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Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel Cozy Mystery Movies – January 2021

January 1, 2021

Happy New Year! Oh my goodness! It’s 2021! Yahoo!!! I am hoping this is the year that will allow us all to start living our lives more “normally”… A BIG THANK YOU to all the essential workers who were out there (and still are!) during 2020 who made our lives more comfortable – hunkering down in our homes while trying to keep ourselves (as well as others) safe.

I worked on this Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel Cozy Mystery movies “guide” at the end of December, so I am missing the last week in the January schedule. (I’ll get it up soon – the channel hasn’t posted it yet.) There is good news for us: there is a PREMIERE coming up this month on Sunday the 17th there will be a new Martha’s Vineyard Cozy Mystery movie: Ships in the Night. Other than that, I was not able to find any other premieres, however, the last week in January may have one.

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel Cozy Mystery Movies – January 2021:

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Friday – January 1, 2021

Christmas non-mystery movies continue

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Saturday – January 2, 2021

5:00 AM
Crossword Mysteries: A Puzzle to Die For
After several of her puzzles are linked to the murder of an art gallery owner, a crossword puzzle editor teams up with a no nonsense detective to stop a killer in their midst. Stars Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott.

7:00 AM
Crossword Mysteries: Proposing Murder
Tess dives into Logan’s murder investigation of her friend who was about to propose with her help. As she grows closer to the truth, she fears it could ruin everyone’s happily ever after. Starring Lacey Chabert, Brennan Elliott.

9:00 AM
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.

11:00 AM
A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
After being forced into retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha’s Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he’s drawn back into crime solving. Stars Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah Lind.

1:00 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.

3:00 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.

5:00 PM
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress’ life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps. Stars Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha.

7:00 PM
Mystery 101: Words Can Kill
When a guest at the college book festival is killed, Amy and Travis clash after he arrests an unlikely person for murder. Amy must fight to prove he’s got the wrong person behind bars. Starring Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha.

9:00 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.

11:00 PM
Mystery 101: An Education in Murder
A young writer’s research prompts the police to revisit a famous murder case that convicted Amy’s colleague at Elmstead, so Travis & Amy get a second chance at clearing the professor’s name. Stars Jill Wagner & Kristoffer Polaha.

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Sunday – January 3, 2021

1:00 AM
Chronicle Mysteries: Recovered
Alex McPherson launches a podcast with a cold case from her past. With the help of local reporter, Drew Godfrey, new mysteries mix with old as the two work to recover what’s been lost. Starring Alison Sweeney and Benjamin Ayres.

3:00 AM
Chronicle Mysteries: The Wrong Man
Podcaster Alex McPherson seeks the truth behind the tragic death of a young lawyer, while partner Drew finds himself diving into the shady mishaps of a shipping company. Starring Alison Sweeney and Benjamin Ayres.

5:00 AM
Chronicle Mysteries: Vines That Bind
Podcaster Alex McPherson travels to a vineyard to investigate the suspicious death of a winemaker, while partner Drew explores corporate buyouts surrounding the vineyard’s town. Starring Alison Sweeney and Benjamin Ayres.

7:00 AM
Chronicle Mysteries: The Deep End
When a man’s body is discovered in a pond, his wife finds herself in a complex trial, which causes podcaster Alex and the Chronicle team to seek answers surrounding this unusual case. Starring Alison Sweeney & Benjamin Ayres.

9:00 AM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Bone to Pick
A librarian with a sharp mind for murder, Aurora Teagarden is known around her small town as a master sleuth. When her friend Jane dies and leaves Aurora everything in her will, she also leaves a troubling murder mystery.

11:00 AM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Real Murders
Aurora finds a member of her crime buff group, the Real Murders Club, killed in a manner that eerily resembles the crime the club was about to discuss. As other brutal “copycat” killings follow, Aurora will have to investigate.

1:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Three Bedrooms, One Corpse
When Aurora pitches in to help her busy real estate mother she quickly realizes she has again walked into a life or death situation. She investigates when the body of a local realtor is found strangled in a backyard.

3:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: The Julius House
Aurora Teagarden is a beautiful young librarian with a passion for solving murders. After an exhaustive search for the perfect home, Aurora finally purchases her dream house, unaware of its murky history.

5:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Dead Over Heels
Librarian and real crime buff Aurora “Roe” Teagarden never liked Detective Sergeant Jack Burns. She also never wanted to see him dead, but when he winds up murdered, she can’t help but get involved.

7:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Bundle of Trouble
Aurora Teagarden and her boyfriend Martin are thrilled when they get an unexpected visit from his niece and her new baby. Their excitement is short lived when his niece disappears and the baby is left behind.

9:00 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.

11:00 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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Monday – January 4, 2021

1:00 AM
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.

3:00 AM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse
A taunting clue left for Aurora at a meeting begins a cat-and-mouse game between her and a mysterious criminal who commits increasingly serious crimes that leave the town rattled. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

1:00 AM
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.

3:00 AM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse
A taunting clue left for Aurora at a meeting begins a cat-and-mouse game between her and a mysterious criminal who commits increasingly serious crimes that leave the town rattled. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

***** ***** ***** *****
Tuesday – January 5, 2021

5:00 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.

7:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds
Photographer Allie and Detective Sam’s investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and an unexpected death. Stars Alexa & Carlos PenaVega, Erik Estrada.

9:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
Allie and Sam navigate the world of amateur theatrics as they pursue the killer of an actress. Their largest obstacle is trying to assess whether the cast members are lying or telling the truth. Starring Alexa & Carlos PenaVega.

***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 6, 2021

5:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness
When consumer reporter, Ruby Herring stumbles onto a murder, the spunky redhead discovers a knack for crime solving. With the help of a handsome detective, Ruby finds a new career covering crime. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

7:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath
Ruby and Detective Killian investigate a suspicious fatal car accident. With their yin and yang relationship, they solve the case, until Ruby finds new evidence that they may have it all wrong. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

9:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Prediction Murder
When crime reporter Ruby Herring receives clues to a murder that happened five years earlier involving a local psychic, she joins forces with Detective Jake Killian to help crack the case. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 7, 2021

9:00 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.

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Friday – January 8, 2021

5:00 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.

7:00 PM
Second Chances
A badly injured leg forces fireman Jeff, who lost his father in a fire as a young boy, to move in with widow, Jenny, and her fatherless young children, Luke and Elsie. Stars Alison Sweeney, Greg Vaughan.

9:00 PM
Mystery 101: An Education in Murder
A young writer’s research prompts the police to revisit a famous murder case that convicted Amy’s colleague at Elmstead, so Travis & Amy get a second chance at clearing the professor’s name. Stars Jill Wagner & Kristoffer Polaha.

***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 9, 2021

The Good Witch marathon

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Sunday – January 10, 2021

9:00 AM
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.

11:00 AM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Game of Cat and Mouse
A taunting clue left for Aurora at a meeting begins a cat-and-mouse game between her and a mysterious criminal who commits increasingly serious crimes that leave the town rattled. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

1:00 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.

3:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play
Aurora and friends are off to a resort for a true crime convention. While there, they take part in a mystery dinner theater, but art imitates life when a fellow actor gets killed. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

5:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek
When a priceless crown is stolen during a benefit gala held by the Lawrenceton library, Aurora and the Real Murders Club must investigate who would kill to get their hands on it. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

7:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Aurora’s high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

9:00 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.

***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – January 11, 2021

5:00 PM
Flower Shop Mysteries: Mum’s The Word
Abby Knight is the proud owner of her hometown flower shop, but a new low-cost competitor is killing her profits and a black SUV just rammed her vintage Corvette in a hit-and-run. She’s determined to track down the driver, but when… LESS the trail turns deadly, the next flower arrangement might be for her own funeral. Stars Brooke Shields, Brennan Elliott and Beau Bridges.

