A girl with learning difficulties is traumatised at a young age after witnessing an accidental death of a child. Essentially abandoned by her alcoholic mother and misunderstood and ostracized by the 1960s English rural community she lives in, suspicious of the circumstances of the accident, she finds solace in the natural world and animals around her. She eventually finds friendship and love with a Romany gypsy.
Monday, April 29, 2024
Sunday, April 28, 2024
Saturday, April 27 - The Invisible Man: Man in Power & The Rocket
The Invisible Man tries to protect the heir to an Arab throne (a student of his) from a power grab engineered by the Commanding General of his Army.
The movement of a top secret rocket is compromised when of the scientists runs into gambling debts. The Invisible man realizes what might be happening and heads out on a desperate search for the missing rocket.
Saturday, April 27, 2024
Friday, April 26 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): All Work and No Pay
Jeannie believes that Marty is trying to contact her when objects begin to move around in her house but it is a ploy by the Foster brothers, spiritualists down on their luck, who offer to pay Jeannie to send them clients anxious to hear messages from loved ones who have crossed over. Sensing a scam, Jeff sends Laura, an actress, to pose as a widow and engage the Fosters. He and Jeannie arrive at the Fosters' home and believe, erroneously, that they have killed her. However, the brothers attempt to murder Jeannie and Jeff by propelling objects using electricity.
Friday, April 26, 2024
Thursday, April 25 - Bourbon Street Beat: Kill with Kindness
A rich old woman has collected a group of misfits around her, dreaming that her act of kindness will change their lives. Cal discovers someone is trying to poison her, but who, and more importantly, how?
Thursday, April 25, 2024
Wednesday, April 24 - Highway Patrol: Armored Car
Under the direction of Tiny Elton, Don Brueger and Rusty Schilling hijack an armored car and take it to a remote area with a $25,000 payroll AND guard Bill Franklin still in the back. Elton utilizes a ruse to get Bill's wife Lea into his car. He then drives to the armored car's location and threatens to kill her if Franklin does not come out with the money. Bill complies, but the three take the money and keep Lea hostage in an attempt to ensure their safe passage. When they find themselves trapped in their car at a Highway Patrol roadblock, Dan Mathews knows that Elton is capable of killing Lea whether or not the car is released, and he finds himself in one of the most intense confrontations of his career.
Wednesday, April 24, 2024
Tuesday, April 23 - Hawaiian Eye: A Dime a Dozen
David Blair (Donald May), keeps the combination to a military safe in his wallet. He and Lynn (Shirley Knight) have fallen in love, in spite of his engagement to Rikki Whitman (Joanna Barnes). His wallet is stolen, but the cash returned to the guard gate. The next morning, the safe is missing $9,000. Rikki learns that he is confined to quarters pending the outcome of an investigation carried out by Tracy Steele. Rikki dumps David and pursues Tracy, who is not interested in her. Dan Holt (Wayne Heffley) is the one who took the wallet and robbed the safe. Once the money is recovered, Rikki attempts to reconnect with David, but he chooses to remain with Lynn.
Tuesday, April 23, 2024
Monday, April 22 - The Champions: The Iron Man
The Champions are required to prevent an assassination attempt on the life of the vain, womanizing El Caudillo,who is known as the Iron Man, former ruler of South American pocket state La Revada, now in exile in the south of France. So as not to alert him to their true purpose the trio pose as new domestic staff. Sharron's super powers detect and foil the presence of a sniper but the would-be killers send El Caudillo a box of cigars, which are poisoned. He is about to light one. . .
Monday, April 22, 2024
Sunday, April 21 - Outside the Law
Ray Danton plays an Army Staff Sergeant who has been called back from Europe to help the U. S. Treasury crack a counterfeiting case which has been plaguing them for 15 years. Danton had been permitted to join the Army as a condition of his parole, having been imprisoned for a minor offence when younger. He has done well in the army, been promoted, won a medal, was wounded, the whole lot. He is now offered the chance to have his "slate wiped clean" for his earlier crime by cooperating in solving the case.
The head of the enquiry team in Washington is his own father! They are severely estranged and tensions run high between them.
The reason why Danton is considered important is that he knew a member of the counterfeiting gang who was recently murdered. He is asked to call on that man's widow (played by Leigh Snowden) and see if he can glean any information on the gang.
Sunday, April 21, 2024
Saturday, April 20 - Dancing Lady
Janie lives to dance and will dance anywhere, even stripping in a burlesque house. Rich playboy Tod Newton discovers her there and helps her get a job in a real Broadway musical being directed by Patch. Tod thinks he can get what he wants from Janie, Patch thinks Janie is using her charms rather than talent to get to the top, and Janie thinks Patch is the greatest. Steve, the stage manager, has the Three Stooges helping him manage all the show girls. Fred Astaire and Nelson Eddy make appearances as famous Broadway personalities.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
Friday, April 19 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): A Disturbing Case
Hearing Jeff talk to Marty, Marty's wife Jeannie believes he has snapped and he is referred to a psychiatric unit run by Dr. Conrad. Marty goes to visit him and learns that Conrad is a criminal who hypnotizes people into giving him their valuables, but Conrad gets Jeff to tell him about Marty and then erases him from Jeff's memory by using drugs.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Thursday, April 18 - Naked City: Show Me the Way to Go Home
A young man with emotional problems becomes violent when his mother wants him to be mentally evaluated at Bellevue. After assaulting her boyfriend, the NYPD attempts to find him - and his missing knife. Meanwhile, he is attracted to a charitable girl who is trying to help a confused old woman to find her way home.
