Wealthy art collector Calvin Norris, while visiting an artist friend, sees a woman modeling for a sculptor in the studio across the alley. Norris is shocked. The woman looks exactly like the subject of a Renoir painting he owns. He tries to get to the woman but she is gone before he can get to the sculptor's studio. Norris hires Mannix and Intertect to track the woman down. Norris is more interested in her than the possibility his painting is a forgery. Mannix, relying more on legwork than Intertect's computers, finds the woman, who, it turns out is really an artist and only models occasionally. It also turns out that Lang, the sculptor, is prone to violence. Mannix is convinced Linda is in danger and he's determined to crack the conspiracy.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Monday, July 29 - Naked City: One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teacher to change a failing grade to an "A". The teacher is stubborn and the gangster offers the tempting bribe of a chorus girl.
Monday, July 29, 2024
Sunday, July 28 - The Champions: Twelve Hours
Sharron and Richard are acting as bodyguards to visiting Eastern European president Drobnic and his wife and travel to Holy Loch in Scotland to inspect the submarine HMS 'Weatherby'. A gang of saboteurs have planted a bomb on board, which explodes, killing the captain and injuring the president as well as sending the submarine down to the bed of the loch. Craig senses that his colleagues are in trouble and travels to Scotland to hunt down the saboteurs. Sharron, who is medically qualified, has to save the president's life whilst Richard assumes the responsibilities of the captain. Unless the 'Weatherby' can be refloated, there is only enough oxygen to last for twelve hours so Craig had better work fast.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Saturday, July 27 - The Lyons in Paris
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Friday, July 26 - Hawaiian Eye: The Kikiki Kid
Nightclub singer Buddy Keene (John Gabriel) wants a shortcut on the road to success and fame. Gossip columnist Karen Ward (Jean Byron) is coming to the islands and he sees his chance. A nice writeup by her will shoot him to the top. He meets her by deliberately stepping in front of her car and plays the victim of a near miss. He then takes her around the area while doing a serious suck up job. After two days they decide to wed. There is a problem though... a big one. Buddy is married to Ellie and she is not stepping aside for his grand plans. Buddy solved this bump in the road by killing Ellie. Meanwhile Tom (Robert Conrad) tells Karen that Buddy is married. Buddy then meets with Karen and, once it is clear she is over him, he tries to kill her. The police and Tom intervene in the nick of time. Tom gets to beat Buddy up in a long barroom fight.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Thursday, July 25 - Who Done It?
An ice sweeper with an ice show in London, Hugo Dill is more preoccupied with his dime store detective magazines than he is with his work. In part out of a bumbling circumstance of his own doing, Hugo, despite having no experience or real aptitude in it, becomes a private detective, complete with a blood hound named Fabian. A series of misunderstandings starting with he taking over office space previously occupied by a talent agent leads not only to a strained relationship between him and Police Detective Inspector Hancock, at least on Hancock's side, but to him stumbling, without he not even knowing, upon a plot for world domination by the behind the Iron Curtain nation of Uralia, namely by being able to control the weather. If Hugo does come to know about the plot, he, without help from Hancock or the police due to that strained relationship, will have not only to save himself and those close to him from the proverbial bad guys, but save the world by thwarting the plot itself. Besides Fabian, the person closest to him is Frankie, a performer with the ice show, she whose general performer specialty, which belies her outward feminine appearance, is something she doesn't like to talk about, let alone divulge to someone she cares about like Hugo who is unaware of that specialty which would be an asset to this case.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Wednesday, July 24 - The Human Jungle: Solo Performance
When she was younger Jean Forrest was a big name actress but now she lives in fear of ageing and attempts suicide - as a result of which she is brought to see Dr. Corder for his assessment. Jean is hoping to make a stage comeback in the very near future but her ability to do so depends on the persuasion of Dr.Corder that she still has star quality.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Tuesday, July 23 - Bourbon Street Beat: Key to the City
Cal and Kenny are on a riverboat bound for New Orleans to protect a government informant, while others onboard want him dead. But neither faction seems to know what the man looks like.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Monday, July 22 - Naked City: The Contract
Both the fiance and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.
Monday, July 22, 2024
Sunday, July 21 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Missing Link
Skullduggery at the museum when the skull of the Damascus Man is stolen. Commonly regarded as the missing link.
Colonel March is called in to assist Inspector Ames when one man is apprehended. Later his girlfriend Miss Inness hands herself in.
