Tuesday, November 5 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The New Invisible Man

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The New Invisible Man (Season 1 Episode 25 - aired Mar 17, 1956)

The queer complaint comes from Major Henry Rodman (Roger Maxwell), who claims to have witnessed a murder through a neighbor's window, depicting a pair of gloves that shoot a man dead. A more eccentric neighbor, Baron Novakov (Bernard Rebel), confirms that he definitely heard two gunshots, not the sound of a car backfiring.

Colonel March and Inspector Ames (Ewan Roberts) call upon the young couple who reside there, Jim Hartley (Anthony Forwood) and his wife Betty (Patricia Owens), who show off a portrait of the murder victim, Jim's uncle, who has been deceased for four years. Seeing no corpse, no blood, and no evidence of wrongdoing, the Major apologizes for his apparently crazy story, but Colonel March refuses to give up easily, buying time until the pieces fit the puzzle.

Monday, November 4 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo

My Partner the Ghost: The Ghost Who Saved the Bank at Monte Carlo (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Nov 30, 1969)

Marty's eccentric old aunt, Clara, unaware of his death, comes to the agency, seeking a bodyguard to accompany her to the roulette tables of Monte Carlo where she hopes to put into practice her foolproof winning system. Jeff and Jeannie go with her and she wins a fortune but two gangs, one British, one French, are after her secret and steal her 'little red book' though this proves to be worthless as her system is in her head. When heavies abduct Jean, the best way to save her seems to be to show that Clara can lose as well as win, requiring Marty to 'doctor' the roulette wheel.

Sunday, November 3 - Ball of Fire

Ball of Fire (1941)

A group of eight professors are writing an encyclopedia. The naive professor of English Bertram Potts concludes that he needs field research to update the slang in his article and he goes to the streets and to a night-club. He meets the sexy singer Sugarpuss O'Shea, who is the mistress of the mobster Joe Lilac, and invites her to participate of the meetings of his research in the foundation that is promoting the encyclopedia. When she learns that the police have arrested Joe Lilac and are chasing her to testify against him, she decides to meet Prof. Potts and stay in the foundation. She becomes the pride and joy of the seven old man and Prof. Potts falls for her and proposes to marry her. Meanwhile Joe Lilac decides to get married to Sugarpuss to avoid her testimony in the court.

Saturday, November 2 - Wise Blood

Wise Blood (1979)

After being decommissioned from the US Army, strong minded Hazel Motes decides to relocate to the city rather than go back to his small southern town where he no longer has any family, or any semblance of a home, either emotional or physical. In meeting Asa Hawks, a blind sidewalk preacher, and his assistant daughter, Sabbath Lily, Hazel, reacting against Asa's preachings and perhaps in knowing that they are perpetrating a scam, decides to start his own sidewalk church, one that does not believe in God, sin or evil, or that will collect offerings. In doing so, Haze, in turn, garners strong reactions from various people he meets. Asa doesn't like what "business" Haze may take away from him, while Lily is attracted to him. Haze obtains a groupie in the form of Enoch Emory, relatively new to the city and without friends, he searching for his place in life and something in which to believe. Another sidewalk preacher, Hoover Shoates, wants to profit off of what Haze has started. And while Haze initially lives with Leora Watts, who operates a "rooming house" which is more a single person brothel, he ends up moving into the same rooming house where Asa and Lily live, the landlady who has a motherly attachment to him. Through all these encounters, Haze ultimately demonstrates how strong his devotion is to his beliefs regardless of anyone or anything else.

Friday, November 1 - Honeymoon in Bali

Honeymoon in Bali (1939)

Bill Burnett, a resident of Bali, visits New York City, meets and falls in love with Gail Allen, the successful manager of a Fifth Avenue department store, who is determined to remain free and independent. Bill proposes, Gail declines and Bill goes home to Bali. But a young girl, Rosie, and Tony the window washer who dispels advice on every floor, soon have Gail thinking maybe she was a bit hasty with her no to Bill's proposal. Ere long she discovers that she does love Bill and can't live without him. She goes down to Bali to give him the good news. She learns that he is soon to marry Noel Van Ness. She returns to New York City. . .

