Thursday, Oct. 30 - Sudden Dangar

Sudden Danger (1955)

A woman who heads a sportswear manufacturing company is found dead. Although it is ruled a suicide, the police detective in charge believes she was murdered, and his subsequent investigation begins to focus on the woman's son, who was blinded by her in an accident several years before.

Wednesday, Oct. 29 - Route 66: The Stone Guest

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 7 The Stone Guest (7 Nov. 1963)

Tod and Linc working in the Central City, Colorado area; Tod backstage with a theater group and Linc in a mine with an old Vietnam buddy. Linc's friend and a visiting woman become trapped in the mine after a cave-in. The sad lives of the two are reviewed as rescue workers try to get to them before their oxygen runs out.

Tuesday, Oct. 28 - Incident

Incident (1948)

Stockbroker Joe Downey(Warren Douglas), mistaken in the dark for gangster "Slats" Slattery (Robert Osterloh), is brutally beaten by a rival gangster, "Knuckles" Morgan (Meyer Grace), and Downey winds up in jail on a drunk charge. His sweetheart, Marion Roberts (Jane Frazee), and friend, Bill (Harry Lauter), obtain his release, and then the three set out to find and warn the intended-victim. This pulls them into some violent incidents, including a hijacking and a murder.

Monday, Oct. 27 - Before Dawn

Before Dawn (1933)

Joe Valerie stashed a million dollars in gold from a robbery 15 years earlier. Now that he lays dying a painful death, he trades the location of the money to Dr. Cornelius for a shot to end his suffering. When Mrs. Marble reads about the death of Joe, she wants to spend the money, but the ghost of Joe causes her to fall down the stairs ending her life. When the police show up, they are not sure if it is murder of not, so they enlist Dr. Cornelius and clairvoyant Patricia to help solve the case. But everyone, except Mattie and Patricia, is looking for the loot and not the ghost of Joe Valerie.

Sunday, Oct. 26 - Lady in a Cage & Thriller: Worse Than Murder

Lady in a Cage (1964)

A woman trapped in a home elevator is terrorized by a group of vicious hoodlums.

Thriller: Season 1, Episode 3 Worse Than Murder (27 Sep. 1960)

When her dead husband's late uncle fails to leave her any money, a scheming temptress uses his diary to blackmail her sick mother-in-law, who may have committed murder.

Saturday, Oct. 25 - The Big Operator & Taggart: Halfway House

The Big Operator (1959)

Mickey Rooney plays labor racketeer Little Joe Braun in this fast-paced and surprisingly violent drama about one man’s determination to clean up his union. Bill Gibson (Steve Cochran) is Little Joe’s nemesis and is one of the men who can testify that he saw the labor boss in an incriminating conversation with a known criminal — something that Little Joe denied under oath. Knowing that Cochran and one other witness can bring him down, the crooked labor boss starts on a campaign of terror. One of Bill’s friends is set on fire, someone else is thrown into a cement mixer (in the opening scenes), and finally, Little Joe kidnaps Bill’s son Timmy (Jay North).

Taggart (1983– ) TV Series

The Maryhill CID investigates gruesome murders against the bleak backdrop of the city of Glasgow.

Taggart: Season 19, Episode 6 Halfway House (18 Jan. 2003)

When a young man is shot dead for no apparent reason, suspicion falls on one of the other residents of the halfway house where he lived. In this hostel for ex-cons, debtors, and the formerly homeless, everyone has a past they want to keep secret. But only one is prepared to kill to make sure it stays that way.

Thursday, Oct. 23 - Goliath and the Barbarians & The Dance of Death

Goliath and the Barbarians (1959) "Il terrore dei barbari" (original title)

Steve Reeves is the leader of a band of Italian villagers hell bent on revenge against a massive horde of barbarian huns led by a maniac named Igor. After a massacre of his village including the murder of his father Reeves decides enough is enough. He secretly starts to wipe out the barbarian horde one by one until his methods are found out by Igor. Along the way the beautiful Chelo Alonso, a barbarian queen becomes his love interest.

The Dance of Death (1960) "Le Saint mène la danse" (original title)

This scary gem takes place in and about an eerie country mansion and local cemetery. A playboy is threatened with death. He hires a detective to protect him. Terrifying things soon happen. The sinister shadow of an unknown killer prowls the grounds in the black of the night. Things eventually end up in a local graveyard where our hero is sealed within a cement tomb!

