Unfortunately, Eddie Muller from Noir Alley isn’t presenting his noir movies this month. I’m always disappointed when he takes off a full month from the Turner Classic Movies channel.

It looks like this month the channel is focusing on one actor each day. This works out great for us when the actor is someone like Joan Crawford – who happened to be in several noir movies. Crawford’s day is Saturday, August 20. For those of you who have favorite actors from years gone by, I have included each day’s actor at the bottom of this blog entry. Your fave may just have a whole day devoted to his/her movies!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – August 2022

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Tuesday – August 2, 2022

8:30 AM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins

11:45 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Actors: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

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Thursday – August 4, 2022

8:00 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. Actors: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
73 mins

12:45 PM Lightning Strikes Twice (1951)
An actress champions the cause of a man whom she believes has been falsely accused of murdering his wife.
Dir: King Vidor. Actors: Ruth Roman, Richard Todd, Mercedes Mccambridge
91 mins

2:30 PM Mara Maru (1952)
A salvage diver is accused of murder while hunting a mysterious treasure.
Dir: Gordon Douglas. Actors: Errol Flynn, Ruth Roman, Raymond Burr
98 mins

8:00 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
96 mins

10:00 PM Tomorrow Is Another Day (1951)
A man who spent his formative years in prison for murder is released and struggles to adjust to the outside world.
Dir: Felix Feist. Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle
90 mins

11:45 PM Down Three Dark Streets (1954)
An FBI Agent takes on the three unrelated cases of a dead agent to track down his killer.
Dir: Arnold Laven. Actors: Broderick Crawford, Ruth Roman, Martha Hyer
85 mins

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Friday – August 5, 2022

1:30 AM 5 Steps to Danger (1957)
A woman who picks up a hitchhiker has a psychiatrist relentlessly following her.
Dir: Henry S. Kesler. Actors: Ruth Roman, Sterling Hayden, Werner Klemperer
81 mins

12:30 PM Journey into Fear (1942) (a spy movie)
A munitions expert gets mixed up with gunrunners in Turkey.
Dir: Norman Foster Actors: Joseph Cotten, Dolores del Rio, Ruth Warrick
69 mins

2:00 PM The Stranger (1946)
A small-town schoolteacher suspects her new husband may be an escaped Nazi war criminal.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Loretta Young, Orson Welles
95 mins

4:00 PM Mr. Arkadin (1955)
An eager young man is hired by Mr. Arkadin, one of the richest men in Europe, to help him uncover clues about his past because he suffers from a severe condition of amnesia and does not know how he became so wealthy.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Orson Welles, Robert Arden, Paola Mori
99 mins

8:00 PM The Third Man (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed. Actors: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
93 mins

10:00 PM The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
A romantic drifter gets caught between a corrupt tycoon and his voluptuous wife.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles, Everett Sloane
86 mins

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Saturday – August 6, 2022

6:00 AM Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna
108 mins

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. Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau
114 mins

10:15 PM How to Steal a Million (1966)
A young woman enlists the help of a detective to recover a sculpture that her father, a dealer in phony art, sold to a Paris museum for fear that it will be uncovered as a hoax.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Actors: Audrey Hepburn, Peter O’Toole, Eli Wallach
127 mins

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Monday – August 8, 2022

7:30 AM The Bishop Misbehaves (1933)
A church official with a taste for mysteries gets mixed up in the real thing.
Dir: E. A. Dupont. Actors: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Sullivan, Lucile Watson
85 mins

9:15 AM Woman Wanted (1935)
An innocent woman is chased by both gangsters and the police.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan, Joel McCrea, Lewis Stone
70 mins

6:30 PM Let Us Live (1939)
Two wrongly convicted men are sentenced to death.
Dir: John Brahm. Actors: Maureen O’Sullivan,Henry Fonda,Ralph Bellamy
68 mins

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Tuesday – August 9, 2022

12:00 AM The Big Clock (1948)
A corrupt publisher tries to frame a career-driven editor for murder.
Dir: John Farrow. Actors: Ray Milland, Charles Laughton, Maureen O’Sullivan
93 mins

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Thursday – August 11, 2022

4:15 PM The Outrage (1964)
A murderer, a sexually assaulted wife and the dead man himself present conflicting versions of a brutal crime.
Dir: Martin Ritt. Actors: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
97 mins

