Thursday, July 31, 2025

Wednesday, July 30 - Crime Traveller: The Lottery Experiment & The Jensen Code: Episode 7


After watching the Lottery, Jeff decides to use the Time Machine to travel back in time and find some way to give Holly the winning numbers so they can be millionaires.


Terry wakes up in hospital unable to remember even his name. After vanishing for 36 hours, Dr. Jensen returns to work. Mr. Buckle finds Granny Powell acting oddly. Terry suddenly recalls the Jensen code just as Richards and Gordon arrive.

Wednesday, July 30, 2025

Tuesday, July 29 - The Falcon Strikes Back

The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)

When detective Tom Lawrence (Tom Conway) tries to aid the mysterious Mia Bruger (Rita Corday) and then is falsely arrested for stealing of war bonds and for the murder of a bank official, he escapes from police custody and pursues the trail of suspicious characters to a country resort. With the help of his lovely fiancée Marcia Brooks (Jane Randolph) and his trusty sidekick, Goldie Locke (Cliff Edwards), Tom must avoid the police, find the true culprit and clear his name before more people die.

Tuesday, July 29, 2025

Monday, July 28 - It's a Wonderful World

It's a Wonderful World (1939)

Private eye Guy Johnson (James Stewart) is charged with tracking every move of boozing tycoon Willie Heyward (Ernest Truex) -- and ensuring that the mogul comes to no harm. But Guy runs into trouble when, after a bender, Heyward is accused of murder and Guy gets roped in as an accessory. Desperate to prove his innocence, Guy makes a daring escape from a prison train and, while on the run, kidnaps poet Edwina Corday (Claudette Colbert), who gradually warms to his cause.

Monday, July 28, 2025

Sunday, July 27 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Firebug


Fires are being set at random in south London, all in abandoned properties, until one kills some squatters,and C.I.D. looks into it. The arsonist is a quiet, seemingly normal man who's gone psycho after a fire killed his loved ones.

Sunday, July 27, 2025

Saturday, July 26 - Decoy: Cry Revenge


Casey gets involved in the lives of a woman and her daughter when they receive a series of threatening phone calls. The situation takes a strange turn when the young woman marries the man who makes the calls.

Saturday, July 26, 2025

Friday, July 25 - Hawaiian Eye: Dead Ringer


Tom his hired by a beautiful woman to pose as her husband and sneak a valuable art object (it's not valuable) into Macao. What Tom doesn't know is that the woman has murdered her real husband, and has the same thing in store for him.

Friday, July 25, 2025

Thursday, July 24 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): The Ghost Talks


Jeff has fallen from a balcony in the line of duty and is in hospital with a broken leg. He is thus a captive audience when Marty comes to visit and regales him with the details of a big case he handled whilst he was alive and Jeff was in Scotland. He was asked by MI5 head Sir Basil Duggan to steal documents from a safe but discovered that 'Sir Basil' was actually a traitor called Brenan, whom he managed to apprehend before he could leave the country. After Marty has gone Jeannie comes in and offers to tell Jeff the same story.

Thursday, July 24, 2025

Wednesday, July 23 - The Champions: Nutcracker


After a trip to the dentist government minister Lord Mauncey enters a secret vault and attempts to steal the F File, which contains the country's most important defence information. He is gassed before he can leave and captured by Major Duncan, head of M7.

Duncan calls in the Champions to see if they can steal the file, proving the need for a better security system.

Mauncey does not know why he entered the vault and he is then killed. Richard enters the vault but memorizes the file's contents before escaping, though he is pursued by heavies, who take him to the man who wants the file. Craig traces a link between Duncan and Mauncey having the same dentist, after Mauncey is hypnotised, as Dauncey was, by the dentist. He has then to get to where Richard is being held before he spills the beans.

Wednesday, July 23, 2025

Tuesday, July 22 - Supernatural

Supernatural (1933)

In New York city, Ruth Rogan is convicted of killing 3 of her lovers and sentenced to be executed. Meanwhile, lovely Roma Courtenay becomes a millionaire heiress when her brother dies. A spiritualist approaches Roma with an urgent message from her dead brother. He runs a rigged seance that doesn't convince Roma's boyfriend Grant but has Roma confused. Then unexpectedly, the executed Ruth Rogan's spirit takes control of Roma's body. Roma runs off with the fake spiritualist under Ruth Rogan's control. Grant desperately tries to track Roma down and return her soul.

Tuesday, July 22, 2025

Monday, June 21 - Mandalay

Mandalay (1934)

Without resources, Tanya (Kay Francis) is caught in the web of the Myanmar underworld. In Rangoon, the gorgeous woman is abandoned by her gunrunner boyfriend, Tony (Ricardo Cortez), to a powerful pimp named Nick (Warner Oland). Tanya refuses to join his brothel, but in time sees that her beauty is her only means of survival. With her ill-gotten gains, Tanya starts a new life in Mandalay and falls in love with surgeon Gregory (Lyle Talbot) -- but her past soon catches up with her.

