Saturday, June 29 - Cluny Brown

Cluny Brown (1946)

To teach her to stay within her social station, Cluny Brown (Jennifer Jones) is sent by her plumber uncle to work as a parlor maid in the country house of Sir Henry Carmel (Reginald Owen) and his wife, Alice (Margaret Bannerman). Brown soon finds herself torn between her attraction to Adam Belinski (Charles Boyer), a political refugee staying as a houseguest, and the prospect of a stable marriage with stuffy Jonathan Wilson (Richard Haydn), a chemist.

Friday, June 28 - Highway Patrol: 2 Episodes

Highway Patrol: Migrant Workers (Season 2 Episode 15 - aired Jan 14, 1957)

Using inside information from Sandy Collins, Jack and George Willis stop a truck carrying Collins and 11 fellow itinerant fruit pickers, all of whom are carrying their month's pay of $200. The Willises rob them at gunpoint and shoot Joe Valentine when he disobeys their orders and attempts to follow them. Collins gives Dan Mathews false information in an attempt to divert the investigation, but Dan easily exposes the flaws in his story. When Valentine dies, interrogation of Collins intensifies and additional evidence implicating him in the crime is discovered. Collins breaks down and provides information that Dan uses to set up roadblocks that will trap the Willises before they can flee the area.

Highway Patrol: Ranch Copter (Season 2 Episode 16 - aired Jan 21, 1957)

Ranchers Ted and Harry Johnson are openly disdainful of George Wilson, their sister Iris's new city-bred husband who lives on their ranch. George and Iris argue about the situation, and Iris is critically shot and wounded when she foolishly tosses a loaded revolver in George's direction. George panics and flees, but quick-tempered Ted Johnson is determined to exact revenge for his sister's (presumed) death and goes after George with a rifle. Iris subsequently survives an emergency operation and weakly admits that the shooting was an accident. Given this information, Dan Mathews uses the Highway Patrol helicopter for an all-out effort to locate George Wilson and Ted Johnson in the rough terrain before a fatal tragedy occurs.

Thursday, June 27 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: 2 Episodes

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Silver Curtain (Season 1 Episode 17 - aired Feb 18, 1956)

Jerry Winton lost a bundle in a casino in France. Later he is arrested for the murder of a man called Davos. Davos was found with a knife in his back and Winton was due to meet him.

Colonel March could provide Winton with an alibi but March claims not to have seen him.

Luckily for Winton, Inspector Goron senses that March might be lying as March was investigating Davos.

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Error at Daybreak (Season 1 Episode 18 - aired Feb 25, 1956)

Norman Kane, a shady businessman accused of swindling investors, collapses on a seaside jetty just prior to taking a swim in the cold ocean. Although his attending physician pronounces him dead of an apparent heart attack, a vacationing Colonel March discovers a sharpened needle near the body and connects it to an air rifle which Kane's secretary was using on the beach. Unfortunately by the time the police arrives, the body has disappeared, apparently taken out to sea by the advancing tide.

Wednesday, June 26 - A Honeymoon Adventure

Footsteps in the Night (Original title: A Honeymoon Adventure - 1931)

Peter Hannen has invented a groundbreaking whatsit. He takes the plans he is working on with him on his honeymoon with Benita Hume at her castle in Scotland. But bad guys in the person of Harold Huth and Robert English have gotten wind of it and want it. They lure Hannen away, make him a prisoner, and then Huth goes up to Scotland, pretending to be an old friend of Hannen's, and means to search the place for the plans. Miss Hume must outwit him.

Tuesday, June 25 - Mannix: Delayed Action

Mannix: Delayed Action (Season 1 Episode 22 - aired Mar 2, 1968)

A man named Spinelli shows up severely injured at a hospital emergency room, asking for Mannix. The detective arrives. He's never seen Spinelli before in his life. From this odd beginning, Mannix will be beaten, suspended by Intertect and shot at with a spear gun as he tries to solve a mystery extending back more than 20 years.

