)

Gruff gumshoe Francis Hogan is hired by a mysterious woman to find her boyfriend who has gone missing. With his perpetually hungry partner in tow, Hogan must untangle a web of intrigue involving the criminal underworld and a dead courier. One double-cross follows another as Hogan investigates the whole sordid affair.

Tuesday, March 26 - The Salzburg Connection

The Salzburg Connection (1972)

An American lawyer on vacation in Europe is asked by a book publisher to stop by the Austrian town of Salzburg to see a photographer who's taking pictures for a book on picturesque Austrian lakes. Upon his arrival he senses that something is wrong when the photographer seems to have vanished, leaving a near panic-stricken wife and a sinister, secretive brother. Before he knows it, the lawyer finds himself mixed up with spies, assassins, and the hunt for a list made up by the Nazis during World War II of people who collaborated with them.

Monday, March 25 - Bourbon Street Beat: The Black Magnolia

Bourbon Street Beat: The Black Magnolia (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Dec 21, 1959)

Laura Montgomery hires Cal to help her find the $75,000 in cash that her grandfather had hidden somewhere on the riverboat Mississippi Queen over forty years ago.

Sunday, March 24 - Highway Patrol: Motel Robbery

Highway Patrol: Motel Robbery (Season 2 Episode 11 - aired Dec 17, 1956)

Karen Edwards, her older sister Joan, and Joan's husband Bart rob motels by using trickery rather than violence. Their robbery of the upscale Monticello Hotel goes awry when the manager returns to the office unexpectedly and Bart is forced to shoot him. Though critically injured, the manager is able to give Dan Mathews essential information about the perpetrators. At Karen's urging, the increasingly reckless Bart goes ahead with his plans to rob the Eagle Motel at gunpoint. Joan is fearful of facing a murder charge and gives a description of Bart and his vehicle when she and Karen are stopped by a Highway Patrol officer. Dan Mathews spots the car, and is ultimately forced to face Bart in a man-to-man gun battle.

Saturday, March 23 - Burke's Law: Who Killed Snooky Martinelli?

Burke's Law: Who Killed Snooky Martinelli? (Season 1 Episode 16 - aired Jan 10, 1964)

At a jet-set party, it appears to Tim and Les that the victim of a fatal shooting is - - - - Burke! Was Burke really the victim and who was the shooter among the party guests: a wrestler, a racecar driver, a nightclub pianist, a professional ""houseguest"", or a sexy barefoot ""angel""? Or was it a playboy's glamorous wife, who has a ""perfect alibi""? After the killer takes another shot, the question becomes - was the actual victim the intended victim?

Thursday, March 21 - The Invisible Man: Man in Disguise

The Invisible Man: Man in Disguise (Season 2 Episode 9 - aired Nov 21, 1959)

After a crook masquerades as the Invisible Man in order to smuggle a supply of cocaine from Paris to London, Brady teams up with the police, in the form of the attractive Sergeant Winter (Jeanette Stark), in order to run them to ground...

Wednesday, March 20 - The Invisible Man: The White Rabbit

The Invisible Man: The White Rabbit (Season 2 Episode 8 - aired Nov 14, 1959)

French authorities call Peter when a doctor brings in a rabbit she says materialized before her eyes. It was found just outside the family estate of Mssr. Roche, a Nazi collaborator during the war. The two investigate, learning that the secretive man has been funding research on invisibility for years, hoping to create an invisible army with which he'll dominate France.

Tuesday, March 19 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Murder Is Permanent

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.

Monday, March 18 - There's Always a Woman

There's Always a Woman (1938)

Melvyn Douglas is a former detective with the D.A.'s office who has opened his own office. However, there are no clients after a few months, so he returns to the D.A. Sally, his wife, is supposed to close the office, but when a Mrs. Fraser (Mary Astor) enters, Sally passes herself as a detective and gets the case - plus a retainer. It then becomes a competition between husband and wife to see which one will solve the case, which becomes more complicated, involving murder and blackmail.