Monday, July 21, 2025

Sunday, June 20 - Secret Agent: Whatever Happened to George Foster?


Drake discovers a woman's helping finance the political agitators in Santo Marco who are trying to bring down the government. He sets out to find out who employs her and why. Drake discovers it's being funded by a member of the aristocracy; Lord Ammanford, who's completely indifferent to the problems. Drake sets out to investigate Lord Ammanford's background, and receives considerable interference. For a man with unlimited capital, resources, and powerful connections, Drake needs something which neither Ammanford's money nor power can stop -if Drake wants this to end favourably for the people of San Marco.

Sunday, July 20, 2025

Saturday, June 19 - Time Out for Rhythm

Time Out for Rhythm (1941)

Talent agents Danny Collins (Rudy Vallee) and Mike Armstrong (Richard Lane) run a successful partnership, until Mike is approached by ambitious singer and former college friend Frances Lewis (Rosemary Lane). Playing on Mike's attraction to her, Frances demands that she star in their new show. When Danny discovers that Frances' maid, Kitty (Ann Miller), is a talented dancer, he hires her too -- provoking Frances' determination to break up both the business and the partners' friendship.

Saturday, July 19, 2025

Friday, July 18 - The Falcon's Brother

The Falcon's Brother (1942)

Dapper detective Gay Lawrence (George Sanders) and his partner, Lefty (Don Barclay), arrive to greet Gay's brother Tom (Tom Conway) who has just arrived on a cruise ship, but the sleuthing duo are told that Tom committed suicide in his cabin. Gay tells Lefty that the body isn't Tom's and the victim has been murdered. Soon Lefty is falsely accused of murder, and Gay is knocked out when he's hit by a car. It is left to a reappeared Tom to exonerate Lefty and foil an international conspiracy.

Friday, July 18, 2025

Thursday, July 17 - Alias John Preston

Alias John Preston (1955)

Wealthy John Preston arrives in small town Deanbridge. He invests in local businesses and gets involved in community affairs. Eventually, he meets a local belle, Sally, and wins her from her current boyfriend. She agrees to marry him. Then, he begins to have strange dreams about Sylvia, a beautiful woman from his past, who comes to Deanbridge to blackmail him. In his dream, Preston strangles the scheming woman, but is then confronted by a strange Frenchman. He tells his dream to Dr. Walton, who feels Preston is suppressing things in his past, and should regain his memory before marrying Sally.

Wednesday, July 16, 2025

Tuesday, July 15 - White Woman

White Woman (1933)

A nightclub singer marries the rich owner of a rubber plantation. When she returns with him to his estate in Malaysia, she finds out that he is cruel, vicious and insanely jealous. She and the plantation's overseer develop a mutual attraction, but are terrified at what will happen if her husband finds out.

Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Monday, July 14 - Scandal Sheet

Scandal Sheet (1931)

Newspaper editor Mark Flint cares about only two things, reporting a big story, no matter whose life it adversely affects, and Edith, his wife. He is unaware that Edith, bored by him, has been having a romantic affair with Noel Adams, a banker.

Adams gives a 24-hour deadline to Edith to leave her husband or end the affair. He books passage on a steamship and packs his bags. But after a crisis develops that could ruin his bank, Flint finds out, confronts Adams and, seeing his luggage, mistakenly believes Adams is fleeing the country. He prints the story without giving Adams a chance to manage the crisis at the bank.

Although his journalistic coups please Franklin, the newspaper's owner, Flint is asked by Franklin if he would be willing to publish a photograph that would hurt a colleague. Flint says yes, whereupon Franklin shows him a picture of his wife and Adams together. An enraged Flint murders Adams, turns himself in and is sentenced to Sing Sing, where he ends up running the prison's newspaper.

Monday, July 14, 2025

Sunday, July 13 - Anything Goes

Anything Goes (1936)

A young man falls in love with a beautiful blonde. When he sees her being forced onto a luxury liner, he decides to follow and rescue her. However, he discovers that she is an English heiress who ran away from home and is now being returned to England. He also discovers that his boss is on the ship. To avoid discovery, he disguises himself as the gangster accomplice of a minister, who is actually a gangster on the run from the law.

Sunday, July 13, 2025

Saturday, July 12 - The Jensen Code: Episode 6


Terry is taken to Richards for treatment and gives up part of the code. When Jensen kicks up a storm Terry leaves. He is found by a passing motorist who takes him to the police rambling nonsense. Richards claims he has the Jensen code.

Saturday, July 12, 2025

Friday, July 11 - The Lady Eve

The Lady Eve (1941)

Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.

Friday, July 11, 2025

Thursday, January 10 - A Damsel in Distress

A Damsel in Distress (1937)

The staff at Tottney Castle are taking bets on whom the young lady of the manor, Alyce Marshmorton (Joan Fontaine), will wed. When she meets American song-and-dance man Jerry Halliday (Fred Astaire), footman Albert (Harry Watson) schemes to make the mismatched pair fall in love so he'll win the bet.