Monday, June 24 - Naked City: Portrait of a Painter

Naked City: Portrait of a Painter (Season 3 Episode 14 - aired Jan 10, 1962)

A mentally-disturbed young painter (William Shatner) confesses to murdering his wife, who was found on the floor of his studio. But the detectives seek to establish, with the help of the painter's psychiatrist, the full set of details that the painter cannot seem to recollect, which could prove either his guilt or innocence

Sunday, June 23 - Johnny Staccato: 2 Episodes

Johnny Staccato: An Angry Young Man (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Feb 25, 1960)

Johnny becomes concerned when an ambitious young man starts working at a bookstore which is just a cover for a criminal enterprise.

Johnny Staccato: The Mask of Jason (Season 1 Episode 25 - aired Mar 3, 1960)

Staccato is hired by a beauty pageant contestant (Mary Tyler Moore) to protect her from a disfigured man who keeps threatening her, but the man turns out to be her husband.

Saturday, June 22 - The Streets of San Francisco: Most Feared in the Jungle

The Streets of San Francisco: Most Feared in the Jungle (Season 2 Episode 14 - aired Dec 20, 1973)

A single girl named Barbara has a baby and is then told the baby was stillborn. However, she thinks it is alive and embarks on a murderous quest to find the truth.

Friday, June 21 - The Great Lover

The Great Lover (1949)

Roland Young is a con artist and card sharp whose modus operandi is to take in two people, a rich mark and a naive doofus and get them into a poker game. Young makes sure the doofus wins in the end, but then they play a bit of two handed poker where Young takes the winnings. And if they object as George Reeves does in the initial scene, Young strangles them and takes the money anyway.

The mark in this case is Roland Culver who is in a state of genteel poverty. He's got two assets, a valuable necklace and his daughter Rhonda Fleming. Young covets the former and Bob Hope's attracted to the latter.

To get Culver into the game, Young introduces Hope as a millionaire from Ohio. What Hope is actually doing is babysitting a group of Boy Foresters on a trip to Europe for an international gathering. . .

Thursday, June 20 - The Franchise Affair

The Franchise Affair (1951)The Franchise Affair (1951)

A young traumatized girl runs through the storm and into her guardian's arms. The next day, Robert Blair (Michael Denison), a local solicitor, is telephoned by Marion Sharpe (Dulcie Grey) who lives at the Franchise (a source of gossip in the town). She and her frail mother (Marjorie Fielding) have been accused of kidnapping and beating a young girl, Betty Kane (Ann Stephens). Betty is bought to the Franchise to identify them, which she does with amazing accuracy - even to the tiny attic, the broken window and the car's painted tyres!!! Her brother goes to the press and the papers have a field day - accusations run riot!!

Blair starts to interview all the people connected with Betty - and he starts to piece together a story of a secretive girl who has a photographic memory. . .

Wednesday, June 19 - The Time Tunnel: End of the World

The Time Tunnel: End of the World (Season 1 Episode 3 - aired Sep 23, 1966)

Doug and Tony escape the moon only to materialize in an old mine shaft in 1910, the year that Halley's Comet passed very close to earth. Many in town, including prominent scientist Professor Ainsley, believe the comet will smash into the Earth and end all life! Doug and Tony know this isn't true so their goal is to rescue miners trapped below the earth and all but abandoned in the town's panic.

Tuesday, June 18 - The Champions: The Dark Island

The Champions: The Dark Island (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Dec 4, 1968)

An American submarine crew find a rocket launcher on a small Pacific island and are attacked by Oriental soldiers. A plane flying over the same island is shot down and so the agents of Nemesis investigate. Sharron and Craig pose as ship-wreck survivors and are taken prisoner by the island overlord Max Kellor and his band of Chinese warriors. Richard meanwhile lands by parachute and discovers a slave army working at a rocket site. The missile is pointed towards America and the plan is to make the Americans think the Russians have fired it. Richard is also captured and must pretend that he does not recognize the other Champions if they are to escape and save the world again.

Monday, June 17 - Simon and Laura

Simon and Laura (1955)

A television producer (Ian Carmichael) in the early days of BBC Television sells the idea of a daily soap opera starring a "real life" show business couple. Unfortunately Laurence Olivier and Vivian Leigh are not available! However there is a suitable substitute in the Fosters (Peter Finch and Kay Kendall).

