George Brading, a Nemesis agent, goes missing for two days and when he re-surfaces, shoots an American officer in the Nemesis headquarters. Some time afterwards, he dies, presumably of poison. His widow tells the Champions that just before he disappeared, his brief-case went missing. Tremayne also tries to kill a doctor and he too has had his brief-case taken. Richard acts as decoy by having his wallet stolen. He is taken to a police station by a bogus officer where he learns, first hand, that both George and Tremayne were drugged with a mind-altering substance that turned them into assassins. Now he is programmed . . .to kill Craig. Craig must find the antidote to the drug before it is too late.
Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Monday, September 29, 2025
Sunday, September 29 - Highway Patrol: Convict's Wife
Niles Brandon escapes from State Prison, killing a guard in the process. After he contacts his estranged wife Betty for help, she reluctantly agrees to provide information concerning his plans to Dan Mathews.
Dan and Sergeant Walters stake out the roadside restaurant where an arranged rendezvous was to take place. However, Brandon becomes suspicious, avoids the restaurant, and manages to abduct Betty at gunpoint. The officers learn of the abduction after Betty is able to surreptitiously convince a gas station attendant to call the Highway Patrol.
They follow the Brandons into a remote area, where Niles makes a final desperate attempt to escape by abandoning the car. Betty's reluctant lie as to his whereabouts is unconvincing and the escaped convict soon finds himself in a pitched gun battle with Dan and Sergeant Walters.
Sunday, September 28, 2025
Saturday, September 27 - Chance at Heaven
Shallow Manhattan socialite Glory Franklyn (Marian Nixon) crashes her car into a gas station in the exclusive resort town of Silver Beach, Mass., and meets hunky mechanic Blackstone "Blacky" Gorman (Joel McCrea). Blacky ditches his adoring fiancée, Marje Harris (Ginger Rogers), to elope with the seductive Glory. Horrified by her daughter's brutish blue-collar beau, Glory's domineering mother (Virginia Hammond) plots to break up the marriage.
Saturday, September 27, 2025
Friday, September 26 - The Palm Beach Story
This screwball comedy finds married couple Tom (Joel McCrea) and Gerry Jeffers (Claudette Colbert) in a strained relationship, largely due to financial difficulties. Gerry decides to leave Tom, a struggling architect, and head to Palm Beach in order to marry a wealthy man who could fund Tom's projects. When Tom follows Gerry, they cross paths with the quirky millionaire John D. Hackensacker III (Rudy Vallee) and his chatty, husband-seeking sister, Princess Centimillia (Mary Astor).
Friday, September 26, 2025
Thursday, September 25 - The Disembodied
When men on a photo safari stumble into a misanthropic doctor’s remote camp with a wounded comrade, the doctor’s restless wife supplements her usual pursuit (voodoo, especially as a way to off her husband) with a new one: seduction. As men lose their hearts (sometimes literally) to the alluring voodoo priestess, she embarks on a killing spree.
Thursday, September 25, 2025
Wednesday, September 24 - Iron Man
In Coaltown, Pennsylvania, miner Coke Mason hopes to better himself, buy a radio store, and marry Rose Warren. His gambler brother George thinks Coke can be more successful as a boxer, knowing that when he fights he's consumed with a murderous rage that makes him an "iron man." Seeing dollar signs in Rose's eyes, Coke reluctantly agrees, though he's fearful of the "killer instinct" that makes him a knockout success in the ring...and brings him the booing hatred of the fans. Will Coke throw off his personal demon before he kills someone?
Wednesday, September 24, 2025
Tuesday, September 23 - International House
The International House hotel in Wuhu, China, is hosting the debut of Dr. Wong's latest invention: a television-like device he calls a "radioscope." From around the world, agents and collectors, including Professor Henry Quail (W.C. Fields), arrive to purchase the rights to the invention--or perhaps steal it. Elsewhere in the hotel, a young man is due to wed his blushing bride, if only he can stop falling ill. When the groom breaks out in a rash, the hotel guests are quarantined together.
Tuesday, September 23, 2025
Monday, September 22 - Naked City: ..And If Any Are Frozen, Warm Them!..
Detective Flint strives to stop his aging Romanian friend from using his big wedding party as cover for a bank robbery.
Monday, September 22, 2025
Sunday, September 21 - The Time Tunnel: Devil's Island
Doug and Tony are transported to 1895 to the French penal colony of the Devil's Island, a prison where political and criminal prisoners where sent and never leave, and are mistakenly taken as two runaway prisoners. They try to explain the mistake to the cruel commanders that do not accept their explanations. When the prisoners decide to help the charismatic Captain Alfred Dreyfus to escape, Doug and Tony try to tell them that this is a doomed plan since Dreyfus has never escaped from the hellish island.
Sunday, September 21, 2025
Saturday, September 20 - The Mad Ghoul
Dr. Alfred Morris, a university chemistry professor, rediscovers an ancient Mayan formula for a gas which turns men into pliant, obedient, zombie-like ghouls.
After medical student Ted Allison becomes a guinea pig for Morris, the professor imagines that Allison's fiancee, beautiful concert singer Isabel Lewis, wants to break off the engagement because she prefers the professor as a more "mature" lover but in reality loves Eric Iverson, her accompanist.