7:00 PM
Flower Shop Mysteries: Snipped in the Bud
When Abby Knight, former lawyer turned flower shop owner, agrees to deliver an anonymous bouquet of black roses to her daughter’s disagreeable law professor, she is hoping for a chance to get him on her good side. When he… LESS responds by throwing the flowers in the trash, Abby realizes she may be fighting a losing battle and leaves. Unwilling to sacrifice the bouquet, she returns to claim the flowers, only to discover the dead body of another professor and her former courtroom adversary. Now as the main suspect, Abby must work to clear her name and keep those she loves out of danger. Stars Brooke Shields, Brennan Elliott and Beau Bridges.

9:00 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 reluctant bridesmaid at her drama queen cousin’s wedding, Abby ends up not just doing the flowers…but having to find out who murdered a wedding crasher. Stars Brooke Shields, Brennan Elliott and Beau Bridges.

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Tuesday – January 12, 2021

5:00 PM
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.

7:00 PM
Morning Show Mysteries: A Murder in Mind
Billie Blessings investigates murder charges against friend and actress Katie Saunders, when a death is linked to her TV show based on a series of novels about a corrupt local lawyer. Stars Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox.

9:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Aurora’s high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 13, 2021

5:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead
Photographer Allie Adams is shocked when the groom at a wedding she is covering is shot dead. What’s even worse, is she must convince Detective Sam Acosta that her brother isn’t the killer. Stars Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega.

7:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds
Photographer Allie and Detective Sam’s investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and an unexpected death. Stars Alexa & Carlos PenaVega, Erik Estrada.

9:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
Allie and Sam navigate the world of amateur theatrics as they pursue the killer of an actress. Their largest obstacle is trying to assess whether the cast members are lying or telling the truth. Starring Alexa & Carlos PenaVega.

***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 14, 2021

9:00 PM
Mystery 101: Playing Dead
The local theater is producing a mystery that crime fiction expert Amy unearthed. When one of the actress’ life is threatened, Amy & Travis must uncover which character is playing for keeps. Stars Jill Wagner, Kristoffer Polaha.

***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – January 15, 2021

5:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Aurora’s high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

9:00 PM
MatchMaker Mysteries: A Fatal Romance
When a romance writer is murdered, matchmaker Angie Dove gets entangled in another case…and with Detective Kyle Carter. Can they read between the lines to find the murderer? Stars Danica McKellar, Victor Webster, Bruce Boxleitner.

***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 16, 2021

7:00 PM
A Beautiful Place to Die: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
After being forced into retirement, former detective Jeff Jackson returns to a quiet life on Martha’s Vineyard. Quiet, at least, until a body washes up and he’s drawn back into crime solving. Stars Jesse Metcalfe, Sarah Lind.

9:00 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.

***** ***** ***** *****
Sunday – January 17, 2021

9:00 AM
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.

11:00 AM
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.

1:00 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.

3:00 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.

5:00 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.

7:00 PM
Ships in the Night: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery *****PREMIERE*****
When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective teams up with local doctor–and old flame– to catch the killer. Stars Jesse Metcalfe and Sarah Lind.

9:00 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.

***** ***** ***** *****
Monday – January 18, 2021

5:00 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.

7:00 PM
Emma Fielding Mysteries: Past Malice
When Emma Fielding is recruited to aid in a groundbreaking discovery beneath the Chandler Castle, she is swept into another mystery when she finds her colleague murdered in the crypts. Stars Courtney Thorne Smith, James Tupper.

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Tuesday – January 19, 2021

5:00 PM
Morning Show Mysteries: Countdown to Murder
When the owners of a popular grocery store chain are killed, Billie finds macabre clues linking the deaths to a children’s countdown song, Five Little Ducks. Stars Holly Robinson Peete and Rick Fox.

7:00 PM
Morning Show Mysteries: Death by Design
Chef Billie Blessings’ best friend Marian is hired to redecorate the TV studio. When Marian’s twin sister is murdered, Billie must investigate their close friends to find the killer. Stars Holly Robinson Peete, Rick Fox.

9:00 PM
Ships in the Night: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective teams up with local doctor–and old flame– to catch the killer. Stars Jesse Metcalfe and Sarah Lind.

***** ***** ***** *****
Wednesday – January 20, 2021

5:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: A Very Foul Play
Aurora and friends are off to a resort for a true crime convention. While there, they take part in a mystery dinner theater, but art imitates life when a fellow actor gets killed. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

7:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Heist and Seek
When a priceless crown is stolen during a benefit gala held by the Lawrenceton library, Aurora and the Real Murders Club must investigate who would kill to get their hands on it. Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

9:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Reunited and It Feels So Deadly
Aurora’s high school reunion turns deadly when a body is found in the hotel pool. Aurora and her Real Murders Club help investigate which classmate was most likely to kill. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

***** ***** ***** *****
Thursday – January 21, 2021

9:00 PM
Mystery 101: Words Can Kill
When a guest at the college book festival is killed, Amy and Travis clash after he arrests an unlikely person for murder. Amy must fight to prove he’s got the wrong person behind bars. Starring Jill Wagner and Kristoffer Polaha.

***** ***** ***** *****
Friday – January 22, 2021

5:00 PM
Ships in the Night: A Martha’s Vineyard Mystery
When an art gallery robbery leads to the death of the contemptible gallery manager, former Boston detective teams up with local doctor–and old flame– to catch the killer. Stars Jesse Metcalfe and Sarah Lind.

9:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
Allie and Sam navigate the world of amateur theatrics as they pursue the killer of an actress. Their largest obstacle is trying to assess whether the cast members are lying or telling the truth. Starring Alexa & Carlos PenaVega.

***** ***** ***** *****
Saturday – January 23, 2021

Signed, Sealed, Delivered marathon

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Friday – January 29, 2021

5:00 PM
MatchMaker Mysteries: A Killer Engagement
When a woman is murdered, and her fiance is the prime suspect, successful matchmaker Angie works to prove her client’s innocence, much to the dismay of Kyle, the detective working the case. Stars Danica McKellar, Victor Webster.

9:00 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.

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

Saturday – January 30, 2021

Signed, Sealed, Delivered marathon

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

Sunday – January 31, 2021

9:00 AM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Newlywed and Dead
Photographer Allie Adams is shocked when the groom at a wedding she is covering is shot dead. What’s even worse, is she must convince Detective Sam Acosta that her brother isn’t the killer. Stars Alexa PenaVega, Carlos PenaVega.

11:00 AM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Dead Over Diamonds
Photographer Allie and Detective Sam’s investigation into a priceless stolen necklace leads to danger and an unexpected death. Stars Alexa & Carlos PenaVega, Erik Estrada.

1:00 PM
Picture Perfect Mysteries: Exit Stage Death
Allie and Sam navigate the world of amateur theatrics as they pursue the killer of an actress. Their largest obstacle is trying to assess whether the cast members are lying or telling the truth. Starring Alexa & Carlos PenaVega.

3:00 PM
Flower Shop Mysteries: Snipped in the Bud
When Abby Knight, former lawyer turned flower shop owner, agrees to deliver an anonymous bouquet of black roses to her daughter’s disagreeable law professor, she is hoping for a chance to get him on her good side. When he responds by throwing the flowers in the trash, Abby realizes she may be fighting a losing…

5:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Silent Witness
When consumer reporter, Ruby Herring stumbles onto a murder, the spunky redhead discovers a knack for crime solving. With the help of a handsome detective, Ruby finds a new career covering crime. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

7:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Her Last Breath
Ruby and Detective Killian investigate a suspicious fatal car accident. With their yin and yang relationship, they solve the case, until Ruby finds new evidence that they may have it all wrong. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

9:00 PM
Ruby Herring Mysteries: Prediction Murder
When crime reporter Ruby Herring receives clues to a murder that happened five years earlier involving a local psychic, she joins forces with Detective Jake Killian to help crack the case. Stars Taylor Cole, Stephen Huszar.

