Thursday, June 29 - Wodehouse Playhouse: Rodney Fails to Qualify & A Voice from the Past

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): Rodney Fails to Qualify (Season 1 | Episode 6 - aired 28 May 1975)

This is the story of love among golfers. It shows how true love, even if it slides into troubled waters, can always get back on the fairway, though it may get rather wet.

Young William Bates is a torpid wooer who will not pop the question to Jill Packard, who is becoming dreamy and absent-minded, ever since reading 'The Love That Scorches' a romantic epic about the desert and people on camels and an Arab Chief with stern but tender eyes, and oases and mirages and things like that... The Oldest Member advises William to be quick about it and ask Jill to marry him before she becomes too entangled with romantic poet Rodney Spelvin. His advice to William is to engage Jill in a passionate exchange at the 6th hole in the large bunker there - a vast sandy waste where Jill may prove more susceptible to his wooing, and recommmends that before he even speaks to her, William is to clasp her in his arms and let his hot breath sear her face. But will William be in time? Even now Jill is walking in a romantic mist through the woods looking for bluebells and crocusses.

Wodehouse Playhouse (1974–1978): A Voice from the Past (Season 1 | Episode 7 - aired 4 June 1975)

"Tonight's story is called 'A Voice from the Past'. It tells of a young man who by means of tuition from a correspondence school developed an iron will. Eventually he decided he would be better without it."

P.G. Wodehouse Narrator

Encountering an old school chum, sturdy Muriel Mulliner recalls her eventful courtship. Her beloved goes to great lengths to fit into the rough-and-ready Mulliner mold until a chance encounter with an old nemesis causes him to revert to being the milquetoast Muriel adores.

Wednesday, June 28 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Lame Canary

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Lame Canary (Season 2 | Episode 30 - aired 27 June 1959)

After Ruth Prescott's husband Walter refuses to give her the divorce she's asked for, she runs out of the house and is nearly run over by a furniture delivery truck that rams a parked car severely injuring the occupant. Ruth is convinced that her husband tried to have her killed to get his hands on what is left of her inheritance. She calls Jimmy McLain who she is in love with who tells her to come to his apartment. When she arrives, Jimmy is gone but his gun holster is there - empty. She returns home to destroy love letters from Jimmy McLain but finds her husband dead on the floor and a gun lying on the carpet beside him. While burning the love letters, Walter's secretary Margaret Swaine walks in and leaves after seeing the body. Ruth takes the gun and a toppled bird cage with an injured canary. She consults Perry Mason who puts Paul Drake on the case to track down the people involved. Paul finds the the car that was struck has been found with the driver dead. Ruth is charged with her husband's murder and it's up to Perry to sort out just what happened.

Tuesday, June 27 - House of Mystery

Kraft Mystery Theater (1959– ): House of Mystery (Season 1 | Episode 10 - aired 16 August 1961)

A young house-hunting couple (Ronald Hines, Colette Wilde), driving through the English countryside, arrive at a quaint, attractive cottage, which is available for sale at an incredible bargain. When queried, the caretaker (Jane Hylton) casually mentions a haunting in its recent history, and relates the story of the previous residents. In flashback, we are introduced to a similarly young, married couple (Maurice Kaufmann, Nanette Newman), who encounter a ghost, when their home begins experiencing electrical problems.

Finding no ordinary causes for either the faulty power, or the silent, mysterious man they think they see in their home, they end up enlisting the aid of a parapsychologist (Colin Gordon), who overcomes their initial skepticism with rational-sounding scientific explanations, rather than the mystical hokum they were expecting. Eventually, he brings in a genuine psychic (Molly Urquhart), in an attempt to solve the mystery of the apparition. This leads to a further flashback, showing the ghost to be a rather brilliant electrical engineer (Peter Dyneley), embroiled in research in his backyard workshop, whose adulterous wife schemes with her lover to murder him in a staged 'accident'... but things don't quite go according to plan...

A pair of newlyweds visit an old cottage for sale in the country, and hear the housekeeper’s account of its macabre history. The previous owners had been disturbed by paranormal activity, and on calling in a medium, the ghost was identified as an eccentric and vengeful scientist, once resident in the cottage. The scientist was obsessed with electricity, and when his unfaithful wife and her lover attempted to murder him, he responded by electrifying the living room floor and fixtures, and challenging the couple to escape.

Monday, June 26 - Thriller: Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper

Thriller (1960–1962): Yours Truly, Jack the Ripper (Season 1 | Episode 28 - aired 11 April 1961)

70 years after the Jack the Ripper killings in London, Sir Guy (John Williams) convinces the police that Jack may still be alive, eternally young, and still killing, currently in New York.

The basic premise of this is that the character of Jack the Ripper transcends decades and reappears regularly. A man comes to the police and says he can predict when the Ripper will strike again. Much of the episode involves trying to convince the police that such a character exists.

Sunday, June 25 - Hunt the Man Down

Hunt the Man Down (1950)

When loner Bill Jackson (James Anderson) prevents a robbery at the bar where he works, the ensuing media attention reveals that he is actually Richard Kinkaid, a fugitive wanted in connection with a decade-old murder case. Public defender Paul Bennett (Gig Young) believes that Kinkaid is innocent, but lacks fresh evidence to make his case. Now, with an innocent man's freedom in the balance, Bennett must find and interview the crime's original seven witnesses.