Both claim that the skull is a clever fake and Sir Henry Danier who took all the glory for discovering it knows this.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Saturday, July 20 - The March Hare
The story of Sir Charles Hare - Terence Morgan - Irish baronet, horse-owner and gambler, who loses everything save one foal. This is trained by the eccentric Lazy Mangan, including a visit to the Queen of the Fairies... Charles is also in pursuit of a new 'filly' Pat Maguire, an American heiress.
Friday, July 19 - Highway Patrol: Amnesia
On a honeymoon camping trip, newlyweds David and Mimi Karney are seriously injured in a fall from a cliff. David has a broken hip and is unable to move. Mimi is ambulatory but is amnesiac and uncommunicative due to a head injury. Sergeant Walters finds her wandering on a nearby road and takes her to a first aid station. Dan Mathews' attempts to question her are unsuccessful, though he learns her identity from an inscription in her wedding ring. Dan organizes a search party when he deduces that Mimi's husband was with her in the rough terrain and that he is probably seriously injured. When the search party is unsuccessful, Dan takes the still-uncommunicative Mimi back to the campsite, hoping that she can provide a clue to the weakening David's whereabouts.
Friday, July 19, 2024
Thursday, July 18 - Hawaiian Eye: The Kamehameha Cloak
Tracy (it's actually Tom) is hired to protect a man from an ancient death curse.
Thursday, July 18, 2024
Wednesday, July 17 - The Streets of San Francisco: Commitment
An undercover cop is murdered with Mike Stone's gun and a hotshot young inspector seems determined to pin the rap on Stone.
Wednesday, July 17, 2024
Tuesday, July 16 - The Time Tunnel: The Day the Sky Fell In
From the west of 1910 the team travels forward to the Japanese Consulate on Hawai'i in 1941 - a day before the Japanese attack that smashes the American Naval Base Pearl Harbor and awakens a sleeping giant. But that's tomorrow's news - today's is Tony's desperate attempt to learn what happened to his father, who disappeared during the attack and was never seen again. And they must evade the murderous efforts of the Japanese agents who are convinced the Americans did not appear in their consulate by mistake.
Tuesday, July 16, 2024
Monday, July 15 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): That's How Murder Snowballs
The mind-reading act at the theatre goes wrong - the stooge shoots the mind-reader when a real bullet is swapped for the blank. Jeff Randall investigates, and - with the help of Marty - becomes a mind-reader himself, and in the process, clears the fall guy and finds the real villain.
Monday, July 15, 2024
Sunday, July 14 - Mannix: To Kill a Writer
A mystery writer finds a suicide note in his home -- supposedly written by himself. The author specializes in stories that are based on actual cases and he's working on a new novel taken from an unsolved murder. Mannix tries to protect the author, but the writer insists on trying to work on the case. This complicates things greatly for Mannix. In addition, Mannix must deal with a collection of shady characters as he tries to find the would-be killer.
Sunday, July 14, 2024
Saturday, July 13 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: Hot Money
A bank robber in a rubber mask shoots a bank guard and tells a bank clerk standing nearby that "You'll get your cut later." March and a woman customer go to the aid of the guard and she pleads with March to get a doctor as the man needs help. "From a Doctor of Divinity, I'm afraid" responds March. The bank clerk, John Parrish, flees the bank in pursuit of the robber and trails him to the law offices of the shady attorney Ireton Boulder. Parrish then calls the police and later tells them no one except Boulder entered or left the office and Boulder's secretary confirms this. The police search high and low in the attorney's office but find no stolen bank notes and understandably suspicion falls on Parrish for being the robber's accomplice. But March believes Parrish's story. Although Inspector Ames is adamant that there are no notes hidden in the office, March tells him to think about "a mentally invisible piece of furniture," something that is so ubiquitous that we don't even think about it. . .
Saturday, July 13, 2024
Friday, July 12 - Something in the City
Mr Ningle has been living a lie for seven years by pretending to still be commuting to his financial services job in the City of London from which he had been sacked. Every day, he journeys in and changes into the disguise of his alter ego: an artist who sells paintings on the pavement in Trafalgar Square.
His life is thrown into turmoil when his deception is nearly discovered by Mr. Holley, the father of his daughter Beryl's new fiancé, Richard. The father happens to be the managing editor of the Evening Courier newspaper, and worried about his prospective in-laws. A series of misunderstandings lead to the mistaken belief that Ningle has been murdered by "Artie the artist", leading to a massive police manhunt. Ningle manages to stage a fake suicide for Artie, while he reappears and pretends he had amnesia for the past 48 hours.