In order to bring Ted back from his trance-like states, Morris commands him to perform a cardiectomy on recently deceased or living bodies in order to use serum from their hearts as a temporary antidote. When the serial murders seem to coincide with Isabel's touring schedule, ace reporter "Scoop" McClure gets on the mad scientist's trail.
Saturday, September 20, 2025
Friday, September 19 - Decoy: The Gentle Gun-Man
Casey goes undercover looking for the accompliace of a man shot in an armed robbery. Her chief suspect is a kindly deli owner.
Friday, September 19, 2025
Thursday, September 18 - Highway Patrol: Stripped Cars
Two brothers hijack a new-car carrier, planning to sell the cars to get cash to purchase a farm. When the driver dies from injuries sustained in the hijacking, they make a panic-stricken attempt to dispose of the evidence.
Thursday, September 18, 2025
Wednesday, September 17 - Bourbon Street Beat: Suitable for Framing
Rex goes undercover to investigate the owner of the Cypress Gun Club, and in the process gets framed for the man's murder.
Wednesday, September 17, 2025
Tuesday, September 16 - Honey West: Like Visions and Omens and All That Jazz
A young socialite survives numerous "accidents" including a parachute that opens late and a near hit-and-run. Honey and Sam are suspicious when the woman's mother reveals that a psychic has predicted the accidents. Things really heat up when the socialite becomes the prime suspect after her ex-boyfriend is murdered.
Tuesday, September 16, 2025
Monday, September 15 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): The Trouble with Women
Once again Jeff is hired as a fall guy to take the rap for a murder. In this case the guilty parties are Susan Lang and her lover Corder. Susan hires Jeff to tail her two-timing husband Paul, but then Paul gets murdered. Jeff is arrested yet again but released whereupon Susan and Corder abduct him at gunpoint and take him to a quarry to kill him. Fortunately for him, Marty rescues him, having enlisted the aid of other ghosts.
Monday, September 15, 2025
Sunday, September 14 - Sullivan's Travels
Successful movie director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea), convinced he won't be able to film his ambitious masterpiece until he has suffered, dons a hobo disguise and sets off on a journey, aiming to "know trouble" first-hand. When all he finds is a train ride back to Hollywood and a beautiful blonde companion (Veronica Lake), he redoubles his efforts, managing to land himself in more trouble than he bargained for when he loses his memory and ends up a prisoner on a chain gang.
Sunday, September 14, 2025
Saturday, September 13 - A Lost Lady
Two days before Marian and Ned are to be married, he is killed by the husband of a woman he was seeing on the side. Marian becomes withdrawn and they send her to the Canadian Rockies for rest.
While on a walk, she accidentally falls off a ledge and twists her ankle. She is found and rescued by Dan Forrester and his dog Sandy. He visits Marian every day even though she is still bitter. When it is time to go, he asks her to marry him and she accepts even though she will never love again.
Back home in Chicago, Dan dotes on Marian and even builds a house in the country for his 'perfect wife'. Everything is going well until Marian meets a brash young transport owner named Frank. She rejects his advances, but he persists. When Dan leaves on business, Frank entertains her every day and Marian realizes that she may find love again after all.
Saturday, September 13, 2025
Friday, September 12 - Naked City: The Sweetly Smiling Face of Truth
A Broadway agent dies in an actress' apartment and the detectives must discern who among those present is telling the truth: the actress, the married actor with whom she is having an affair, or the actor's chauffeur.
Friday, September 12, 2025
Thursday, September 11 - The Champions: The Gun-Runners
A cache of Japanese arms from WW2 is unearthed in a Burmese jungle before gun-runners kill the recovery force, planning to sell their spoils in Bangkok to international arms trader Huntington.The Champions are sent to intercept the shipment but fail. It is allegedly bound for Brussels but ends in Africa where the Champions foil an uprising.
Thursday, September 11, 2025
Wednesday, September 10 - Hawaiian Eye: Assignment: Manila
Tom goes to Manila posing as a dead nightclub owner's brother, in order to break up a gang smuggling US currency to Red China.
Wednesday, September 10, 2025
Tuesday, September 9 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Housekeeper
When electrician Ralph Maricut (Harry Fowler) pops over to Mr Henderson’s house to do some work he gets the shock of his life – he finds Henderson’s dead body in the bath. The news seems to hit Henderson’s housekeeper Martha Smallwood (Kay Walsh) hard, but as we’ll see, appearances can be deceptive.
At first it seems like a simple heart attack, but a few unexplained bruises are enough for Det. Supt. Warr (John Dearth) to investigate further. The police take an interest in Maricut, especially when they learn he’s got form for breaking and entering. But it’s the perfect housekeeper Mrs Smallwood who’s the villain of the piece. Aided by a number of disguises and aliases she preys on vulnerable older men – and now she’s disposed of Henderson she’s got her hooks into Percy Whitehead (Oliver Johnson). He’s blind and lives by himself, so he appears to be ripe for the picking.
