Wednesday, December 25 - Lovejoy: Last Tango in Lavenham

Lovejoy: Last Tango in Lavenham (Season 6 Episode 10 - aired Dec 4, 1994)

Tink announces his retirement from the antique trade to open up a pub, and advises Lovejoy to marry Charlotte. Lovejoy's imminent eviction from the Felsham barn for non-payment of rent is another reason he decides to pop the question. Charlotte at first hesitates, but finally says 'yes' during an auction in which she is selling a pack of Victorian love letters for him. Complications arise when Jane returns from America and contemplates buying Felsham Hall, and Charlotte's father is attacked by "nighthawks" who pillage archaeological digs.

Tuesday, December 24 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Passage at Arms

Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Passage at Arms (Season 1 Episode 26 - aired Sep 24, 1955)

Mrs. Pollard, a wealthy widow, tells March of her brief fling with a young Frenchman. She was much in love with him but after a few weeks, the cad dumps her, taking all of her expensive jewelry with him. She learned that he is a member of the French fencing team and is now in London to compete in a tournament.

Sadly, Mrs. Pollard is later found dead and Inspector Goron of the Surete comes to London to assist in the investigation.

Monday, December 23 - The Last Run

The Last Run (1971)

A former getaway driver from Chicago (George C. Scott) has retired to a peaceful life in a Portuguese fishing village. He is asked to pull off one last job, involving driving a dangerous crook and his girl-friend to France. However, the job turns out to be a double-cross and the trio are pursued back to Portugal where they make one last stand on the coast while the enemy assassins attempt to gun them down.

Sunday, December 22 - Dead End

Dead End (1937)

Mobster "Baby Face" Martin (Humphrey Bogart) returns home to visit to the New York neighborhood where he grew up, dropping in on his mother (Marjorie Main), who rejects him because of his gangster lifestyle, and his old girlfriend, Francey (Claire Trevor), now a syphilitic prostitute. Martin also crosses paths with Dave (Joel McCrea), a childhood friend struggling to make it as an architect, and the Dead End Kids, a gang of young boys roaming the streets of the city's East Side slums.

Saturday, December 21 - Hawaiian Eye: Second Fiddle

Hawaiian Eye: Second Fiddle (Season 1 Episode 25 - aired Mar 23, 1960)

Tom and Tracy are hired by a professional violinist to guard his very valuable violin. What the musician doesn't know, however, is that his ex-wife and his current wife's ex-boyfriend are out to kill him. They cause him to have a heart attack and then take away his medication, but Tracy gets him to the hospital and saves his life. Undaunted, the murderous duo plans another attempt on the violinist's life.

Friday, December 20 - Back from the Dead

Back from the Dead (1957)

After his new wife Mandy (Peggy Castle) has a seizure, Dick Anthony (Arthur Franz) finds that she has become possessed by the spirit of his first wife Felicia, who drowned six years earlier. Dick's sister-in-law Kate (Marsha Hunt) suspects that Felicia's mother is somehow responsible and goes to occultist Maitre Renall (Otto Reichow) for help.

Thursday, December 19 - The Outfit

The Outfit (1973)

A small-time criminal, named Macklin's released from prison, and discovers his brother has been killed by a pair of mob killers. What he didn't know was the bank his brother robbed was owned by the syndicate. When he's almost hit by a killer, he pays mobster, Jake Menner a visit and demands reparation.

Wednesday, December 18 - Sunday in the Country

Sunday in the Country (1974)

Three vicious thugs are on the run in rural America after robbing a local bank. They seek refuge at the home of a reclusive farmer, but he is prepared for their arrival and holds them at gunpoint. Unwilling to let them simply wait for the law, he decides to take them into into his cellar and torture them a little before the police arrive.

Tuesday, December 17 - The Hot Rock

The Hot Rock (1972)

Dortmunder and his pals plan to steal a huge diamond from a museum. But this turns out to be only the first time they have to steal it...

Monday, December 16 - The Human Jungle: Enemy Outside

The Human Jungle: Enemy Outside (Season 2 Episode 9 - Nov 23, 1964)

A dockworker has a breakdown while operating a crane and is sent to the hospital mental ward. Dr. Corder tries to win his confidence and address his obsession with the rays of the Sun, while another patient tries to stir discord.