6:00 PM The Running Man (1963)
A man fakes his death to get back at the insurance company that denied an earlier claim.
Dir: Carol Reed. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
103 mins

8:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Actors: Laurence Harvey, Angela Lansbury, Frank Sinatra, Janet Leigh
126 mins

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Friday – August 12, 2022

4:15 AM Night Watch (1973)
A woman sees a murder in a neighbor’s window but her husband and the police don’t believe her.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Actors: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

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Sunday – August 14, 2022

4:00 AM The Formula (1980)
A detective is in jeopardy after discovering a synthetic formula for gasoline.
Dir: John G. Avildsen. Actors: George C Scott, Marlon Brando, Marthe Keller
117 mins

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Tuesday – August 16, 2022

2:00 PM The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Actors: James Coburn, Raquel Welch, Dyan Cannon
120 mins

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Wednesday – August 17, 2022

12:00 PM Keeper of the Flame (1943)
Top-notch reporter Stephen O’Malley travels to a small town to investigate the death of a national hero.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf
100 mins

8:00 PM 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. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday
101 mins

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Thursday – August 18, 2022

8:00 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Actors: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
81 mins

1:15 PM I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
An ex-con dreaming of one last heist faces dissension within his gang.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Jack Palance, Shelley Winters, Lori Nelson
109 mins

10:15 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. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish
93 mins

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Friday – August 19, 2022

2:00 AM He Ran All the Way (1951)
A crook on the run hides out in an innocent girl’s apartment.
Dir: John Berry. Actors: John Garfield, Shelley Winters, Wallace Ford
77 mins

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Saturday – August 20, 2022

1:30 AM High and Low (1963)
When the son of his chauffeur is kidnapped by mistake, a wealthy man faces the dilemma of paying the ransom.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Actors: Toshiro Mifune, Tatsuya Nakadai, Kyoko Kagawa
143 mins
(In Japanese)

5:30 PM What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich. Actors: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
132 mins

8:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Ann Blyth
113 mins

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Sunday – August 21, 2022

12:00 AM Flamingo Road (1949)
A stranded carnival dancer takes on a corrupt political boss when she marries into small-town society.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Joan Crawford, Zachary Scott, Sydney Greenstreet
94 mins

2:00 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. Actors: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

4:00 AM This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
A female gangster learns she is losing her vision.
Dir: Felix Feist. Actors: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian
97 mins

3:30 PM Coogan’s Bluff (1968)
An Arizona deputy sheriff is sent to New York City to extradite an escaped killer he tracked down.
Dir: Donald Siegel. Actors: Clint Eastwood, Lee J. Cobb, Susan Clark
94 mins

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Monday – August 22, 2022

4:30 PM After Office Hours (1935)
A society newspaperwoman tries to prove to her editor that she can crack a murder case.
Dir: Robert Z. Leonard. Actors: Constance Bennett, Clark Gable, Stuart Erwin
75 mins

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Tuesday – August 23, 2022

6:15 PM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Actors: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

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Wednesday – August 24, 2022

12:00 PM The Spiral Staircase (1975)
A mute nurse cares for an old invalid in a house where a killer lurks.
Dir: Peter Collinson. Actors: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
86 mins

6:00 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Actors: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

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Thursday – August 25, 2022

8:45 AM Gambling on the High Seas (1940)
A reporter tries to nail a gambling-ship owner for murder.
Dir: George Amy. Actors: Wayne Morris, Jane Wyman, Gilbert Roland
56 mins

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Friday – August 26, 2022

7:00 AM 21 Days Together (1940)
After accidentally killing his mistress’ husband, a man must decide whether to let another man hang for his crime.
Dir: Basil Dean. Actors: Vivien Leigh, Leslie Banks, Laurence Olivier
75 mins

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Saturday – August 27, 2022

7:30 AM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

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Sunday – August 28, 2022

3:30 PM Suspicion (1941)
A young woman marries a charming man after a brief romance but then comes to believe that he is only after her money and will do anything to get it.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke
99 mins

5:30 PM 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. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason
136 mins

