Thursday, September 11 - The Champions: The Gun-Runners

The Champions: The Gun-Runners (Season 1 Episode 29 - aired Apr 23, 1969)

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.

Wednesday, September 10 - Hawaiian Eye: Assignment: Manila

Hawaiian Eye: Assignment: Manila (Season 1 Episode 33 - aired May 25, 1960)

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.

Tuesday, September 9 - Gideon C.I.D.: The Housekeeper

Gideon C.I.D.: The Housekeeper (Season 1 Episode 5 - aired Jan 2, 1965)

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.

Monday, September 8 - Bourbon Street Beat: Deadly Persuasion

Bourbon Street Beat: Deadly Persuasion (Season 1 Episode 31 - aired May 9, 1960)

While conducting a review of the Braxton Reformatory for Boys, Cal becomes focused upon the case of one particular boy.

Sunday, September 7 - Terror Aboard

Terror Aboard (1933)

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

Highway Patrol: Officer's Wife (Season 2 Episode 27 - aired Apr 1957)

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.

Friday, September 5 - Signpost to Murder

Signpost to Murder (1964)

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.

Thursday, September 4 - King of Burlesque

King of Burlesque (1936)

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.

Wednesday, September 3 - Murder by the Clock

Murder by the Clock (1931)

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. . .

Tuesday, September 2 - Crime Traveller: The Broken Crystal

Crime Traveller: The Broken Crystal (Season 1 Episode 8 - aired Apr 19, 1997)

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.

Monday, September 1 - Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased): It's Supposed to Be Thicker Than Water

My Partner the Ghost: It's Supposed to Be Thicker Than Water (Season 1 Episode 22 - aired Feb 13, 1970)

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.

Sunday, August 31 - Naked City: Lament for a Dead Indian

Naked City: Lament for a Dead Indian (Season 3 Episode 25 - aired Apr 11, 1962)

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.