The president of a Balkan Republic is menaced by a masked assassin. Although Steed is sent to augment the visiting dignitary's security detail, his bodyguards are murdered one by one.
Wednesday, November 11, 2015
Tuesday, Nov. 10 - The Avengers: The Decapod
The president of a Balkan Republic is menaced by a masked assassin. Although Steed is sent to augment the visiting dignitary's security detail, his bodyguards are murdered one by one.
Tuesday, November 10, 2015
Monday, Nov. 9 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Pennsylvania Gun
As Holmes and Watson are discussing a newspaper account of the recent murder of Squire Douglas, a message comes from the inspector in charge of the case, asking for Holmes's help. They travel to Sussex, and visit the castle where the crime occurred. The murder was committed with an unusual weapon, a sawed-off shotgun made in Pennsylvania, in the USA. When Douglas was shot, the castle was sealed up, and there seem to be only two possible suspects. But Holmes quickly realizes that the situation is more complicated than it looks.
Monday, November 9, 2015
Sunday, Nov. 8 - The Twilight Zone: What's in the Box? & The Masks, Twice Told Tales: Dr. Heidegger's Experiment
Taxi driver Joe Britt usually makes his way home to his wife Phyllis but theirs is not a happy marriage as they constantly bicker and she accuses him of having a girlfriend. The obnoxious Joe is having his TV fixed but after the repairman leaves, Joe sees himself with his girlfriend in scenes from the recent past. Soon after, he has a glimpse of what will happen in the near future.
The Twilight Zone: Season 5, Episode 25 The Masks (20 Mar. 1964)
When his doctor tells him that he could die at any moment, the wealthy Jason Foster gathers his heirs including his daughter Emily Harper, her husband Wilfred and their children Paula and Wilfrid Jr. Jason doesn't think much of any of them and it's clear they can't wait to get their hands on his fortune. It's Mardi Gras time in New Orleans and he has one last request - for each of them to wear a carnival mask. Each of the masks is meant to reflect some aspect of their personality - and leave a lasting impression on them.
In the 1st story titled "Dr. Heidegger's Experiment", Dr. Carl Heidegger (Sebastian Cabot) reanimates his long-dead fiancée.
Sunday, November 8, 2015
Saturday, Nov. 7 - Mr. Holmes & Newsfront
This BBC film has an aged Sherlock Holmes, in failing health, living in retirement in the country, and trying to remember his last case.
In post war Australia the men and women of Cinetone struggle to produce the weekly news reels for the movie going public.
Saturday, November 7, 2015
Friday, Nov. 6 - The Great Man Votes
Illustrious actor and celebrated souse John Barrymore portrays a former Harvard professor and man of letters who has fallen on hard times following the death of his beloved wife. The widower barely manages to support himself and his children by working as a night watchman. His job and parental custody are thrown into jeopardy when his kids get in a fight with the son of a big shot politician who called their dad a “drunk old bummer.” The kids will have none of that, because they know the old man only puts away a quart a day. Luckily, fortune smiles on the literate lush when his vote becomes crucial in the city’s mayoral election.
Friday, November 6, 2015
Thursday, Nov. 5 - Espionage: The Gentle Spies
An Aldermaston-type ban-the-bomb group is staging sit-in demonstrations around London, even on the steps of Whitehall. Worse, they keep releasing top secret documents in fliers and press releases, so a young agent is sent to infiltrate them to discover who their government source is.
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Wednesday, Nov. 4 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of Lady Beryl
Annoyed by a newspaper account that fails to give Sherlock Holmes proper credit for solving the Cunningham case, Dr. Watson goes to Scotland Yard to complain to Inspector Lestrade. While Watson is with the inspector, word arrives that a murder has been committed at the home of Lord Beryl. Lestrade takes Watson with him, and sends word for Holmes to join them, but Holmes delays his departure because he is absorbed in a chemical experiment. When Lestrade and Watson arrive, Lady Beryl confesses to shooting the victim, an Austrian agent. Later, when they tell Holmes the facts of the case, Holmes is immediately convinced that Lady Beryl is innocent, and he sets out to find the real murderer.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Tuesday, Nov. 3 - Terror Aboard
A ship at sea finds it is on a collision course with a large luxury yacht. The captain and crew try to hail the yacht to get it to change its course, but it does not respond. Realizing that there is something wrong over there, the ship's crew take a small boat over to the yacht and find it abandoned. They find a couple of bodies including that of a woman dressed in formal evening attire who has frozen to death in a tropical climate. The visiting captain finds the top half of a telegram that has been ripped in half that indicates someone aboard the ship has been indicted by a grand jury. At that point the film flashes back to the actual receipt of that telegram...
Tuesday, November 3, 2015
Monday, Nov. 2 - Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Cunningham Heritage
Based on the characters created by Arthur Conan Doyle: Dr. John Watson returns from Afghanistan, and decides to share lodgings in Baker Street with Sherlock Holmes, an acquaintance of one of Watson's own friends. Not long afterward, Holmes brings Watson with him when he solves a murder case that has confused Inspector Lestrade. Watson soon becomes Holmes's friend, assistant, and chronicler, as the private detective takes on one baffling case after another.
Sherlock Holmes: Season 1, Episode 1 The Case of the Cunningham Heritage (18 Oct. 1954)
Peter Cunningham has been found stabbed to death, with his fiancée standing over him holding a knife - but Scotland Yard's Inspector Lestrade is baffled by the lack of a motive for the crime.
Monday, November 2, 2015
Sunday, Nov. 1 - The Legend of Hell House
A team consisting of a physicist, his wife, a young female psychic and the only survivor of the previous visit are sent to the notorious Hell House to prove/disprove survival after death. Previous visitors have either been killed or gone mad, and it is up to the team to survive a full week in isolation, and solve the mystery of the Hell House.
Sunday, November 1, 2015
Saturday, Oct. 31 - The Mummy
In the 1890s a team of British archaeologists discover the untouched tomb of Princess Ananka but accidentally bring the mummified body of her High Priest back to life. Three years later back in England a follower of the same Egyptian religion unleashes the mummy to exact grisly revenge on the despoilers of the sacred past.
Saturday, October 31, 2015
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