Sunday, December 15 - Bourbon Street Beat: Twice Betrayed

Bourbon Street Beat: Twice Betrayed (Season 1 Episode 26 - aired Apr 4, 1960)

Sgt. Al Bogart does a favor for Cal Calhoun and in return wants Calhoun to return the gesture. It's a shadow job on a crook named Sid Lucas. Bogart wants no questions asked and no other cops involved. Cal is puzzled but because of Bogart's sterling reputation as a steady, reliable desk cop he accepts the job. Bogart wants to be in on one great headline grabbing arrest before his retirement and he is convinced Lucas can lead him to Taylor Ferguson...a bar owner who's cheating the IRS. At least that's the story he tells Calhoun.

Saturday, December 14 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): But What a Sweet Little Room

My Partner the Ghost: But What a Sweet Little Room (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Dec 14, 1969)

After Anne Fenwick is killed by gold-digging boyfriend 'Bunny' de Crecy, her niece Julia, unaware of Anne's fate, asks Jeff to locate her, telling him that she attended a seance given by Madame Hanska every week. At Jeff's bidding, Jeannie poses as a recent widow wanting news of her husband - but Elliot, a man who befriends her, exposes her to Madame Hanska, as Marty discovers. Marty 'appears' to the medium and frightens her into admitting the scam whereby she sends lonely rich women into de Crecy's clutches; and Jeff confronts de Crecy in the room where he killed Anne, with Marty contributing to an explosive situation.

Friday, December 13 - The Haunting of Rosalind

The Wide World of Mystery: The Haunting of Rosalind (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Apr 10, 1973)

A young woman's romantic attraction for her brother's handsome guest takes a weird turn when he announces that he's going to marry her sister. She soon senses the presence of a spirit in the house and finds that it's the ghost of the man's first wife and he have been her killer.

Thursday, December 12 - Crowhaven Farm

Crowhaven Farm (TV Movie 1970)

A young couple inherits a farm. Hoping that the rural location might help to patch up their strained marriage, they move into it, only to be confronted by the supernatural forces that inhabit it.

Wednesday, December 11 - Air Hawks

Air Hawks (1935)

Barry Eldon is the owner of an airline company that is competing with a rival company for a lucrative air-mail contract with the government. While the other company is bigger and more profitable than Barry's line, the rival owner has hired a scientist that has perfected a ray-machine that will cause airplanes that its ray is directed at to lose their engine power and crash. Thed government and the public are losing faith in Eldon's line before he, aided by Renee Dupont, can find out what is causing his airplanes to crash.

Tuesday, December 10 - Cry of the Werewolf

Cry of the Werewolf (1944)

Nina Foch stars as a gypsy high Priestess, Celeste, whose mother was a lycanthrope passing the affliction to her. She kills a museum owner who has been delving into Foch's mother's history. The man's scientist son, Bob(Stephen Crane) and future Transylvanian wife, Elsa(Osa Massen) decide to follow a few leads through some burnt written words that his late father was penning for a forthcoming novel to be published about the infamous Marie La Tour and her werewolf lineage.

Monday, December 9 - Criminals of the Air

Criminals of the Air (1937)

Undercover agent Mark Owens is sent to aid the Border Patrol in the trans-border town of Hernandez in breaking up a well-organized band of smugglers. Since the town is also noted for a place for obtaining quick marriages on the Mexico side, Mark obtains the job of pilot on "The Honeymoon Express."

Sunday, December 8 - Nothing But the Truth

Nothing But the Truth (1941)

Stockbroker T.T. Ralston has promised his niece Gwen to double it if she can raise $20,000 for charity. But he connives so those she asks refuse to give her more than the $10,000 she's already raised. Gwen secretly gives T.T.'s new partner Steve Bennett the $10,000 and asks him to double it. Later in a discussion with T.T., business partner Dick and client Van, about truth in business Steve bets the $10,000 that he can tell the truth for 24 hours. Having already accepted an invitation for a weekend on T.T.'s houseboat, Steve is subjected to 24 hours of attempts to get him to lie or divulge the bet, which would lose him (and Gwen) the $10,000.

Saturday, December 7 - In Search of Anna

In Search of Anna (1978)

Tony has just been released from jail, and his friends are convinced he has the money from his last robbery. However, Tony just wants to find his old girlfriend, Anna, and hits the road searching for her.

Friday, December 6 - Sleuth

Sleuth (1972)

Based on the renowned play by Anthony Shaffer, this mystery finds Andrew Wyke (Laurence Olivier), a wealthy author of detective novels and game aficionado, facing off against his wife's lover, Milo Tindle (Michael Caine), a middle-class hair salon-owner. When Wyke, who is seemingly content to split from his wife strikes an unusual deal with Tindle, it sets into motion a fierce game of one-upmanship between the two, with the stakes growing increasingly higher.