When Holley publishes an offer of a large sum to Artie by way of apology (having heard that he committed suicide), Ningle cannot resist "resurrecting" the artist, but Holley now suspects the truth. Ningle manages to outmanoeuvre him, however, and presents the money to Beryl and Richard, enabling them to marry despite the opposition of Richard's parents.
Friday, July 12, 2024
Thursday, July 11 - Brandy for the Parson (1952)
Bill and Petronilla are a young couple on a yachting holiday. They agree to give a lift to friendly Tony and his cargo, who unbeknownst to them is a brandy smuggler. Before they know it, the couple are fleeing cross-country, chased by customs men.
Thursday, July 11, 2024
Wednesday, July 10 - The Champions: The Fanatics
The assassination of a Middle Eastern dignitary in London is the latest in a series of attacks on high-profile figures conducted by a group known as the Fanatics. Richard infiltrates the group by posing as a known killer called Carson. The real Carson then escapes from prison, and the other two Champions race to join Richard at the group's headquarters and aid him in the confrontation. The name of the next intended victim is contained in a securely-locked safe, but Sharron manages to use her powers to reveal that the target is actually Tremayne. They may not always agree with him, but the Champions rally to save their boss from being rubbed out.
Wednesday, July 10, 2024
Tuesday, July 9 - The Return of the Whistler
On the eve of his marriage, a young man's fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance's dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family.
When Ted (Michael Duane) and his fiancée, Alice (Lenore Aubert), arrive at a hotel, things seem pretty normal. But when Ted leaves and then returns, he finds Alice missing--and the hotel desk manager is lying about her leaving on her own.
Tuesday, July 9, 2024
Monday, July 8 - Bourbon Street Beat: Knock on Any Tombstone
A famous dance teacher is poisoned, supposedly by voodoo poison. Rex investigates at the request of the man's daughter and gets caught up in voodoo, and a hypnotist who casts a spell on the dancer's granddaughter.
Monday, July 8, 2024
Sunday, July 7 - Naked City: The Night the Saints Lost Their Halos
A middle-aged neighborhood doctor faces a moral dilemma after a young man, Joey (Peter Fonda), who is like a son to her, and his friend Phillip (Martin Sheen) break into a fire-damaged haberdashery, and Phillip gets shot and wounded.
Sunday, July 7, 2024
Saturday, July 6 - The Secret of the Whistler
Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to Edith (Mary Currier), a rich woman who has been suffering heart attacks. Upset by her condition, he finds consoling companionship with an artist's model, the unscrupulous gold-digger Kay (Leslie Brooks).
He falls in love with Kay. Edith's health then improves. Edith overhears Ralph professing his love for Kay. Edith threatens Ralph, saying she's going to take him out of her will. He decides to poison her, with her own medicine, before she can meet with her lawyers.
After Edith dies, Ralph marries Kay, who becomes suspicious of how Edith died and worried for her own fate. Finding incriminating diary pages and the medicine, she has the medicine analyzed, discovering that it was poisoned.
Ralph overhears Kay's phone conversation with the lab. Pretending to embrace her, he strangles her to death, just as the police arrive and arrest him for murder - but not for the murder of Edith, because she had not taken the poisoned medicine but died of a heart attack.
Saturday, July 6, 2024
Friday, July 5 - The Human Jungle: The 24-Hour Man
Alvar Bell is the captain of a water bus on the River Thames. Dr Corder's secretary senses something is wrong with him when she took a boat ride with her son.
Alvar nearly crashes the boat. After Alvar is coaxed to see Dr Corder he loses his job. His boss found out that Alvar had been to see a psychiatrist.
An angry and out of control Alvar attacks Dr Corder thinking that he is to blame. It was in fact Alvar's fellow workmate Robson.
Dr Corder finds out that Alvar is suffering from exhaustion and surviving on uppers. He has been working almost 24 hours a day to support his family and pay the mortgage.
In the evening Alvar plays piano at a jazz club, his real passion and vocation.
Alvar nearly crashes the boat. After Alvar is coaxed to see Dr Corder he loses his job. His boss found out that Alvar had been to see a psychiatrist.