Thursday, October 31 - Highway Patrol: Psycho

Highway Patrol: Psycho (Season 2 Episode 20 - aired 1957)

Dan Mathews and Sergeants Walters and Merritt answer a call in a remote area concerning a man with a rifle who is taking potshots. The man is on a hill and takes several shots and Dan and the two sergeants, but they are eventually able to search his car. The search reveals that he is novelist Guy Pemberton and that he is undergoing psychiatric treatment and taking a powerful drug for arthritic symptoms. They send for Pemberton's psychiatrist, who advises them that the writer is having a psychotic reaction to the drug and is "acting out" the ending of his latest novel. Since the novel ends with the protagonist's suicide, Dan acts quickly and takes a high-risk course of action that will enable him to get close enough to try to subdue Pemberton and end the standoff.

Wednesday, October 30 - Newsfront

Newsfront (1978)

Phillip Noyce's historical and oddly prophetic first feature traces the story of two newsreel photographers in post-war Australia. Starting from the first waves of European post-war immigration, the storyruns through to the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne. As colour narrative and genuine black-and-white newsreel footage merge together with brilliantly recreated events(the 1954 Maitland flood scenes slip from story to newsreel quite seamlessly) so the stories of the characters, the newsreel industry (eventually to fall to television's instant power) and indeed the political development of the nation itself are cleverly intertwined in a multi-layered tour de force by editor John Scott.

Tuesday, October 29 - Weird Woman

Weird Woman (1944)

Professor Norman Reed falls in love with and marries a woman named Paula while on vacation in the South Seas. When they return to his hometown, she is greeted coolly by much of the community, especially Ilona, who felt that Reed was hers. Strange things begin to happen, including the death of a colleague, which turns people against her even more, especially as she believes in voodoo and other supernatural phenomena. Reed must work hard to prove her innocence and find the real culprit behind the strange doings.

Monday, October 28 - The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage

The Streets of San Francisco: Rampage (Season 2 Episode 22 - aired Feb 28, 1974)

An old college friend of Steve's is now a father - and part of a vigilante group fed up with the rampant crime in their neighborhood. Their latest crackdown, however, leaves a police informer dead.

Sunday, October 27 - Calling Dr. Death

Calling Dr. Death (1943)

Losing his memories of the last few days, neurologist Dr. Steele is told that his wife has been brutally murdered. Steele, aware of his conniving wife's infidelity, believes he may have been the killer and enlists the aid of his pretty nurse Stella to hypnotize him into recovering his lost memories.

Saturday, October 26 - Horror of Dracula

Horror of Dracula - Original title: Dracula (1958)

Jonathan Harker unsuccessfully tries to stake and kill Count Dracula at the latter's remote castle in Transylvania but becomes one of the count's victims. The vampire later insinuates himself into the Harker family, seeking more blood and vengeance. The only person who may be able to protect them is Dr. van Helsing, Harker's friend and fellow vampirologist, who is determined to destroy Dracula, whatever the cost.

Friday, October 25 - The Cat and the Canary

The Cat and the Canary (1939)

Ten years have passed since the death of millionaire, Cyrus Norman. Cosby, Cyrus' attorney, has gathered Cyrus' 6 remaining relatives to his New Orleans' mansion for Cyrus' "reading of the will". To the others disappointment, Joyce is the sole heir, but, due to a streak of insanity running in the family, a second will has been made in case Joyce falls victim to it. This puts Joyce in danger. Suddenly, Miss Lu, Cyrus' maid, appears and warns them that the spirits have told her that one of them will die that night. Following this, Hendrick, a prison guard, warns them that, "The Cat", a homicidal maniac has escaped. This sets up Cyrus' relatives with a night filled with murders, mysteries and intrigue.