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Mystery Woman Television Series

Mystery Woman Triple Feature Have you ever wondered what a young Jessica Fletcher would be like? What if Jessica wasn’t a retired English teacher but rather the owner of a mystery bookshop? What would you think if Jessica’s sidekick was an assistant district attorney instead of Seth, the town’s doctor?

If you have ever pondered any of these questions, then have I got news for you! Just by watching one of the Hallmark channel’s Mystery Woman television movies, you will have the answers to these questions.

Mystery Woman is a series of television mystery movies that originally rotated with several other mystery shows on the Hallmark channel. The rotation included Mystery Woman, McBride, Murder 101, and Jane Doe. (The Mystery Woman‘s television movies are my personal favorites of that Hallmark mystery rotation.)

The show stars Kellie Martin as Samantha Kinsey, the owner of a mystery bookshop that she inherits from her uncle. The fact that Samantha owns a mystery bookstore makes it easy for the plot lines to include the mystery book references that are sprinkled throughout the different shows. Whether Samantha is finding a rare first edition copy of a mystery book or she is hosting a mystery author’s signing appearance, Samantha is sure to find a corpse during the (+/-) one and a half hour shows.

Samantha’s sidekick is Cassie Hillman, assistant district attorney. Cassie is played by Nina Siemaszko, and the “girls” have a very believable relationship. They seem to always be on the search for the perfect boyfriend although they don’t seem to have much luck.

The police chief (Casey Sander) usually follows a different path while solving a case. (It’s a good thing that Samantha’s path is always the correct one, and her path leads her to catch the culprit!) The police chief’s path usually means that he arrives to the crime scene (and the crime clue scenes) just as Samantha is leaving. She is always at least one step ahead of Chief Connors.

Clarence Williams III plays Philby >>> a great help to Samantha. Philby holds down the fort at the mystery book shop as well as provides all sorts of computer (and espionage!) help. It seems that Philby once worked for an agency akin to the C.I.A.

I have seen all of the Mystery Woman episodes and am currently making my way through them for the second time. It’s that enjoyable of a show. The show has a truly “Cozy” feel to it. Everyone in the community knows each other; there are “regulars” who go from one show to another. There is a sense of community, the which seems to be comprised of people who look out for each other, no matter how eccentric they are.

After watching this series, you may come away with an “aha” moment. >>> So this is what Jessica Fletcher was like years before she moved to Cabot Cove!

P.S.  I didn’t mention this before, but Mystery Woman‘s pilot had several different actors in it, however Kellie Martin was the only Samantha.

P.P.S. I think this is the correct order of the Mystery Woman episodes:

  1. Pilot (It is very difficult to get the pilot. )
  2. Mystery Weekend
  3. Snapshot
  4. Sing Me a Murder
  5. Vision of a Murder
  6. Game Time
  7. At First Sight
  8. Wild West Mystery
  9. Oh Baby
  10. Redemption
  11. In the Shadows

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(I have added this information on the Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2014.

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for January 2014

I just finished going through TCM’s Now Playing for January 2014. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) At first it looked like I wasn’t going to be able to find a lot of mystery movies, but then I saw that Thursday, January 30 has lots and lots of mysteries being shown.

I’m listing the movies in Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during January 2014, please post a comment.

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

Julia just posted a comment telling us:

From Saturday, January 4 at 5:00 AM through Monday, January 6 ending at 5:00 AM, the Hallmark Movie Channel will be airing a Diagnosis Murder marathon.

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I just discovered this:

From Sunday, January 19 at 4:00 AM through Monday, January 20 at 4:00 AM the Hallmark Movie Channel will be airing a Mystery Woman marathon.

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Sunday – January 5

7:00 AM
THE PICTURE OF DORIAN GRAY (1945)
A man remains young and handsome while his portrait shows the ravages of age and sin.
Dir: Albert Lewin Cast: George Sanders, Hurd Hatfield, Donna Reed
BW-110 mins, TV-G, CC
(Watch for a young Angela Lansbury in the role of Sibyl Vane.)

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

Monday – January 6

12:00 PM
THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:00 PM
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
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:30 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 Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
BW-104 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Tuesday- January 7

3:00 PM
GILDA (1946)
A gambler discovers an old flame in South America, but she’s married to his new boss.
Dir: Charles Vidor Cast: Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday – January 11

9:30 AM
THE 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
BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC
(Based on a Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers mystery.)

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

Sunday – January 12

11:00 AM
VICTOR/VICTORIA (1982)
An unemployed female singer poses as a female impersonator and becomes a star.
Dir: Blake Edwards Cast: Julie Andrews, James Garner, Robert Preston
C-134 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format
(Not a mystery, but a really good movie.)

