Monday, November 9 - Dead Men Tell

Dead Men Tell (1941)

A treasure map in four pieces, the ghost of a hanged pirate, a talking parrot, and a ship full of red herrings complicate Charlie's search for a murderer on board a docked ship.

Sunday, November 8 - Behind That Curtain

Behind That Curtain (1929)

Sir George hires Hillary Gatt (Galt, actually) to find out more about Eric who wants to marry Lois. Gatt is murdered and the couple, married, run off to India. Old friend John Beetham sympathizes with the bride who sees that her hubby is a liar and drunk (and a murderer!). John and Lois fly to San Francisco (separately - they meet by chance), by way of the Persian desert. Eric shows up and tries to kill John, but Scotland Yard and Lt. Charlie Chan intervene.

Saturday, November 7 - Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Foul (1964)

Although the evidence appears to be overwhelming in the strangulation murder of a blackmailer, Miss Jane Marple's (Dame Margaret Rutherford's) sole "not guilty" vote hangs the jury 11-1. She becomes convinced that the real murderer is a member of a local theatrical troupe, so she joins them in order to gather information. The clues lead back many years to a single disastrously unsuccessful 1951 performance of a dreadful play written by the group's hammy director, H. Driffold Cosgood (Ron Moody). Although at that time, several of the current cast members were only children, more murders follow before Miss Marple ultimately exposes the killer.

Friday, November 6 - Murder Ahoy

Murder Ahoy (1964)

Miss Jane Marple (Dame Margaret Rutherford) investigates the murder of one of her fellow trustees of a fund which rehabilitates young criminals. To investigate she goes aboard the ship used to train the juveniles, much to the distress of Captain Sydney De Courcy Rhumstone (Lionel Jeffries). She soon stumbles onto more murders, and a ring of thieves.

Thursday, November 5 - Murder She Said

Murder She Said (1961)

Miss Jane Marple's (Dame Margaret Rutherford's) on-board a train when she sees what appears to to be, a murder - a woman being strangled - in a passing train. When the Police refuse to believe her story, she decides to do some investigating of her own.

When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.

Wednesday, November 4 - Dance Hall

Dance Hall (1941)

A sultry singer (Carole Landis) gives a skirt-chasing dance-hall manager (Cesar Romero) the cold shoulder. Meanwhile, Joe likes Ada, but Ada marries Mr. Newmeyer, but Lili's agent likes Joe's composition and Joe needs all his money to go to NY and have his composition performed, but Duke is in trouble and Joe loans his money to Duke and Duke hatches a scheme to get the cash to pay Joe back and guess what, Lili comes around at the end and it's hearts and flowers for her and Duke.

Duke does not set up Joe with Lili! I don't know who wrote that crap, but they shouldn't be writing storylines for IMDB, but I guess they just want the attention and don't care much how they get is my guess because there's an awful lot of that going around these days. A downright pandemic if you ask me which you didn't, but I'm going to say it anyway.

Tuesday, November 3 - Framed: Episode 2

Framed (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired Dec 4, 1992)

Eddie Myers has agreed to give evidence on the condition that Jackson is appointed his interrogator. Jackson moves into the secret isolation with the manipulative Myers who, even in prison back in the UK, seems to be able to command all kinds of luxuries and immediately makes efforts to corrupt the young officer.

Monday, November 2 - The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Jar & Interpol Calling: Slave Ship

The Alfred Hitchcock Hour: The Jar (Season 2 Episode 17 - aired Feb 14, 1964)

Charlie Hill is mesmerized by a strange jar at a carnival sideshow. He buys it from the owner, but his wife Thedy Sue is frightened and wants it thrown out. The townspeople come from miles to see it and Charlie becomes a local celebrity.

Interpol Calling: Slave Ship (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Dec 6, 1959)

An Arab dhow is found half-sinking and abandoned - with 16 dead bodies sealed in the hold. Duval suspects it had been engaged in the slave trade and flies to Mombasa to examine it, only to discover the reason for its abandoning - its human cargo had been dying of plague. The crew of the boat have made it back ashore, but those behind the trade are not taking any chances. When the body of a dead seaman - shot, but dying of plague - is discovered, Duval realises how ruthless they are.

