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

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

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Julia just posted a comment telling us:

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

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I just discovered this:

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

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Sunday – January 5

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

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

Monday – January 6

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

5:00 PM
LADY IN THE LAKE (1947)
Philip Marlowe searches for a missing woman in this mystery shot entirely from the detective’s viewpoint.
Dir: Robert Montgomery Cast: Robert Montgomery, Audrey Totter, Lloyd Nolan
BW-103 mins, TV-PG, CC

8:30 PM
THE THIRD MAN (1949)
A man’s investigation of a friend’s death uncovers corruption in post-World War II Vienna.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Orson Welles
BW-104 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Tuesday- January 7

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

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

Saturday – January 11

9:30 AM
THE PENGUIN POOL MURDER (1932)
A feisty school teacher sets out to solve a murder in an aquarium.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Robert Armstrong
BW-65 mins, TV-G, CC
(Based on a Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers mystery.)

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

Sunday – January 12

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

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

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

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

Tuesday – January 14

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

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

Thursday – January 16

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

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

Friday – January 17

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

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

Saturday – January 18

9:30 AM
MURDER ON THE BLACKBOARD (1934)
A schoolteacher matches wits with a police detective when they both try to solve a pretty music teacher’s murder.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: James Gleason, Edna May Oliver, Bruce Cabot.
BW-72 mins, TV-G
(Another movie this month which is based on a Stuart Palmer Hildegarde Withers mystery.)

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

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

Sunday – January 19

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

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

Monday – January 20

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

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

Tuesday – January 21

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

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

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

Wednesday – January 22

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

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

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

Thursday – January 23

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

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

Saturday – January 25

5:30 AM
THE THIN MAN GOES HOME (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
BW-101 mins, TV-G, CC

9:30 AM
MURDER ON A HONEYMOON (1935)
A schoolteacher jumps into detective mode when a fellow airplane passenger gets sick and dies.
Dir: Lloyd Corrigan Cast: Edna May Oliver , James Gleason , Lola Lane .
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC
(I believe only three of Stuart Palmer‘s Hildegarde Withers mysteries starring Edna Mae Oliver were made into movies, which means that all three are playing this month on TCM.)

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

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

Monday – January 27

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

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

5:30 PM
CAUSE FOR ALARM (1951)
A woman fights to intercept a letter in which her husband tries to prove her guilty of murder.
Dir: Tay Garnett Cast: Loretta Young, Barry Sullivan, Bruce Cowling
BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – January 29

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

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

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Thursday – January 30

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

9:15 PM
WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962)
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

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

Friday – January 31

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Monday – December 2, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

4:45 PM
DEATH OF A SCOUNDREL (1956)
A Czech refugee uses women to advance his business interest.
Dir: Charles Martin Cast: George Sanders, Yvonne De Carlo, Zsa Zsa Gabor.
BW-120 mins, TV-PG

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

Tuesday – December 3, 2013

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

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

Thursday – December 5, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

Friday – December 6, 2013

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

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

Monday – December 9, 2013

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

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

Tuesday – December 10, 2013

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

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

Friday – December 13, 2013

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

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

Saturday – December 14, 2013

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

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

Monday – December 16, 2013

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

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

Tuesday – December 17, 2013

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

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

Friday – December 20, 2013

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

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

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

Sunday – December 22, 2013

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

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

Tuesday – December 24, 2013

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

10:15 AM
THE MAN WHO CAME TO DINNER (1941)
An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a midwestern family.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: Bette Davis, Ann Sheridan, Monty Woolley.
BW-113 mins, TV-G, CC

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

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

Thursday – December 26, 2013

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

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

Friday – December 27, 2013

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

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

Saturday – December 28, 2013

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

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

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

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

Monday – December 30, 2013

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

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

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

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

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

I have found these mystery movies from TCM’s Now Playing for November 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) I have tried to limit the list to the mysteries I could find, but I just couldn’t keep myself from listing some of my favorite old comedies.

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

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

Friday, November 1, 2013

(***While neither of today’s listed movies are mysteries, they are a lot of fun to watch.)

