Wealthy art collector Calvin Norris, while visiting an artist friend, sees a woman modeling for a sculptor in the studio across the alley. Norris is shocked. The woman looks exactly like the subject of a Renoir painting he owns. He tries to get to the woman but she is gone before he can get to the sculptor's studio. Norris hires Mannix and Intertect to track the woman down. Norris is more interested in her than the possibility his painting is a forgery. Mannix, relying more on legwork than Intertect's computers, finds the woman, who, it turns out is really an artist and only models occasionally. It also turns out that Lang, the sculptor, is prone to violence. Mannix is convinced Linda is in danger and he's determined to crack the conspiracy.
Wednesday, July 31, 2024
Tuesday, July 30, 2024
Monday, July 29 - Naked City: One of the Most Important Men in the Whole World
A widowed gangster is being challenged for custody of his son by his sister in-law. To show the court that he is a positive influence the gangster needs to convince his son's teacher to change a failing grade to an "A". The teacher is stubborn and the gangster offers the tempting bribe of a chorus girl.
Monday, July 29, 2024
Sunday, July 28 - The Champions: Twelve Hours
Sharron and Richard are acting as bodyguards to visiting Eastern European president Drobnic and his wife and travel to Holy Loch in Scotland to inspect the submarine HMS 'Weatherby'. A gang of saboteurs have planted a bomb on board, which explodes, killing the captain and injuring the president as well as sending the submarine down to the bed of the loch. Craig senses that his colleagues are in trouble and travels to Scotland to hunt down the saboteurs. Sharron, who is medically qualified, has to save the president's life whilst Richard assumes the responsibilities of the captain. Unless the 'Weatherby' can be refloated, there is only enough oxygen to last for twelve hours so Craig had better work fast.
Sunday, July 28, 2024
Saturday, July 27 - The Lyons in Paris
The second in the series of films about the Lyon family, based on the BBC radio series Life With the Lyons. Ben Lyon appears to have forgotten his wedding anniversary making his wife Bebe furious. When his son sees him dining with a glamorous French singer he thinks the worst. But Ben has laid false evidence in order to surprise the whole family with a trip to France. Only, once in Paris, all the day's previous misunderstandings pail into insignificance at the compromising situations the Lyons get themselves into.
Saturday, July 27, 2024
Friday, July 26 - Hawaiian Eye: The Kikiki Kid
Nightclub singer Buddy Keene (John Gabriel) wants a shortcut on the road to success and fame. Gossip columnist Karen Ward (Jean Byron) is coming to the islands and he sees his chance. A nice writeup by her will shoot him to the top. He meets her by deliberately stepping in front of her car and plays the victim of a near miss. He then takes her around the area while doing a serious suck up job. After two days they decide to wed. There is a problem though... a big one. Buddy is married to Ellie and she is not stepping aside for his grand plans. Buddy solved this bump in the road by killing Ellie. Meanwhile Tom (Robert Conrad) tells Karen that Buddy is married. Buddy then meets with Karen and, once it is clear she is over him, he tries to kill her. The police and Tom intervene in the nick of time. Tom gets to beat Buddy up in a long barroom fight.
Friday, July 26, 2024
Thursday, July 25 - Who Done It?
An ice sweeper with an ice show in London, Hugo Dill is more preoccupied with his dime store detective magazines than he is with his work. In part out of a bumbling circumstance of his own doing, Hugo, despite having no experience or real aptitude in it, becomes a private detective, complete with a blood hound named Fabian. A series of misunderstandings starting with he taking over office space previously occupied by a talent agent leads not only to a strained relationship between him and Police Detective Inspector Hancock, at least on Hancock's side, but to him stumbling, without he not even knowing, upon a plot for world domination by the behind the Iron Curtain nation of Uralia, namely by being able to control the weather. If Hugo does come to know about the plot, he, without help from Hancock or the police due to that strained relationship, will have not only to save himself and those close to him from the proverbial bad guys, but save the world by thwarting the plot itself. Besides Fabian, the person closest to him is Frankie, a performer with the ice show, she whose general performer specialty, which belies her outward feminine appearance, is something she doesn't like to talk about, let alone divulge to someone she cares about like Hugo who is unaware of that specialty which would be an asset to this case.
Thursday, July 25, 2024
Wednesday, July 24 - The Human Jungle: Solo Performance
When she was younger Jean Forrest was a big name actress but now she lives in fear of ageing and attempts suicide - as a result of which she is brought to see Dr. Corder for his assessment. Jean is hoping to make a stage comeback in the very near future but her ability to do so depends on the persuasion of Dr.Corder that she still has star quality.
Wednesday, July 24, 2024
Tuesday, July 23 - Bourbon Street Beat: Key to the City
Cal and Kenny are on a riverboat bound for New Orleans to protect a government informant, while others onboard want him dead. But neither faction seems to know what the man looks like.
Tuesday, July 23, 2024
Monday, July 22 - Naked City: The Contract
Both the fiance and the guardian of a beautiful dead young woman claim to have murdered her, and it's up to the detectives to discover who's telling the truth.
Monday, July 22, 2024
Sunday, July 21 - Colonel March of Scotland Yard: The Missing Link
Skullduggery at the museum when the skull of the Damascus Man is stolen. Commonly regarded as the missing link.
Colonel March is called in to assist Inspector Ames when one man is apprehended. Later his girlfriend Miss Inness hands herself in.
Both claim that the skull is a clever fake and Sir Henry Danier who took all the glory for discovering it knows this.
Sunday, July 21, 2024
Saturday, July 20 - The March Hare
The story of Sir Charles Hare - Terence Morgan - Irish baronet, horse-owner and gambler, who loses everything save one foal. This is trained by the eccentric Lazy Mangan, including a visit to the Queen of the Fairies... Charles is also in pursuit of a new 'filly' Pat Maguire, an American heiress.
Friday, July 19 - Highway Patrol: Amnesia
On a honeymoon camping trip, newlyweds David and Mimi Karney are seriously injured in a fall from a cliff. David has a broken hip and is unable to move. Mimi is ambulatory but is amnesiac and uncommunicative due to a head injury. Sergeant Walters finds her wandering on a nearby road and takes her to a first aid station. Dan Mathews' attempts to question her are unsuccessful, though he learns her identity from an inscription in her wedding ring. Dan organizes a search party when he deduces that Mimi's husband was with her in the rough terrain and that he is probably seriously injured. When the search party is unsuccessful, Dan takes the still-uncommunicative Mimi back to the campsite, hoping that she can provide a clue to the weakening David's whereabouts.
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