What the producer doesn't know but which their agent (Hubert Gregg) does is that the Fosters are constantly at each others throat (and going home to mother!) and, of course, unemployed and broke. Reluctantly they set aside their fighting and accept the roles for the sake of solvency.

To make the Fosters more comfortable in television their real life butler and maid (Maurice Denham and Thora Hird) are cast as their TV series butler and maid. Also along is the series writer (Muriel Pavlow) who has a crush on the producer. The series is a smash but its difficult playing lovey-dovey in front of the camera while fighting behind it. Naturally Carmichael is much more "understanding" of Kendall, than her husband is, and Pavlow is much more "admiring" of Finch, than his wife is.

Complications ensue, not only from the couplings but from child actors as well. Eventually it becomes impossible to hide the off screen lives and they begin to cross over into live TV.

Sunday, June 16 - Dead Lucky

Dead Lucky (1960)

A pair of reporters are attempting to infiltrate a gambling ring that sets up illegal parties in rented premises when one of the main gamblers is murdered.

Saturday, June 15 - Seven Days to Noon

Seven Days to Noon (1950)

An English scientist runs away from a research center with an atomic bomb. In a letter sent to the British Prime Minister he threatens to blow up the center of London if the Government don't announce the end of any research in this field within a week. Special agents from Scotland Yard try to stop him, with help from the scientist's assistant future son-in-law to find and stop the mad man.

Friday, June 14 - Meet Mr. Lucifer

Meet Mr. Lucifer (1953)

When Mr Pedelty leaves his firm, he is given a television set as a retirement present. At first, he enjoys all the attention from his neighbours, but soon the attraction wears off, and he sells it on to a young married couple the Nortons, living in the flat above him. They soon encounter the same problems, and again the set is passed on to several different characters all with the same results.

The set passes to the chemist Hector McPhee who falls in love with "The Lonely Hearts Singer" on a television programme. At first he has the same dour character as his maiden aunt, Miss MacPherson. At first, the set improves his character, but as his obsession grows, he becomes increasingly angry at any interruption.

Thursday, June 13 - The Human Jungle: Success Machine

The Human Jungle: Success Machine (Season 2 Episode 1 - aired Sep 29, 1964)

A contractor is driven so hard to live up to his illustrious German ancestors, he doesn't care how dangerous he makes work conditions, or how his violent temper affects his wife and children.

Wednesday, June 12 - Hand in Hand

Hand in Hand (1961)

Michael O'Malley (Philip Needs) is an Irish Catholic boy who forms a close friendship with Rachel Mathias (Loretta Parry), a younger Jewish girl. At first, the two are ignorant of their religious differences until schoolmates raise the issue to Michael. The two friends decide to attend each other's religious services, and each enjoys learning about the other's faith. When they have an adventure on a raft, an accident causes Michael to realize how much he cherishes Rachel's friendship.

Tuesday, June 11 - Boys in Brown

Boys in Brown (1949)

Teenager Jackie Knowles (Richard Attenborough) drives a getaway car in a robbery. He is captured and sentenced to serve three years in a borstal institution run by a sympathetic governor (Jack Warner). He befriends Alfie (Dirk Bogarde) and Bill (Jimmy Hanley).

During an in-house concert party Jackie sneaks into one of the staff rooms. He removes the light bulbs when a man enters he is unseen. But he is spotted and a fight ensues in which Jackie knocks the man out with a lamp. He thinks he has killed him. He escapes with half a dozen others including Alfie.

When caught the injured man awaits a critical operation in hospital and there may still be a murder charge. Alfie decides to confess to the crime not realising he might hang.

Jackie eventually confesses. His girl says she is happy to wait three years for him.

