Friday, January 17, 2025

Thursday, January 16 - Crime Traveller: A Death in the Family


When Holly's Aunt Mary is poisoned in a five star restaurant, she ("she" being Holly, not the Aunt) and Slade travel back in time to find the murderer, but she discovers that her Aunt was up to no good. Things take an unexpected turn when she (again, Holly) is arrested for the crime herself.

Thursday, January 16, 2025

Wednesday, January 15 - Scorchy

Scorchy (1976)

Connie Stevens is Jackie "Scorchy" Parker, the hottest undercover agent the Feds have ever known. She makes fast friends - and deadly enemies. She can handle anything - from a car - to a chopper - to a .357 magnum. But the alluring agent may have her hands full when she takes on a drug-smuggling ring ruled by the sinister Philip Bianco (Cesare Danova).

Wednesday, January 15, 2025

Tuesday, January 14 - Too Many Crooks

Too Many Crooks (1959)

Fingers (George Cole) and his gang of incompetent crooks try to rob the rich Bill Gordon (Terry-Thomas), but they come up empty-handed. Undeterred by the failure, Fingers plots to kidnap Gordon's daughter and hold her for ransom. But they can't even get that right, and instead they abduct Gordon's wife, Lucy (Brenda De Banzie), by mistake. Shockingly enough, Gordon is happy to be rid of his spouse, and ignores the ransom demands, so Lucy works with the gang to plot revenge.

Tuesday, January 14, 2025

Monday, January 13, 2025

Sunday, January 12 - The Hideout

The Hideout (1956)

Insurance investigator Steve Curry accidentally picks up a case of bank notes. He discovers that the case belongs to Helen Grant, who runs a fur business with her brother Robert. The money is for payment to an escaped convict who has smuggled a consignment of Persian lamb skins from a crook named Zacki. It transpires that the furs are disease-ridden. Pursuing Zacki to his hide-out, Robert is murdered and the money stolen by Steve's friend Tim Bowers.

Sunday, January 12, 2025

Saturday, January 11 - Easy Money

Easy Money (1948)

A win on the football pools in postwar Britain changes lives. A happy family is turned into an unhappy argumentative lot until it is discovered that the coupon apparently never get posted. A mild-mannered clerk worries about how to tell his overbearing boss he is quitting. A double-bass player finds that life without the orchestra lacks something. The lure of big money even turns some people into criminals, such as when a coupon checker is tempted by his nightclub-singer girlfriend to cheat the company.

Saturday, January 11, 2025

Friday, January 10 - Crime Traveller: Jeff Slade and the Loop of Infinity & Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Kiss-Off


Jeff Slade's world is turned upside down when he discovers his friend Holly has a secret. She can travel in time.


Ernie Walters has just been released after six years in prison. Falsely convicted of a gas station robbery, he now wants to get even with both the detective and the district attorney who convicted him. Wearing a disguise, Ernie robs the local tax office but drops his hotel room key as he makes his escape. He's quickly re-arrested by the same detective who arrested him six years earlier, but the witnesses can't quite identify him. . 

Friday, January 10, 2025

Thursday, January 9 - One Step Beyond: The Vision & The Devil's Laughter


On a battlefield during the first World War, a group of French soldiers experience something which causes them to drop their weapons and walk away from the fight. During their subsequent court-martial, each gives his differing account of what he saw, which all seem impossible to believe.


Alfred Ryder stars as convicted and condemned murderer John Marriott, who is on the gallows awaiting to be hanged, desperate and scared for it to be stopped. He strangely gets his wish when the noose breaks, and after Marriott claims to have seen his true cause of death(not hanging) becomes jubilant and defiant to the authorities, who are indeed unable to hang him! He will however not escape justice, as an ironic and abrupt fate awaits him much sooner than he thinks.

Thursday, January 9, 2025

Wednesday, January 8 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Who Killed Cock Robin?

My Partner the Ghost [Original title: Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased) TV Series]: Who Killed Cock Robin? (Season 1 Episode 14 - aired Dec 21, 1969)

Mr. Laverick, a solicitor, approaches Jeff with a bizarre assignment - to act as minder to an aviary of birds belonging to the late, eccentric Mrs. Wentworth Howe. Her will stipulates that her relatives will get a share of her large fortune only if the birds are all dead - and someone does kill one of the birds. However it is the relatives who are dying like flies and soon only one, Sandra, is left - making her the chief suspect. The murderer, however, turns out to be outside of the family but his efforts to kill the birds only end in his own destruction - with a little help from Marty.

Wednesday, January 8, 2025

Tuesday, January 7 - Busting

Busting (1974)

LA cops Gould and Blake get in over their heads when they don't heed orders from above and go after a big crime boss. While higher ups in the police department want the cop duo to just focus on nabbing petty criminals, the team does so while still going after LA kingpin Rizzo. Various fist fights, chases, shootouts and other carnage occur as the two cops go after Rizzo's crime syndicate.

Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Monday, January 6 - Bourbon Street Beat: Swamp Fire


Rex is hired to find out why the legend of a supernatural swamp phantom is being used to scare Cajun workers away from a bayou oil drilling camp.

Monday, January 6, 2025

Sunday, January 5 - Deadly Visitor

Deadly Visitor TV Movie (1973)

A writer who takes a room in a boarding house finds himself haunted by a menacing invisible presence that may be the ghost of a previous tenant or that of his long-lost love.