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Monday – August 29, 2022

9:00 AM Penthouse (1933)
The mob frames a lawyer for murder, so he enlists a call girl’s help in finding the real killer.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Actors: Warner Baxter, Myrna Loy, Charles Butterworth
88 mins

8:00 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
80 mins

10:00 PM 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewartl
110 mins

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Tuesday – August 30, 2022

9:30 AM Make Your Own Bed (1944)
Detectives masquerade as a butler and maid to get the goods on a crook.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Jack Carson, Jane Wyman, Irene Manning
82 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)

10:00 PM The Good Humor Man (1950)
A good-hearted ice cream man’s efforts to help a young woman turn him into a murder suspect.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Actors: Jack Carson, Lola Albright, Jean Wallace
79 mins (Possibly not really a mystery…)

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Days in August with showcased actor: 1= Elvis Presley, 2= Jean Arthur, 3= Sydney Poitier, 4= Ruth Roman, 5= Orson Wells, 6= Audrey Hepburn, 7= Gene Kelly, 8= Maureen O’Sullivan’ 9= William Holden, 10= Greta Garbo, 11= Laurence Harvey, 12= Jane Powell, 13= Marlon Brando, 14= Elizabeth Taylor, 15= Randolph Scott, 16= Raquel Welch, 17= Spencer Tracy, 18= Shelley Winters, 19= Toshiro Mifune, 20= Joan Crawford, 21= Clint Eastwood, 22= Constance Bennett, 23= Mickey Rooney, 24= Jacqueline Bisset, 25= Gilbert Roland, 26= Vivien Leigh, 27= Marilyn Monroe, 28= Cary Grant, 29= Myrna Loy, 30= Jack Carson, 31= Peter Sellers.

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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in August, 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 July 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for July 2022 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.

The Sister Boniface Mysteries is a British series that is available on BritBox. Sister Boniface is a perky, upbeat, ex-spy, Ph.D. – who does all of the forensics involved in solving a crime. She is the crime scene investigator, the lab technician, and she pretty much takes care of all the technical positions involved. Lorna Watson portrays Sister Boniface in an almost staccato mode. She walks, talks, and moves in a very controlled and planned manner. Sister Boniface is clearly a genius – definitely the smartest person in any room she’s in.

There are four other characters featured in this series, and all of them are very well-portrayed: Max Brown (the inspector), Jerry Iwu (the new detective who thought he was going to work at Scotland Yard, who finds himself in this cozy village), Miranda Raison (the journalist who always seems to be eavesdropping as crimes are being discussed), and Ami Metcalf (the constable).

The name of the village is a telling hint that this is a mystery series: “Great Slaughter”. The Sister Boniface Mysteries series is set in the early 1960s – the same as the Father Brown series. Sister Boniface zips around on her moped scooter and isn’t averse to breaking a few rules. The village setting is exactly what you would expect – beautiful, serene, full of friendly people, tranquil >>> until, of course, the pesky crime occurs!

My husband and I watch Sister Boniface at the end of the day – when we’re sort of unwinding. We know we’ll enjoy it and we know there won’t be any graphic “adult situations” that will jolt like scenes that depict a forensic pathologist pointing out how a mangled body looks on the morgue’s “slab” – while the pathologist is eating a sandwich. You won’t see that here! 

This is another British “feel good” mystery television series that seems to be an oxymoron. You may ask: How in the world can a show that deals with death be a “feel good” TV show? Well, if you watch this show you’ll find out how!

This very well may be my last Hallmark Movies & Mysteries blog entry. It has been quite a while since the channel has offered any NEW Cozy Mystery movies. The Cozy Mystery movies that they do air are all repeats, and they aren’t even showing many of those! It seems like most of the movies they are currently showing are romance and Christmas movies, and since this is the Cozy Mystery site >>> I don’t see any reason to continue posting these entries.

Please let me know if you see any NEW Cozy Mystery movies on the channel. Once the channel starts airing some new mystery material, I might start writing more blog entries about them. So, for now, this should do it!

