Dean Stockwell guest stars as a college student out to avenge the death of his fraternity brother who was killed by a car thief.
Saturday, August 31, 2024
Friday, August 30, 2024
Thursday, August 29 - I Am a Camera
Just before the Nazis ascend to power in Berlin, Chris (Laurence Harvey), an aspiring novelist from England, meets flamboyant cabaret entertainer Sally Bowles (Julie Harris) and an unusual friendship is born. As Sally feeds her extravagant tastes, Chris goes along for the ride, until their Jewish pal, Fritz (Anton Diffring), encounters trouble. Adapted from a play based on the memoirs of writer Christopher Isherwood, this story served as the inspiration for the acclaimed musical "Cabaret."
Thursday, August 29, 2024
Wednesday, August 28 - The Streets of San Francisco: Chapel of the Damned
A wealthy woman, whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom, has more faith in a female psychic than Stone and Keller.
Wednesday, August 28, 2024
Tuesday, August 27 - The Time Tunnel: The Last Patrol
Doug and Tony are transported to New Orleans where Tony steals two buckskins for them to wear. They are captured by the British Seventh Royal Regiment commanded by Colonel 'The Butcher' Southall. They find themselves behind the British lines in the War of 1812 against the United Kingdom where they are mistakenly taken to be spies. They go to a partial court martial and sentenced to be executed by firing squad by The Butcher. Furthermore they realize that the day is 07 January 1815, the eve of the ultimate attack of Colonel Southall against the strongest side of Commander Andrew Jackson's defenses, when the British officer led his men to a slaughter. Meanwhile General Kirk invites the British General Phillip Southall, who is a descendant of The Butcher, to visit The Time Tunnel facility to feed the personnel with information about his ancestor.
Tuesday, August 27, 2024
Monday, August 26 - Johnny Staccato: Swinging Long Hair
A classical pianist and his wife defect to the USA after a concert (they actually defected before the show starts). He gets a job playing jazz at Waldo's even though they are hiding from communist agents wanting to take them back.
Monday, August 26, 2024
Sunday, August 25 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Just for the Record
Jeff is acting as a bodyguard to a beauty queen, Anne Soames, who wants to visit the Public Records Office. An intrigued Marty watches as she uses a special pair of glasses to cut the alarm and later a file is stolen by a man named Pargiter. When Jeff pursues him, Pargiter explains that the stolen document reveals him to be the rightful king of England - with his two heavies as noble lords. He condemns Jeff as a heretic, tying him up along with Anne, who has outlived her usefulness, and leaves them to die in a burning building.
Sunday, August 25, 2024
Saturday, August 24 - Honey West: Rockabye the Hard Way
Honey and Sam are hired to prove that a truck driver isn't a security risk and in the process tangle with spies who drug drivers driving secret weapons so they can take photographs while their victims are unconscious.
Saturday, August 24, 2024
Friday, August 23 - Highway Patrol: Resident Officer
Patrolman Joe Kline serves as a "resident officer" to a rural area and is required to advise headquarters of his whereabouts at all times. He discovers a marijuana field while hunting and is murdered when he confronts growers Marty St. Clair and Nelson Potter. The two dispose of Kline's body in a remote area and attempt to make his death appear to be a hunting accident. When the normally-reliable Kline does not make his regular call to headquarters, suspicions are aroused and his body is discovered quickly. Dan Mathews rejects the possibility of a hunting accident after he learns that a marijuana leaf was in one of Kline's pockets. Dan deduces that Kline discovered the field while hunting and stakes out the St. Clair farm. He discovers that the illegal plants are being harvested for shipment in a truck driven by Potter, so he sends Sergeant Morris to tail the truck to the distributor before apprehending Potter. When Linda St. Clair learns of Dan's suspicions from store owner Fred Davis, she convinces Marty that leaving the area immediately is worth the risk. They are unaware that Dan is maintaining his vigil and that he is prepared to move in quickly at any sign that they are attempting to flee.
Friday, August 23, 2024
Thursday, August 22 - Naked City: Let Me Die Before I Wake
A speeding truck aiming for Joe Calageras strikes and critically injures a little girl instead. Flint and Arcaro are certain that the popular Calageras is being targeted for death and believe that the killer's motive has something to do with the reason Joe hasn't left his block in three years.
Thursday, August 22, 2024
Wednesday, August 21 - The Champions: The Gilded Cage
After his file is stolen from the Nemesis headquarters Richard is abducted from his flat in Geneva, rolled up in a carpet and bundled into a van, though fortunately Craig turns up at the flat and notes the registration number of the van. When Richard wakes up he is in London, in a beautiful apartment but with iron bars over the windows. For company there is a young woman called Samantha.Richard meets his abductor who tells him that, unless he can crack a code for him in twelve hours, Samantha will be killed. Mercifully for Richard, Craig has side-stepped the red herrings designed to put him off the trail, and is on his way to rescue his colleague.