IT HAPPENED ONE NIGHT (1934)  7:00 PM
A newspaperman tracks a runaway heiress on a madcap cross-country tour.
Dir: Frank Capra Cast: Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC

HIS GIRL FRIDAY (1940)  9:00 PM
An unscrupulous editor plots to keep his star reporter-and ex-wife-from re-marrying.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy.
BW-92 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Saturday, November 2, 2013

THE MAD MISS MANTON  (1938)  2:00 AM
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene.
BW-80 mins, TV-G, CC

TAMING OF THE SHREW, THE (1967)  7:00 AM
A fortune hunter agrees to wed a temperamental woman so his friend can court her sister. (***It is a delight to watch Taylor and Burton in this Shakespearean movie.)
Dir: Franco Zeffirelli Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack.
C-122 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Monday, November 4, 2013

OLD ACQUAINTANCE (1943)  7:15 AM
Two writers, friends since childhood, fight over their books and lives. (***Not a mystery, but Davis and Hopkins are great in this.)
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Miriam Hopkins, Gig Young.
BW-110 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE WOMAN IN WHITE (1948)  11:30 AM
Classic mystery about the adventures of a young tutor sent to a ghostly country estate.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Alexis Smith, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet.
BW-109 mins, TV-G, CC

HUNT THE MAN DOWN (1950)  1:30 PM
Lawyer uncovers secret behind a decade-old murder case.
Dir: George Archainbaud Cast: Gig Young, Lynne Roberts, Mary Anderson.
BW-68 mins, TV-PG

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

Wednesday, November 6, 2013

THE KILLERS (1946)  7:00 PM
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-102 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Monday, November 11, 2013

CROSSFIRE (1947)  8:00 AM
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW-86 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Tuesday, November 12, 2013

FAST AND FURIOUS (1939)  4:30 PM
Married book-dealers Joel and Garda Sloane get mixed up with murder during a beauty pageant.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Franchot Tone, Ann Sothern, Ruth Hussey.
BW-73 mins, TV-G

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

Wednesday, November 13, 2013

WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)  7:00 AM
Opposites distract when a sophisticated political columnist falls for a sportswriter. (***Not a mystery but Tracy and Hepburn are quite a duo.)
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Fay Bainter.
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

NOTORIOUS (1946)  9:00 AM
A U.S. agent recruits a German expatriate to infiltrate a Nazi spy ring in Brazil.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Ingrid Bergman, Claude Rains.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Thursday, November 14, 2013

MY NAME IS JULIA ROSS (1945)  7:00 PM
A young girl finds herself entrenched in a murder cover-up when she goes to work for a wealthy widow.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis Cast: Nina Foch, Dame May Whitty, George Macready.
BW-65 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Friday, November 15, 2013

THE TALL TARGET (1951)  12:00 AM
A detective tries to prevent the assassination of President Lincoln during a train ride.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dick Powell, Paula Raymond, Adolphe Menjou.
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

DEAD RECKONING (1947)  9:45 AM
A tough veteran sets out to solve his war buddy’s murder.
Dir: John Cromwell Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lizabeth Scott, Morris Carnovsky.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday, November 16, 2013

IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)  12:15 AM
A runaway poetess helps a fugitive prove himself innocent of murder charges.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke II Cast: Claudette Colbert, James Stewart, Guy Kibbee.
BW-86 mins, TV-G, CC

DECEPTION (1946)  7:15 AM
A woman tries to protect her refugee husband from her rich and powerful ex-lover.
Dir: Irving Rapper Cast: Bette Davis, Paul Henreid, Claude Rains.
BW-112 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Sunday, November 17, 2013

THE BIG HEAT (1953)  9:15 AM
A police detective whose wife was killed by the mob teams with a scarred gangster’s moll to bring down a powerful gangster.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Glenn Ford, Gloria Grahame, Jocelyn Brando.
BW-90 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Monday, November 18, 2013