Tuesday, September 9, 2025
Monday, September 8 - Bourbon Street Beat: Deadly Persuasion
While conducting a review of the Braxton Reformatory for Boys, Cal becomes focused upon the case of one particular boy.
Monday, September 8, 2025
Sunday, September 7 - Terror Aboard
One ship discovers another adrift. When the crew board, they find the ship abandoned except for a few corpses.
In flashback, we see corporate crook Max Krieg (John Halliday) get a cable telling him that at any port the ship lands, he will be arrested. Krieg proceeds to kill one by one the rest of the passengers.
Krieg becomes more nefarious and desperate with each murder. Not only that, but he’s a master of manipulating human emotions and is able to direct some lovers quarrels on the ship to suicide. Halliday is cold and calculating as an early cinematic serial killer.
Charles Ruggles provides comedic relief as the bumbling steward.
Saturday, September 6 - Highway Patrol: Officer's Wife
After Patrolman Jerry March is killed in a gun battle with a murder suspect, Patrolman Ed Wylie reluctantly resigns from the force at the urging of his fearful wife Linda. Ed is a valued officer and Dan is reluctant to lose him, so he offers to let Ed take a leave of absence instead. Dan also gets his friend Dave Alden to give Ed a job as a salesman. It quickly becomes obvious that Ed doesn't have the mindset to be a successful salesman and Dan asks Linda Wylie to meet with him concerning Ed's future plans. When Linda arrives for the meeting, she is amazed to find Patty March (Jerry's widow) working as the Patrol's dispatcher. Dan and Patty convince her of the importance of Ed's work and his happiness, and she encourages Ed to return to the Patrol.
Saturday, September 6, 2025
Friday, September 5 - Signpost to Murder
Alex Forrester, convicted of murdering his wife, fails to gain his release after spending 5 years in a British asylum for the criminally insane. Dr. Mark Fleming informs him of an old law which provides for the reopening of a trial if the prisoner escapes and remains at large for 14 days. Forrester escapes and takes refuge in the home of Molly Thomas, who claims that she is awaiting the return of her husband from a trip to The Hague. Molly tells him of her unhappy marriage, and the two become attracted to each other. In the evening, Forrester discovers a man's body by the mill wheel of Molly's house. After stumbling down a flight of steps, he regains consciousness and finds that the body is missing.
Friday, September 5, 2025
Thursday, September 4 - King of Burlesque
Having moved from burlesque shows to big Broadway musicals, producer Kerry Bolton (Warner Baxter) craves prestige. He thinks he's found it when he falls for classy young widow Rosalind Cleve (Mona Barrie), who reluctantly consents to marry Kerry if he'll pay for the overseas training of her opera-singing sweetheart, Stanley Drake (Charles Quiqley). When a pretentious new show starring Stanley flops, Kerry's former partner, Pat Doran (Alice Faye), secretly hatches a plot to restore his fortunes.
Thursday, September 4, 2025
Wednesday, September 3 - Murder by the Clock
Disagreeable Blanche Friderici disinherits her son, Irving Pichel, who is a death-obsessed dullard, in favor of her nephew, Walter McGrail. He may be a drunk, and married to money-hungry Lilyan Tashman who's carrying on an affair with artist Lester Vail, she reasons, but he's not a brute. Miss Tashman tries to convince her husband the old lady should die tonight before she can change her mind, and she, she means they, can enjoy the money. And so the old lady is murdered, and the police come along. The chief of police thinks it's obviously Pichel, but lieutenant William 'Stage' Boyd is not so sure.
Three more murders and a resurrection take place in this Old Dark House mystery. . .
Wednesday, September 3, 2025
Tuesday, September 2 - Crime Traveller: The Broken Crystal
A professor is found dead in his bath, and then another is killed in a hit-and-run while trying to tell Turner something. Both worked for Webb Biotech, a company whose Technical Director just happens to be Steve Marlowe, Turner's first boyfriend. Turner and Slade try to time travel back to find out what the hit-and-run victim wanted to tell her. Alas the machine only takes them back three minutes and so any chance is lost. They cannot travel back again as you can't be in three time zones at once (another rule of time). To add to their problems as they return to the present the machine breaks yet again. However this time it is a crystal at the heart of the machine which will cost around £20,000 to replace...
Slade and Holly are confronted with the possibility that theirs may not be the only time machine in the world.
Tuesday, September 2, 2025
Monday, September 1 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): It's Supposed to Be Thicker Than Water
Having reunited the far-flung members of the Crackan family for a gathering where patriarch Joshua will decide which one of them should be his heir, Jeff tells Marty he wants to end their partnership. However, when members of the Crackan clan start to get murdered it is Marty who saves the situation by communicating with Fay, the last survivor, as she goes into a trance assisting a stage hypnotist and getting her to call the police and Jeff is made to re-consider his hasty decision.
Monday, September 1, 2025
Sunday, August 31 - Naked City: Lament for a Dead Indian
A man (the aforementioned "Indian") recently released from prison comes to NYC to get his friend to fulfill a promise to join him in running a farm. He is warned that his "partner" is bad news by Flint and Arcaro. The friend is not interested in leaving NYC and is heavily involved in the rackets-including murder. The man tragically tries to help his friend.
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