Thursday, April 18, 2024
Wednesday, April 17 - The Siege of Sidney Street
In London 1911 a stand off is sparked between Russian anarchists fund raising to help the fight to liberate Latvia and 100 police officers. A young woman trapped in the middle thinks back to the events that led up to the siege, mainly a failed robbery that results in the death of two of the anarchists.
The plot is a dramatised version of true events. . .
Wednesday, April 17, 2024
Tuesday, April 16 - All That Money Can Buy
A down-on-his-luck farmer makes a deal with the devil for seven years of prosperity. When Mr. Scratch comes to collect, orator and hero of the common man Daniel Webster comes to the rescue.
Tuesday, April 16, 2024
Monday, April 15 - The Case of Charles Peace
A picture framer named Charles Peace turns second-story man in 1870s Victorian England and winds up hanged for murder.
Monday, April 15, 2024
Sunday, April 14 - The Last of the Knucklemen
The foreman of a mining company in the Australian outback, who goes by the name of Tarzan (Gerard Kennedy), keeps his hard-drinking gang of men in line by virtue of his brawling skills. One of the men, known as Pansy (Michael Preston), has a habit of irritating all his coworkers -- and, when he mouths off one too many times for Tarzan's liking, the two of them decide to settle their differences once and for all with a bare-knuckle fight that grabs everyone's attention.
Sunday, April 14, 2024
Saturday, April 13 - Alias John Preston
Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. He invests in local businesses and gets involved in community affairs. Eventually, he meets a local belle, Sally, and wins her from her current boyfriend. She agrees to marry him. Then, he begins to have strange dreams about Sylvia, a beautiful woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles the scheming woman, but is then confronted by a strange Frenchman. He tells his dream to Dr. Walton, who feels Preston is suppressing things in his past, and should regain his memory before marrying Sally.
Saturday, April 13, 2024
Friday, April 12 - An Inspector Calls
Based on the play by J.B. Priestley, this British mystery follows Inspector Poole (Alastair Sim) as he investigates the apparent suicide of Eva Smith (Jane Wenham), a young working-class woman. Paying a visit to the wealthy Birling household, Poole arrives in the middle of a dinner party and slowly reveals how each family member, including stern patriarch Arthur Birling (Arthur Young) and his uptight wife, Sybil (Olga Lindo), could have had a hand in Eva's death.
Friday, April 12, 2024
Thursday, April 11 - Naked City: Which Is Joseph Creeley?
A man sentenced to die for the coldblooded murder of another man, is given an operation to remove a tumor from his brain. When the tumor is removed, he becomes a docile individual with no memory of the murder he committed. He is retried. Will he be found not guilty this time?
Thursday, April 11, 2024
Wednesday, April 10 - A Killing in a Small Town
In a quiet Texas town, Candy Morrison and her husband, Dale, seem to live an ordinary life -- but that all changes when she begins sleeping with her husband's friend Stan Blankenship. When Stan's wife winds up dead -- the victim of a brutal ax murder -- Candy's arrest leaves the community in disbelief. And, as her attorney Ed Reivers attempts to prove her innocence, he makes a shocking discovery about his client.
Wednesday, April 10, 2024
Tuesday, April 9 - Burke's Law: Who Killed What's His Name?
The elaborate robbery of a bank ends with the unprovoked shooting death of its owner, financier Victor S. Barrows. The key to solving the mystery is locating one of perpetrators, a man so average in appearance that nobody can clearly describe him.
Tuesday, April 9, 2024
Monday, April 8 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): My Late Lamented Friend and Partner
Private eyes Jeff Randall and Marty Hopkirk are gathering information to allow Fay Sorrensen to divorce her cheating husband but he murders her and makes it look like a heart attack. Marty is suspicious but is killed by a hit-and-run driver before he can prove that Sorrensen is a murderer.
His white-suited ghost gets Jeff to meet him at his grave in the cemetery and they expose the murderer between them. However, Marty has been out of his grave beyond the dawn and must wander the Earth as a ghost for the next century, though only Jeff can see him.
Monday, April 8, 2024
Sunday, April 7 - Confessions: Two Faces of Evil
From the Christmas eve murder of a police officer, 2 confessions come forward; (1) Robert Paul Berndt, has a rather heavy criminal background, (2)'William Mothershed, is a college student with no previous record. Both confessions stand up well to scrutiny.
