February is upon us! We had a very cold (for us!) January here in San Antonio, and it looks like February is going to be even colder — which makes it the ideal time to cozy up on your favorite sofa/recliner and either read a Cozy Mystery or watch a mystery or crime movie. [Unfortunately, the Turner Classic Movies (TCM) channel isn’t showing a whole lot of mysteries this month, although there are a few good ones to look forward to…]

Oh, and before I forget, if you’re a fan of Lionel, Ethel, and/or John Barrymore — on Tuesday, February 24 TCM will be showing “Rasputin and the Empress” (1932). It is the only time all three of the Barrymore siblings were in a movie together. (I happen to be a fan, so will be watching it again.)

Also, the Turner Classic Movies channel Star of the Month for February is … Bugs Bunny (?!!!?). So set your mode of DVR to catch a whole lot of Bugs Bunny cartoons throughout February. I’m guessing I’ll be saving them to watch with my granddaughter during her next trip down here.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – February 2026

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Sunday – February 1, 2026

8:00 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

10:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – February 4, 2026

11:00 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
104 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 5, 2026

11:00 AM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

6:30 PM Five Came Back (1939)
Survivors of a jungle plane crash realize that their repaired airplane can only carry five passengers.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: Chester Morris, Lucille Ball, Wendy Barrie
75 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 6, 2026

11:45 AM My Blood Runs Cold (1965)
A headstrong heiress falls for a young man who claims they are reincarnations of past lovers.
Dir: William Conrad. Cast: Troy Donahue, Joey Heatherton, Barry Sullivan
104 mins

1:30 PM Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian
92 mins

4:45 PM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
74 mins

6:15 PM Who Killed Teddy Bear? (1965)
In New York, a disco hostess is stalked by a sexual predator and she requests help from a vice squad detective who takes a personal interest in the case.
Dir: Joseph Cates. Cast: Sal Mineo, Juliet Prowse, Jan Murray
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – February 7, 2026

1:45 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

4:00 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 8, 2026

12:00 AM Vice Squad (1953)
The head of an escort ring joins forces with a vice cop to solve a murder.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens
88 mins

6:00 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

8:00 AM Deep Valley (1947)
A farmer’s daughter helps an escaped convict.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Ida Lupino, Dane Clark, Wayne Morris
104 mins

10:00 AM Vice Squad (1953)
The head of an escort ring joins forces with a vice cop to solve a murder.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Paulette Goddard, K.T. Stevens
88 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – February 10, 2026

7:15 AM Hotel Reserve (1944)
An Austrian refugee tries to figure out which guest at a French resort is a spy.
Dir: Victor Hanbury. Cast: James Mason, Lucie Mannheim, Raymond Lovell
79 mins

8:45 AM Once a Thief (1965)
A young ex-con trying to go straight gets caught up in another criminal scheme.
Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cast: Alain Delon, Ann-Margret, Van Heflin
107 mins

12:30 PM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

4:15 PM The Life of Emile Zola (1937)
The famed writer risks his reputation to defend a Jewish army officer accused of treason.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Paul Muni, Joseph Schildkraut, Gale Sondergaard
123 mins

6:15 PM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – February 11, 2026

1:15 AM Undercurrent (1946)
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
116 mins

3:30 AM The Haunting (1963)
You may not believe in ghosts…but you cannot deny terror! Hill House has a reputation for evil. The mysterious New England mansion has been the scene of grisly murders. But when four people spend the night, they find themselves trapped by The Haunting. Anthropologist Dr. John Markway, who seeks to disprove the legends; …
Dir: Robert Wise Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins

10:00 PM Charley Varrick (1973)
A band of small-time crooks accidentally steals the mob’s money.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Walter Matthau, Joe Don Baker, Felicia Farr
111 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 12, 2026

6:00 AM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Cast: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

4:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins
****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

6:00 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins
****Very loosely based on Agatha Christie’s Miss Marple.*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 13, 2026

6:00 PM Charade (1963)
A young woman returns home from vacation to find her elegant apartment stripped and her husband murdered.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – February 15, 2026

