Saturday, November 30, 2024

Friday, November 29 - One Step Beyond: 3 Episodes


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.


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.


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.

Friday, November 29, 2024

Thursday, November 28, 2024

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.

Wednesday, November 27, 2024

Tuesday, November 26 - Hawaiian Eye: Birthday Boy


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.

Tuesday, November 26, 2024

Monday, November 25 - The Champions: The Silent Enemy


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.

Monday, November 25, 2024

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.

Sunday, November 24, 2024

Saturday, November 23 - Sherlock Holmes and the Deadly Necklace


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.

Saturday, November 23, 2024

Friday, November 22 - Bourbon Street Beat: Neon Nightmare


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...

Friday, November 22, 2024

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.

Thursday, November 21, 2024

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.

Tuesday, November 19, 2024

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


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.

Monday, November 18, 2024

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


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.

Sunday, November 17, 2024

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.

Saturday, November 16, 2024

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


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.

Friday, November 15, 2024

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.

Thursday, November 14, 2024

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


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.

Wednesday, November 13, 2024

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).

Tuesday, November 12, 2024

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.

Monday, November 11, 2024

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."

Sunday, November 10, 2024

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


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.

Saturday, November 9, 2024

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.

Friday, November 8, 2024

Thursday, November 7 - The Champions: The Mission


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.

Thursday, November 7, 2024

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.

Wednesday, November 6, 2024

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


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.

Tuesday, November 5, 2024

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


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.

Monday, November 4, 2024

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.

Sunday, November 3, 2024

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.

Saturday, November 2, 2024

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. . .

Friday, November 1, 2024

Thursday, October 31 - Highway Patrol: Psycho


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.