Wednesday, Oct. 22 - Maigret Sets a Trap

Inspector Maigret (1958) "Maigret tend un piège" (original title)

The detective is on the trail of serial killer who attacks women at night.

Tuesday, Oct. 21 - Thriller: Child's Play

Thriller: Season 1, Episode 2 Child's Play (20 Sep. 1960)

An 11-year-old boy neglected by his father gets so caught up in his fantasy world that he takes a real rifle to hunt down his made-up enemy, the evil Black Bart.

Monday, Oct. 20 - Maigret: Maigret on Home Ground

Maigret: Season 1, Episode 5 Maigret on Home Ground (8 Mar. 1992)

Maigret receives an anonymous note announcing that a crime will be committed during first mass at the rural church in his provincial home town. Unable to resist the temptation, the detective attends the service and finds that the countess whom his late father worked for as bailiff has died from a heart attack. When he discovers that a bogus news article falsely announcing her son's suicide in her prayerbook, Maigret correctly assumes that foul play was involved.

Sunday, Oct. 19 Rorret

Rorret (1988)

A theater owner who lives behind the screen kills female customers who show fright during scary scenes.

Friday, Oct. 17 - Thriller: Waxworks

Thriller: Season 2, Episode 16 Waxworks (8 Jan. 1962)

A murder outside a traveling wax museum attracts the attention of the police--and a European detective who claims that the wax figures of murderers are brought to life by black magic so they can kill again.

Thursday, Oct. 16 - Slander

Slander (1957)

Steve Cochran plays the slick, debonair owner of a notorious gossip magazine who is anxious to break a big scandal to reverse a recent decline in sales. He zeroes in on children's entertainer Van Johnson, a decent, stand-up guy who nonetheless has a secret in his past which would most likely end his suddenly flourishing television career if found out. Johnson can save himself and his wife Ann Blyth and son from disrepute if he "trades" Cochran damaging information he has about a popular movie actress he knew while growing up in a tough neighborhood years ago.

Wednesday, Oct. 15 - The Miami Story

The Miami Story (1954)

When Miami, Florida becomes national headquarters for a ten billion dollar crime syndicate ruled by crime-czar Tony Brill (Luther Adler), whose chief henchman is Ted Delacorte (John Baer), a citizen's committee enlists the aid of a reformed gangster Mick Flagg (Barry Sullivan), a widower with a ten-year-old son, who pretends to move in on Brill's rackets, causing Brill's henchmen beat up a woman, Holly Abbott (Beverly Garland), whom Flagg has befriended, to get the dope on Flagg's plans, resulting in the police raiding the syndicate's gambling-club and Brill having Flagg's son, Gil Flagg (David Kasday), kidnapped.

Tuesday, Oct. 14 - Dial Red O

Dial Red O (1955)

Keith Larsen (Ralph Wyatt), a troubled veteran, escapes a VA hospital to visit his wife on the day their divorce becomes final. Bill Elliott sets out to find him, and when the now ex-wife (Helene Stanley) turns up dead, Larsen is quickly tagged as the top suspect.

Monday, Oct. 13 - Thriller: The Twisted Image

Thriller (1960–1962)

Anthology series hosted by Boris Karloff that originally told ordinary tales of crime and mystery, but later became a showcase for gothic horror stories, many of which were based on works by authors such as Cornell Woolrich, Robert Bloch and Charlotte Armstrong.

Thriller: Season 1, Episode 1 The Twisted Image (13 Sep. 1960)

Business executive Alan Patterson's life takes a surreal turn when two mentally disturbed people independently wind up with fixations on his life. One wants to marry him, and the other wants to be him.

Sunday, Oct. 12 - The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert (1950)

A squirrel helps a poor vaudeville family led by Jimmy Durante at Christmas by stealing cash their landlord has stashed in a wall.

Saturday, Oct. 11 - How to Pick Up Girls!

How to Pick Up Girls! (1978)

A shy guy gets fired for dating his boss' girlfriend. Taking advantage of his situation he writes a book on how to pick up chicks and on the way finds his love.

Friday, Oct. 10 - Route 66: And Make Thunder His Tribute

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 6 And Make Thunder His Tribute (1 Nov. 1963)

Tod and Linc,in the Minneapolis, Minnesota area,find work with an eccentric farmer. He is at odds with his son about using any new farming ideas and actually uses a shotgun for noise to scare birds away from his crop. The son and he escalate the battle between them over the possible use of the farm as the site of a motel.