7:00 AM Little Caesar (1930)
A small-time hood shoots his way to the top, but how long can he stay there?
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Glenda Farrell
80 mins

8:30 AM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

10:15 AM Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
101 mins

12:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins

2:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

4:00 PM Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
112 mins

6:00 PM Bonnie and Clyde (1967)
In the early 1930s, a car thief and the daughter of his intended victim team up to become America’s most feared and ruthless bank robbers.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Warren Beatty, Faye Dunaway, Michael J. Pollard
111 mins

8:00 PM White Heat (1949)
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
114 mins

10:00 PM In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe
134 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – February 16, 2026

12:30 AM Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
On one of the hottest days of August 1972, three amateur bank robbers plan to hold up a Brooklyn bank. A nice simple robbery: Walk in, take the money, and run. Unfortunately, the supposedly uncomplicated heist suddenly becomes a bizarre nightmare as everything that could go wrong does.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Al Pacino, John Cazale, Carol Kane
125 mins

2:45 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

4:45 AM The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 19, 2026

3:15 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

5:00 AM Weary River (1929)
A jailed criminal’s life turns around when he fronts the prison band.
Dir: Frank Lloyd. Cast: Richard Barthelmess, Betty Compson, Louis Natheaux
89 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – February 26, 2026

12:30 AM The Talented Mr. Ripley (1999)
Tom Ripley craves the life very rich Dickie Greenleaf leads. Dickie’s father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to bring his playboy son back home to America, but Tom has other ideas…
Dir: Anthony Minghella Cast: Matt Damon, Gwyneth Paltrow, Jude Law
139 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – February 27, 2026

8:00 PM 12 Angry Men (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
95 mins

12:00 AM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, William Shatner
190 mins

3:15 AM Adam’s Rib (1949)
A happily-married, middle-aged husband and wife strain their marriage while serving as trial attorneys on opposite sides of the same headline-making attempted murder-marital case. He is the prosecutor, and she is the defender.
Dir: George Cukor. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in January, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the December television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2026 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

First, let me preface this blog post by saying I LOVE Sir Conan Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes stories. We (my husband and grown children) have tried to watch all of the Sherlock Holmes shows/movies – and I thought we had! However I was wrong…

My husband and I just finished watching the 1954 series called Sherlock Holmes (which is available on Prime). The series is based on Sir Conan Doyle’s characters and as such, is not based on all of Doyle’s stories. Sheldon Reynolds is the producer of this very enjoyable series. Each episode is formatted to a television half hour show, which might have been about 26 minutes back in 1954.

Sherlock Holmes starred Ronald Howard and his faithful Dr. Watson was played by H. Marion Crawford. Archie Duncan was cast as Inspector Lestrade. All three of these actors portrayed their characters extremely well. I especially enjoy seeing what great friends Holmes and Watson were, and also, how willing they were to let Inspector Lestrade take the credit for their many cases (39 episodes) – even though Lestrade was not quite as instrumental as he believe he was.

The characters, settings, and stories are all believable and well done. In some cases, Sherlock Holmes doesn’t need to do much detecting because he’s able to gleam the clues and come up with a solution.

We enjoyed this 1954 Sherlock Holmes series – which as I said is on Amazon Prime. I am not sure, but I’m guessing it’s also available on YouTube.

PS: Don’t expect these episodes to be based on Conan Doyle’s stories.

PPS: Sorry about delays in posting lately – I have been having some personal issues, being sick over the holidays…. and now Cocoa (our dog) is having (significantly more serious) health issues as well. However, I hope to get back into posting soon.

Happy (almost) 2026! It always seems like just when I get used to the year’s date, it’s time to learn a new one! Oh well, at least I’m not writing a lot of things (like the “old days” checks) that require actually writing the year…

There are a few things I want to tell you that fall in the category of “Cozy Mystery” movies:

For one, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing The Thin Man mystery movies on New Year’s Day. They used to show them starting on New Year’s Eve, and I know a lot of you looked forward to watching them then. So, since I think they skipped showing them last year, some of you will be happy to know they will be back — a few hours later.