Sunday, March 17 - Highway Patrol: Ex Con

Highway Patrol: Ex Con (Season 2 Episode 10 - aired Dec 1956)

Reformed ex-con Al Baldwin is unpleasantly surprised when former cell-mates Tom Wright and Frank Jennings visit his rural garage and tell him of their plan to steal $12,000 in cash from the regular farm combine shipment. When Al refuses to help, Wright's wife Delle holds Al's wife Cathy at gunpoint while the robbery takes place. The money is taken as planned, but guard Sid Wells is murdered and Sergeant Walters quickly finds the abandoned truck. He and Dan Mathews investigate and deduce that the Baldwins are in trouble when the nervous Al introduces Tom Wright as his new "helper". They lure Wright away from the house and capture him, but find that they must utilize a high-risk ruse in order to get close enough to rescue the Baldwins and capture Delle Wright and Frank Jennings.

Saturday, March 16 - Calling Paul Temple

Calling Paul Temple (1948)

A woman is found dead on a train, and the name "Rex" has been written on the pull-down blind. It is the third in a mysterious string of "Rex" murders, all carried out on trains. And soon there's a fourth murder. All the victims are discovered to have been the wealthy patients of a doctor who specialises in nervous disorders.

The detective novelist Paul Temple and his wife Steve are called in to help Scotland Yard's Sir Graham Forbes solve the case before the serial killer strikes again. While at a nightclub, they receive a message from singer Norma Rice concerning the murders. But before Sir Graham has the chance to speak to her she dies, falling down the stairs in the middle of her second number, What's Cooking in Cabaret?.

The suspects include the Egyptian therapist Dr Kohima, his mysterious secretary Mrs Trevelyan, and a salesman, Hugh Pryse of the Quick Boil Kettle Company (in the next carriage when one of the murders takes place).

Friday, March 15 - Honey West: The Gray Lady

Honey West: The Gray Lady (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Dec 10, 1965)

A charming jewel thief operating in Hollywood gives Honey West the slip.

It's the old I've dropped my contact lense trick!

When a spoilt film star arrives with a valuable diamond. Honey and Sam know what the next likely target will be for the thief.

Sam even sets up a television in a hotel that watches you.

However there is an inside man.

Thursday, March 14 - Personal Property

Personal Property (1937)

In London, businessman Claude Dabney, who is in partnership with his father Cosgrove Dabney in the family's ladies' undergarments company, and widowed American socialite Crystal Wetherby, are engaged to be married. What neither Claude or Crystal knows is that the other is only marrying for money, Claude who needs Crystal's non-existent money to finance the struggling company, and Crystal who needs Claude's non-existent money to pay off her debts while continuing to live in a means to which she has now been accustomed.

Crystal, from a humble background, made her way to Europe having won a contest, met big game hunter Wetherby, who became her first husband, on board the transatlantic sailing, he leaving her with all these debts upon his passing.

Their situation becomes more complicated when Claude's brother, ne'er-do-well but good-hearted Raymond Dabney, is released from prison, he serving time for robbery. While Raymond's mother is on his side, his father and brother just want to get rid of him, they willing to pay him off to leave town and their lives for good, he holding out for a better deal than their offer.

When Raymond meets Crystal, not knowing who she is let alone that she is Claude's fiancée, he falls in love with her at first sight. Although she wants nothing to do with him, he is able to infiltrate her life. The complication with Raymond entering the picture is ratcheted up a notch when he learns both about her debts and she being Claude's fiancée, he thus seemingly holding the trump cards in what happens with this collective.

Wednesday, March 13 - The Riverside Murder

The Riverside Murder (1935)

Robert Norman is shot dead at his home. Inspector Winton arrives on the scene to investigate the murder and finds that it has occurred shortly before an important meeting between a group of five financiers of whom Norman was one. Budding journalist Claire Haines also manages to talk her way into the house in an attempt to impress her editor by gathering exclusive news on the murder. The other financiers realize they are also in danger when another one of their number is murdered.