Wednesday, August 21, 2024
Tuesday, August 20 - Hawaiian Eye: Sword of the Samurai
Two young Japanese man visiting Hawaii ask Tom to find an old man called Noburu. Tom locates him, but his instincts tell him to find out the reason the men are so anxious to locate the old man before Tom tells them where he is.
Tuesday, August 20, 2024
Monday, August 19 - The Human Jungle: Conscience on a Rack
Elderly headmistress Dorothy Wyley comes to see Dr. Corder after she has attempted suicide and he unravels an unhappy chain of events. For one thing she has lied about her age in order to keep the job she loves and is afraid she will be asked to leave but more important is the unrequited love she felt for a pupil many years earlier.
Monday, August 19, 2024
Sunday, August 18 - Paranoiac
Eleven years earlier, the wealthy Ashby family was shattered when Mr and Mrs Ashby died in an airplane crash and their grieving son Tony committed suicide. All that remains of the family is cruel Simon, an alcoholic in desperate need of funds; his mentally fragile sister Eleanor; and his protective aunt Harriet. Simon is just weeks away from receiving his inheritance, but there is a hitch in his plans when the long believed dead Tony Ashby suddenly arrives.
Sunday, August 18, 2024
Saturday, August 17 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Case of the Misguided Missal
Episode 13, "The Case of the Misguided Missal" finds Colonel March following the trail of a valued 15th century prayer volume (the 'misguided missal') that disappears from a locked casket inside the locked safe of Oxford don Professor Wes Wesley (John Arnatt). His prize student is Nancy Pembroke (Jane Griffiths), who has two rivals for her affections, Garrick (Trader Faulkner) and Ned Young (Anthony Newley), who is immediately arrested for murder when Garrick turns up dead near the stolen missal. Wesley insists that the supernatural is involved, while actual illusionist Chan Canasta (playing himself) demonstrates how the book can disappear from a locked safe.
Saturday, August 17, 2024
Friday, August 16 - Bourbon Street Beat: Melody in Diamonds
Melody Lee is dressed for a Mardi Gras ball by an elegant Hungarian woman named Magda who owns a boutique and lends her a fabulous set of diamond jewelry, including a tiara, but when Kenny returns the diamonds to Magda, Magda yells, "Paste!" The "diamonds" are fake. A mysterious "magician" has managed to get them from Melody at the ball and replace them with the fakes.
That's when it gets complicated, because the magician has actually interrupted another theft that is going on, and his mousy wife, who works for Magda, is furious that the jewels the "magician" stole are also paste.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Thursday, August 15 - The Sign of Four: Sherlock Holmes' Greatest Case
After an amputee prisoner serving a life sentence, Jonathon Small (Graham Soutten), reveals the whereabouts of his stolen treasure to two prison warders in exchange for his freedom, he is furious when they betray him. Driven mad by the sight of so many riches, one man, Major John Sholto (Herbert Lomas), murders his acquaintance, and flees with the wealth. Many years later, Small escapes from prison, seeking his revenge and his treasure. Shortly before his death, Sholto bequeaths the valuable pearl necklace from the treasure hoard to Mary Morstan (Isla Bevla), the daughter of the man he murdered. However, when Small comes after Morstan as well, she quite intelligently seeks the aid of the great Sherlock Holmes.
Thursday, August 15, 2024
Wednesday, August 14 - The Untouchables: The St. Louis Story
Two mobsters - Joe Courtney and Tim Harrington - are fighting it out to get control of the syndicate in St. Louis. Dink Conway, owner of the prestigious Jockey Club, tries to make peace between them but the hot-headed Harrington will have nothing to do with it. Conway soon dispatches his henchman, Whitey, to dispose of him. Soon after, Courtney robs a Postal truck carrying $1 million in bonds but Conway decides he wants the proceeds. Eliot Ness and a rookie agent, Cam Allison, are dispatched from Chicago to investigate. Working with various brokerage houses, they try to locate the missing bonds.
Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Monday, August 12 - Checkmate: Deadly Shadow
A young widow is attacked and the only photograph of her dead husband, a Marine private is stolen. Checkmate investigates to thwart a conspiracy against her and the private the military claims never existed.
Monday, August 12, 2024
Sunday, August 11 - Naked City: A Case Study of Two Savages
Two newlyweds from Arkansas, honeymoon in New York City. Their happy time is interrupted by the husband's continual penchant for murder and robbery as a means of getting what he wants for himself and his bride.
Sunday, August 11, 2024
Saturday, August 10 - Six of a Kind
J. Pinkham Whinney (Charlie Ruggles) and his wife, Flora (Mary Boland), want to go on a second honeymoon and decide to share the trip's expenses with a wacky couple, George Edward (George Burns) and Gracie De Vore (Gracie Allen). None of them realize they are carrying a suitcase stashed with stolen loot planted by Whinney's scheming colleague, Ferguson (Bradley Page). But Ferguson's convoluted plan goes awry once Sheriff John Hoxley (W.C. Fields) sticks his bulbous nose into the picture.