Another Cozy Mystery movie item is that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing the mystery movies based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers books on Thursday, January 22. I have seen all of the movies (which the channel will be airing in their correct sequence) but will tell you that if you are only going to watch three, make sure they are the first three (Penguin Pool Murder, Murder on the Blackboard, and Murder on a Honeymoon). These three include one of my favorite actresses from the 1930s — Edna May Oliver. She is absolutely terrific to watch, and I think her portrayal of Miss Withers is … (to use the word again!) terrific! James Gleason is really good as the long-suffering detective she teams up with, and he is in all seven of the movies.

The third thing I want to bring to your attention is that all four of the Miss Marple movies that star Margaret Rutherford will be airing right after the Turner Classic Movies channel airs the Hildegarde Withers movies. I know I’ve mentioned several times (possibly several dozen times!) — don’t expect to see the Miss Marple we all know from Agatha Christie’s books!

And the last thing is that there will be four movies based on Leslie Charteri’ The Saint mysteries sprinkled in the airing list of this month. The first will be The Saint in New York with Louis Hayward as Simon Templar. The other three will air on Friday, January 16 and star George Sanders as The Saint.

So, without further ado… Here are the mystery and/or crime movies the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during January 2026:

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2025

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Thursday – January 1, 2026

9:15 AM The Thin Man (1934)
In New York, a detective, his wife and his dog solve the murder case of an eccentric inventor.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
91 mins

11:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
112 mins

1:00 PM Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins

2:45 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

4:30 PM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins

6:15 PM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 2, 2026

2:45 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

4:15 AM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

10:45 AM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

6:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

10:15 PM Rashomon (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
88 mins
*****In Japanese*****

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 4, 2026

12:15 AM The Second Woman (1950)
An architect is tormented after the death of his wife in a mysterious car accident, and he seems to be followed by bad luck. When he meets another woman and she learns about his past, she begins to suspect that he may be in more danger than he realizes.
Dir: James V. Kern. Cast: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton
91 mins

2:00 AM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins

10:00 AM The Second Woman (1950)
An architect is tormented after the death of his wife in a mysterious car accident, and he seems to be followed by bad luck. When he meets another woman and she learns about his past, she begins to suspect that he may be in more danger than he realizes.
Dir: James V. Kern. Cast: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton
91 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 6, 2026

4:30 PM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. District Attorney Burt Rainey finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, …
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – January 7, 2026

9:15 AM Espionage Agent (1939)
American spies try to steal Nazi secrets from a moving train.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn
83 mins

2:30 PM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

4:15 PM The Conspirators (1944)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Dir: Jean Negulesc. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

6:00 PM Confidential Agent (1945)
A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
Dir: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
118 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – January 8, 2026

1:15 AM The Saint in New York (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann
72 mins

2:45 AM Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker .Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 9, 2026

4:30 AM Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
A biography of the experiences of San Quentin prison warden Clinton T. Duffy.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly
78 mins

3:00 AM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins

9:00 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

8:00 PM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

10:00 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
107 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – January 10, 2026

12:00 AM The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien
105 mins

2:00 AM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

4:00 AM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins

1:45 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Lavish remake of the classic tale of the villainous Captain Bligh who drives his crew to revolt during a South Seas expedition.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
185 mins

6:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
74 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 11, 2026

12:00 AM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

6:00 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

7:15 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

8:30 AM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins

10:00 AM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

9:45 PM Topkapi (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
120 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 13, 2026

6:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
86 mins

7:30 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

9:30 AM The People Against O’Hara (1951)
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn
102 mins

11:30 AM Johnny Angel (1945)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
79 mins

1:00 PM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA’s daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
107

3:00 PM Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
111 mins

5:00 PM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready
65 mins

6:15 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist can only find inspiration in murder – two women he loves inspire him. When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between the …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – January 14, 2026

1:45 PM Brother Orchid (1940)
After a failed hit, a mob chief recuperates in a monastery.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart
90 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – January 15, 2026

4:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 16, 2026

7:30 AM They Made Her a Spy (1939)
A woman becomes a secret agent to avenge her brother’s death.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber
69 mins

12:30 PM The Spellbinder (1939)
A crooked lawyer’s daughter falls for a gangster that he helped acquit.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles
69 mins