7:00 PM
ANASTASIA (1956)
A group of exiled Russians claim to have found the living daughter of the Tsar, presumed executed in 1918.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes
C-105 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

9:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC,

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

Tuesday – January 14

10:30 PM
MARLOWE (1969)
Detective Philip Marlowe probes the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles in search of a woman’s missing sister.
Dir: Paul Bogart Cast: James Garner, Gayle Hunnicutt, Carroll O’Connor
C-96 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – January 16

1:30 AM
12 ANGRY MEN (1957)
A jury holdout tries to convince his colleagues to vote not guilty.
Dir: Sidney Lumet Cast: Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, Ed Begley
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – January 17

2:30 PM
ABOVE SUSPICION (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Joan Crawford, Fred MacMurray, Conrad Veidt
BW-91 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday – January 18

9:30 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: James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
BW-72 mins, TV-G
(Another movie this month which is based on a Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers mystery.)

7:00 PM
LIFEBOAT (1944)
Survivors of a torpedoed boat take in a German Naval officer from the sub that sank them.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Tallulah Bankhead, William Bendix, Walter Slezak
BW-97 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Sunday – January 19

5:00 AM
THE TWO MRS. CARROLLS (1947)
A woman slowly discovers that her artist husband is a deranged killer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
BW-99 mins, TV-G, CC
(I really enjoyed this movie. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that Barbara Stanwyck is in it!)

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

Monday – January 20

5:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
C-110 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – January 21

6:00 AM
SPECIAL INVESTIGATOR (1936)
A crooked criminal lawyer discovers his brother has been killed by one of the gangsters he kept out of prison.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Richard Dix, Margaret Callahan, Erik Rhodes
BW-61 mins, TV-G

1:30 PM
BANNERLINE (1951)
An idealistic small-town reporter tries to fight corruption.
Dir: Don Weis Cast: Keefe Brasselle, Sally Forrest, Lionel Barrymore
BW-87 mins, TV-PG

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

Wednesday – January 22

9:45 AM
SCARLET STREET (1945)
A middle aged would be painter falls into the clutches of an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea
BW-102 mins, TV-PG

5:00 PM
THE WRONG MAN (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday – January 23

12:15 PM
ARE YOU LISTENING? (1932)
A radio announcer accidentally kills his wife, then leads an on-air hunt for her killer.
Dir: Harry Beaumont Cast: William Haines, Madge Evans, Anita Page
BW-73 mins, TV-G

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

Saturday – January 25

5:30 AM
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
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC

9:30 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 .
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
(I believe only three of Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers mysteries starring Edna Mae Oliver were made into movies, which means that all three are playing this month on TCM.)

11:15 PM
ROLLERCOASTER (1977)
A terrorist spreads a climate of fear by attacking amusement parks across the U.S.
Dir: James Goldstone Cast: George Segal, Richard Widmark, Timothy Bottoms
C-118 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – January 27

2:30 AM
STRANGERS ON A TRAIN (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

2:15 PM
THE VELVET TOUCH (1948)
After accidentally killing her lecherous producer, a famous actress tries to hide her guilt.
Dir: John Gage Cast: Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Claire Trevor
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:30 PM
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 Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – January 29

7:00 PM
THE MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
BW-127 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format
(Another Angela Lansbury movie.)

9:15 PM
THE HARVEY GIRLS (1946)
Straitlaced waitresses battle saloon girls to win the West for domesticity.
Dir: George Sidney Cast: Judy Garland, John Hodiak, Ray Bolger
C-101 mins, TV-G, CC
[OK, so this is not a mystery by any means, but if you want to see a very young Angela Lansbury (and as I recall – listen to her sing) you won’t want to miss her in this movie playing a “lady of the night”.]

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Thursday – January 30

(Today appears to be author  S. S. Van Dine’s Detective Philo Vance’s celebratory day!)

7:15 AM
THE BISHOP MURDER CASE (1930)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a series of murders inspired by Mother Goose rhymes.
Dir: Nick Grindé Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
BW-87 mins, TV-G, CC

8:45 AM
THE KENNEL MURDER CASE (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Cast: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette
BW-73 mins, TV-G, CC

10:00 AM
THE DRAGON MURDER CASE (1934)
Society sleuth Philo Vance looks into a murder near a mysterious “dragon pool.”
Dir: H. Bruce Humberstone Cast: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Lyle Talbot
BW-67 mins, TV-PG

11:15 AM
THE CASINO MURDER CASE (1935)
Society sleuth Philo Vance takes on a series of murders at an aging dowager’s mansion.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Paul Lukas, Alison Skipworth, Donald Cook
BW-83 mins, TV-G, CC