COMET OVER BROADWAY (1938)  1:15 PM
A stage star’s rampant ambition leads to murder.
Dir: Busby Berkeley Cast: Kay Francis, Ian Hunter, John Litel.
BW-70 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Tuesday, November 19, 2013

MAN IN THE ATTIC (1953)  3:30 PM
A landlady suspects her mysterious new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Hugo Fregonese Cast: Jack Palance, Constance Smith, Byron Palmer.
BW-82 mins, TV-PG

THE MALTESE FALCON (1941)  7:00 PM
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

THE SELLOUT (1951) 10:15 AM
A small-town newspaper editor risks everything to expose a corrupt sheriff.
Dir: Gerald Mayer Cast: Walter Pidgeon, John Hodiak, Audrey Totter.
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC

MISTER 880 (1950)  7:00 PM
A beloved old man is secretly Mister 880, an amateurish counterfeiter.
Dir: Edmund Goulding Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dorothy McGuire, Edmund Gwenn.
BW-90 mins, CC

JUDGMENT AT NUREMBERG (1961)  8:45 PM
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals. (*** This is not a mystery movie. Watch for a young William Shatner before his Star Trek days.)
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
BW-179 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday, November 22, 2013

STAR OF MIDNIGHT (1935)  1:30 PM
A New York lawyer tries to track down a kidnapped actress.
Dir: Stephen Roberts Cast: William Powell, Ginger Rogers, Paul Kelly.
BW-90 mins, TV-PG, CC,

BALL OF FIRE (1942)  11:00 PM
A group of professors takes in a nightclub singer hiding from the law to protect her gangster boyfriend. (*** I should probably warn you all that I am a Barbara Stanwyck fan. Even so, this comedy is really quite good.)
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Oscar Homolka.
BW-112 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Saturday, November 23, 2013

MURDER, MY SWEET (1944)  5:00 PM
Detective Philip Marlowe’s search for a two-timing woman leads him to blackmail and murder.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Dick Powell, Claire Trevor, Anne Shirley.
BW-95 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Tuesday, November 26, 2013

BULLITT (1968)  8:00 PM
When mobsters kill the witness he was assigned to protect, a dedicated policeman investigates the case on his own.
Dir: Peter Yates Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset.
C-114 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

NAKED CITY (1948)  11:00 PM
A step-by-step look at a murder investigation on the streets of New York.
Dir: Jules Dassin Cast: Barry Fitzgerald , Howard Duff , Dorothy Hart .
BW-96 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Wednesday, November 27, 2013

WHITE HEAT (1949)  1:00 AM
A government agent infiltrates a gang run by a mother-fixated psychotic.
Dir: Raoul Walsh Cast: James Cagney, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-113 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE THOMAS CROWN AFFAIR (1968)  4:45 AM
A bored tycoon turns to bank robbery and courts the insurance investigator assigned to bring him in.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Steve McQueen, Faye Dunaway, Paul Burke.
C-102 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Thursday, November 28, 2013

THE YOUNG SAVAGES (1961)  6:15 AM
An assistant DA suspects one of the delinquents he’s prosecuting for murder is his son.
Dir: John Frankenheimer Cast: Burt Lancaster, Dina Merrill, Shelley Winters.
BW-103 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday, November 29, 2013

THE LADY EVE (1941)  7:00 PM
A lady cardsharp tries to con an eccentric scientist only to fall for him. (*** One of the best Barbara Stanwyck comedies.)
Dir: Preston Sturges Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn.
BW-94 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday, November 30, 2013

THE WRONG MAN (1956)  9:15 PM
A musician is mistaken for a vicious thief, with devastating results.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle.
BW-105 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

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

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

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Here are the mystery movies I was able to glean from TCM’s Now Playing for October 2013. (TCM stands for the Turner Classic Movie channel.) I didn’t list all of the Halloween-type movies they will be airing, but if you’re interested in the likes of Vincent Price, Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, and/or Christopher Lee, make sure you check the TCM listings for October. You will be able to find a lot of their movies, some of which are campy enough to make them fun.

