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:

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2025

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

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…

Here is the last 2025 Turner Classic Movies schedule of the mystery and crime movies they will be airing. It’s hard to believe the year is almost over!

I know this is a mystery blog, but I have (as usual ever December) annotated the Christmas movies that I was able to find. I want to tell you about a few that I think are so good that you probably won’t want to miss them: Christmas in Connecticut (1945), The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942), Desk Set (1957), The Shop Around the Corner (1940), and The Bishop’s Wife (1948). These are movies that I tend to watch every year.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2025

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

Monday – December 1, 2025

6:00 AM The Venetian Affair (1967)
A reporter investigates an American diplomat’s murder in Venice.
Dir: Jerry Thorpe. Cast: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr
92 mins

7:45 AM Signpost to Murder (1964)
A convicted murderer, who escaped from a mental institution, hides out in the home of a woman whose husband is missing.
Dir: George Englund. Cast: Joanne Woodward, Stuart Whitman, Edward Mulhare
77 mins

9:30 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

11:45 AM Cape Fear (1962)
A released convict decides to menace and wreak havoc on the family of his defense lawyer.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Cast: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen
105 mins

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 Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
109 mins

6:00 PM Seconds (1966)
A bored rich man buys a new life from a secret organization.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Rock Hudson, Salome Jens, John Randolph
107 mins

8:00 PM Silver Streak (1976)
A book editor takes a train from Los Angeles to Chicago, looking forward to a restful trip. During the journey, he has a love affair, witnesses a murder, is accused of committing it himself by an undercover FBI agent, becomes the target of the real murderer…
Dir: Arthur Hiller. Cast: Jill Clayburgh, Richard Pryor, Gene Wilder
113 mins
*****I haven’t seen this movie yet, but I think it’s a mystery/comedy movie…*****

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

Tuesday – December 2, 2025

8:30 AM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

10:15 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

4:00 PM The Haunting (1963)
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

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

Wednesday – December 3, 2025

10:00 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

11:15 PM A Christmas Story (1972) CHRISTMAS
A young boy’s pet dog and a mouse embark on an adventure to deliver his letter to Santa on Christmas eve.
Dir: Joseph Barbara, William Hanna. Cast: Daws Butler, Don Messick, Hal Smith
30 mins

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

Thursday – December 4, 2025

11:30 PM The Bishop’s Wife (1948) CHRISTMAS
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster. Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins

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

Friday – December 5, 2025

10:45 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
109 mins

6:15 PM The Bat (1959)
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir: Crane Wilbur. Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
80 mins

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

Saturday – December 6, 2025

8:15 AM The Saint in London (1939)
The Saint’s investigation of a counterfeiting ring uncovers a nest of spies.
Dir: John Paddy Carstairs. Cast: George Sanders, Sally Gray, David Burns
72 mins

2:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) CHRISTMAS
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

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

Sunday – December 7, 2025

12:00 AM Cry of the City (1948)
Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
95 mins

10:00 AM Cry of the City (1948)
Police Lieut. Candella, longtime friend of the Rome family, walks a tightrope in the case of cop-killer Martin Rome.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Cast: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
95 mins

2:15 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: Major W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

8:00 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945) CHRISTMAS
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

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

Monday – December 8, 2025

8:00 AM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
116 mins

10:00 AM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

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

Tuesday – December 9, 2025

4:30 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, Glenda Farrell
80 mins

9:45 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

3:45 PM The Night of the Hunter (1955)
After hearing an about-to-be-hanged murderer’s story about some hidden money he left in the care of his two young kids, the murderer’s cell-mate is released and embarks on a journey to find the killer’s family.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

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

Wednesday – December 10, 2025

10:45 PM The Gathering (1977) CHRISTMAS
A dying father pulls his torn family back together for a last Christmas. The winner of the Outstanding Special award at the 30th Annual Primetime Emmys in 1978.
Dir: Randal Kleiser. Cast: Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton, Rebecca Balding
94 mins

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

Thursday – December 11, 2025

11:45 AM The Automat (2021)
A documentary focusing on the popular 20th century vending machine that offered freshly cooked meals.
Dir: Lisa Hurwitz Cast: Mel Brooks, Carl Reiner, Colin Powell
79 mins
*****Not a mystery – however, it’s a really good documentary. I’ve already seen it, but I am going to watch it again.*****