Inspector Winton sets a trap for the killer using one of the financiers as bait.

Tuesday, March 12 - Blind Spot

Blind Spot (1958)

An American Army officer, Robert Mackenzie is laid up in a military hospital waiting for an operation. He has lost his sight due to a head injury. The medical types need to wait for the injury to heal before operating to repair his eyesight. Mackenzie is invited off base to attend a party at a fellow officer's place. He gets a ride but is dropped off at the wrong address.

He enters the house and stumbles over a dead body. The killers, Ronan O'Casey and George Pastell see that Mackenzie is blind, so they give him a belt on the head and dump him down a flight of stairs. Mackenzie wakes up in a hospital with assorted bruises etc. He tells everyone about tripping over a body but no one believes him.

Several months later he has his vision restored. He now spends his time trying to prove his story. He is soon mixed up with diamond smugglers, killers and a crooked aircraft mechanic, Gordon Jackson. Also in the mix are the father, John Le Mesurier and sister, Delphi Lawrence of a supposedly dead pilot.

Monday, March 11 - The Man Outside

The Man Outside (1967)

McLean is called back to London where he gets fired after sticking up for his assistant, who's caught selling information to the Russians. Soon he's contacted by George Venaxas a Greek operative who want's to sell information on the whereabouts of a Russian secret police official hiding in London. McLean hesitates, but agrees. The plan backfires when both the CIA and KGB are willing to do anything to get their hands on the Russian defector. Venaxas is murdered, and a trail of double crosses follows.

Sunday, March 10 - Date Bait

Date Bait (1960)

A Troubled young man, Brad, returns home after six months rehab. On his first night he starts a fight in dance club with a man named Logan because he was dancing with Sue, a girl whom Brad is in love with. Brad's older brother ends the fight just to beat Logan up later himself. Although Sue's strict father is strongly against her relationship with Logan, they secretly get married in Las Vegas. Soon Brad's love turns to obsession and at the same time he falls back into using drugs. Sue's father takes matters into his own hands.

Saturday, March 9 - Laughing Sinners

Laughing Sinners (1931)

This one is about a chorus girl-type who gets jilted, hooks up with a Salvation Army man, then is enticed back to the old sinful ways for a night with the man who jilted her and finally realizes she is better off with the good guy and the good morals.

Friday, March 8 - Life in Danger

Life in Danger (1959)

Hazel Ashley, an emotionally unstable adolescent, meets a casual labourer and befriends him. At the same time, news comes that Miller, a convicted child murderer, has just escaped from a nearby lunatic asylum.

Hazel goes missing, and when local villagers led by Major Peters search for her, they find her in a barn with the labourer, whom they assume is the escaped killer. Peters shoots and wounds him. When the police arrive they report that Miller has previously surrendered himself.

Thursday, March 7 - The Amazing Mr. Williams

The Amazing Mr. Williams (1939)

Kenny Williams, a lieutenant on the homicide squad, is engaged to Maxine Carroll, the Mayor's secretary--or is he married to his job? For every time he has a date with his longtime fiancée, he is prevented from keeping it by his devotion to duty. Maxine, in desperation, decides to take action and bring Kenny to the altar.

Wednesday, March 6 - The Vampire's Coffin

The Vampire's Coffin Original title: El ataúd del vampiro (1958)

In Sierra Negra, two grave robbers steel the coffin of Count Karol de Lavud from the crypt, despite the resistance of María Teresa. They head by car to a hospital, where the greedy Barraza sees a medallion when the coffin is opened and demands more money from his partner, Doctor Mendoza. Meanwhile, at the same hospital, Marta González is working as a nurse with Dr. Enrique Saldívar and still recovering from the events in Sicomorros. When Dr. Mendoza seeks out Dr. Enrique to tell that he has stolen the vampire coffin to study his cells, Barraza returns to the room and remove the wood stake to steal Count Lavud's medallion. The vampire returns to life and begins a crime spree in the city, hunting down Marta to marry her.