Sunday, November 1 - Honey West: An Eerie, Airy, Thing

Honey West: An Eerie, Airy, Thing (Season 1 Episode 30 - aired Apr 8, 1966)

Sam's friend, Gordon Forbes, is threatening to jump from the ledge of his upper-storey hotel room, and the only person he wants to talk to is his estranged wife. Unfortunately, when Honey visits the Forbes home, she discovers Mrs. Forbes has been murdered.

Friday, October 30 - Treasure of Fear (Scared Stiff)

Scared Stiff (1945)

It's about a chess expert, an antique dealer, a lady detective and a boy prodigy, and the action takes place in a winery owned by a couple of elderly eccentrics. The latter have come into possession of a set of rare old chessmen, and, for one reason or another, all the others in the cast are out to get hold of the chessmen.

Thursday, October 29 - The Veil: Girl on the Road

The Veil: Girl on the Road (Season 1 Episode 2 - aired 1958)

John Prescott is driving back to Boston when he helps a stranded young woman named Lila Kirby , whose car has run out of gas.

John takes Lila to a local bar for a drink. When the bartender mentions or calls for a man named Morgan Debs, Lila panics and flees, though she promises to meet John later at a spot called Lookout Point.

At Lookout Point, John meets the wheelchair-bound Morgan Debs, who reveals a shocking truth. Lila had actually died three years earlier when she drove off the edge of Lookout Point—an accident that also left Debs disabled. John later finds Lila's wrecked car at the bottom of the cliff.

Wednesday, October 28 - Chamber of Horrors

Chamber of Horrors (Original title: The Door with Seven Locks - 1940)

The Door with Seven Locks by Edgar Wallace, the story blends "old dark house" tropes with macabre crime fiction. Upon his deathbed in 1928, the wealthy patriarch Lord Selford demands to be entombed alongside a massive fortune in family jewels. The tomb is secured by seven separate locks, and the seven accompanying keys are distributed among different trustees and descendants.

Ten years later, Canadian heiress June Lansdowne (played by Lilli Palmer) returns to England and receives a mysterious key, drawing her into a dangerous conspiracy. As she and a team of investigators try to unravel the mystery of the missing keys, they cross paths with Dr. Manetta (Leslie Banks), a devious and sadistic physician who operates a hidden underground torture chamber.

Tuesday, October 27 - Meet the Wildcat

Meet the Wildcat (1940)

One day in Mexico, magazine photographer Ann Larkin is in a museum when she happens to see a man steal a painting. Pursuing and accusing him, she believes the man, Brod Williams, to be a notorious art thief known only as "The Wildcat."

Brod brings the stolen painting to Leon Dumeray, a gallery owner. Dumeray recognizes it as stolen property and notifies the police, who place Brod under arrest. Ann comes to visit Brod in jail, but after complying with his request to bring him a pineapple from a local fruit stand, she is shocked to find a gun has been hidden inside it. Brod makes a daring escape, forcing Ann to switch clothing with him and fleeing the jail dressed as a woman.

Law authorities later congratulate Brod on his scheme. He is actually a police detective from New York City who is trying to smoke out Dumeray, who is the real Wildcat. He is offered a job by Dumeray, who now trusts Brod to be a dishonest man. Ann, however, doesn't know Dumeray is the thief and tips him off to Brod's true identity. Dumeray takes both as his prisoners, but Brod breaks free and calls for the police.

Monday, October 26 - Adam Adamant Lives!: The Village of Evil

Adam Adamant Lives!: The Village of Evil (Season 1 Episode 15 - aired Oct 6, 1966)

On holiday in the country, Adam comes to a mysterious old inn near a rundown village, where the residents are secretly members of a murderous coven of Satan-worshiping witches and warlocks.