***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** ***** *****
If you’re looking for a television series or movie to watch, take a look at the TV and Movies page on my Cozy Mystery site and click on a link (or more!) which will take you to my write-up of the show.

P.S. The above descriptions of the movies were copied from the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries website. I will finish up the month as soon as the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel updates its schedule.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for January 2021

December 23, 2020

I’m so excited that it’s already (almost) 2021! This past year has been a difficult year for all of us. Covid 19 has kept us all from celebrating our different holidays AND also from letting us visit with our extended families. What a colossal drag! Thank goodness for all of the hard-working pharmaceutical research scientists and the many, many essential workers!

It’s a good thing we have had our Cozy Mysteries to read and our mystery movies to watch!

Turner Classic Movies will be showing some movies this month that I want to point out. On January 20 (PM) and 21 (AM) the channel will be showing four Agatha Christie Miss Marple mystery movies starring Margaret Rutherford. These are very loosely based on Christie’s Miss Marple, as they are comedies. And speaking of comedies, I have listed the Judy Holliday movies as well as those with Doris Day and Rock Hudson. Those movies are not mysteries, but they are quite good.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2021

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Friday – January 1, 2021

4:00 PM
Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.

Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
102 mins
*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****

6:00 PM
Lover Come Back (1961)
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann. Actors: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall.
107 mins 
*****Doris Day/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****

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

Saturday – January 2, 2021

8:09 AM
The Law and the Lab (1956)
This short film focuses on the job of a lab technician and forensic detail.
Dir: Frances Dinsmoor. 8 mins

8:27 AM
Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
An old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fiancée.
Dir: Louis King. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, Anthony Quinn.
59 mins

9:45 PM
Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
128 mins

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

Sunday – January 3, 2021

12:00 AM
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
A film noir involving a bachelor and his two sisters.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines
80 mins

10:00 AM
The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
A film noir  involving a bachelor and his two sisters.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: George Sanders, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Ella Raines
80 mins

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

Tuesday – January 5, 2021

10:45 AM
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.
110 mins

3:00 PM
It Should Happen to You (1953)
A dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford.
87 mins
*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****

10:00 PM
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet.
100 mins

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

Wednesday – January 6, 2021

8:00 PM
Death on the Nile (1978)
Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of an heiress during an Egyptian tour.
Dir: John Guillermin. Actors: Peter Ustinov, Mia Farrow, Bette Davis.
140 mins

10:30 PM
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
Hercule Poirot trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Actors: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith.
117 mins

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

Thursday – January 7, 2021

12:45 AM
The Last of Sheila (1973)
A game of murder among wealthy vacationers turns into the real thing.
Dir: Herbert Ross. Actors: Richard Benjamin, Dyan Cannon, James Coburn.
119 mins

3:00 AM
Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir: Woody Allen. Actors: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler.
108 mins

5:00 AM
Deathtrap (1982)
A blocked playwright plots to kill a beginner and steal his script.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Actors: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon.
116 mins

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

Saturday – January 9, 2021

2:30 AM
Games (1967)
A mysterious woman inserts herself into a rich young couple’s strange pranks and questionable jokes.
Dir: Curtis Harrington. Actors: Simone Signoret, James Caan, Katharine Ross.
100 mins

8:27 AM
Bulldog Drummond’s Bride (1939)
Bulldog Drummond postpones his wedding to track down a band of bank robbers.
Dir: James P. Hogan. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner.
56 mins

12:00 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. Actors: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Lee Marvin.
90 mins

1:45 PM
Midnight Lace (1960)
A young woman can’t get anyone to believe she’s being stalked.
Dir: David Miller. Actors: Doris Day, Rex Harrison, Myrna Loy.
108 mins

3:45 PM
Family Plot (1976)
A phony psychic takes on a pair of kidnappers.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Barbara Harris, Bruce Dern, Karen Black.
120 mins

8:00 PM
North by Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
136 mins

10:30 PM
Saboteur (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Robert Cummings, Priscilla Lane, Norman Lloyd.
109 mins

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

Sunday – January 10, 2021

12:30 AM
The Glass Key (1942)
A hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy.
85 mins

10:00 AM
The Glass Key (1942)
A hired gun and his gangster boss fall out over a woman.
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, Brian Donlevy.
85 mins

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

Monday – January 11, 2021

8:45 AM
The Liquidator (1966)
A killer-for-hire gets mixed up with a plot to assassinate England’s Prince Phillip.
Dir: Jack Cardiff. Actors: Rod Taylor, Trevor Howard, Jill St. John.
104 mins

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

Tuesday – January 12, 2021

12:00 PM
His Kind of Woman (1951)
A deported gangster causes problems for guests at a Mexican resort.
Dir: John Farrow. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Russell, Vincent Price.
120 mins

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

Wednesday – January 13, 2021

6:45 AM
Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
A woman is released from an asylum after the shock suffered during the death of her mother.
Dir: Bert I. Gordon. Actors: Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
83 mins

10:15 AM
Nanny (1965)
A disturbed young man tries to prove his nanny is out to kill him.
Dir: Seth Holt. Actors: Bette Davis, William Dix, Jill Bennett.
93 mins

12:00 PM
Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A lonely child creates an imaginary playmate with surprisingly dangerous results.
Dir: Robert Wise, Gunther von Fritsch. Actors: Kent Smith, Simone Simon, Julia Dean.
70 mins

1:30 PM
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
93 mins

3:15 PM
Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Actors: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Nanette Newman.
117 mins

5:30 PM
Bunny Lake Is Missing (1965)
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Carol Lynley, Keir Dullea, Laurence Olivier.
107 mins

8:00 PM
Murder by Death (1976)
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Dir: Robert Moore. Actors: Peter Falk, Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers.
95 mins

9:45 PM
Clue (1985)
Based on the board game, six strangers go to a mansion where they must solve a mysterious murder.
Dir: Jonathan Lynn. Actors: Eileen Brennan. Tim Curry. Madeline Kahn.
87 mins

11:30 PM
Ten Little Indians (1966)
Party guests at a remote mansion have been brought together to pay for past crimes.
Dir: George Pollock. Actors: Hugh O’Brian, Shirley Eaton, Fabian.
90 mins

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

Thursday – January 14, 2021

1:15 AM
The Mystery of the 13th Guest (1943)
An heiress experiences a variety of strange goings on when she goes to collect her inheritance.
Dir: William Beaudine. Actors: Helen Parris, Dick Purcell, Tim Ryan.
61 mins

2:30 AM
Before Midnight (1934)
A police inspector investigates the murder of a man who prophesied his own death.
Dir: Lambert Hillyer. Actors: Ralph Bellamy, June Collyer, Claude Gillingwater.
62 mins

3:45 AM
The Phantom of Crestwood (1933)
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Actors: Karen Morley, Ricardo Cortez, H.B. Warner.
76 mins

5:15 AM
Mystery House (1938)
A detective tries to solve a murder in a house full of suspects.
Dir: Noel Smith. Actors: Ann Sheridan, Dick Purcell, Anne Nagel.
57 mins

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

Friday – January 15, 2021

8:00 PM
Charade (1963)
A beautiful widow tries to find her husband’s lost fortune while eluding the killers who want it themselves.
Dir: Stanley Donen. Actors: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
113 mins

10:00 PM
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie.
120 mins

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

Saturday – January 16, 2021

12:15 AM
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, Orson Welles, Alida Valli.