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel Cozy Mystery Movies – July 2022
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Friday – July 1, 2022

No mystery movies

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Saturday – July 2, 2022

No mystery movies

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Sunday – July 3, 2022

No mystery movies

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Monday – July 4, 2022

No mystery movies

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Tuesday – July 5, 2022

6:00 PM
Mystery 101
When a college student is found dead, English professor Amy uses her crime fiction expertise to unravel the case faster than detective Travis, who ends up working with Amy to catch the killer. Stars Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reap What You Sew
Internet sensation and old family friend of Aurora Teagarden, Poppy Wilson, has returned to Lawrenceton to start her new embroidery business. But not everyone is happy with Poppy’s success when she turns up dead.

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Wednesday – July 6, 2022

6:00 PM
Crossword Mysteries: Abracadaver
During her birthday celebration, Tess and Logan find themselves swept up in a world that isn’t always what it seems when the headlining magician at the Magic Manor winds up dead. Starring Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott.

8:00 PM
Emma Fielding Mysteries: Site Unseen
A dedicated archaeologist gets involved in a murder investigation when she and her students unearth a dead body while searching for evidence of a 17th-century coastal Maine settlement. Stars Courtney Thorne-Smith and James Tupper.

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Thursday – July 7, 2022

No mystery movies

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Friday – July 8, 2022

No mystery movies

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Saturday – July 9, 2022

10:00 AM
Morning Show Mysteries: Murder On the Menu
Beloved cooking show host Billie Blessings finds herself in hot water when a dead body turns up in the car of one of her guests, a temperamental celebrity chef, with dark secrets in his past. Stars Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox.

12:00 PM
Murder, She Baked: A Deadly Recipe
Bakery owner Hannah Swensen just can’t keep her hands out of the batter when murder stirs things up in Lake Eden, Minnesota, leaving the sheriff dead, a deputy accused, and a killer on the loose. Stars Alison Sweeney.

2:00 PM
Gourmet Detective Mysteries: Death al Dente
San Francisco homicide detective Maggie Price and former, world-class chef Henry Ross are on the case once again. The crime-solving odd couple investigates the murder of Henry’s friend.

4:00 PM
Murder, She Baked: Just Desserts
Hannah is thrilled when she is chosen as a guest for the first Eden Lake Dessert Bake-Off, but when a fellow judge is found murdered, Hannah takes it upon herself to find the killer. Stars Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison.

6:00 PM
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their wedding planning. Stars Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven.

8:00 PM
Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate
Colorado caterer Goldy Berry teams with detective Tom Schultz to identify the ingredients that led to the mysterious death of her friend — and ends up discovering a hidden recipe for murder. Stars Nikki Deloach and Andrew Walker.

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Sunday – July 10, 2022

10:00 AM
Fixer Upper Mysteries: Deadly Deed
Shannon Hughes has taken on a charity project renovating an old Victorian mansion. When a local banker is found murdered inside, Shannon must dust off the clues and cement the truth before her renovation becomes a demolition.

12:00 PM
Witness to Murder: A Darrow Mystery
Attorney Claire Darrow defends an old colleague of her mother’s for murder. Things get complex when Claire’s romantic interest, Miles, is named as prosecuting attorney on the case. Starring Kimberly Williams-Paisley, Tom Cavanagh.

2:00 PM
Emma Fielding Mysteries: More Bitter than Death
After a friend and head of the National Archaeological Society meets an untimely death, Emma and Agent Conner find themselves questioning her colleagues’ motives. Stars Courtney Thorne-Smith, James Tupper.

4:00 PM
Crossword Mysteries: Riddle Me Dead
Tess gets invited to be a part of a popular game show, but when the host is unexpectedly murdered, she and Detective Logan O’Connor seek to uncover who was behind it all. Starring Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott.

6:00 PM
Gourmet Detective Mysteries: Eat, Drink and Be Buried
Henry and Maggie attend party of a local publisher, where his son and stepson reenact a historical dual. Someone, however, has loaded the pistol with a real musket ball, so when son pulls the trigger, he kills his stepbrother.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Last Scene Alive
A Hollywood film crew descends on the town to produce a film based on a book written by Aurora’s ex Robin Daniels. However, when the actress who is playing Aurora is killed, the real Aurora and the Murders Club must investigate.