Sunday, October 25 - King of the Zombies

King of the Zombies (1941)

During World War II, a small plane off the south coast of America is low on fuel and blown off-course by a storm. Guided by a faint radio signal, they crash-land on an island. The passenger, his manservant and the pilot take refuge in a mansion owned by a doctor. The easily-spooked manservant soon becomes convinced the mansion is haunted by zombies and ghosts. Exploring, the three find a voodoo ritual in the cellar, where the doctor is trying to acquire war intelligence by transferring personalities into his zombies. But the interruption causes the zombies to turn on their creator.

Saturday, October 24 - Dead Men Walk

Dead Men Walk (1943)

The story involves a kindly small-town physician, Doctor Lloyd Clayton, who has secretly murdered his twin brother Elwyn, because of Elwyn's deep involvement in satanic occult practices. Only Elwyn's hunchback assistant Zolarr suspects the good doctor of doing away with his master and confronts him, but the doctor maintains that he only acted in self-defense when his brother had become a danger to society.

Meanwhile, because Elwyn had gone far with his study of the dark arts before his demise, he returns to life as an evil supernatural being who begins murdering the villagers by draining them of their blood. The doctor and his beautiful young niece, Gayle Clayton, and her fiancé Dr. David Bentley, soon discover that Elwyn is still alive, and are in peril for this knowledge.

Dr. Clayton realizes the only way he can help his niece is to kill Elwyn again, and plans to destroy him with fire. Clayton becomes trapped in the resulting conflagration, and along with Elwyn and Zolarr perishes in the flames of Elwyn's accursed library.

Friday, October 23 - The Veil: Vision of Crime

The Veil: Vision of Crime (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired 1958)

While on a boat trip to Paris, a man has a vision in which he sees his brother murdered. He returns to England to discover that his brother has been killed and that a man he knows isn't the murderer is the prime suspect.

Thursday, October 22 - Guest Wife

Guest Wife (1945)

Christopher Price, a small-town bank executive, continues to be loyal to and idolize his boyhood friend, Joseph Jefferson Parker, a famous war correspondent. But Chris's wife, Mary, is none to fond of Joe and tired of her husband's idolizing.

On the eve of the Price's second-honeymoon trip to New York City, Joe arrives and tells Chris that he needs someone to pose as his wife in order to fool his boss in NYC, who thinks Joe got married to an overseas woman while on an assignment. Chris pushes Mary into posing as Joe's wife.

In New York, this leads to many complications and misunderstandings, with Mary finally deciding to teach Chris and Joe a lesson by making them believe she is in love with Joe.

Wednesday, October 21 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Nightlifers

Gideon C.I.D.: The Nightlifers (Season 1 Episode 26 - aired Jan 9, 1965)

A group of bored and rich young people go from endless pot and booze parties aboard a houseboat to violent crimes in the city. Their creepy leader has an obsessive hate for middle class morality, and calls their misdeeds "giggles".

Tuesday, October 20 - Night Into Morning

Night Into Morning (1951)

 Philip Ainley is a respected English professor whose life shatters when his wife and son die in a domestic fire explosion. Struggling with deep grief and refusing to open up, he turns heavily to alcohol. Despite support from his friend Tom and department secretary Katherine, Ainley spirals toward a drunk driving incident and an eventual suicide attempt before intervention saves him.

Monday, October 19 - Daughter of Dr. Jekyll

Daughter of Dr. Jekyll (1957)

Janet Smith (Gloria Talbott) learns that she is not only the daughter of the infamous Dr. Henry Jekyll, but is convinced by her guardian, Dr. Lomas (Arthur Shields), that she has inherited her father's transformative condition. Janet begins to believe that she turns into a monster after two local women are found horribly killed[2] and nearly takes her own life because of it. However, all is not what it seems.

Sunday, October 18 - Dead of Night

Dead of Night (1945)

An architect, visiting an English country house, realizes the other guests are familiar from his recurring nightmare. When they share their tales of the supernatural, he is filled with a growing dread.

Saturday, October 17 - The Seventh Victim

The Seventh Victim (1943)

When her older sister Jacqueline disappears, Mary Gibson is forced to leave her private school and decides to travel to New York City to look for her. A bit naive and out of her depth, she is not sure how to go about finding her. Eventually she meets Gregory Ward, her sister's husband, and a mysterious psychiatrist, Dr. Louis Judd, who claims to know of Jacqueline's whereabouts. What she doesn't realize is that her sister became involved with devil worshipers who now want to eliminate her for revealing their existence.