8:30 AM
Bulldog Drummond’s Secret Police (1939)
Bulldog Drummond discovers the house he’s rented for his wedding hides a secret treasure.
Dir: James P. Hogan. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner.
54 mins

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

6:00 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. Actors: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates.
110 mins

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

Sunday – January 17, 2021

12:00 AM
Witness To Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
82 mins

4:30 AM
The Falcon’s Brother (1942)
A gentlemanly detective calls on his brother to help him stop the Nazis from assassinating a key diplomat.
Dir: Stanley Logan. Actors: George Sanders, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph.
63 mins

10:00 AM
Witness To Murder (1954)
A woman fights to convince the police that she witnessed a murder.
Dir: Roy Rowland. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, George Sanders, Gary Merrill.
82 mins

1:30 PM
Pillow Talk (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir: Michael Gordon. Actors: Doris Day, Rock Hudson, Tony Randall.
102 mins
*****Doris Day/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****

10:10 PM
The Incident (1967)
Passengers on a New York subway are held by two criminals.
Dir: Larry Peerce. Actors: Martin Sheen, Tony Musante
107 mins

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

Tuesday – January 19, 2021

10:00 PM
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
101 mins
*****Judy Holliday comedy.*****

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

Wednesday – January 20, 2021

2:00 AM
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
113 mins

8:00 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. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Joan Hickson.
86 mins

9:45 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. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson.
81 mins

11:15 PM
Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Francesca Annis.
91 mins

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

Thursday – January 21, 2021

1:00 AM
Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Actors: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Miles Malleson.
93 mins

2:45 AM
The Penguin Pool Murder (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud. Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Mae Clarke.
65 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegard mystery series.*****

4:00 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. Actors: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot.
71 mins
*****Based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegard mystery series.*****

5:30 AM
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty.
96 mins

7:15 AM
When Were You Born? (1938)
An astrologer tries to help the police catch a killer.
Dir: William McGann. Actors: Anna May Wong, Margaret Lindsay, Lola Lane.
65 mins

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

Friday – January 22, 2021

6:00 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. Actors: Charles McGraw, Marie Windsor, Jacqueline White.
72 mins

11:00 AM
The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Constance Bennett.
103 mins

1:00 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. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
103 mins

3:00 PM
High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Actors: Robert Taylor, Herbert Marshall, Audrey Totter.
99 mins

4:45 PM
Tension (1950)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Actors: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Barry Sullivan.
91 mins

6:30 PM
The Sellout (1951)
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer. Actors: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
83 mins

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

Saturday – January 23, 2021

4:00 AM
Stunts (1977)
A stuntman investigates his brother’s death on a movie shoot.
Dir: Mark L. Lester. Actors: Robert Forster, Fiona Lewis, Ray Sharkey.
89 mins

8:00 PM
Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye becomes the dupe of a homicidal moll.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas.
97 mins

10:00 PM
The Night of the Hunter (1955)
A bogus preacher marries an outlaw’s widow in search of the man’s hidden loot.
Dir: Charles Laughton. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Shelley Winters, Lillian Gish.
93 mins

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

Sunday – January 24, 2021

12:00 AM
Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Actors: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
92 mins

2:00 AM
It Should Happen to You (1953)
A dizzy model in love with fame rents a billboard and puts her name on it.
Dir: George Cukor. Actors: Judy Holliday, Jack Lemmon, Peter Lawford.
87 mins
*****Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy.*****

10:00 AM
Born to Kill (1947)
A murderer marries a young innocent then goes after her more experienced sister.
Dir: Robert Wise. Actors: Claire Trevor, Lawrence Tierney, Walter Slezak.
92 mins

8:00 PM
Send Me No Flowers (1964)
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Actors: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
100 mins
*****Doris Day/Rock Hudson non-mystery comedy.*****

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

Monday – January 25, 2021

9:45 AM
The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
95 mins

11:30 AM
The Right to Live (1935)
A crippled war hero’s death turns out to be murder.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: George Brent, Colin Clive, Josephine Hutchinson.
69 mins

8:00 PM
Criss Cross (1949)
A man tries to save his fickle ex-wife from her criminal lover.
Dir: Robert Siodmak. Actors: Burt Lancaster, Yvonne De Carlo, Dan Duryea.
88 mins

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

Tuesday – January 26, 2021

6:00 AM
The Crooked Way (1949)
A war hero’s amnesia keeps him from dealing with his criminal past.
Dir: Robert Florey. Actors: John Payne, Sonny Tufts, Ellen Drew.
86 mins

7:30 AM
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.
65 mins

8:45 AM
Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Actors: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane.
66 mins

10:00 AM
Hysteria (1965)
An amnesiac stumbles on to a murder plot.
Dir: Freddie Francis. Actors: Robert Webber, Anthony Goldoni, Anthony Newlands.
85 mins

6:00 PM
Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
Based on the real 1950 (+/-) $2.5 Great Brink’s Robbery in Boston.
Dir: Joseph Pevney. Actors: Tony Curtis, George Nader, Julie Adams.
96 mins

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

Wednesday – January 27, 2021

1:30 AM
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall. Actors: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix.
100 mins

6:00 AM
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 II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed.
97 mins

6:00 PM
Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Actors: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen.
102 mins

8:00 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 II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
112 mins

10:00 PM
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
Society sleuth Philo Vance investigates a murder tied to a Long Island dog show.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: William Powell, Mary Astor, Eugene Pallette.
73 mins

11:30 PM
Green For Danger (1946)
A police inspector investigates an operating room death that may be murder.
Dir: Sidney Gilliat. Actors: Sally Gray, Trevor Howard, Alastair Sim.
92 mins

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

Thursday – January 28, 2021

1:15 AM
The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Actors: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke.
67 mins

2:30 AM
The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935)
Perry Mason tries to stay on the wagon while investigating the murder of a crooked beauty contest promoter.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Actors: Warren William, Lyle Talbot, Allen Jenkins.
 78 mins

4:00 AM
Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he intents to protect a beautiful heiress of an espionage organization.
Dir: James P. Hogan. Actors: Ray Milland, Guy Standing, Heather Angel.
67 mins

5:15 AM
The Saint Strikes Back (1939)
The Saint helps a young beauty take vengeance on the mobsters who ruined her father.
Dir: John Farrow. Actors: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Barry Fitzgerald.
64 mins

8:00 PM
The Heiress (1949)
A plain young woman’s money makes her prey to fortune hunters.
Dir: William Wyler. Actors: Olivia de Havilland, Montgomery Clift, Ralph Richardson.
115 mins
*****A really good non-mystery movie.*****

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

Friday – January 29, 2021

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, Frank Sinatra, Angela Lansbury.
127 mins

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

Saturday – January 30, 2021

3:45 AM
The Caller (1987)
A woman in her cabin is joined by a man who says his car broke down.
Dir: Arthur Allan Seidelman. Actors: Malcolm McDowell, Madolyn Smith.
98 mins

8:29 AM
A Shot In The Dark (1941)
A reporter and a police detective sort through the clues in a night-club owner’s murder.
Dir: William C. McGann. Actors: William Lundigan, Nan Wynn, Regis Toomey.
57 mins

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

Sunday – January 31, 2021

12:30 AM
The Killers (1964)
Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Dir: Don Siegel. Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
95 mins

2:30 AM
The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Actors: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy.
93 mins

4:15 AM
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. Actors: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Skye Aubrey.
101 mins

10:00 AM
The Killers (1964)
Surprised that their contract victim didn’t try to run away from them, two professional hit men try to find out who hired them and why.
Dir: Don Siegel. Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, John Cassavetes.
95 mins

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

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

In case you’re interested in seeing the rest of this month’s television mystery movies, here’s the December 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 2020 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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for December 2020

November 24, 2020

December is upon us. Ordinarily, it would be the time for family gatherings – however, this year it’s going to be quite different. Because of this awful pandemic, we won’t be celebrating Christmas with our daughter this year. It will be the first time since she was born… and that includes the four years she interned at different jobs. Thank goodness we have our portal tv (I wrote about it a few months ago in another blog entry.) We have been able to watch our daughter’s family go from two to three – and have tremendously enjoyed watching our granddaughter go through her different growth changes. Our daughter has been great about portaling us twice a week for extended visits with her family – which is one time I am really happy my husband got us a rather large television. It’s almost like being right there in their living room!