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Monday – July 11, 2022

6:00 PM
Flower Shop Mysteries: Mum’s The Word
Abby Knight is the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, but a SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. She’s determined to track down the driver, but the trail turns deadly.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Disappearing Game
Aurora and her new neighbor, a handsome professor named Nick, investigate when four students from a nearby college (including her cousin) go missing. Stars Candace Cameron Bure.

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Tuesday – July 12, 2022

6:00 PM
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
An escaped serial killer and an attempt on Travis’s life makes this their most dangerous case yet as Amy and Travis team up with his FBI agent ex to find the connection before it’s too late. Stars Jill Wagner & Kristoffer Polaha.

8:00 PM
Murder, She Baked: A Chocolate Chip Cookie Mystery
Free spirited cookie baker Hannah Swensen jumps in to help a handsome new detective track down the culprit and uncover the mystery surrounding the death of her friend and local milk delivery man. Stars Alison Sweeney.

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Wednesday – July 13, 2022

6:00 PM
Flower Shop Mysteries: Dearly Depotted
Abby Knight, ex-lawyer and crime buff, and the owner of Bloomers Flower Shop, is having a week to be reckoned with. A bridesmaid at her drama queen cousin’s wedding, Abby ends having to find out who murdered a wedding crasher.

8:00 PM
Crossword Mysteries: Terminal Descent
When Tess prepares for a crossword challenge against a super computer, the engineer behind it is murdered, spurring her and Logan to seek answers before they become the next victims. Starring Lacey Chabert and Brennan Elliott.

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Thursday – July 14, 2022

No mystery movies

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Friday – July 15, 2022

No mystery movies

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Saturday – July 16, 2022

12:00 PM
Roux the Day: A Gourmet Detective Mystery
Henry and Maggie find themselves in a murder mystery where secrets hidden within a treasured recipe book have dire consequences for all who own it. Starring Dylan Neal and Brooke Burns.

2:00 PM
To Catch a Spy
A travel writer witnesses a murder at a hotel in Malta and becomes ensnared in a web of intrigue and espionage as she tries to find the killer before the killer finds her. Stars Nathalie Kelley, Colin Donnell and Patti Murin.

4:00 PM
Mystery 101: Dead Talk
Amy heads to Seattle to give a TED Talk-style lecture. When a tech genius dies, Amy suspects foul play. When local cops shut her out, Travis joins forces with Amy to figure out whodunit. Stars Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha.

6:00 PM
Poisoned in Paradise: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
When a local waitress is found dead on the beach and a mysterious deposit appears in Zee’s bank account, Martha’s Vineyard proves to be all but the simple, scenic life Jeff Jackson was after. Stars Jesse Metcalfe and Sarah Lind.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder
A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

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Sunday – July 17, 2022

Monk marathon

8:00 PM
Cut, Color, Murder
When a beauty pageant creator is found dead, a savvy hairdresser works with the new detective in town and risks everything to clear the names of those she loves. Stars Julie Gonzalo, Ryan McPartlin.

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Monday – July 18, 2022

6:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: An Inheritance to Die For
When Sally’s wealthy aunt Gladys, dies from poisoning after giving a wedding toast, Aurora inspects if Glady’s will hints at who may have wanted her gone. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

8:00 PM
Murder, She Baked: A Plum Pudding Mystery
When a murder takes place at the local Christmas tree carnival, it seems there are quite a few suspects. With the twelve days of Christmas ticking away, Hannah’s running out of time to nab a murderous Scrooge.

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Tuesday – July 19, 2022

6:00 PM
Riddled with Deceit: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
Former detective Jeff Jackson teams up with Dr. Zee Madeiras to track down their friend’s missing emerald brooch, a thief, and also… a murderer. Stars Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah Lind.

8:00 PM
Mystery 101: Deadly History
Amy and Travis travel to New York to investigate after Amy’s uncle goes missing, and the initial clues make them fear the worst. Stars Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha, Robin Thomas.

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Wednesday – July 20, 2022

6:00 PM
Murder, She Baked: A Peach Cobbler Mystery
With The Cookie Jar, Hannah Swensen has a mouthwatering monopoly on the bakery business of Lake Eden, Minnesota. But when a rival store opens, and one of the owners is found dead, Hannah is determined to prove she isn’t guilty.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: How to Con a Con
When Aida Teagarden’s real estate client is found murdered, her sleuthing daughter Aurora sets out with her fiancé Nick and the Real Murders Club to solve the murder. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

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Thursday – July 21, 2022

No mystery movies

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Friday – July 22, 2022

No mystery movies

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Saturday – July 23, 2022

4:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made
As Shane and Oliver prepare to wed, the team helps an unwell boy reunite with a lost friend. A new employee may deliver the answer for Rita and Norman to start a family.