1:45 PM The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale
68 mins

3:00 PM The Saint Takes Over (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
69 mins

4:15 PM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
66 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – January 17, 2026

12:00 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

2:15 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and begins an affair with Nick’s wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 18, 2026

10:00 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 PM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 PM Coma (1978)
After one of her patients goes into a coma after a routine operation, Dr. Susan Wheeler investigates. She learns that several otherwise healthy patients have met the same fate and then been sent away to a mysterious institute. But when she tells her doctor boyfriend about what she has found, he finds the story hard to believe.
Dir: Michael Crichton. Cast: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold
113 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 20, 2026

3:45 PM The Night Digger (1971)
A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
Dir: Alastair Reid. Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
98 mins

12:15 AM Blue Collar (1978)
When three financially-struggling automotive factory workers try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
Dir: Paul Schrader. Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
114 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – January 21, 2026

6:00 AM Black Fury (1935)
A coal worker gets mixed up in the mob’s efforts to infiltrate his union.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan
92 mins

8:30 PM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

11:00 PM Mean Streets (1973)
A young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
110 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – January 22, 2026

1:00 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

3:00 AM The American Friend (1977)
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer
128 mins

6:00 AM Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
66 mins

7:15 AM Murder on the Blackboard (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins

8:30 AM Murder on a Honeymoon (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan. Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Lola Lane
74 mins

9:45 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy. Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins

11:00 AM The Plot Thickens (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
69 mins

12:15 PM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
63 mins

1:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

3:00 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

4:30 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins

6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Friday – January 23, 2026

10:00 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – January 24, 2026

1:45 PM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

10:15 PM The Great O’Malley (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who’s only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart
71 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Sunday – January 25, 2026

12:00 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Dir: Edmond O’Brien, Howard W. Koch. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English
82 mins

10:00 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Dir: Edmond O’Brien, Howard W. Koch. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English
82 mins

6:00 PM Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
A husband and wife find themselves involved in a murder mystery.
Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler
104 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Monday – January 26, 2026

2:15 AM Pitfall (1962)
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town’s population of lost souls.
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Cast: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
97 mins
*****In Japanese*****

11:00 AM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

12:00 AM The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Tuesday – January 27, 2026

3:30 PM Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark, (& William Shatner before he “became” Capt. Kirk)
190 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Wednesday – January 28, 2026

8:30 AM Accidents Will Happen (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell
62 mins

3:00 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Thursday – January 29, 2026

12:30 AM The Offence (1973)
A disturbing psychological drama featuring Sean Connery as an emotionally repressed London detective who beats a suspected child molester to death during interrogation.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen
112 mins

7:30 AM The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
78 mins

12:00 PM Al Capone (1959)
Chicago’s most notorious gangster rules the city ruthlessly.
Dir: Richard Wilson. Cast: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory
105 mins

2:00 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

***** ***** ***** *****

Saturday – January 31, 2026

3:45 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

12:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

2:00 AM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

4:00 AM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: B

***** ***** ***** *****

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in January, be sure to leave a comment below!

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the December television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2025 on Turner Classic Movies channel

And here is the page on my site with plenty of entries about movies and television shows you may enjoy:

Cozy Mystery List TV and Movie Section – all you have to do is click on the link to go to that page on my site.

I think I told you all about the James Garner/Julie Andrews non-mystery Christmas movie last year. I love “One Special Night“. I definitely recommend watching it during the holiday season.

Well, this year I want to point out the 1994 television move “A Christmas Romance.” It’s another non-mystery, but it’s another feel-good Christmas movie.

“A Christmas Romance” stars Olivia Newton-John and Gregory Harrison. Harrison stars as the banker who goes to foreclose on a widow with children. Unfortunately he is stranded the her house during a snowstorm.

Of course, the movie wouldn’t be complete without the banker’s girlfriend arriving at the house…

This is a feel-good Christmas movie that I enjoyed a lot. You may enjoy it too!

P.S. I’m sorry, but I forgot to tell you that this movie is like One Special Night. It’s available on Prime. I just looked both of these movies up on YouTube, and I’m happy to tell you that it looks like they are both available to watch there…