Saturday, June 24 - In Name Only

In Name Only (1939)

While out riding in the country, wealthy New Yorker Alec Walker meets young widow Julie Eden, and a relationship quickly develops. However, Alec has not told her that he is already locked into a loveless marriage to the avaricious Maida, who has contrived to convince his parents she is the ideal wife. A completely coincidental car crash alerts the two women to each other's existence, a situation to which they react very differently.

Friday, June 23 - Perry Mason: The Case of the Spanish Cross

Perry Mason (1957–1966): The Case of the Spanish Cross (Season 2 | Episode 28 - aired 30 May 1959)

Collector Curtis Runyan owns a precious art object called "The Spanish Cross," which Felix Karr wishes to buy but they cannot agree on the price. After Karr leaves, Runyan and his secretary Everett Wormser return to find the cross missing. Runyan suspects that it was taken by Jimmy Morrow who is working nearby. Jimmy who is on probation for grand theft auto, works as a gardener for the Runyans. Wheelchair bound Grace Runyan and her husband are estranged, and she has taken a motherly interest in Jimmy. Runyan threatens to call the police and slaps Jimmy who knocks Runyan down. He runs to Mrs. Runyan and then runs off. Felix Karr calls on Perry Mason to defend Jimmy, who has disappeared but Perry refuses his money. However, Perry contacts his father who is a drunk but tells Perry Jimmy did not even steal the car and he knows who did. Later, Runyan is shot and Jimmy is seen holding a gun over the body. Perry must first find his client before he can defend him in court.

Thursday, June 22 - Jeeves and Wooster: Jeeves, the Matchmaker

Jeeves and Wooster (1990–1993): Wooster with a Wife (or, Jeeves the Matchmaker) (Season 2 | Episode 6 - aired 19 May 1991)

Bertie decides he would like a child to brighten up his mundane life and considers adoption. After being mistaken for a burglar, he is coerced into giving a speech at a girls' school, which sours his view of children and knocks the idea on the head. Tuppy suffers broken bones whilst playing in a brutal village rugby match to impress new flame Daisy and Bingo subjects his uncle to endless readings from romantic novels to sweeten him up when Bingo starts dating a waitress. Such extreme behaviour convinces Bertie that he is better off single.

Wednesday, June 21 - I'll Tell the World

I'll Tell the World (1934)

Lee Tracy once again plays a Winchellesque newspaper reporter in Universal’s I’ll Tell the World. More interested in his sex life than his career, news hawk Brown (Tracy) nonetheless agrees to cover the activities of a European archduke (Onslow Stevens) on behalf of his wire service.

Film follows a renowned American newspaper reporter who always manages to be in the right place at the right time to cover major events, while competing with a rival colleague. The main headliner is his uncovering a plot to assassinate the Archduke Ferdinand (not the WWI Ferdinand), and a plan to install an exiled royal family into power (somewhere).

Tracy plays a devil-may-care reporter, working in Europe, who loves scooping his rivals. Then he falls in love with a woman who turns out to be a deposed princess!

Tuesday, June 20 - Seven Keys

Seven Keys (1961)

It starts in a prison where Alan Dobie inherits 7 keys from an inmate who dies, a man he barely knew. Dobie is a burglar and very smart, which seems to be why the man left him the keys. It was so that he'd locate the money, clear his name and punish those who were responsible for taking it from him. This requires some detective work and that's what Dobie attempts to do, with the help of the dead man's former secretary, Jeannie Carson.

Alan Dobie plays a convict who is bequeathed a set of seven keys by a fellow prisoner. After discovering that the deceased was an embezzler who stole £20,000 that was never recovered; he sets out to find the cash after finishing the last three months of his sentence. However he must first solve the mystery of which locks the keys fit, and run the gauntlet of the police and a number of gangsters who are after him and the money.

Monday, June 19 - Thriller: Late Date

Thriller (1960–1962): Late Date (Season 1 | Episode 27 - aired 4 April 1961)

"Late Date" is an absorbing Cornell Woolrich crime story featuring Larry Pennell as a carefree beach boy who arrives home one afternoon to find his beloved brother (Edward C. Platt from GET SMART) paying an unexpected visit, and the strangled corpse of his unfaithful sister-in-law lying on her bedroom floor. He refuses to allow his brother to confess to the police as he'd always known about her infidelity and offers to dispose of the body while Platt establishes an alibi back in the city. A phone call from the dead woman's lover gives him the opportunity to provide a frame-up, but first he has to contend with his brother's unsuspecting step-daughter (Jody Fair), her hep cat boyfriend (Steve Mitchell), a nosy neighbor (Ruth Warren), and a suspicious truck driver (Richard Reeves).

Sunday, June 18 - The Shanghai Story

The Shanghai Story (1954)

Too many years in the Orient have made a bitter man of Dr. Dan Maynard (Edmond O'Brien), an American surgeon, and too little emotional stability has tarnished the Tangier-born Rita King (Ruth Roman). They meet when a night-raid by Shanghai's police chief brings all westerners together in the Waldorf House Hotel, where they are interned under the guardianship of the coldly cruel Major Ling Wu (Philip Ahn). Only Rita is free to come and go due to her friendship with Shanghai's new police chief, Colonal Zorek (Marvin Miller. The liberty and luxury in which she lives arouses Maynard's contempt. But his opinion changes when she is instrumental in getting Major Wu replaced and punished, and when she arranges for a young girl, Penny Warren (Jeanne Perreau'), to be taken to a hospital for an emergency operation. But when a spy hunt reaches a bitter climax, and an internee is shot down while trying to escape, Maynard believes the tip-off came from Rita.