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Here is the page on my Cozy Mystery 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’ll update this page when the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries website updates their schedule.

It’s finally summer – and I’m ready to spend the entire season inside, enjoying the Turner Classic Movies channel’s mystery movies. I don’t know how many 100* days we’ve had so far this year already. It’s the perfect time of year weather-wise to watch one movie after the next! Yow, is it ever hot and muggy!

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – July 2022

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Friday – July 1, 2021

6:00 AM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Actors: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
Runtime: 81 mins

9:15 AM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
Runtime: 83 mins

10:45 AM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
Runtime: 95 mins

12:30 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins

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Sunday – July 3, 2022

12:00 AM The Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
Dir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
Runtime: 100 mins

10:00 AM The Strange One (1957)
A military school student develops a destructive power over his fellow cadets.
Dir: Jack Garfein. Actors: Ben Gazzara, Pat Hingle, Mark Richman
Runtime: 100 mins

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Tuesday – July 5, 2022

8:30 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 71 mins

9:45 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. Actors: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
Runtime: 70 mins

4:00 PM Yellow Canary (1943)
A socialite poses as a Nazi spy to mask her activities as a British agent.
Dir: Herbert Wilcox. Actors: Anna Neagle, Richard Greene, Nova Pilbeam
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 PM Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb
Runtime: 88 mins

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Wednesday – July 6, 2022

10:30 AM Act of Violence (1949)
An embittered veteran tracks down a POW camp informer.
Dir: Fred Zinnemann. Actors: Van Heflin, Robert Ryan, Janet Leigh
Runtime: 82 mins

12:00 PM Pete Kelly’s Blues (1955)
The jazz band’s leader gets mixed up with a gangster in ’20s Kansas City.
Dir: Jack Webb. Actors: Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien
Runtime: 95 mins

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Thursday – July 7, 2022

2:15 PM Gaslight (1944)
Young Paula Alquist has given up a promising singing career to marry Gregory Anton. Deeply in love, she refuses to believe – then cannot convince anyone else – that her new husband is a thief who murdered her aunt, that everyone in her household is plotting to kill her…and that something evil will happen every time she sees a dimming of the Gaslight.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins

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Friday – July 8, 2022

12:45 AM Ladies of the Jury (1932)
A jury hold-out tries to prove the defendant’s innocence.
Dir: Lowell Sherman. Actors: Edna May Oliver, Jill Esmond, Rosco Ates
Runtime: 63 mins

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Saturday – July 9, 2022

12:00 PM The Petrified Forest (1936)
When a burned out Brit wanders into a diner and gas station in the middle of the desert, the owner’s daughter falls for him. However, the situations of all concerned change when the restaurant is held up at gunpoint by a desperate gangster.
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Actors: Leslie Howard, Bette Davis, Genevieve Tobin
Runtime: 83 mins

5:15 PM Absence of Malice (1981)
An ambitious reporter unwittingly slanders a businessman under federal investigation.
Dir: Sydney Pollack. Actors: Paul Newman, Sally Field, Bob Balaban
Runtime: 116 mins

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Sunday – July 10, 2022

12:00 AM High Tide (1947)
A private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
Runtime: 70 mins

10:00 AM High Tide (1947)
A private detective finds out more than he should about his boss…
Dir: John Reinhardt. Actors: Lee Tracy, Don Castle, Julie Bishop
Runtime: 70 mins

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Wednesday – July 13, 2022

1:00 AM Boomerang! (1947)
A prosecutor fights to prove the defendant in a scandalous murder case is innocent.
Dir: Elia Kazan. Actors: Dana Andrews, Jane Wyatt, Lee J. Cobb
Runtime: 88 mins

1:45 PM Assignment – Paris (1952)
An international correspondent digs up evidence of a Communist conspiracy.
Dir: Robert Parrish. Actors: Dana Andrews, Märta Torén, George Sanders, Audrey Totter
Runtime: 85 mins