Recently I have noticed that TCM is including more movies that don’t come from the Golden Age of Hollywood. (I think of this era as being the 1930s and 1940s, so I guess I ought to call it My Golden Age of Hollywood.)  From this month’s mystery movies below, you will see that there are quite a few movies from the 1960s and some that are from even more recent years. [I’m not sure I like this TCM trend, so I’ll be interested in knowing if it continues. Even though the Golden Age (as I define it!) was before I was born, I still am MUCH more interested in the movies from the 1930s and 1940s. Either way, since I’m not on the TCM board of directors, it really doesn’t matter.]

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

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

Tuesday – October 1, 2013

THE OUTRAGE (1964) 3:15 PM
A Mexican bandit’s crimes receive wildly different interpretations from four witnesses.
Dir: Martin Ritt Cast: Paul Newman, Laurence Harvey, Claire Bloom
BW-96 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944) 9:00 PM
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
BW-108 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – October 2, 2013

THE BIG SLEEP (1946) 3:30 AM
Private eye Philip Marlowe investigates a society girl’s involvement in the murder of a pornographer.
Dir: Howard Hawks Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, John Ridgely
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Thursday – October 3, 2013

DR. CRIPPEN (1963) 2:00 AM
The real-life story of a doctor who was hanged in London in 1910 for poisoning his wife.
Dir: Robert Lynn Cast: Donald Pleasence, Coral Browne, Samantha Eggar
BW-98 mins, TV-PG

BEWARE, MY LOVELY (1952) 2:00 PM
A widow discovers her handyman is an escaped mental patient.
Dir: Harry Horner Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Taylor Holmes
BW-77 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Saturday – October 5, 2013

MANHATTAN MURDER MYSTERY (1993) 1:00 PM
A middle-aged couple suspects foul play when their neighbor’s wife suddenly drops dead.
Dir: Woody Allen Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler
C-108 mins, TV-14, CC

HALLMARK MOVIE CHANNEL
MARY HIGGINS CLARK’S THE MYSTERY CRUISE (2013) 8:00 PM
Cast: Gail O’Grady, Larry Miller, Michelle Harrison
(Carol Higgins Clark appears as the rich woman whose dog’s collar is lost.)

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

Sunday – October 6, 2013

KEEPER OF THE FLAME (1942) 5:00 AM
A reporter digs into the secret life of a recently deceased political hero.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Richard Whorf.
BW-101 mins, TV-PG, CC

IN A LONELY PLACE (1950) 7:00 AM
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – October 9, 2013

DEAD RINGER (1964) 3:30 PM
A woman murders her rich twin and tries to take her place.
Dir: Paul Henreid Cast: Bette Davis , Karl Malden , Peter Lawford .
BW-116 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

MURDER BY DEATH (1976) 8:30 PM
A criminal madman invites the world’s greatest detectives for a night of dinner and murder.
Dir: Robert Moore Cast: Peter Falk, Truman Capote, Alec Guinness
BW-95 mins, TV-14, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Friday – October 11, 2013

DANGEROUS MISSION (1954) 12:30 AM
A woman flees westward after witnessing a mob killing.
Dir: Louis King Cast: Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix
C-75 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Saturday – October 12, 2013

MYSTERY STREET (1950) 7:30 AM
Criminal pathologists try to crack a case with nothing but the victim’s bones to go on.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Bruce Bennett
BW-93 mins, TV-PG, CC

CRIME AND PUNISHMENT (1935) 11:30 PM
A young student murders for money then tries to escape his guilt and a brilliant detective.
Dir: Josef von Sternberg Cast: Peter Lorre, Edward Arnold, Marian Marsh
BW-88 mins, TV-14, CC

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

Sunday – October 13, 2013

RAFFLES (1939) 9:00 PM
A suave thief falls in love again with his high school sweetheart and finds temptation and a detective on his trail while visiting her family.
Dir: Sam Wood Cast: David Niven, Olivia de Havilland, Dame May Whitty
BW-72 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Tuesday – October 15, 2013