Tuesday, March 5 - The Human Jungle: Over and Out

The Human Jungle: Over and Out (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Jun 22, 1963)

Pilot Mike Barclay takes up a Mark 2 jet for testing, it crashes, but he survives, Doctor Corder is called in to learn whether it was a suicide attempt or Pilot or Plane error.

Monday, March 4 - Jazz Boat

Jazz Boat (1960)

Electrician Bert Harris boasts that he's a successful cat burglar, which leads to his getting mixed up with real thieves who need those special skills for a big jewellery heist. However, Bert was only giving them a "song and dance" about being a cat burglar, but now discovers it's too late to back out.

Sunday, March 3 - The Hi-Jackers

The Hi-Jackers (1963)

A young lorry driver called Terry McKinley (Anthony Booth) picks up a young runaway called Shirley (Jacqueline Ellis) en route to London with a consignment of whiskey worth £20,000. As they make their way down a quiet country b road, they are set upon by a gang of hijackers lead by Jack Carter (Derek Francis) who make off with the lorry and its valuable goods. Shirley who managed to escape is able to get a good look at Carter and is able to give a description to Inspector Grayson (Patrick Cargill). Terry invites Shirley to stay with him at his London flat and we learn that his business partner, Jim Brady (Ronald Hines), is working for Carter's gang. He tipped them off as to what valuable goods he was carrying and the route he was taking. Unfortunately, Brady learns that Shirley is able to identify his boss and later that night, Terry and Shirley receive a visit from a couple of Carter's thugs who deliver a sinister warning. By now, Terry strongly suspects his old friend Brady and drags him off to the police where he is forced to tell them of the gang's whereabouts. Meanwhile, Shirley visits her ex husband, Tim, who is doing time at Wormwood Scrubs. She threatens to tell the police about other crimes he was connected with, which could put him behind bars for longer unless she tells him where the gang are hiding out. She goes to Carter's house in Hampstead but she is overpowered by the gang. But fortunately, Brady has cracked and informs Terry and Inspector Grayson that the gang are pulling off another job, a lorry carrying £30,000 worth of cosmetics. As it happens the lorry is being driven by one of Terry's mates, a guy known as Scouse (Harold Goodwin). Terry and the police trace the gang to an abandoned farm but not until after they have hijacked the truck but in time to save the goods and rescue Shirley...

Saturday, March 2 - Faces in the Dark

Faces in the Dark (1960)

Richard Hammond, an aggressive and ambitious business mogul and inventor with little or no time for his wife, friends or family, is blinded in an explosion on the same day that his long-suffering wife had planned to leave him. He becomes bitter at life.

His wife is a devious woman and is plotting, with her lover, in an attempt to make her husband think he's going insane, in the hope that he will take his own life and leave them free to pursue their illicit affair in peace.

As he is blind when he encounters the lovers in bed the man just has to stay silent to evade detection.

Hammond gets wise to their plan.

Friday, March 1 - The 20 Questions Murder Mystery

The 20 Questions Murder Mystery (1950)

Based around a guessing game radio show that that was very popular the UK, this film stars the cast of the BBC show. An anonymous listener is mailing questions into the show to be solved on the air, and these clues are lining up with actual murders being committed, so it's up to our radio heroes to decipher the clues for each new letter before it's too late and the murder committed.

Thursday, February 29 - Beyond This Place

Web of Evidence Original title: Beyond This Place (1959)

Twenty years after being evacuated to America, Paul Mathry returns to Liverpool for a short visit. He is shocked to find that his father, whom he believed had died a war hero, is in fact in jail for a murder committed at the time Paul left. Starting to piece those events together, he comes to suspect his father may be innocent.