Friday, August 31, 2012

Thursday, Aug. 30 - Quantum Leap: The Right Hand of God

Season 1, Episode 4
The Right Hand of God - October 24, 1974 (7 Apr. 1989)


Sam Beckett leaps into the body of a boxer who has a shot a winning the championship. The man's contract is owned by local nuns who inherited his rights from a boxing promoter and their hope is that they could make enough money to build a chapel and drop-in center for the poor. What they don't know is that the boxer's 10 bout winning streak is the result of fixed matches and an unscrupulous boxing promoter now wants him to take in dive in the championship bout. Sam comes up with a clever solution that he hopes will satisfy all parties.

Thursday, August 30, 2012

Wednesday, Aug. 29 - Quantum Leap: Genesis Part 2 & Star-Crossed

Season 1, Episode 2
Genesis: Part 2 - September 13, 1956 (26 Mar. 1989)


As Tom Stratton, Sam comforts his (Tom's) wife and prevents her from having a premature birth. This is what he was sent to do, allowing him to leap home (he hopes). But instead of leaping home, he leaps into Tim Fox, a minor league baseball player in Texas at the end of the 1968 season, in the middle of a game, where he must make the winning play in order to leap further. Tim Fox makes a home-run, and Sam leaps into Dr. Gerald Bryant as a college professor in the middle of a class.

Season 1, Episode 3
Star-Crossed - June 15, 1972 (31 Mar. 1989)


At a small Ohio college, Sam Beckett is a literature professor who must discourage the amorous advances of a student and finds the woman who left him at the altar. Sam hopes that resolving her conflicts with her father will prevent her from deserting him.

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

Tuesday, Aug. 28 - Quantum Leap: Genesis: Part 1

Quantum Leap (1989–1993)
TV Series


Scientist Sam Beckett finds himself trapped in time--"leaping" into the body of a different person in a different time period each week.

Season 1, Episode 1
Genesis: Part 1 - September 13, 1956 (26 Mar. 1989)


Although the Project Quantum Leap isn't ready yet, Sam Beckett doesn't listen to supercomputer Ziggy, hops into the Accelerator and leaps. As Tom Stratton, an Air Force test pilot about to attempt a dangerous flight. Sam finds his memory Swiss cheesed, with only enough left to know that he is not where or when he belongs. According to Sam's friend and partner Al, who appears to him as a hologram nobody else can see, Al explains that the Project has gone awry and in order to leap out of the pilot's body, Sam must successfully fly the X-2 to Mach 3, which according to historical records, ended in a fatal crash.

Tuesday, August 28, 2012

Monday, Aug. 27 - Dangerous

Dangerous (1935)

Dan Bellows finds former stage star Joyce Heath a penniless drunk and takes her to his Connecticut home for rehabilitation. Unaware that she is married to Gordon, he asks his fiancée Gail to free him and offers to sponsor Joyce in a play. When Gordon refuses to give Joyce a divorce, she runs the car into a tree crippling him for life. Joyce urges Dan return to Gail, opens her play, and begs Gordon for forgiveness.

Monday, August 27, 2012

Sunday, Aug. 26 - Double Feature! - Darkroom: Needlepoint & Siege of 31 August

Darkroom (1981–1982)
TV Series


An anthology horror/thriller series, along the same lines as "Twilight Zone" or "Night Gallery." Each week features a new story and a new cast.

Needlepoint
S1, Ep5
Dec. 11, 1981

A pimp (Lawrence Hilton-Jacobs) takes advantage of a young woman whose grandmother uses old-time voodoo magic to get her revenge.

Siege of 31 August
S1, Ep6
Dec. 11, 1981

A farmer (Ronny Cox) is tormented by his memories of war when his son's toy soldiers come to life.

Sunday, Aug. 26 - Disappeared

Disappeared (2004)
She's Gone (original title)
TV Movie


Harry Sands is a self made man, happily married with two children. When he learns that his daughter has gone missing in Istanbul, he flies out to find her. To Harry's horror, he discovers from Olivia's best friend, that the two of them have been working as nightclub dancers and not as the charity workers like Harry was led to believe. So begins the hunt for his missing daughter and a journey that turns into a nightmare as Harry is forced to face his own prejudices and mounting paranoia.

Sunday, August 26, 2012

Saturday, Aug. 25 - Love Crime

Love Crime (2010)
Crime d'amour (original title)


Ruthless executive Christine brings on Isabelle as her assistant, and she takes delight in toying with the young woman's innocence. But when the protégé's ideas become tempting enough for Christine to pass on as her own, she underestimates Isabelle's ambition and cunning -- and the ground is set for all out war.

Saturday, August 25, 2012

Friday, Aug. 24 - The Crooked Web

The Crooked Web (1955)

Cafe owner Stan Fabian joins Joanie Daniel and her "brother" Frank in a scheme to unearth a "fortune in stolen gold buried by Frank" in Germany during World War II, and Stan is unaware that Joanie and Frank are undercover agents trying to get a confession from Stan of a murder he committed in Germany.

Friday, August 24, 2012

Thursday, Aug. 23 - Foyle's War: Enemy Fire

Foyle's War:
Season 3, Episode 2
Enemy Fire (31 Oct. 2004)

February 1941: When a local manor house is commandeered for use as a special burn unit for treating injured RAF pilots, Foyle is called in to investigate a series of strange accidents.

Thursday, August 23, 2012

Wednesday, Aug. 22 - One Thrilling Night

One Thrilling Night (1942)

A young newlywed couple from a small town decide to spend their wedding night at a posh hotel in New York City, since they only have one day before the husband has to report for duty in the army. However, instead of a romantic evening together, they find themselves mixed up with gangsters, stolen loot and missing bodies.

Wednesday, August 22, 2012

Tuesday, Aug. 21 - The Green Man

The Green Man (1956)

Work has been going with a bang for freelance assassin Hawkins but a job in England just after the war is a different matter. His apparently easy target, a pompous government minister, is off for some hanky-panky at the Green Man on the south coast, where Hawkins is planning to retire him for good. But before he can get on with this the hit-man has a procession of unwanted visitors at home to dispose of - one way or another.

Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Monday, Aug. 20 - Lovejoy: The Kakiemon Tiger

Lovejoy:
Season 5, Episode 4
The Kakiemon Tiger
(26 Sep. 1993)


Lovejoy is visited by a well-dressed thug who coerces him to meet Sandy Litvak, a notorious and lethal loan shark who has inherited a Lovejoy IOU to a former client, which has grown from 6 to 14 thousand pounds based on a strictly enforced interest rate of 6 for 5... each week. Lovejoy has three days to come up with the money before his debt escalates to 16,800. Failing that, dire consequences await. Lovejoy employs several gambits, including sabotaging one of Charlotte's auctions to meet the deadline. As a sidebar, Eric recruits Beth Taylor as a new apprentice for Lovejoy Antiques.