Monday, June 10 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Stolen Crime

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Stolen Crime (Season 1 Episode 16 - aired Feb 11, 1956)

Episode 19, "The Stolen Crime" begins with Peter Ridgway (Glyn Houston) asking Inspector Ames (Ewan Roberts) to arrest him for plotting the perfect murder of his wealthy wife, who does indeed turn up dead on the very night he had predicted, apparently of natural causes. His elderly Aunt Josephine (Amy Dalby) believes that her niece's secretary, Jennifer Lane (Josephine Douglas), is responsible for leading her nephew astray, but Colonel March learns that the Ridgway coin collection reveals a number of counterfeits replacing the more valued ones (what starts out as 'the perfect crime' ends up as 'the stolen crime').

Sunday, June 9 - The Ghosts of Berkeley Square

The Ghosts of Berkeley Square (1947)

At a court in the afterlife a pair of disgraced 18th century soldiers are sentenced to haunt a mansion. Their sentence will be deemed complete only when the house has received royal visitors. Over the next two centuries, the ghosts try and fail to lure royalty to the mansion but nonetheless find themselves sharing it with a range of colourful characters.

Saturday, June 8 - The Streets of San Francisco: Winterkill

The Streets of San Francisco: Winterkill (Season 2 Episode 13 - aired Dec 13, 1973)

Angered by rising costs, an old man tries to pay his friend's bills by threatening a businessman with the bombing of his buildings.

One elderly man is being evicted for non-payment of rent, another is going blind and can't afford the corrective surgery.

Boarding house resident "Wade Tillman" (actor Paul Fix) takes matters into his own hands to raise the money. First it's armed robbery at a gas station. Then Tillman resorts to extortion and terrorist threats against his wealthy acquaintance "Carl Armstrong" (actor Denver Pyle). "I have planted explosives in all of your skyscraper buildings; pay up or I detonate the bombs!"

Friday, June 7 - Bourbon Street Beat: Find My Face!

Bourbon Street Beat: Find My Face! (Season 1 Episode 16 - aired Jan 18, 1960)

Charles Aidman stumbles into Randolph and Calhoun's office after seemingly hit by a car, but he is whacked out nuts, running around pounding on things like a drummer, until he sees himself in a mirror and says, "That's not my face!"

As the men in the white coats haul him off, he begs Rex Randolph "Fine my face, Mister! Find my face!" Rex is shaken enough to check things out, and he finds out that yes, this man isn't who his ID says he is and he really is not wearing his own face. Rex convinces his partners that something has happened to this guy, and together they try to get things right for him.

Thursday, June 6 - The Invisible Man: Shadow Bomb & The Big Plot

The Invisible Man: Shadow Bomb (Season 2 Episode 12 - aired Dec 12, 1959)

The invisible man is called in after a malfunction with a light sensitive bomb. Brady must somehow disarm the weapon before approaching darkness makes detonation inevitable.

The Invisible Man: The Big Plot (Season 2 Episode 13 - aired Dec 19, 1959)

Authorities become alarmed when they realize parts of an atomic bomb are found among the baggage from a crashed airliner. The Invisible man is tasked with finding out the source of the parts.

Friday, June 5 - The Flaw

The Flaw (1955)

Race car driver John Bentley marries heiress Rona Anderson. After a year, she confesses to her lawyer, Donald Houston, that he married her only for her money. He's been keeping a girl on the side. Houston discusses divorce with her. She goes home, tells Bentley she's leaving. Bentley then plans her murder... but first he kills Houston, telling him his perfect plan as he collapses under poisoned whisky. Houston gasps out that there's a flaw, and dies...

Tuesday, June 4 - Trial and Error

Trial and Error Original title: The Dock Brief (1962)

In a cell under the Old Bailey, two men meet. One is Wilfred Morgenhall, a single barrister who never gets any cases and is overjoyed to have won this dock brief, the defence of an accused individual with no lawyer (at public expense). The other is his client Herbert Fowle, an insignificant man who just wants to plead guilty to murdering his wife and get it all over.

Flashbacks show that the wife was impossible to live with and Fowle, who avoided her as much as possible, hatched a plot to get rid of her by taking in a male lodger. The lodger found her amusing and attractive, until one day he went too far and Mrs Fowle threw him out of the house. In despair at his plot having failed, Fowle killed her.