5:15 PM Journal of a Crime (1934)
Before she can confess to shooting her husband’s mistress, a woman succumbs to amnesia.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Ruth Chatterton, Adolphe Menjou, Claire Dodd
Runtime: 65 mins

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Saturday – July 16, 2022

3:15 PM The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Sherlock Holmes investigates the haunting of an isolated British estate by a murderous canine.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Actors: Peter Cushing, Andre Morell, Christopher Lee
Runtime: 84 mins

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Sunday – July 17, 2022

12:15 AM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 103 mins

10:00 AM Scarlet Street (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 103 mins

2:00 PM Gilda (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor. Actors: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
Runtime: 110 mins

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Monday – July 18, 2022

8:00 AM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
Runtime: 74 mins

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Tuesday – July 19, 2022

2:00 AM Performance (1970)
A wounded mobster holes up in a reclusive rock star’s decaying mansion.
Dir: Donald Cammell. Actors: James Fox, Mick Jagger, Anita Pallenberg
Runtime: 106 mins

8:00 PM Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
A police detective’s violent nature keeps him from being a good cop.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney, Gary Merrill
Runtime: 95 mins

10:00 PM While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders
Runtime: 99 mins

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Wednesday – July 20, 2022

3:30 AM Three Hours to Kill (1954)
After escaping a lynch mob, an innocent man returns to find out who framed him for murder.
Dir: Alfred Werker. Actors: Dana Andrews, Donna Reed, Dianne Foster
Runtime: 77 mins

7:15 AM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
Runtime: 80 mins

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Thursday – July 21, 2022

4:45 AM Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
Runtime: 74 mins

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Friday – July 22, 2022

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. Actors: Frank Silvera, Jamie Smith, Irene Kane
Runtime: 67 mins

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Saturday – July 23, 2022

2:00 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
Runtime: 91 mins

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Sunday – July 24, 2022

12:15 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 AM 5 Against the House (1955)
Four college buddies plot to rob a Reno casino.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Actors: Guy Madison, Kim Novak, Brian Keith
Runtime: 84 mins

10:00 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Actors: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
Runtime: 106 mins

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Monday – July 25, 2022

9:30 AM The Woman in White (1948)
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Actors: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet
Runtime: 109 mins

2:00 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Actors: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
Runtime: 62 mins

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Tuesday – July 26, 2022

7:30 AM Once You Kiss a Stranger (1969)
A mentally unstable woman seduces a golfer. Together, they plot a murder scheme to kill the woman’s psychiatrist and the golfer’s rival.
Dir: Robert Sparr. Actors: Paul Burke, Carol Lynley, Martha Hyer
Runtime: 106 mins

11:00 AM The Tattooed Stranger (1950)
Detectives investigate the Central Park murder of a young woman with a Marine Corps tattoo.
Dir: Edward J. Montagne. Actors: John Miles, Patricia White, Walter Kinsella
Runtime: 64 mins

12:15 PM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Actors: Peter Lorre, John Mcguire, Margaret Tallichet
Runtime: 64 mins

6:15 PM Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
Runtime: 96 mins

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Thursday – July 28, 2022

8:30 AM Dangerous Mission (1954)
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Actors: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
Runtime: 75 mins

10:00 AM River’s End (1940)
In the Canadian wilderness, an accused murderer takes the place of a dead Mountie.
Dir: Ray Enright. Actors: Dennis Morgan, Elizabeth Earl, George Tobias
Runtime: 69 mins

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Saturday – July 30, 2022

1:45 AM Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
A married couple entangled in an intricate web of jealousy and sexual obsession in Stanley Kubrick’s final cinematic offering.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick Actors: Nicole Kidman, Tom Cruise, Sydney Pollack, Marie Richardson
Runtime: 159 mins

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Sunday – July 31, 2022

12:15 AM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Runtime: 78 mins

10:00 AM Raw Deal (1948)
When the gangster for whom he took the rap welches, a convict breaks out of prison to get revenge.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Dennis O’Keefe, Claire Trevor, Marsha Hunt
Runtime: 78 mins

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If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in July, 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 June 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for June 2022 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.