Getting back to my Turner Classic Movie schedule for December…

There don’t seem to be an incredible amount of mystery movies this month. Of course, we can always rely on the fantastic Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley to bring us some classic noir mysteries – which are always a treat to watch. Also, for those of you who enjoy Laurel and Hardy (I’m not in this category – however much other people enjoy their movies) Mondays in December are dedicated to their movies. In the evening of Tuesday, December 8 Turner Classic Movies will be showing several Charles Dickens movies. Beginning Wednesday, December 16 you can catch a few Alfred Hitchcock mysteries – which probably most of you have already seen… several times!

And, it wouldn’t be New Year’s Eve at Turner Classic Movies without the classic Thin Man movies playing on December 31!

Along with the mystery movies, I’m going to go ahead and list several of the Christmas movies that I find on the TCM December 2020 roster. Some of them are truly classics.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – December 2020

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

Tuesday – December 1

11:45 AM
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Actors: Dana Andrews, Ida Lupino, Vincent Price.
Runtime: 100 mins

1:30 PM
Zero Hour! (1957)
When a flight crew falls ill, the only man who can land the plane is afraid of flying.
Dir: Hall Bartlett. Actors: Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, Sterling Hayden.
Runtime: 81 mins
Genre: Suspense/Mystery

9:15 PM
Crossing Delancey (1988)
An aging woman hires a matchmaker to find her independent granddaughter a man.
Dir: Joan Micklin Silver. Actors: Amy Irving, Peter Riegert, Reizl Bozyk.
Runtime: 97 mins
*****This is not a mystery, but I think it’s a delightful film.*****

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

Thursday – December 3

2:00 AM
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
A possessive son’s efforts to keep his mother from remarrying threaten to destroy his family.
Dir: Orson Welles. Actors: Tim Holt, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead.
Runtime: 88 mins
*****Not a mystery, but a really good period piece.*****

6:00 AM
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A tough cop sent to help in a mountain manhunt falls for the quarry’s blind sister.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Actors: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond.
Runtime: 82 mins

9:45 AM
D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Mate. Actors: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler.
Runtime: 84 mins

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

Friday – December 4

12:45 AM
Two Seconds (1932)
In the last moments of his life, a criminal reviews the circumstances that led him to death row.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Preston Foster, Vivienne Osborne.
Runtime: 67 mins

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

Saturday – December 5

8:27 AM
Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)
Drummond, his girlfriend, and his butler try to free a high post of Scotland Yard who has been kidnapped.
Dir: Louis King. Actors: John Howard, Heather Angel, H.B. Warner.
Runtime: 58 mins

5:45 PM
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Actors: Don DeFore, Victor Moore, Gale Storm.
Runtime: 115 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

8:00 PM
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston. Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sydney Greenstreet.
Runtime: 100 mins

10:00 PM
The Thin Man (1934)
A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
Runtime: 91 mins

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

Sunday – December 6

12:00 AM
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 E. Feist. Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle.
Runtime: 91 mins

10:00 AM
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 E. Feist. Actors: Ruth Roman, Steve Cochran, Lurene Tuttle.
Runtime: 91 mins

2:00 PM
Little Women (1994)
With their father away at war, the March sister’s make the best out of life in 19th-Century New England.
Dir: Gillian Armstrong. Actors: Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Claire Danes.
Runtime: 118 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

4:15 PM
Holiday Affair (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
Runtime: 87 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

6:00 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. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
Runtime: 101 mins
*****Not a mystery. A terrific Christmas movie.*****

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

Tuesday – December 8

3:30 PM
Dial M for Murder (1954)
A straying husband frames his wife for the murder of the man he’d hired to kill her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Grace Kelly, Ray Milland, Robert Cummings.
Runtime: 105 mins

5:45 PM
Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr.
Runtime: 112 mins

8:00 PM
A Christmas Carol (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
Runtime: 69 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

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

Thursday – December 10

10:00 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. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
Runtime: 95 mins

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

Friday – December 11

12:00 AM
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Dir: Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin. Actors: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland.
Runtime: 93 mins

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

Saturday – December 12

6:30 AM
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935)
Perry Mason helps a young woman whose supposedly dead husband suddenly returns to life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Actors: Warren William, Margaret Lindsay, Errol Flynn.
Runtime: 80 mins

8:32 AM
Bulldog Drummond’s Revenge (1937)
Captain Drummond travels to Switzerland in order to marry his girlfriend but the disappearance of a dangerous cargo of explosives makes him delay his plans.
Dir: Louis King. Actors: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell.
Runtime: 55 mins

12:00 PM
A Christmas Carol (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
Runtime: 69 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

5:45 PM
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
Runtime: 113 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

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

Sunday – December 13

12:00 AM
The Burglar (1956)
A band of crooks robs a spiritualist.
Dir: Paul Wendkos. Actors: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers.
Runtime: 90 mins

7:00 AM
The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
Runtime: 80 mins

10:00 AM
The Burglar (1956)
A band of crooks robs a spiritualist.
Dir: Paul Wendkos. Actors: Dan Duryea, Jayne Mansfield, Martha Vickers.
Runtime: 90 mins

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

Tuesday – December 15

10:45 AM
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
Illicit lovers plot to kill the woman’s older husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway.
Runtime: 113 mins

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

Wednesday – December 16

8:00 PM
Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes.
Runtime: 128 mins

10:15 PM
Marnie (1964)
A rich man marries a compulsive thief and tries to unlock the secrets of her mind.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker.
Runtime: 130 mins

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

Thursday – December 17

12:45 AM
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Shirley MacLaine.
Runtime: 99 mins

2:30 AM
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie.
Runtime: 120 mins

4:45 AM
The Wrong Man (1956)
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
Runtime: 105 mins

6:45 AM
North by Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
Runtime: 136 mins

9:15 AM
Night Nurse (1931)
A nurse discovers that the children she’s caring for are murder targets.
Dir: William A. Wellman. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Ben Lyon, Clark Gable.
Runtime: 72 mins

11:45 AM
Angel Face (1953)
An unscrupulous woman murders her loved ones for profit.
Dir: Otto Preminger. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Jean Simmons, Herbert Marshall.
Runtime: 91 mins

1:30 PM
Sworn Enemy (1936)
A law student poses as a fight promoter to catch a notorious gangster.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Robert Young, Joseph Calleia, Florence Rice.
Runtime: 73 mins

2:45 PM
Downstairs (1932)
An evil chauffeur seduces and blackmails his way through high society.
Dir: Monta Bell. Actors: John Gilbert, Virginia Bruce, Paul Lukas.
Runtime: 78 mins

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

Friday – December 18

8:30 AM
The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson.
Runtime: 95 mins

12:00 PM
The Little Foxes (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler. Actors: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright.
Runtime: 116 mins
*****Not a mystery. Excellent movie.*****

8:00 PM
Remember the Night (1940)
An assistant D.A. takes a shoplifter home with him for Christmas.
Dir: Mitchell Leisen. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi.
Runtime: 94 mins
***** Not a mystery. I love this Christmas movie!*****

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

Saturday – December 19

12:00 AM
Desk Set (1957)
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network’s research staff.
Dir: Walter Lang. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Gig Young.
Runtime: 104 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

4:00 AM
The Silent Partner (1978)
A Toronto bank teller stashes away a little money daily, but a Santa Claus bank robber doesn’t appreciate being short-changed.
Dir: Daryl Duke. Actors: Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York
Runtime: 105 mins