Thursday, October 15 - Her Kind of Man

Her Kind of Man (1946)

A nightclub singer is caught between a big-time gangster and a tough Broadway columnist.

Wednesday, October 14 - Public Hero #1

Public Hero Number 1 Original title: Public Hero #1 (1935)

Before the movie starts (!), ambitious FBI agent Jeff Crane (Chester Morris) accepts an undercover assignment in a federal penitentiary. Instructed to gather information on kingpin and fellow inmate Sonny "Dinkie" Black (Joseph Calleia), (and now the movie has started) Crane orchestrates a successful prison break and earns himself an invitation into Black's inner circle. 

As Crane moves up the ranks in Black's gang, his growing love for the ruthless gangster's straitlaced sister, Terry (Jean Arthur), further complicates an already dangerous job.

Tuesday, October 13 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Rhyme and the Reason

Gideon C.I.D.: The Rhyme and the Reason (Season 1 Episode 5 - aired Oct 24, 1964)

Winifred Norton is found stabbed to death after an argument with her boyfriend, Bill Rose. Bill is immediately targeted by police because his knife and footprints are found at the murder scene. Bill claims he is set up and judged unfairly because he is a Mod.

Bill's sister Mary—who is friends with Commander George Gideon's daughter—asks Gideon to look into the case. Gideon and Detective Chief Inspector David Keen dig deeper, uncovering witness inconsistencies and pointing toward Winifred's stepfather, Fred Norton.

Monday, October 12 - Maigret: The Cactus

Maigret: The Cactus (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Jan 16, 1961)

When one of his men is wounded outside an apartment house, Maigret checks in as a guest so he can investigate undercover.

Sunday, October 11 - Bride by Mistake

Bride by Mistake (1944)

The staggeringly wealthy Norah Hunter (Laraine Day), a shipyard owner, too often finds herself the romantic target of gold-digging men. To attract a suitor whose main interest is not money, she changes places with her secretary, Sylvia Lockwood (Marsha Hunt), and assumes the role of a young working woman. However, she then falls for recuperating fighter pilot Anthony Travis (Alan Marshal), who, in turn, is madly in love with Sylvia -- or, perhaps, with the millions he thinks she has.

Saturday, October 10 - The Animal Kingdom

The Animal Kingdom (1932)

Successful and passionate publisher Tom Collier (Leslie Howard) marries socialite Cee Henry (Myrna Loy) despite loving his open-minded mistress, Daisy Sage (Ann Harding). As Tom becomes an established member of the upper class, his deceitful wife convinces him to publish books solely for profit and sacrifice his intellectual pursuits. When Daisy sees what Tom has become, she criticizes his transformation, forcing him to choose between staying with Cee and following his heart.

Friday, October 9 - One More Tomorrow

One More Tomorrow (1945)

Shiftless playboy Tom Collier lives to jump from party to party--until he meets photographer Christie Sage. Through Christie, Tom takes over the ownership of The Bantam, a liberal magazine which opposes everything his family represents. As Tom and Christie's relationship deepens, love blooms and he proposes to her. Realizing that she could never fit in with Tom's social circle, Christie says no, a decision she later regrets. But Tom isn't left alone for long--scheming gold-digger Cecelia Henry wastes no time in catching Tom on the rebound and forcing him into a disastrous marriage.

Thursday, October 8 - The Youngest Profession

The Youngest Profession (1943)

Lively teen Joan Lyons and her best friend, Patricia Drew, are dedicated autograph seekers who run around New York City attempting to meet celebrities. Deceived by trouble-making governess Miss Featherstone, Joan is distracted from her star-chasing by concerns over her parents' marriage. This leads Joan to hire a muscle man named Dr. Hercules to flirt with her mother, which only results in more misunderstandings.