An angry and out of control Alvar attacks Dr Corder thinking that he is to blame. It was in fact Alvar's fellow workmate Robson.
Dr Corder finds out that Alvar is suffering from exhaustion and surviving on uppers. He has been working almost 24 hours a day to support his family and pay the mortgage.
In the evening Alvar plays piano at a jazz club, his real passion and vocation.
Friday, July 5, 2024
Thursday, July 4 - Voice of the Whistler
The 4th film of the Columbia series based on the CBS radio program, "The Whistler", finds wealthy John Sinclair, with no health or friends, being advised by his doctor to take a long vacation. Heading for the Great Lakes, he becomes ill in the cab operated by Ernie Sparrow an is taken to a clinic where he meets nurse Joan Martin, who is engaged to intern Fred Graham. Doctors now tell him he has only a few months to live and advise him to go to Maine (where, evidently, it will seem longer.) He asks Joan to marry him, promising to leave her his fortune. She, no dummy, accepts but hard-loser Fred doesn't like it even though she says she is doing it for him. After six months of living in a lighthouse with only Joan and Sparrow, whom he has hired as his aide, Sinclaie seemingly regains his health and has really fallen in love with Joan. She tells him she can no longer tolerate the loneliness just as Fred arrives for a visit, and John invites him to stay. In a chess game, John facetiously outlines to Fred how he would murder him if he chose to. Fred, decides to beat him to the punch and enters his bedroom that night and attempts to kill John with a poker. The figure in the bed turns out to be a dummy and John, who has been hiding, clubs Fred to death. He tries to throw the body from the bedroom window but it won't open and, planning to return and force it open later, he carries the body to the rocks and then hits Fred's head with a stone. Returning to the lighthouse, John meets Sparrow and tells him that Fred fell from a window but Sparrow knows all the windows have been nailed shut. And Joan, who saw John carry the body out, has summoned the police.
Thursday, July 4, 2024
Wednesday, July 3 - Honey West: Invitation to Limbo
Honey and Sam are hired to deal with industrial espionage. Someone in a company has been leaking secrets to a rival.
That man seems to be Charlie Kenyon who is caught out by Honey and Sam. He even tries to strangle Honey but later has no recollection.
Honey thinks that Charlie might have been set up and it brings them to take a close interest in a club with a hypnotist stage act. Hypnotism has been used for nefarious means.
Someone else has taken an interest in Honey. They blow up her car, a good job that a cop stopped her for speeding.
Wednesday, July 3, 2024
Tuesday, July 2 - The Whistler
Industrialist Earl C. Conrad, who failed to rescue his wife at sea and now suffers from grief and guilt, arranges to have a hit man end his life. He does not know how he will be killed, but knows that it will happen within days. Suddenly Conrad learns that his wife is still alive, and he tries to call off the hit. Unfortunately, the underworld go-between who made the deal with him has been killed in the meantime, leaving Conrad unable to learn the identity of the actual hit man.
The pathological hired killer, obsessed with carrying out his mission, stalks Conrad as the frightened industrialist stays on the move. Always looking over his shoulder and trying to think of a way to survive, Conrad keeps running into other dangers, including the vengeance of the dead man's wife.
Tuesday, July 2, 2024
Monday, July 1 - Hawaiian Eye: Stamped for Danger
Tracy has no idea what he's getting into when a dancer hires him to trace her old boyfriend, based on some letters he sent her about moving to Hawaii.
Princess Aysha / Vera Kirkland (Ruta Lee) hires Tracy Steele to deliver a $10,000 batch of envelopes with rare Hawaiian missionary stamps on them. Edward DeLong (John Litel) makes a bid of $40,000 for the stamps if the princess herself will deliver them to him. Ahmed (Jay Novello) is trying to locate the princess, but is murdered at the same time the envelopes go missing. Tracy believes DeLong murdered Ahmed to steal the stamps.
Monday, July 1, 2024
Sunday, June 30 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): Never Trust a Ghost
Marty sees James Howarth being murdered but when Jeff summons the police at Marty's behest Howarth is apparently alive and well. Marty finds out that 'Howarth' and his wife are impostors who have murdered the real James and Karen Howarth and hidden the corpses in the basement. However, when the police come to investigate, the murderers, who are spies out to get a list of all known British agents - have disposed of them and Jeff is discredited. He begins to doubt Marty's sanity and sends him to a ghost expert, Dr. Plevitt, who can actually see him.
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