Thursday, December 5 - The Lady Is Willing

The Lady Is Willing (1942)

Liza Madden (Marlene Dietrich) is a single and independent Broadway star who, when she discovers an abandoned baby, is suddenly stricken with motherly instinct. She needs to be married in order to adopt, so when she takes the baby to pediatrician Dr. McBain (Fred MacMurray), she proposes a marriage of convenience. McBain agrees, under the proviso of receiving money from her for his research. They go ahead with the phony marriage -- only to find they share a genuine attraction.

Wednesday, December 4 - The Sunshine Makers

The Sunshine Makers (2015)

The untold story of two idealistic young underground chemists at the heart of the American psychedelic revolution. A real-life 'Breaking Bad' for the psychedelic set, this documentary reveals the entertaining, untold story of Nicholas Sand and Tim Scully, the unlikely duo at the heart of 1960s American drug counterculture. United in a utopian mission to save the planet through the consciousness-raising power of LSD, these underground chemists manufactured a massive amount of acid, including the gold standard for quality LSD, Orange Sunshine, as they tried to stay one step ahead of the feds.

Tuesday, December 3 - Decoy: Death Watch

Decoy: Death Watch (Season 1 Episode 15 - aired Jan 20, 1958)

Casey stumbles onto a murder-for-hire organization while investigating a shoplifting gang.

Monday, December 2 - Island of Doomed Men

Island of Doomed Men (1940)

Undercover agent Mark Sheldon gets paroled to a remote tropical island with a diamond mine manned by slave labor run by sadistic Stephen Danel.

Sunday, December 1 - Highway Patrol: Counterfeit & Suspected Cop

Highway Patrol: Counterfeit (Season 2 Episode 21 - aired 1957)

An apparently legitimate print shop is involved in the printing of counterfeit payroll checks used to bilk unsuspecting merchants.

Highway Patrol: Suspected Cop (Season 2 Episode 22 - aired Mar 5, 1957)

The distraught daughter of a deceased gemologist accuses Officer Johnson of stealing valuable uncut jewels from her late father's car.

Saturday, November 30 - The Satan Bug

The Satan Bug (1965)

Special Agent Lee Barrett (George Maharis) joins forces with Ann Williams (Anne Francis), a general's daughter, to recover a biological weapon stolen from a secret government lab. Learning that the pathogen could destroy all life on Earth, they focus their attention on a mysterious millionaire who may have orchestrated the theft. After annihilating a small town in Florida, the villain turns his attention to Los Angeles -- and the duo must race to stop the city's destruction.

Friday, November 29 - One Step Beyond: 3 Episodes

One Step Beyond: Epilogue (Season 1 Episode 6 - aired Feb 24, 1959)

A recovering alcoholic returns to his family from an extended stay in rehabilitation. His sobriety is put to the test, as are his beliefs in the supernatural, when his son is trapped in a cave-in.

One Step Beyond: The Dream (Season 1 Episode 7 - aired Mar 3, 1959)

In 1940, a fearful Britain awaits invasion by Nazi forces. A husband and his wife, separated by their wartime assignments, suddenly dream that each is in danger, and both try frantically to see if their dream has come true.

One Step Beyond: The Dead Part of the House (Season 1 Episode 9 - aired Mar 17, 1959)

A young girl moves into a new house with her father and aunt, and before long, she makes friends with the ghosts of three girls who reside in an upstairs nursery -- though the adults assume that her new "friends" are her three new dolls.

Thursday, November 28 - Honey West: King of the Mountain

Honey West: King of the Mountain (Season 1 Episode 18 - aired Jan 14, 1966)

Honey poses as a nurse to investigate a secretive billionaire supposedly suffering from a rare biochemical defect.

Wednesday, November 27 - Pillow of Death

Pillow of Death (1945)

Attorney Wayne Fletcher and his secretary are having an affair, so when Wayne's wife is found smothered to death, he becomes the prime suspect. As the police investigate the murder, a psychic with questionable motives tries to contact the deceased woman. Soon, Wayne begins seeing visions of his dead wife, and other people involved with the case begin to be killed, one by one.

Tuesday, November 26 - Hawaiian Eye: Birthday Boy

Hawaiian Eye: Birthday Boy (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Mar 16, 1960)

A young man who is about to inherit the family pineapple business gets involved with a beautiful girl and winds up facing a murder charge. Tracy believes that the man has been framed by someone who doesn't want him to inherit the family fortune, and sets out to use the girl to find out who's behind the frame-up.

Monday, November 25 - The Champions: The Silent Enemy

The Champions: The Silent Enemy (Season 1 Episode 20 - aired Feb 12, 1969)

When the entire crew of a nuclear submarine are found dead, the Champions and a new crew set sail to reconstruct the boat's last voyage in the hope of learning the truth.