8:00 AM
Alias Boston Blackie (1942)
A reformed thief tracks down an escaped convict so he can prove the man is innocent.
Dir: Lew Landers. Actors: Chester Morris, Adele Mara, Richard Lane.
Runtime: 67 mins

10:45 AM
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)
Star interviews and film clips trace the history of Christmas movies.
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Actors: Michael Patrick Hearn, Joe Dante, Chevy Chase.
Runtime: 58 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

4:00 PM
Desk Set (1957)
A computer expert tries to prove his electronic brain can replace a television network’s research staff.
Dir: Walter Lang. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Spencer Tracy, Gig Young.
Runtime: 104 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

6:00 PM
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster. Actors: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
Runtime: 109 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

10:00 PM
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. Actors: Deanna Durbin, Ralph Bellamy, George Coulouris.
Runtime: 94 mins

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

Sunday – December 20

 

12:00 AM
The Kiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Actors: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark.
Runtime: 99 mins

2:00 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. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
Runtime: 103 mins

4:00 AM
Cover-Up (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Actors: William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton.
Runtime: 83 mins

5:30 AM
Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Actors: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien.
Runtime: 91 mins

7:00 AM
Kind Lady (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Actors: Basil Rathbone, Aline MacMahon, Mary Carlisle.
Runtime: 76 mins

10:00 AM
The Kiss of Death (1947)
An ex-con trying to go straight must face a crazed criminal out for revenge.
Dir: Henry Hathaway. Actors: Victor Mature, Brian Donlevy, Richard Widmark.
Runtime: 99 mins

12:00 PM
Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Actors: June Allyson, Elizabeth Taylor, Peter Lawford.
Runtime: 122 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

4:00 PM
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
Runtime: 99 mins
***** Not a mystery. Terrific Christmas movie.*****

8:00 PM
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Actors: Don DeFore, Victor Moore, Gale Storm.
Runtime: 115 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

10:15 PM
The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
A minister’s family torn apart by World War II reunites for the Christmas holidays.
Dir: George More O’Ferrall. Actors: Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Margaret Leighton.
Runtime: 81 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas.*****

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

Monday – December 21

12:00 AM
Christmas Past (1925)
A compilation of Christmas-themed short, silent films.
Runtime: 122 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

9:00 AM
A Christmas Carol (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
Runtime: 69 mins
***** Not a mystery. Christmas*****

10:30 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. Actors: Edward G. Robinson, Jane Wyman, Broderick Crawford.
Runtime: 95 mins

2:00 PM
Mr. Soft Touch (1949)
After being betrayed, a gangster hangs out in a settlement house while seeking revenge.
Dir: Gordon Douglas, Henry Levin. Actors: Glenn Ford, Evelyn Keyes, John Ireland.
Runtime: 93 mins

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

Tuesday – December 22

7:15 AM
Cover-Up (1949)
An insurance investigator smells something wrong when he looks into a small-town suicide.
Dir: Alfred E. Green. Actors: William Bendix, Dennis O’Keefe, Barbara Britton.
Runtime: 83 mins

2:00 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. Actors: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan.
Runtime: 103 mins

8:00 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. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
Runtime: 101 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific Christmas movie.*****

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

Wednesday – December 23

12:00 AM
Holiday Affair (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
Runtime: 87 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

1:45 AM
A Night at the Movies: Merry Christmas! (2011)
Star interviews and film clips trace the history of Christmas movies.
Dir: Laurent Bouzereau. Actors: Michael Patrick Hearn, Joe Dante, Chevy Chase.
Runtime: 58 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

11:45 PM
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
Runtime: 113 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

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

Thursday – December 24

11:45 AM
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)
Two homeless men move into a mansion while its owners are wintering in the South.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Actors: Don DeFore, Victor Moore, Gale Storm.
Runtime: 115 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

6:00 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. Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet.
Runtime: 101 mins
*****Not a mystery. Terrific Christmas movie.*****

8:00 PM
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
An angel helps set an ambitious bishop on the right track.
Dir: Henry Koster. Actors: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven.
Runtime: 109 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

10:00 PM
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers don’t realize they’re secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Actors: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan.
Runtime: 99 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

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

Friday – December 25

12:00 AM
A Christmas Carol (1938)
In this adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic tale, an elderly miser learns the error of his ways on Christmas Eve.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Actors: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Kathleen Lockhart.
Runtime: 69 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

7:15 AM
Little Women (1933)
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. Actors: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.
Runtime: 115 mins
*****Not a mystery. This is my favorite version of Little Women.*****

2:00 PM
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley. Actors: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
Runtime: 113 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

4:00 PM
Holiday Affair (1949)
A young widow is torn between a boring businessman and a romantic ne’er-do-well.
Dir: Don Hartman. Actors: Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey.
Runtime: 87 mins
*****Not a mystery. Christmas*****

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

Sunday – December 27

12:15 AM
Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
Runtime: 68 mins

4:00 AM
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.
Runtime: 98 mins

10:00 AM
Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Actors: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake.
Runtime: 68 mins

8:00 PM
Ocean’s 11 (1960)
A group of friends plot to rob a Las Vegas casino.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Actors: Frank Sinatra, Peter Lawford, Sammy Davis, Jr..
Runtime: 127 mins

10:15 PM
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison. Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
Runtime: 102 mins

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

Wednesday – December 30

11:00 AM
Evil Under the Sun (1982)
A detective trying to solve a case finds himself on an exclusive island frequented by the rich and famous.
Dir: Guy Hamilton. Actors: Peter Ustinov, James Mason, Maggie Smith.
Runtime: 117 mins
*****An Agatha Christie Poirot mystery.*****

8:00 PM
The Birds (1963)
In a California coastal area, flocks of birds unaccountably make deadly attacks on humans.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy.
Runtime: 119 mins

10:15 PM
Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Actors: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles.
Runtime: 109 mins

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

Thursday – December 31

12:15 AM
Cape Fear (1962)
An ex-convict plots to destroy the district attorney who sent him to prison.
Dir: J. Lee Thompson. Actors: Gregory Peck, Robert Mitchum, Polly Bergen.
Runtime: 106 mins

2:15 AM
Sisters (1972)

A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Actors: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning.
Runtime: 92 mins

5:45 AM
The Bride Wore Black (1968)

A woman seeks revenge on the five men who murdered her fiance.
Dir: Francois Truffaut. Actors: Jeanne Moreau, Jean-Claude Brialy, Michel Bouquet.
Runtime: 108 mins
*****In French*****

9:15 AM
The Thin Man (1934)

A husband-and-wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Dir: W.S. Van Dyke II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
Runtime: 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 II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
Runtime: 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 II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, C. Aubrey Smith.
Runtime: 103 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 II. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Donna Reed.
Runtime: 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson.
Runtime: 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. Actors: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn.
Runtime: 86 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 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for November 2020 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.

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Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for November 2020

October 28, 2020

I finally came to the realization that I really, really like Halloween-type B movies! During October I have been getting my fill of a whole lot of “scary” movies from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. Mummies, bats, vampires, mad scientists… I just couldn’t get enough! I mean, before coming to this B-movie realization, I liked these movies, but I didn’t realize how much I look forward to October! But, now that it’s November, I’m going to have to wean myself off of those movies, and get back to my mystery movies.

Wow-zee! November’s theme must be Film Noirs! I’m delighted to tell you there will be (more than!) several film noir movies sprinkled throughout the month. So you don’t have to just wait until Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley weekly showings!

Here’s another highlight from this month on the Turner Classic Movies channel: director Alfred Hitchcock’s mystery movies will be featured starting the evening of November 26 (Thursday) and will continue through most of the 27th. Now that’s something to look forward to! Most of us have probably seen these movies countless times before, which is a testament to how good they are.