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

Saturday – December 13, 2025

3:15 AM The Player (1992)
A frustrated screenwriter menaces a studio executive who eventually kills the writer and gets away with murder.
Dir: Robert Altman. Cast: Tim Robbins, Greta Scacchi, Fred Ward
123 mins

6:00 AM Death of a Scoundrel (1956)
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Dir: Charles Martin. Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor
119 mins

8:15 AM The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jerome Cowan
64 mins

11:30 AM They’re Always Caught (1938)
This short film shows the role a crime laboratory plays in the solving of criminal investigations.
Dir: Harold S. Bucquet. Cast: Stanley Ridges, John Eldredge, Louis Jean Heydt
22 mins

8:00 PM Killer’s Kiss (1955)
When he rescues a girl from her gangster lover, a prizefighter is marked for death.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
67 mins

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

Sunday – December 14, 2025

12:00 AM Cash on Demand (1961)
A man disguised as a bank insurance inspector enters a London bank and robs it with ingenious “gentlemanly” techniques.
Dir: Quentin Lawrence. Cast: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon
80 mins

10:00 AM Cash on Demand (1961)
A man disguised as a bank insurance inspector enters a London bank and robs it with ingenious “gentlemanly” techniques.
Dir: Quentin Lawrence. Cast: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Richard Vernon
80 mins

12:00 PM Holiday Affair (1949) CHRISTMAS
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

4:00 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) CHRISTMAS
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

6:00 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) CHRISTMAS
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

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

Thursday – December 18, 2025

4:45 AM The Brighton Strangler (1945)
An actor playing a notorious killer begins to live the part.
Dir: Max Nosseck. Cast: John Loder, June Duprez, Michael St. Angel
67 mins

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

Friday – December 19, 2025

10:00 AM Union Station (1950)
A sharp-eyed secretary spots a man with a gun on a train and her alert to the railroad police helps them in their search for a ruthless gang who have kidnapped a blind heiress.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: William Holden, Nancy Olson, Barry Fitzgerald
81 mins

8:00 PM Holiday Affair (1949) CHRISTMAS
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

9:45 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) CHRISTMAS
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

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

Saturday – December 20, 2025

5:00 AM A Carol for Another Christmas (1964) CHRISTMAS
Three ghosts teach an industrialist the importance of international peacekeeping.
Dir: Joseph L. Mankiewicz. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Eva Marie Saint, Ben Gazzara
85 mins

12:00 PM Prancer (1989) CHRISTMAS
A farm girl nurses a wounded reindeer she believes is part of the team that pulls Santa’s sleigh. Her hope is to bring it back to health in time for Christmas.
Dir: John D. Hancock/ Cast: Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Rebecca Harrell Tickell
103 mins

4:00 PM 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

8:00 PM Remember the Night (1940) CHRISTMAS
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi
94 mins

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

Sunday – December 21, 2025

12:00 AM Lady in the Lake (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery. Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
103 mins

2:00 AM Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
A reformed thief tracks down an escaped convict so he can prove the man is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane
67 mins

3:30 AM Cover Up (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Cast: William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton
85 mins

5:00 AM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

8:00 AM A Christmas Carol (1938) CHRISTMAS
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins

1:30 PM Desk Set (1957) CHRISTMAS
An efficiency expert introduces his amazing new machine that can answer anything to a TV researcher and her staff, but it threatens to put them out of work.
Dir: Walter Lang. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Gig Young
103 mins

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

Monday – December 22, 2025

12:00 AM There Ain’t No Santa Claus (1926) CHRISTMAS
Charley uses the rent money to buy his wife an inexpensive wristwatch for Christmas, which puts him at odds with his miserly landlord.
Dir: James Parrot. Cast: Charley Chase, Eugenia Gilbert, Noah Young
22 mins
*****Silent?*****

12:30 AM Christmas Past (1925) CHRISTMAS
A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
Dir: Charles M. Seay, Frank E. Kleinschmidt, J. Searle Dawley. Cast: Barry O’Moore, Julian Reed, Marc McDermott
120 mins

2:45 AM Mon Oncle Antoine (1971) CHRISTMAS
A young boy comes of age at Christmas in rural Quebec.
Dir: Claude Jutra. Cast: Claude Jutra, Jacques Gagnon, Olivette Thibault
110 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) CHRISTMAS
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don DeFore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

10:15 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) CHRISTMAS
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins

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

Tuesday – December 23, 2025

2:15 AM Lady on a Train (1945)
A young woman enlists a mystery writer to help her solve a murder when the corpse vanishes.
Dir: Charles David. Cast: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, David Bruce
93 mins

4:15 AM Miracle on Main Street (1939) CHRISTMAS
In Los Angeles on Christmas Eve, a lonely and depressed dancer hiding from the police finds an abandoned baby and decides to try to raise the child on her own.
Dir: Steve Sekely. Cast: Margo, Walter Abel, William Collier Sr.
78 mins

5:45 AM Roadblock (1951)
An insurance agent’s greedy wife leads him to a life of crime.
Dir: Harold Daniels Cast: Charles McGraw, Joan Dixon, Lowell Gilmore
73 mins

7:15 AM Kind Lady (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Aline MacMahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle
76 mins

12:00 PM Larceny, Inc. (1942)
An ex-convict and his gang try to use a luggage store to front a bank robbery, but business keeps getting in the way.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford
95 mins

2:00 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins

4:00 PM Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Dir: Henry Levin. Cast: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland
93 mins

8:00 PM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) CHRISTMAS
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

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

Wednesday – December 24, 2025

2:15 AM Little Women (1949) CHRISTMAS
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien
121 mins

4:30 AM Auntie Mame (1958) CHRISTMAS
An eccentric heiress raises her nephew to be a free spirit.
Dir: Morton Dacosta. Cast: Rosalind Russell, Forrest Tucker, Coral Browne
143 mins

12:00 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940) CHRISTMAS
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins

2:00 PM It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947) CHRISTMAS
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: Don Defore, Ann Harding, Charles Ruggles
115 mins

4:15 PM Holiday Affair (1949) CHRISTMAS
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey
87 mins

6:00 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945) CHRISTMAS
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

8:00 PM The Bishop’s Wife (1948) CHRISTMAS
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster. Cast: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven
109 mins

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

Thursday – December 25, 2025

12:15 AM A Christmas Carol (1938) CHRISTMAS
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart
69 mins

1:45 AM O. Henry’s Full House (1952) CHRISTMAS
Five stories reveal O. Henry’s gift for the surprise ending.
Dir: Jasper Blystone. Cast: John Steinbeck, Charles Laughton, Marilyn Monroe
117 mins
****Includes “The Gift of the Magi”*****

4:00 AM Beyond Tomorrow (1940) CHRISTMAS
A ghost tries to smooth the way for two young lovers he knew during his lifetime.
Dir: A. Edward Sutherland. Cast: Harry Carey, C. Aubrey Smith, Charles Winninger
84 mins

5:30 AM Star in the Night (1945) CHRISTMAS
Three cowboys see a bright light in the distance and decide to investigate on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: J. Carrol Naish, Lynne Baggett, Anthony Caruso
21 mins

9:30 AM Little Women (1933) CHRISTMAS
The four March sisters fight to keep their family together and find love while their father is off fighting the Civil War.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas
115 mins
*****If you’re only going to watch one “Little Women” – this is the one!*****

11:30 AM Meet Me in St. Louis (1944) CHRISTMAS
Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli. Cast: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor
113 mins

4:00 PM The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942) CHRISTMAS
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley
112 mins

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

Friday – December 26, 2025

9:45 AM North by Northwest (1959)
A suave, successful New York advertising executive finds himself, through a case of mistaken identity, embroiled in a web of intrigue and murder that takes him across the country to prove his innocence to the police.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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

Saturday – December 27, 2025

8:15 AM 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

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

Sunday – December 28, 2025

12:30 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
116 mins

10:00 AM Odd Man Out (1947)
A wounded IRA man faces betrayal on all sides when the British put a price on his head.
Dir: Carol Reed. Cast: James Mason, Robert Newton, Kathleen Ryan
116 mins

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

Monday – December 29, 2025

4:15 PM The Brotherhood (1968)
The son of a powerful Mafia don comes home from his army service in Vietnam and wants to lead his own life, but family tradition, intrigues and powerplays involving his older brother dictate otherwise, and he finds himself being slowly drawn back into that world.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Cast: Kirk Douglas, Alex Cord, Irene Papas
96 mins

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

Tuesday – December 30, 2025

8:00 PM Berlin Express (1948)
Allied agents fight an underground Nazi group in post-war Europe.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Merle Oberon, Robert Ryan, Charles Korvin
87 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in December, 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 November television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 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.