Morgenhall role-plays various defences, in the process raising Fowle's will to fight. But when the case is called, he botches it and Fowle is found guilty. Morgenhall goes to visit him in prison, where he learns that Fowle has been reprieved because his defence was so poor. The two leave together, two lonely and inadequate men who have become friends.

Monday, June 3 - A Touch of Frost: True Confessions

A Touch of Frost: True Confessions (Season 5 Episode 3 - aired Feb 23, 1997)

Just back from a holiday in Spain with his friend Kitty Rayford, DI Jack Frost investigates the death of Jeanette Barr, found on a nearby riverbank. The autopsy reveals that although she downed, it more likely happened in her bathtub than in the river. In the course of the investigation, Frost learns that she was having an affair with Richard Sheridan, a graphic designer who worked for her husband and his brother but he has an alibi for the time of her death. Jeanette's husband, Jack Barr, is known to Frost from when he investigated the murder of his first wife 10 years previously. Unfortunately someone is already serving a sentence for that killing and Jack finds himself suspended while an internal investigation takes place.

Sunday, June 2 - A Touch of Frost: House Calls

A Touch of Frost: House Calls (Season 5 Episode 2 - aired Feb 16, 1997)

Jack is in charge of the case of a three month old corpse found in the coal bin of an abandoned farm house. The body is eventually identified as that of a well known thief, but Jack has little to go on. DS Liz Maud has a case of a child abuser who is injecting children with water. Jack recalls a similar case and when they learn he is now in the area, have an immediate suspect. Jack feels sorry for him however and concludes that he can't be the person they're after. However, when two children are killed, both with indications of having injections, Jack may be in the soup. Supt. Mullett advises him that he will have no choice but to advise the Chief Constable and that it will likely lead to a disciplinary hearing. Fortunately for Jack, he sees a number of holes in Maud's case leading him to the the real killer.

Saturday, June 1 - A Touch of Frost: Penny for the Guy

A Touch of Frost: Penny for the Guy (Season 5 Episode 1 - aired Feb 9, 1997)

It's a busy night for the Denton CID. Just as DI Jack Frost is about to leave on a fortnight's leave, the body of a young boy is found dead in an alley. He was found gagged and the pathologist determines he had been chloroformed and had choked on his own vomit. He had also had his left pinkie finger cut off. The police had initially thought the young boy was Bobby Kirby who had gone missing that evening, but they determine it's not the same child so they have both a murder victim and a missing child. The same evening, a couple returns home to find their front door open and their teenage daughter missing. The parents paid 25,000 pounds for her release but Frost has his doubts having had business with the girl's father in the past. As for Bobby, kidnappers demand a half million pounds from a major supermarket chain or the boy will be killed. The payment is made but the police operation is botched and they have to go back a few steps in order to get on the right track.

Friday, May 31 - The Beverly Hillbillies: The Clampetts Strike Oil

The Beverly Hillbillies: The Clampetts Strike Oil (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired Sep 26, 1962)

Jed Clampett is told by a representative of an oil company that the swamp behind his shack is full of oil. (The oil company employee has been hauled in by Jed's daughter Elly May who asks whether she can keep him.) Later, Mr. Brewster, the head of the oil company, does a deal with Jed. Jed tells Cousin Pearl that he'll receive 25 to 100 of "some new kind of dollar." Pearl, thinking Jed has been "slickered", asks what kind of dollar he's talking about. "Million dollars," Granny, Jed's mother-in-law, replies. "Jed, you're a millionaire," Pearl says. "Yeah, that's what that Brewster fella said." Pearl convinces Jed to move to Beverly Hills, California (she pronounces it "Cal-i-forn-ee") and volunteers her son, Jethro, to drive Jed, Elly May and Granny there. Upon arriving, Granny complains the hills aren't that high. Jed says at least there are hills and "we'll be among our own kind of people." The Clampett clan mistakes their new home for a prison and the groundskeepers for prisoners. The Clampetts end up in jail, but Milburn Drysdale, their new banker, gets them freed. But, as Drysdale tries to take the Clampetts to their new mansion, the foursome flee, fearing they're going to prison.