This month I have used the Eastern time zone on the Turner Classic Movies schedule. So, rather than Eddie Muller’s Noir Alley airing late Saturday night, it will be airing extremely early on Sunday morning on this eastern time zone. Actually, both of the airings of his monthly pick will be shown on Sunday morning on this eastern time zone schedule. I never miss his picks, and am especially grateful for his introductions and comments after the movies. He’s very detailed.

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

TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2020

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

Sunday – November 1

12:00 AM
The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Runtime: 71 mins

10:00 AM
The Seventh Victim (1943)
A girl’s search for her missing sister puts her in conflict with a band of satanists.
Dir: Mark Robson Actors: Tom Conway, Jean Brooks, Isabel Jewell
Runtime: 71 mins

11:30 AM
Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Actors: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 113 mins

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

Monday – November 2

12:00 PM
Washington Melodrama (1941)
A philanthropic businessman is framed for murder during a lobbying trip to Washington.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Actors: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor
Runtime: 78 mins

01:30 PM
Whistling in the Dark (1941)
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Actors: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
Runtime: 77 mins

03:00 PM
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

04:30 PM
Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Actors: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
Runtime: 87 mins

06:30 PM
Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
An amnesiac discovers he’s wanted for murder.
Dir: Anthony Mann Actors: Tom Conway, Ann Rutherford, Richard Lane
Runtime: 66 mins

08:00 PM
The Gangster (1947)
A troubled gangster, who has lost all faith in people, loses his weak grip on life.
Dir: Gordon Wiles Actors: Barry Sullivan, Belita, Joan Lorring
Runtime: 86 mins

10:00 PM
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 Actors: Victor Mature, Richard Conte, Fred Clark
Runtime: 96 mins

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

Tuesday – November 3

12:00 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

01:30 AM
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
Runtime: 109 mins

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

Wednesday – November 4

12:30 PM
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

06:00 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

08:00 PM
Too Late For Tears (1949)
A married woman’s discovery of stolen money changes her character for the worse.
Dir: Byron Haskin Actors: Lizabeth Scott, Don Defore, Dan Duryea
Runtime: 99 mins

10:00 PM
Dead Reckoning (1947)
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir: John Cromwell Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky
Runtime: 100 mins

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

Thursday – November 5

12:00 AM
Pitfall (1948)
A married insurance man falls for a criminal’s girlfriend.
Dir: Andre Detoth Actors: Dick Powell, Lizabeth Scott, Jane Wyatt
Runtime: 84 mins

01:45 AM
The Racket (1951)
A tough cop has to fight his superiors in order to battle the mob.
Dir: John Cromwell Actors: Robert Mitchum, Lizabeth Scott, Robert Ryan
Runtime: 88 mins

03:30 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 Actors: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
Runtime: 116 mins

05:30 AM
The Luckiest Guy in the World (1946)
A man destroys his life through gambling debts and stealing company funds in this short film.
Dir: Joseph Newman Actors: Nolan Leary, Robert Emmett O’connor, Red Skelton
Runtime: 21 mins

06:00 AM
London by Night (1937)
A blackmailer holds the key to several murders.
Dir: William Thiele Actors: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field
Runtime: 69 mins

07:15 AM
Finger Of Guilt (1956)
A Hollywood film editor turned London producer confronts a strange woman who claims to be his lover.
Dir: Joseph Losey Actors: Richard Basehart, Mary Murphy, Constance Cummings
Runtime: 95 mins

11:00 AM
The Venetian Affair (1967)
A reporter investigates an American diplomat’s murder in Venice.
Dir: Jerry Thorpe Actors: Robert Vaughn, Elke Sommer, Felicia Farr
Runtime: 92 mins

02:30 PM
Zigzag (1970)
A dying man frames himself for murder so his widow can collect the reward.
Dir: Richard A. Colla Actors: George Kennedy, Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach
Runtime: 105 mins

04:15 PM
Cat O’Nine Tails (1971)
A blind man and a reporter investigate a break-in at a center for genetic research.
Dir: Dario Argento Actors: James Franciscus, Karl Malden, Catherine Spaak
Runtime: 112 mins

10:00 PM
Vertigo (1958)
A detective falls for the mysterious woman he’s been hired to tail.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: James Stewart, Kim Novak, Barbara Bel Geddes
Runtime: 128 mins

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

Friday – November 6

11:45 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
Runtime: 70 mins

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

Saturday – November 7

08:08 AM
We Never Sleep (1956)
This highlights the work of the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, the U.S.A.’s oldest private detective company.
Dir: Larry O’reilly Actors: Peter Roberts, Burton Benjamin, Frances Dinsmoor
Runtime: 8 mins

04:30 PM
Point Blank (1967)
A professional thief seeks revenge on his unfaithful wife and a fellow mobster who double-crossed him.
Dir: John Boorman Actors: Lee Marvin, Angie Dickinson, Keenan Wynn
Runtime: 92 mins

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

Sunday – November 8

01:00 AM
Nightfall (1957)
A man on a hunting trip gets mixed up with murderous bank robbers.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Actors: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
Runtime: 78 mins

10:00 AM
Nightfall (1957)
A man on a hunting trip gets mixed up with murderous bank robbers.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Actors: Aldo Ray, Brian Keith, Anne Bancroft
Runtime: 78 mins

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

Monday – November 9

06:15 AM
Deception (1946)
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Actors: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains
Runtime: 110 mins

08:15 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 Actors: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
Runtime: 115 mins

02:00 PM
The Unfaithful (1947)
While her husband is away, a woman gets mixed up in murder.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Actors: Ann Sheridan, Lew Ayres, Zachary Scott
Runtime: 109 mins

04:00 PM
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett Actors: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
Runtime: 111 mins

06:00 PM
Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Actors: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
Runtime: 111 mins

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

Tuesday – November 10

03:30 AM
Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight Actors: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
Runtime: 121 mins

09:15 AM
The Unsuspected (1947)
The producer of a radio crime series commits the perfect crime, then has to put the case on the air.
Dir: Michael Curtiz Actors: Joan Caulfield, Claude Rains, Audrey Totter
Runtime: 103 mins

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

Wednesday – November 11

08:15 AM
The Teckman Mystery (1955)
A biographer falls for the sister of a supposedly dead test pilot whose case alarms Scotland Yard.
Dir: Wendy Toye Actors: Margaret Leighton, John Justin, Roland Culver
Runtime: 90 mins

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

Thursday – November 12

08:00 AM
They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A faithless husband is charged with a murder he didn’t commit.
Dir: Irving Pichel Actors: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
Runtime: 95 mins

11:15 PM
Blind Adventure (1933)
An American in London stumbles on a criminal ring.
Dir: Ernest B. Schoedsack Actors: Robert Armstrong, Helen Mack, Roland Young
Runtime: 65 mins

12:30 AM
The Mob (1951)
A police detective fakes a suspension so he can go undercover.
Dir: Robert Parrish Actors: Broderick Crawford, Betty Buehler, Richard Kiley
Runtime: 87 mins

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

Friday – November 13

02:15 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
Runtime: 88 mins

06:00 AM
While the Patient Slept (1935)
A nurse investigates murder at a mysterious mansion.
Dir: Ray Enright Actors: Aline Macmahon, Guy Kibbee, Lyle Talbot
Runtime: 65 mins

07:15 AM
Their Big Moment (1934)
A phony psychic conjures up a real ghost who asks her to solve his murder.
Dir: James Cruze Actors: Zasu Pitts, Slim Summerville, William Gaxton
Runtime: 68 mins

06:00 PM
The Haunting (1963)
A professor experimenting in parapsychology brings along two women with ESP talents to investigate a haunted New England mansion. Soon, the ghosts start to play their scary tricks.
Dir: Robert Wise Actors: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
Runtime: 112 mins