12:45 PM
THE GARDEN MURDER CASE (1936)
Society sleuth Philo Vance suspects dirty doings behind a mysterious series of suicides.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin Cast: Edmund Lowe, Virginia Bruce, Benita Hume
BW-61 mins, TV-G, CC

2:00 PM
CALLING PHILO VANCE (1939)
Society sleuth Philo Vance tangles with foreign agents when he investigates the murder of an aircraft manufacturer.
Dir: William Clemens Cast: James Stephenson, Margot Stevenson, Henry O’Neill
BW-62 mins, TV-G, CC

3:15 PM
I LOVE A MYSTERY (1945)
A detective tries to protect a man who has predicted his murder will take place in three days.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Jim Bannon, Nina Foch, George Macready
BW-69 mins, TV-PG, CC

4:30 PM
THE DEVIL’S MASK (1946)
A detective tries to identify a shrunken head found in a crashed cargo plane.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Anita Louise, Jim Bannon, Michael Duane
BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC

5:45 PM
THE THE UNKNOWN (1946)
A woman with amnesia hires two detectives to keep her alive long enough to claim her inheritance.
Dir: Henry Levin Cast: Karen Morley, Jim Bannon, Jeff Donnell
BW-71 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:15 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
BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:45 PM
DELLA (1964)
A wealthy, reclusive woman holds a dark secret in this rare Joan Crawford film.
Dir: Robert Gist, Cast: Joan Crawford, Paul Burke, Diane Baker
C-68 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Friday – January 31

2:45 AM
THE KARATE KILLERS (1967)
The men from U.N.C.L.E. fight off karate-chopping henchmen to track down a secret formula.
Dir: Barry Shear Cast: Robert Vaughn, David McCallum, Jill Ireland.
C-93 mins, TV-PG

6:30 AM
BERSERK! (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Dir: Jim O’Connolly Cast: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
C-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

Oh, and here’s a list of some mystery movies that will be airing on the Hallmark Movie channel on the weekend of January 25 and 26, with a few on Monday, January 27.

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Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2013

I have found these mystery movies from TCM’s Now Playing for December 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) There are less mystery movies being shown this month because of TCM’s great holiday line-up of movies.

I’m listing the movies in Central time zone. If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be aired on television during December 2013, please post a comment.

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Monday – December 2, 2013

7:30 AM
THE AMAZING DR. CLITTERHOUSE (1938)
A doctor plots crimes so he can study criminal psychology.
Dir: Anatole Litvak Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Claire Trevor, Humphrey Bogart.
BW-87 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:00 AM
TORCHY RUNS FOR MAYOR (1939)
After digging up the dirt on local politicians, a newswoman decides to run for office.
Dir: Ray McCarey Cast: Glenda Farrell, Barton MacLane, Tom Kennedy.
BW-60 mins, TV-G, CC

10:15 AM
HAVING WONDERFUL CRIME (1945)
Three amateur detectives try to find a missing magician.
Dir: Eddie Sutherland Cast: Pat O’Brien, George Murphy, Carole Landis.
BW-70 mins, TV-PG

11:30 AM
THE BIG STEAL (1949)
Seduction and murder follow the theft of an Army payroll.
Dir: Don Siegel Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, William Bendix.
BW-71 mins, TV-PG, CC

3:15 PM
STOP, YOU’RE KILLING ME (1952)
The surprise appearance of four corpses interferes with a beer baron’s plans to crash high society.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Cast: Broderick Crawford, Claire Trevor, Virginia Gibson.
BW-86 mins, TV-G

4:45 PM
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.
BW-120 mins, TV-PG

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

Tuesday – December 3, 2013

11:00 PM
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Thursday – December 5, 2013

8:00 AM
ANGEL FACE (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Mona Freeman.
BW-91 mins, TV-G, CC

11:45 AM
ANATOMY OF A MURDER (1959)
A small-town lawyer gets the case of a lifetime when a military man avenges an attack on his wife.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: James Stewart, Lee Remick, Ben Gazzara.
BW-161 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

5:00 PM
BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim.
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

11:00 PM
IN THE HEAT OF THE NIGHT (1967)
A black police detective from the North forces a bigoted Southern sheriff to accept his help with a murder investigation.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
C-110 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – December 6, 2013

7:45 AM
BLACKMAIL (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG

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

Monday – December 9, 2013

5:15 PM
13 GHOSTS (1960)
A family inherits a house haunted by 13 ghosts and a living killer.
Dir: William Castle Cast: Charles Herbert, Jo Morrow, Martin Milner.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – December 10, 2013