Sunday, November 24 - Walk on the Wild Side

Walk on the Wild Side (1962)

At the Doll House, a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction both for clients and for Jo, the madam. Her comfortable if tedious life is disrupted by the arrival in town of Dove Linkhorn, her true love of three years before, who is now searching for her. When Linkhorn learns the truth of her profession he triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young Kitty with whom he traveled from Texas, who is now the Doll House newest recruit.

Saturday, November 23 - Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace

Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace [Original title: Sherlock Holmes und das Halsband des Todes] (1962)

Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson try to solve the case of the stealing of Cleopatra's necklace, found by archaeologists in Egypt. They soon discover that the evil professor Moriarty is behind it all.

Friday, November 22 - Bourbon Street Beat: Neon Nightmare

Bourbon Street Beat: Neon Nightmare (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Mar 21, 1960)

Cal is hired to break up a political gang with a stranglehold on a small town, Midas City, but must end his partnership with Rex to avoid suspicion. Then the story starts...

Thursday, November 21 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): For the Girl Who Has Everything

Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): For the Girl Who Has Everything (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Dec 7, 1969)

Ghost hunter James McAllister asks for Jeff's help, having been hired by wealthy American Kim Wentworth to see if her home, Crake Castle, is haunted. McAllister is killed and it looks as if Kim's husband is the murderer, trying to frighten Kim away so that he can marry girlfriend Laura but it would seem that the butler did it and the butler and Kim are the killers, anxious to run off together. Jeff is their prisoner but fortunately Marty has found a local lady who can see and hear him - in order for him to effect a rescue.

Wednesday, November 20 - Strange Confession (1945)

Strange Confession (1945)

A distraught Jeff Carter arrives at a renowned lawyer's home with a mysterious bag and a confession he desperately wants heard. Jeff was an underpaid chemist working for unprincipled pharmaceutical tycoon Roger Graham, who takes the profit, as well as the credit, for Jeff's discoveries and hard work. When Graham prioritizes profits over safety, Jeff resigns and is blacklisted by his boss. A chastened Graham is later forced to relent and rehires Jeff under the latter's terms. He presses him to release an unproven influenza drug, but Jeff refuses and asks to go to South America to perfect the formula. The unscrupulous Graham uses the opportunity to release the drug as well as romance Jeff's attractive wife. When Jeff returns and finds that his son has died from the effects of the untested drug, he decides to take revenge.

Monday, November 18 - Naked City: The One Marked Hot Gives Cold

Naked City: The One Marked Hot Gives Cold (Season 3 Episode 23 - aired Mar 21, 1962)

A man steals records from the orphanage where he grew up, hoping to find his father. At the same time, the age of his young female companion gets him in trouble with the police.

Sunday, November 17 - One Step Beyond: The Dark Room

One Step Beyond: The Dark Room (Season 1 Episode 4 - aired Feb 10, 1959)

An American photographer in France asks her new landlady for models with interesting faces. When a haunted-looking man shows up in her room she is thrilled; but the reason for his sadness will prove to be as horrible as who - or what - he really is.

Saturday, November 16 - Once Upon a Honeymoon

Once Upon a Honeymoon (1942)

American burlesque dancer Ginger Rogers jumps at the opportunity to marry a wealthy Austrian baron (Walter Slezak). Little does she know her new husband is a Nazi. Enter radio news correspondent Cary Grant, who falls for Ginger while trying to do a story on her husband. He follows the pair all over Europe. When she's forced to face just who her husband is and what is really going on in the world, Ginger decides to flee with Cary.

Friday, November 15 - The Human Jungle: Wild Goose Chase

The Human Jungle: Wild Goose Chase (Season 2 Episode 6 - aired Nov 2, 1964)

Mary (Francesca Annis) is a bright promising student. She has placed herself under great pressure to try to get into an Oxbridge university.

The episode opens with Mary who is babysitting to stage a robbery and ties herself up. Her hysterical reaction arouses suspicion.

The neighbourhood is on the lookout for the culprit. An odd job man called Jones with an interest in gardening is arrested for the robbery.

The police superintendent (Tony Steedman) is not convinced that Jones is the culprit and thinks that he is mentally ill.

Dr Corder finds himself taking an interest in both Mary and Jones. Corder figures that Jones is a recovering alcoholic who is on the edge of a breakdown.