Wednesday, October 7 - Having Wonderful Time

Having Wonderful Time (1938)

Office worker Teddy (Ginger Rogers) tries to get over a love affair turned sour by vacationing at a summer mountain resort. She pretends to be more cultured and sophisticated than she really is, but her act is challenged by a handsome waiter named Chick (Douglas Fairbanks Jr.). She also befriends Miriam (Lucille Ball) and Henrietta (Eve Arden), whose screwball personalities prevent Teddy from getting too full of herself. As everyone pursues romance, the resort soon becomes a hotbed of drama.

Tuesday, October 6 - Honey West: There's a Long, Long, Fuse A'Burning

Honey West: There's a Long, Long, Fuse A'Burning

Honey and Sam try to establish a retired robber's innocence when a copycat uses his old m.o. of diverting attention with a bomb blast

Monday, October 5 - The Saint: The Charitable Countess

The Saint: The Charitable Countess (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Dec 20, 1962)

Simon Templar arrives in Rome and attends a high society charity ball hosted by Countess Kristina Rovagna, quickly suspecting the fund-raising efforts are a sham. After a young street thief named Franco is struck by a taxi driver named Marco de Cesari, Simon takes the boy in and learns from Father Bellini that the orphanage is receiving only a fraction of the donations. Simon identifies Aldo Petri as a central figure in the embezzlement and confronts the Countess with her vaudeville past. He wagers that he can steal her valuable necklace to cover the missing funds, pulling off a daring dinner party heist with the help of Franco and his gang.

Sunday, October 4 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Reluctant Witness

Gideon C.I.D.: The Reluctant Witness (Season 1 Episode 24 - aired Apr 26, 1966)

The Carter brothers run a garage but mainly deal in stolen cars. A nosy neighbour, Tiny Bray, is determined to catch them doing something illegal in revenge for being falsely imprisoned. He contacts Gideon with news of some important evidence but is severely beaten and killed by Syd Carter before he has a chance to give the information. A young woman is a witness but is too afraid to give evidence. Gideon and Keen lay a clever trap for him and he is arrested. Red Carter, his brother, swears revenge and sets out to have the witness killed and his brother released.

Saturday, October 3 - Interpol Calling: The Chinese Mask

Interpol Calling: The Chinese Mask (Season 1 Episode 12 - aired Nov 29, 1959)

A plane is hijacked by one of the passengers, flying it to an abandoned airstrip to steal its cargo of platinum. Duval flies to Hong Kong in search of the suspect, Chu Luan - but with the net closing in he manages to stay one step ahead of the authorities. When the trail leads to a dead end, Duval begins to wonder if the evidence is all it appears to be.

Friday, October 2 - The Saint: The Man Who Was Lucky

The Saint: The Man Who Was Lucky (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Dec 13, 1962)

Simon Templar (Roger Moore) is asked by bookmaker Marty O'Connor to intervene after a criminal threat puts Marty and Cora in danger. Their trouble grows when gangster Lucky Joe Luckner's protection scheme targets their business and personal safety. Inspector Claude Teal investigates Luckner's activities but struggles to find enough evidence to stop him through official channels. Simon takes a personal approach, using strategy and pressure to challenge the criminal operation surrounding the frightened couple.

Thursday, October 1 - Maigret: The Experts

Maigret: The Experts (Season 1 Episode 11 - aired Jan 9, 1961)

Maigret is alarmed when American Mafia gangsters come to Paris to execute a hit.

Wednesday, September 30 - Practically Yours

Practically Yours (1944)

When a young pilot, Daniel Bellamy, is presumed dead after crash-bombing an enemy aircraft carrier, the footage of the crash and his presumably final reminiscence of walking in the park with 'Piggy' and kissing her on the nose is sent back home. A typographical error in transcribing his words becomes a tribute to heroism, while a girl who worked in his office, Peggy, is thought to be the object of his secret love. 

However, Dan returns home and in order to save embarrassment for both the girl and himself, he tries to maintain the pretense. Dan reveals that he was not speaking of a girl but of his dog. A series of comical mishaps ensue, leading to a resolution of the misunderstanding.

Tuesday, September 29 - Ghost Squad: Million Dollar Ransom

Ghost Squad: Million Dollar Ransom (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Nov 11, 1961)

In Sweden to receive a Nobel Prize for physics, an American scientist is drugged and concealed in a car entered in a cross-Europe endurance race. The squad has to find them before it takes a turn into communist territory.