2:15 AM
MEMORIES OF MURDER (2003)
A big-city detective helps two inept small-town cops investigate a serial killer.
Dir: Joon-ho Bong Cast: Kang-ho Song, Sang-kyung Kim, Roe-ha Kim.
C-131 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – December 13, 2013

10:00 AM
GRAND CENTRAL MURDER (1942)
A detective investigates an actress’s murder in a train car.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Van Heflin, Patricia Dane, Cecilia Parker.
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Saturday – December 14, 2013

12:00 AM
CHINATOWN (1974)
A Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez.
C-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday – December 16, 2013

8:30 AM
SCREEN DIRECTORS PLAYHOUSE: WHITE CORRIDORS (1956)
An American tourist fights to get the staff of a British hospital to believe she’s witnessed a murder.
Dir: Ted Post Cast: Linda Darnell, John Bentley, Scott Forbes.
BW-26 mins, TV-PG,

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

Tuesday – December 17, 2013

8:45 PM
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (1940)  *** This is a Christmas movie, not a mystery. I really like it. >>> It gets the two stars of Double Indemnity together in a different venue.
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
BW-94 mins, TV-G, CC,

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

Friday – December 20, 2013

9:00 PM
THE BIG HEAT (1953)
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC

1:00 AM
THE STEPFORD WIVES (1975)
A recent arrival in suburbia suspects a sinister reason for the local women’s model behavior.
Dir: Bryan Forbes Cast: Katharine Ross, Paula Prentiss, Peter Masterson.
C-115 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – December 22, 2013

1:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945) ***This is probably my very favorite Christmas movie. I watch it once every year. It is not a mystery.
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Tuesday – December 24, 2013

*****Neither of today’s movies are mystery movies. However, they are really good Christmas movies with phenomenal casts.

10:15 AM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941)
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.
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

7:00 PM
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (1945)
A homemaking specialist who can’t boil water is forced to provide a family holiday for a war hero.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-102 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Thursday – December 26, 2013

5:00 AM
THE NARROW MARGIN (1952)
A tough cop meets his match when he has to guard a gangster’s moll on a tense train ride.
Dir: Richard Fleischer Cast: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
BW-72 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Friday – December 27, 2013

8:45 PM
OUT OF THE PAST (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
BW-97 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday – December 28, 2013

7:00 PM
GASLIGHT (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

9:00 PM
SUSPICION (1941)
A wealthy wallflower suspects her penniless playboy husband of murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Joan Fontaine, Sir Cedric Hardwicke.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

11:00 PM
LEAVE HER TO HEAVEN (1945)
A beautiful neurotic will stop at nothing to hold onto her husband’s love.
Dir: John M. Stahl Cast: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain.
C-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Monday – December 30, 2013

10:30 PM
THE CHEAP DETECTIVE (1978)
A private dick tackles two tough cases while trying to clear himself of a murder charge.
Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Ann-Margret, Eileen Brennan.
C-92 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

If you know of any other mystery movies that are going to be airing this month, feel free to post a comment.

(All of the above descriptions were copied from the TCM site. I hope they don’t change their line-up!)

If you would like to see more Television and Movies ideas, click on this link.

McBride Mystery Television Shows Marathon Airing This Sunday, November 17, 2013 (& Monday the 18th) on the Hallmark Movie Channel

Here is an addendum to the entry I just wrote yesterday. Colleen just commented that the Hallmark Movie channel will be showing the McBride mystery shows this coming Sunday, November 17 (and continuing on early Monday, November 18).

Here is the Hallmark Movie channel schedule in Central time zone.

Sunday, November 17, 2013

8:00 AM     McBride: It’s Murder, Madam

10:00 AM     McBride: Dogged

12:00 PM     McBride: Fallen Idol

2:00 PM     McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty?

4:00 PM     McBride: Murder Past Midnight

6:00 PM     McBride: Requiem

8:00 PM     McBride: Semper Fi

10:00 PM     McBride: Tune In For Murder

Monday, November 18, 2013

1:00 AM     McBride: The Chameleon Murder

3:00 AM     McBride: The Doctor is Out… Really Out

Thanks, again, Colleen!

(As I mentioned in the previous entry, we DVR-ed all of the McBride mystery shows and then watched them later. I’m not sure if I’m totally correct on the following chronological list of the McBride movies, but this is the list my husband and I used – since we wanted to watch the shows in an orderly fashion)

The Chameleon Murder   ’05

Murder Past Midnight   ’05

It’s Murder, Madam   ’05

The Doctor Is Out… Really Out   ’05

Tune in for Murder   ’05

Anybody Here Murder Marty?   ’05

Fallen Idol   ’06

Semper Fi   ’07

Dogged   ’07

Requiem   ’08

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