Thursday, Oct. 9 - The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: The Secret of the Magnifique

The Rivals of Sherlock Holmes: Season 2, Episode 4 The Secret of the Magnifique (19 Feb. 1973)

The mysterious Mr. Laxworthy hires two ex-cons for a job in the south of France. But the self-described "adventurer" isn't after money. His eyes are on greater prizes--the most valuable secret of the French navy and the reputation of two very important men.

Wednesday, Oct. 8 - Dancing Co-Ed

Dancing Co-Ed (1939)

Lana Turner, in her first top billing, plays a dancer planted in a big Midwest college to win a rigged Hollywood contest. The prize: the starring role in a big movie musical. The complications: plenty, especially when the co-ed falls for a crusading college newshound (Richard Carlson) who suspects the contest is as phony as a press agent’s smile.

Tuesday, Oct. 7 - A Gentleman After Dark

A Gentleman After Dark (1942)

On New Year's Eve in 1923, "Heliotrope Harry" Melton steals a fifty-thousand dollar bracelet and then goes to a hospital where his wife, Flo, is about to have a baby. He is followed to the hospital by Police Lieutenant Tom Gaynor, a life-long friend. Harry avoids arrest by slipping the jewels to Flo. When the child, Diana, is born, Harry decides to go straight. Eddie Smith, a confederate of Harry's, long in love with Flo, suggests to her they team up and get rid of Harry in the process. Harry kills Eddie and spares Flo on the condition she stay out of his and Diana's life, and then gives himself up to Gaynor, on the condition that Gaynor raise Diana for him. The years pass and Gaynor, now a justice of the state's supreme court is being blackmailed by Flo in exchange of her not suing for custody of Diana, now 18. Harry learns about this and escapes from jail and confronts Flo.

Monday, Oct. 6 - Mannix: The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher

Mannix: Season 1, Episode 4 The Many Deaths of Saint Christopher (7 Oct. 1967)

A group of businessmen approach Intertect. They say they want to approach a former colleague and offer him $1 million for a new formula. Mannix is suspicious the clients aren't telling the truth. He befriends the daughter of the man the businessmen want to approach and she falls for him. Mannix keeps digging and discovers the clients are really Nazi hunters. Or are they really Nazis? Mannix must find the answer and save the life of the daughter.

Sunday, Oct. 5 - The Velvet Touch

The Velvet Touch (1948)

Broadway star Valerie Stanton, breaking up with her producer-lover Gordon Dunning, unintentionally kills him. In flashback, she recalls meeting new flame Michael Morrell, and Dunning's machinations leading to the fatal argument. The next day, it appears that Valerie's former rival Marian Webster is the prime suspect.

Saturday, Oct. 4 - Across the Bridge

Across the Bridge (1957)

Corporate executive Carl Schaffner is a German-born British industrialist in New York on business. After he gets word that Scotland Yard is investigating a $3,000,000 embezzlement he has committed, the imperious, mean-spirited Schaffner thinks he has sufficient time to take an inconspicuous train to Mexico where he can escape extradition. He miscalculates, and his crime has become headline news before he can cross the border. He drugs and switches identities with fellow train passenger Paul Scarff, who looks like him and has a Mexican passport. He throws him off the train but later discovers that Scarff is wanted in Mexico as a political assassin. Schaffner must double back and track down Scarff to get his original passport back. He allows himself to be taken to Mexico as Scarff, where he declares his true identity to local police because as Schaffner he is not wanted there. The local police chief and Scotland Yard inspector Hadden conspire to keep him trapped in the Mexican border town of Katrina in an effort to get him to cross the bridge back into the U.S. and face justice. The misanthropic Schaffner has grown attached to Scarff's pet spaniel and is tricked into going across the dividing line of the bridge to get the dog. He is accidentally killed trying to escape the authorities. The final irony is that the discovery his own humanity has cost the cynical, friendless Schaffner his life.

Friday, Oct. 3 - Route 66: Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea

Route 66: Season 4, Episode 5 Build Your Houses with Their Backs to the Sea (25 Oct. 1963)

Tod and Linc, in Maine, encounter a "long-lost son". Tod works with the man's abandoned wife, Linc with the man's hated father. The son has old grudges and cannot be reasoned with. He is especially obsessed with doing his father harm and causes a violent feud before challenging his father to a fight to the death.

Thursday, Oct. 2 - Foyle's War: The Russian House

Foyle's War: Season 6, Episode 1 The Russian House (2 May 2010)

A Russian POW who fought for the Axis, panicked that he may be repatriated back to Stalinist Russia, escapes to Brighton only to become a suspect in a local murder.