Saturday, August 10, 2024
Friday, August 9 - Faithless
A woman of style, wealth and no small amount of arrogance, Carol Morgan (Tallulah Bankhead) callously turns away handsome business executive Bill Wade (Robert Montgomery) because he is only moderately rich. However, after the Great Depression hits, even Carol's fortunes fall, so she becomes involved with a millionaire (Hugh Herbert) despite his obnoxious behavior. Before long, though, Carol opts to be with Bill - but their luck continues to decline.
Friday, August 9, 2024
Thursday, August 8 - The Champions: The Search
At Holy Loch in Scotland a team of Nazi frogmen infiltrate a nuclear submarine, overpowering its crew. The demand is simple; unless five million pounds is paid as a ransom nuclear devices pointed at London will go off, destroying the city. To activate the devices a nuclear physicist is required and, when Dr. Mueller goes missing, it seems likely that he has been kidnapped for that purpose. The Champions manage to locate him and, posing as his associates, board the submarine with him. Alas, he too is a Nazi sympathiser and part of the plan, who gives the Champions away. The ransom is paid but the weapons are still focussed on the capital and, with only minutes to spare, the team from Nemesis must prevent the worst from happening.
Thursday, August 8, 2024
Wednesday, August 7 - Hawaiian Eye: Then There Were Three
An Iowa girl on vacation in Hawaii discovers that she has inherited a small island. Unfortunately, shortly after she receives that news she vanishes.
Wednesday, August 7, 2024
Tuesday, August 6 - Highway Patrol: Statute of Limitations
Frank Loring, Eddie Beekman, and Wyatt Beekman robbed the Citrus Trust of $500,000 three years before and plan to flee the country with the money when the statute of limitations expires. When Eddie hits a little girl with Loring's car, Dan Mathews and Officer Garvey investigate and are surprised when John Weber (the girl's father) declines to press charges. Dan quickly deduces that Weber must have received a generous payoff. Dan learns that Eddie had been a suspect in the Citrus Trust robbery and he also learns that Eddie's girlfriend Barbara Franklin plans to leave the country with Wyatt Beekman within days. District Attorney Jason Tyler advises Dan that the statute of limitations on the Citrus Trust robbery will expire at midnight, so Dan and Officer Garvey act quickly to set a trap for the three by "inadvertently" disclosing Barbara's infidelity to Eddie. The quick-tempered Eddie Beekman reacts just as Dan had hoped.
Tuesday, August 6, 2024
Monday, August 5 - The Human Jungle: Ring of Hate
Lee Garner is a promising young boxer who, for no apparent reason, starts to lose all his fights and comes close to having a complete breakdown. Dr. Corder discovers that Lee's problems relate to his father whom he thought had died but has re-appeared, reawakening unhappy childhood memories.
Monday, August 5, 2024
Sunday, August 4 - Bourbon Street Beat: The 10% Blues
When the Baron is beaten up (but leaving his hands uninjured) Rex and Cal are drawn into a scheme by a couple out of town "talent agents" who force performers in NOLA to sign up and give them 10% of their earnings "or else." They have a local legitimate agency for a front, so the problem for Rex and Cal is to find out who is really the boss behind the muscle while trying to keep anyone else from getting hurt.
Sunday, August 4, 2024
Saturday, August 3 - Curse of the Fly
Scantily clad Patricia Stanley (Carole Gray) breaks out of a mental hospital and is picked up by passing motorist Martin Delambre (George Baker). The two do not reveal much about themselves to each other, but nevertheless decide to get married. At the Delambre family mansion, Patricia meets Martin's father, Henri (Brian Donlevy), an eccentric scientist. Snooping about the grounds, she discovers evidence of the family's strange experiments in teleportation and the grisly results thereof.
Saturday, August 3, 2024
Friday, August 2 - Johnny Staccato: A Nice Little Town
A lady friend asks Johnny to find out who beat her brother to death. No one is investigating the crime in the small town because they think he was a traitor.
Friday, August 2, 2024
Thursday, August 1 - Star Witness
When mobster Luigi Renaldo goes out of town, his enforcer, Paolo Rienzi decides to bring in a couple of out-of-town men to teach William Norbert, their accountant who tried to quit his job with them, a lesson. They administer a beating a severe beating and Eliot Ness is soon trying to get Norbert to cooperate with the Untouchables. Norbert isn't too keen at first but an attempted hit convinces him to testify against Rinaldo. Norbert has an amazing facility with numbers and essentially keeps the mobs books in his head. As their entire case rests on his testimony Norbert, along with his wife and daughter, are under constant police protection but that doesn't stop Renaldo from going after them.
Thursday, August 1, 2024
Wednesday, July 31 - Checkmate: A Matter of Conscience
A prisoner, played by Gary Merrill, is paroled after serving 20 years for a robbery and a gunshot victim. The son of the victim vows to make him pay once he comes back into the community. Others are also out to silence Merrill.
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