Sunday, April 7, 2024
Saturday, April 6 - Highway Patrol: 2 Episodes
A thief named Wally steals expensive automobiles, then has one of his two female accomplices (Ann and Norma) forge registration certificates and sell the cars upstate in well-to-do suburbs before their status as stolen cars is widely known. Dan Mathews finds out about the scheme when Officer Dorsey brings in a car theft suspect named Joe Ramo. When Ramo actually turns out to be a victim, Dan and Officer Dorsey check out "cars for sale" ads in higher-income areas upstate. Posing as "Mr. Daniels", Dan answers an ad placed by Ann and is offered a near-new luxury sedan for $3,900. When her background story proves false, Dan and Officer Dorsey enlist the aid of the Lakewood National Bank to set a trap for the three thieves.
Haldor Mattern believes he is a famous concert violinist and is capable of being urbane and refined one moment and homicidal the next. When he escapes from Riverhead Hospital, Dan Mathews and his officers set up roadblocks and pursue all leads. Unsuspecting James Wilson offers Mattern a ride and is subsequently murdered. Mattern assumes Wilson's identity and gives a ride to occasional concert pianist Eileen Haley. When Wilson's body is found, Dan is able to surmise the direction in which Mattern is traveling. Mattern becomes highly upset when Eileen Haley looks at his hands and asks about the extent of his musical background. He stops the car abruptly and starts to slowly strangle her. Dan arrives in time to discern what is happening in the parked car and must use guile to try to prevent Mattern from committing a second murder.
Saturday, April 6, 2024
Friday, April 5 - The Human Jungle: A Woman with Scars
Geoffrey Petlen is worried that his youngest wife Eleanor has severe mental health problems, at a dinner party she places her crystal stemware down the easte disposal, and later shoots a trio of swans on a lake. Corder does his best for his patient.
Dr Corder believes that Eleanor has deep rooted issues. Before long Dr Corder has issues of his own. Eleanor claims that he attacked her and is suing him.
Now Dr Corder is fighting for his reputation. It seems Eleanor is hell bent on revenge, Dr Corder once treated her married lover, a music conductor and Dr Corder told him to break the affair.
Friday, April 5, 2024
Thursday, April 4 - Bourbon Street Beat: Portrait of Lenore
Rex is called in when a famous painting "The Lenore" is stolen from a local art gallery. His expertise and cunning are required when a mysterious woman approaches the gallery with an offer to return the painting.
Thursday, April 4, 2024
Wednesday, April 3 - Hawaiian Eye: Shipment from Kihei
Rancher Bart Harrison (Gerald Mohr) at Kihei on the island of Maui hires Tracy to find who and why his cattle are being stolen on their way to market. Tom Lopaka signs on as a Hawaiian cowboy (paniola) to see what's going on. Local businessman Fred Noble (Mark Roberts) is married to Bart's former lover Emily (Joan Vohs). Because of the past relationship, Bart suspects Fred of the cattle theft, after Fred finds a set of altered bookkeeping records, and believes he's being framed. Tracy suspects that Fred and foreman Jose Kosster (H.M. Wynant) might be partners in the cattle thefts.
Wednesday, April 3, 2024
Tuesday, April 2 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: 2 Episodes
Colonel March is back in Paris and enjoying the company of Inspector Goron of the Surete at a bar.
While having a glass of Carcazon which seems off to Goron. He discusses with the Colonel their differing methods of detection.
Goron prefers to use the heart. The Colonel uses his head and prefers logic.
When a customer called Phillipe in the bar dies. It turns out that he was poisoned and he was also a monk as well a connoisseur of Carcazon.
The culprit might be Francois who was with Phillipe. It turns out that Francois was also a monk who came to Paris and fell in love.
Now Francois has returned to his remote monastery and taken a vow of silence. A monastery that makes Carcazon.
Goron meanwhile suspects the singer in the bar, the one who seemed close to Francois.
A young man, Guy Wallingford, bursts into March's office and exclaims "They've stolen the monkey." Guy explains that he he had already talked to Inspector Ames and that Ames told him to go to March saying that March "handled the monkey business end of the profession." Guy is a brilliant but mentally unstable scientist who works at the lab of the eminent scientist, Sir George Watkins. Guy and two other researchers are doing cancer research using monkeys to test their theories. Guy insists one of the test monkeys has been substituted. Guy becomes increasingly distraught and when he later is found dead from gas, Ames readily believes it to have been suicide. There is a very clever solution to the mystery which March in his usual urbane manner sorts out.
Tuesday, April 2, 2024
Monday, April 1 - Egypt by Three
3 Tales of Egypt include a knife thrower's love triangle, cholera (aka bubonic plague) and Mecca, and con men and holy bread (and diamonds).
Monday, April 1, 2024
Sunday, March 31 - The Champions: To Trap a Rat
Junkie Jane Purcell crashes her car after getting a fix, making her the twelfth drug addict in London to collapse in the wake of being fed a lethal new drug. Sharron poses as an addict and, having successfully tagged along with the recovered Jane, locates the main dealer, shadowing him to the zoo, where he meets up with a peanut seller. The drugs are actually hidden in the peanuts. Craig, realizing that this is the Mr. Big, gets to meet him but he is walking into a trap, involving a foreign embassy. As ever, a Champion must be rescued by colleagues.
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