Thursday, November 14 - The Frozen Ghost

The Frozen Ghost (1945)

When famous radio hypnotist Alex Gregor (Lon Chaney Jr.) accidentally causes the death of an audience member during a broadcast, his guilt leads him to break off his engagement to Maura Daniel (Evelyn Ankers) and take a job at a wax museum. Jealousy over the attention paid to his new co-worker causes mentally unbalanced sculptor Rudi Poldan (Martin Kosleck) to lash out at museum owner Valerie Monet (Tala Birell) and her niece Nina (Elena Verdugo) in a horrifying fashion.

Wednesday, October 13 - Hawaiian Eye: Bequest of Arthur Goodwin

Hawaiian Eye: Bequest of Arthur Goodwin (Season 1 Episode 23 - aired Mar 9, 1960)

The widow of the late Arthur Goodwin hires Tracy to help break her husband's will. It seems that Arthur left the family business to his secretary, who seems bound and determined to run it into the ground.

Tuesday, November 12 - Where There's Life

Where There's Life (1947)

Michael Valentine (Bob Hope) is happily employed as a radio show host in New York City and is set to marry his sweetheart, Hazel (Vera Marshe). But his life is turned upside down when a distant and unknown relative, the king of Barovia, is shot in an assassination attempt. Now Michael must take up the crown, but first he must make it out of Manhattan with lovely General Grimovitch (Signe Hasso), avoiding would-be killers as well as Hazel's tough policeman brother (William Bendix).

Monday, November 11 - Satan Met a Lady

Satan Met a Lady (1936)

Sardonic detective Shane, thrown out of one town for bringing trouble, heads for home and his ex-partner's detective agency. The business is in a sad way, and Shane, who has had the forethought to provide himself with a 250-dollar commission from an old lady on the train, is welcomed with open arms. When pretty Valerie Purvis walks in the next day willing to pay over the odds to put a tail on the man who did her wrong, Shane's way with the ladies looks like paying off yet again. But things start to go wrong when his partner is murdered, and Shane himself comes home to find his apartment wrecked by a gentlemanly crook who comes back to apologise -- and to tell him a fascinating fairy-story about the fabled Horn of Roland that looks like not being so mythical after all. Miss Purvis wants protection. The police want answers. And all sorts of people want the 'French horn'... but Shane is one jump ahead of everyone all the way. Well, almost.

Sunday, November 10 - The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon (1931)

In San Francisco, wealthy Ruth Wonderly (Bebe Daniels) hires amorous gumshoe Sam Spade (Ricardo Cortez) and his partner, Miles Archer, to trail her sister's kidnapper, Floyd Thursby. Wonderly's story is revealed as a ruse when both Archer and Thursby are later found murdered. Soon, Spade discovers that Wonderly and three other criminal oddballs -- including rotund Casper Gutman (Dudley Digges) -- are in search of an elusive jewel-covered statuette known as "the Maltese Falcon."

Saturday, November 9 - One Step Beyond: Night of April 14th

One Step Beyond: Night of April 14th (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired Jan 27, 1959)

A young Englishwoman is suddenly wracked by dreams of drowning in the ocean. She is stunned when her fiancée tells her that he has prepared a surprise honeymoon trip for them--they're sailing to New York on the passenger liner Titanic.

Friday, November 8 - The Maltese Falcon

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

In this noir classic, detective Sam Spade (Humphrey Bogart) gets more than he bargained for when he takes a case brought to him by a beautiful but secretive woman (Mary Astor). As soon as Miss Wonderly shows up, trouble follows as Sam's partner is murdered and Sam is accosted by a man (Peter Lorre) demanding he locate a valuable statuette. Sam, entangled in a dangerous web of crime and intrigue, soon realizes he must find the one thing they all seem to want: the bejeweled Maltese falcon.

Thursday, November 7 - The Champions: The Mission

The Champions: The Mission (Season 1 Episode 18 - aired Jan 29, 1969)

On the face of it Winthrop House Mission in rural Surrey is a home for down-and-outs, run by Dr. Pederson, but it is in fact a cover. Pederson helps criminals escape by performing plastic surgery to give them new faces. Sharron and Craig pose as gangsters requiring this service but when Craig recognizes Pederson as an ex-Nazi who performed operations in Dachau, he aims to kill them both. Fortunately Richard is on hand, masquerading as a down-and-out to telepathically communicate the plan to his colleagues.

Wednesday, November 6 - Dead Man's Eyes

Dead Man's Eyes (1944)

An artist (Lon Chaney Jr) is blinded by a jealous assistant/model. His fiance's father generously offers his eyes for a sight restoring operation. there's only one hitch. Chaney has to wait until after the man dies. Not surprisingly, when the benefactor dies a very premature death, suspicion falls on the artist.

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.