11:00 PM
Berserk (1967)
A lady ringmaster milks the publicity from a string of murders.
Dir: Jim O’connolly Actors: Joan Crawford, Ty Hardin, Diana Dors
Runtime: 96 mins

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

Saturday – November 14

02:00 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

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

Sunday – November 15

12:00 AM
Fear (1946)
A detective uses psychological warfare to get a confession out of a murderous student.
Dir: Alfred Zeisler Actors: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne
Runtime: 54 mins

01:30 AM
Family Plot (1976)
A phony psychic is hired to trace the whereabouts of a woman’s nephew, who is now heir to a fortune.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Karen Black, Bruce Dern, Barbara Harris
Runtime: 120 mins

03:45 AM
Frenzy (1972)
A murdering rapist has been terrorizing London. The police manage to track him down and sentence him to life imprisonment. However, Inspector Oxford has his doubts as to whether or not they have indeed the right man.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Jon Finch, Barry Foster, Barbara Leigh-hunt
Runtime: 116 mins

10:00 AM
Fear (1946)
A detective uses psychological warfare to get a confession out of a murderous student.
Dir: Alfred Zeisler Actors: Peter Cookson, Warren William, Anne Gwynne
Runtime: 54 mins

01:45 PM
Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins

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

Monday – November 16

06:00 AM
Comet over Broadway (1938)
A stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Actors: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel
Runtime: 69 mins

09:00 AM
Over the Wall (1938)
A prison chaplain tries to help a man framed for murder prove his innocence.
Dir: Frank Macdonald Actors: Dick Foran, June Travis, John Litel
Runtime: 66 mins

11:15 PM
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
Desperate losers plan a bank robbery with unexpected results.
Dir: Robert Wise Actors: Harry Belafonte, Robert Ryan, Shelley Winters
Runtime: 95 mins

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

Tuesday – November 17

06:00 AM
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

11:15 AM
They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Actors: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
Runtime: 93 mins

01:00 PM
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
Runtime: 100 mins

02:45 PM
The Big Sleep (1946)
Called into a case involving a wealthy family, detective Philip Marlowe discovers blackmail and murder as he falls for the eldest daughter in the family.
Dir: Howard Hawks Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
Runtime: 114 mins

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

Friday – November 20

01:45 AM
Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown Actors: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
Runtime: 89 mins

07:15 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
Runtime: 70 mins

11:15 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
Runtime: 82 mins

12:45 PM
One Night at Susie’s (1930)
A boarding house keeper’s gangster tenants step in to help when her son is framed for murder.
Dir: John Francis Dillon Actors: Billie Dove, Douglas Fairbanks, Helen Ware
Runtime: 85 mins

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

Saturday – November 21

08:28 AM
British Intelligence (1940)
A lady spy uses a British nobleman’s home in her undercover work for the Germans.
Dir: Terry Morse Actors: Boris Karloff, Margaret Lindsay, Bruce Lester
Runtime: 62 mins

06:00 PM
The Front Page (1974)
The ruthless managing editor of a Chicago newspaper angrily learns his ace reporter plans to leave the paper to get married. While he trains a replacement, all hell breaks loose and a convicted killer escapes from right under the nose of a bumbling sheriff.
Dir: Billy Wilder Actors: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Carol Burnett
Runtime: 105 mins

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

Sunday – November 22

12:15 AM
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
After trying to rescue a fleeing girl on the road one night, lowlife detective Mike Hammer is drawn into investigating first a murder, then the whereabouts of a mysterious box that seems to have prompted the crime.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Runtime: 104 mins

02:15 AM
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968)
A bored millionaire decides to live his life on the edge and stages a multimilion dollar bank heist, but falls in love with an insurance investigator (from the victim bank) who suspects him of the crime.
Dir: Norman Jewison Actors: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke
Runtime: 102 mins

10:00 AM
Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
After trying to rescue a fleeing girl on the road one night, lowlife detective Mike Hammer is drawn into investigating first a murder, then the whereabouts of a mysterious box that seems to have prompted the crime.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Actors: Ralph Meeker, Albert Dekker, Paul Stewart
Runtime: 104 mins

12:00 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
Runtime: 80 mins

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

Monday – November 23

04:15 PM
Gaslight (1944)
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Actors: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
Runtime: 114 mins

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

Tuesday – November 24

04:15 AM
The Young Savages (1961)
An assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Actors: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters
Runtime: 100 mins

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

Wednesday – November 25

11:15 AM
Above Suspicion (1943)
A honeymooning couple are asked to spy on the Nazis in pre-war Europe.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Actors: Joan Crawford, Fred Macmurray, Conrad Veidt
Runtime: 90 mins

04:45 PM
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
Runtime: 103 mins

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

Thursday – November 26

08:00 PM
Rear Window (1954)
A photographer with a broken leg uncovers a murder while spying on the neighbors in a nearby apartment building.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Wendell Corey
Runtime: 112 mins

10:00 PM
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
International spies kidnap a doctor’s son when he stumbles on their assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: James Stewart, Doris Day, Brenda De Banzie
Runtime: 119 mins

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

Friday – November 27

12:15 AM
The Birds (1963)
An immense flock of birds descends upon a seacoast town, makes it their nesting ground, and begins to attack and kill the townsfolk.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Rod Taylor, Tippi Hedren, Jessica Tandy
Runtime: 120 mins

02:30 AM
Psycho (1960)
A woman on the run gets mixed up with a repressed young man and his violent mother.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Anthony Perkins, Vera Miles, John Gavin
Runtime: 109 mins

04:30 AM
Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
Runtime: 80 mins

06:00 AM
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
Runtime: 97 mins

07:45 AM
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

09:30 AM
Saboteur (1942)
A young man accused of sabotage goes on the lam to prove his innocence.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Priscilla Lane, Robert Cummings, Otto Kruger
Runtime: 108 mins

11:45 AM
Torn Curtain (1966)
An American scientist fakes a defection into Communist East Germany in order to get hold of defense secrets.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Paul Newman, Julie Andrews, Lila Kedrova
Runtime: 128 mins

02:00 PM
Marnie (1964)
A woman with a penchant for stealing money from the places she works as a receptionist marries one of her bosses who knows she’s guilty. He then proceeds to try to uncover the mysteries surrounding her past.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery, Diane Baker
Runtime: 130 mins

04:15 PM
The Trouble with Harry (1955)
A corpse creates a world of trouble for several passersby who each believe they may have caused the death.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Edmund Gwenn, John Forsythe, Mildred Natwick
Runtime: 99 mins

06:00 PM
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
Young Charlie is a small-town girl consumed with finding out whether her unhinged Uncle Charlie is a serial killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Actors: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, Macdonald Carey
Runtime: 108 mins

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

Saturday – November 28

06:00 AM
Key Largo (1948)
A returning veteran tangles with a ruthless gangster during a hurricane.
Dir: John Huston Actors: Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall
Runtime: 101 mins

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

Sunday – November 29

12:15 AM
Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owners business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Actors: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville.
Runtime: 101 mins

04:30 AM
My Favorite Spy (1942)
Bandleader Kay Kyser leaves his bride at the altar to help catch international spies.
Dir: Tay Garnett Actors: Kay Kyser, Ellen Drew, Jane Wyman
Runtime: 86 mins

10:00 AM
Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owners business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Actors: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville.
Runtime: 101 mins

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

Monday – November 30

02:15 PM
Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth Actors: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
Runtime: 83 mins

04:00 PM
Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Actors: Viveca Lindfors, Dane Clark, Virginia Mayo
Runtime: 91 mins

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed tv specials coming up in November, 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 October 2020 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for October 2020 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 above movie descriptions were taken off the TCM website.)

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