Monday, September 28 - The Saint: The Golden Journey

The Saint: The Golden Journey (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Dec 6, 1962)

Simon Templar forces his friend's demanding fiancée on a grueling hundred-mile trek across rural Spain without privileges, to cure her vanity.

Sunday, September 27 - Gideon C.I.D.: Boy with Gun

Gideon C.I.D.: Boy with Gun (Season 1 Episode 23 - aired Feb 27, 1966)

The story follows Chris Kirk (played by Howard Knight), a timid, 15-year-old boy. He has been given a gun by his demanding police surgeon father who is trying to toughen him up. When a local hoodlum threatens Chris with a knife, the frightened boy shoots him. Thinking the hood may be dead, and terrified of his father's reaction, Chris runs away, prompting a police search led by Commander Gideon.

Saturday, September 26 Maigret: On Holiday

Maigret: On Holiday (Season 1 Episode 10 - aired Jan 2, 1961)

Mme. Maigret is hospitalized with appendicitis whilst on holiday. While visiting her, Maigret finds an anonymous note in his coat pocket asking him to check on a young female patient in room 15, leading him to investigate a dark local tragedy.

Friday, September 25 - The Saint: The Effete Angler

The Saint: The Effete Angler (Season 1 Episode 9 - aired Nov 29, 1962)

Simon Templar takes a fishing trip in Miami Beach with a flirtatious married woman and uncovers a smuggling operation orchestrated by her wealthy husband.

Thursday, September 24 - The Affairs of Martha (1942)

The Affairs of Martha (1942)

A small, affluent suburb is abuzz with reports that a tell-all book has been written by a servant in the community. Sophia (Spring Byington) doesn't think it's any of her staff, but the author is, in fact, her kind maid, Martha (Marsha Hunt). Sophia also doesn't know that Martha was secretly married to her son, Jeff (Richard Carlson), who has been on a research trip and now returns wanting a divorce so that he can marry Sylvia (Frances Drake). However, Martha still has feelings for him.

Wednesday, September 3 - Adam Adamant Lives!: The League of Uncharitable Ladies

Adam Adamant Lives!: The League of Uncharitable Ladies (Season 1 Episode 13 - aired Sep 22, 1966)

A series of mysterious deaths involving important government men leads Adam Adamant to investigate the Gentlewomen's Charity League.Key Events. 

Georgina Jones takes a job in the club's cloakroom to help investigate, but despite Adamant acting as a bodyguard, the secretive women's league still manages to target and execute their next victim.

Tuesday, September 22 - Gideon C.I.D.: Morna

Gideon C.I.D.: Morna (Season 1 Episode 22 - aired Feb 24, 1966)

After a beautiful blonde is found murdered, her story is unraveled in flashbacks about her relationship to her posh girl's school friends and instructors, her troubled beau, and with a drug pusher seething with contempt.

Monday, September 21 - Maigret: The Mistake

Maigret: The Mistake (Season 1 Episode 9 - aired Dec 26, 1960)

The body of a murdered girl is found and Maigret is called in. His inquiries involve a distinguished doctor who lives with his wife in the same house as the murdered girl.

Sunday, September 20 - Framed: Episode 1

Framed: Episode #1.1 (Season 1 Episode 1 - aired Nov 27, 1992)

Whilst on holiday in Spain, DC Lawrence Jackson is alarmed when he believes he has spotted none other than Eddie Myers, a figurehead turned informant who was wanted for his involvement in a bank robbery some years previously. However, Myers was believed to be long since dead after his wife identified a corpse found in Italy. 

Convinced that he has seen Myers, Jackson investigates, obtains Myers’ fingerprints, then calls his team back home and soon enough, they arrive on the island to find Myers living it large. Myers is arrested and deported back to England, however he refuses to talk to anyone but Jackson. Myers is kept in a confinement cell, and DCI Jimmy McKinnes assigns Jackson the task of living with Myers until he can obtain information to the whereabouts
of the other suspects involved in the bank robbery.