Thursday, July 10, 2025

Wednesday, July 9 - Secret Agent: It's Up to the Lady


A governmental officer has decided to defect to China and M9 wants him back. Drake's ordered to try and get him. Before the story becomes public. He follows the man's wife,, to Greece as he suspects she'll try to contact him. Drake befriends her as he follows her. Whilst waiting on an island for him, they encounter an opposition agent, whose job is to get the man's wife to accompany him to meet her husband; on the other side of the to the Albanian border.

Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Tuesday, July 8 - Going Hollywood

Going Hollywood (1933)

Sylvia is the French teacher at Briarcroft's School for Girls, but she wants to find romance. When she hears Bill on the radio, she decides to leave and thank him. But he is on his way to Hollywood with Lili to make a movie. When Sylvia gets to Hollywood, she finds that seeing Bill again is almost impossible, but she gets a job in the chorus. Then when Lili quits the picture, Sylvia is tapped to play her character. But the part she wants is with Bill, a part that Lili seems to have.

Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Monday, July 7 - Inspector Morse: The Dead of Jericho


Morse is taken aback by the apparent suicide of Anne Staveley. Morse knew her well as they were members of the same choir and he was quite attracted to her. On the evening of the choir's public performance, Morse stops by her house to collect her but finds her front door open and no one at home. On his way home after the performance he sees several police vehicles outside her house and it appears Anne has hung herself. When her nosy neighbour is also killed, Morse is convinced that Anne was murdered.

Monday, July 7, 2025

Sunday, July 6 - Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell

Mr. Belvedere Rings the Bell (1951)

An urbane, sharp-tongued expert on how to stay young interrupts a lecturing tour to prove his theory at a dilapidated old people's home. To the despair of his agent and the alarm of the priest (?) running it, he infiltrates the home by lying about his age and sets about lifting the occupants' spirits and making them feel young again.

Sunday, July 6, 2025

Saturday, July 5 - The Stork Pays Off

The Stork Pays Off (1941)

Gangster Deak Foster and his three henchmen, Brains Moran, Ears-to-the-Ground Hinkle and Photofinish Farris, take over what they think is a night club run by a rival, Stud Rocco, only to discover it is a nursery run by Irene Perry. All fall under the benign influence to the point where the three henchmen go to night school to be educated and Deak falls in love with Julie.

Saturday, July 5, 2025

Friday, July 4 - Hotel Berlin

Hotel Berlin (1945)

An assortment of diverse characters gather at the Hotel Berlin in World War II Germany. Among them are freedom fighter Martin Richter (Helmut Dantine), who is in hiding; deceitful actress Lisa Dorn (Andrea King); Nazi officer Arnid von Dahnwitz (Raymond Massey), whose career is in jeopardy; and Tillie Weiler (Faye Emerson), the hotel "hostess" who will do anything for a new pair of shoes.

Friday, July 4, 2025

Thursday, July 3 - The Tiger Makes Out

The Tiger Makes Out (1967)

Letter carrier Ben Harris (Eli Wallach) broods about the emptiness and injustice of life in his small basement apartment in Greenwich Village. One day he decides to lash out by kidnapping a beautiful young girl, but is disappointed when he all can find is 40-something housewife Gloria Fiske (Anne Jackson). It turns out, though, that Gloria is just as dissatisfied as Ben, and the two develop a growing rapport as they share their tales of alienation and misanthropy.

Thursday, July 3, 2025

Wednesday, July 2 - Once a Thief

Once a Thief (1965)

All ex-convict Eddie Pedak (Alain Delon) wants is a fresh start with his wife, Kristine (Ann-Margret), and daughter, Kathy (Tammy Locke), as he tries to rebuild his life in San Francisco, but a few obstacles stand in his way. One is Inspector Mike Vido (Van Heflin) of the SFPD, who believes Pedak is the man who shot him several years back, and wants revenge. The other is Pedak's brother, Walter (Jack Palance), a lifetime criminal who persistently tries to recruit him to pull one last job.

Wednesday, July 2, 2025

Tuesday, July 1 - Hostile Witness

Hostile Witness (1969)

When the daughter of Simon Crawford, a successful barrister, is killed in what seems to be a hit and run accident, and the police are unable to find the culprit, Crawford swears that he will find the driver of the car, and take revenge. Later when his neighbour is killed in a staged burglary, the blame falls on Crawford, when a letter is found implicating the neighbour in the death of Crawford's daughter.

Tuesday, July 1, 2025

Monday, June 30 - The Unsuspected

The Unsuspected (1947)

Everyone seems fond of Victor Grandison, the sophisticated, suave host of a weekly reality/crime radio program. The outwardly affable host seems to have his share of bad luck after his secretary commits suicide, his wealthy niece disappears and is presumed dead, and her previously unknown husband shows up on the night of his surprise birthday party demanding some answers.