BUNNY LAKE IS MISSING (1965) 3:00 PM
A distraught mother searches for her seemingly non-existent daughter, bringing her sanity into question.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Keir Dullea, Carol Lynley, Lucie Mannheim
BW-107 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Wednesday – October 16, 2013

GASLIGHT (1944) 6:30 AM
A newlywed fears she’s going mad when strange things start happening at the family mansion.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Charles Boyer, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten
BW-114 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Thursday – October 17, 2013

WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956) 7:00 PM
Reporters compete to catch a serial killer.
Dir: Fritz Lang Cast: Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming,  George Sanders
BW-100 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Friday – October 18, 2013

THE NITWITS (1935) 9:00 AM
Two cigar-stand attendants get mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: George Stevens Cast: Bert Wheeler, Robert Woolsey, Fred Keating
BW-82 mins, TV-G

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

Saturday – October 19, 3013

THE LEOPARD MAN (1943) 2:30 AM
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
BW-66 mins, TV-PG, CC

THE WINDOW (1949) 3:45 AM
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart
BW-74 mins, TV-G, CC

MIRACLES FOR SALE (1939) 11:00 PM
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
BW-71 mins, TV-G

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

Sunday – October 20, 2013

*** Neither of these two movies are mysteries, but they have the Rock Hudson/Doris Day duo, with Tony Randall thrown in for good measure.***

LOVER COME BACK (1961) 7:00 PM
An ad exec in disguise courts his pretty female competitor.
Dir: Delbert Mann Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall
C-107 mins, TV-G, CC, Letterbox Format

SEND ME NO FLOWERS (1964) 9:00 PM
When he mistakenly thinks he’s dying, a hypochondriac tries to choose his wife’s next husband.
Dir: Norman Jewison Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-100 mins, TV-G, Letterbox Format

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

Tuesday – October 22, 2013

CAST A DARK SHADOW (1955) 11:00 AM
A wife-killer marries an innocent barmaid and plots her death.
Dir: Lewis Gilbert Cast: Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, Kay Walsh
BW-83 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

THE LADY VANISHES (1938) 5:15 PM
A young woman on vacation triggers an international incident when she tries to track an elderly friend who has disappeared.|
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
BW-96 mins, TV-G, CC

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

Thursday – October 24, 2013

BARRICADE (1950) 5:00 AM
Two fugitives try to prove the head of a mining camp is a murderer.
Dir: Peter Godfrey Cast: Dane Clark, Raymond Massey, Ruth Roman
C-75 mins, TV-PG

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

Friday – October 25, 2013

THE RUNNING MAN (1963) 9:15 AM
A man fakes his death to get back at the insurance company that denied an earlier claim.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Laurence Harvey, Lee Remick, Alan Bates
C-104 mins, TV-PG, Letterbox Format

THE FAST AND THE FURIOUS (1954) 11:15 AM
A wrongly convicted man takes a young woman hostage while fighting to clear his name.
Dir: Edwards Sampson Cast: John Ireland, Dorothy Malone, Bruce Carlisle
BW-74 mins, TV-G

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE? (1962) 9:45 PM
A crazed, aging star torments her sister in a decaying Hollywood mansion.
Dir: Robert Aldrich Cast: Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Victor Buono
BW-134 mins, TV-PG, CC, Letterbox Format

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

Saturday – October 26, 2013

SISTERS (1973) 12:15 AM
A small-time reporter tries to convince the police she saw a murder in the apartment
across from hers.
Dir: Brian De Palma Cast: Margot Kidder, Jennifer Salt, Charles Durning
C-93 mins, TV-MA, Letterbox Format

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

Sunday – October 27, 2013

THE BAD SEED (1956) 1:00 PM
A woman suspects that her perfect little girl is a ruthless killer.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: Gage Clarke, Jesse White, Joan Croyden
C-129 mins, TV-PG, CC

MR. SKEFFINGTON (1945) 7:00 PM
A flighty beauty marries a stockbroker for convenience and almost ruins both their lives.
Dir: Vincent Sherman Cast: Bette Davis, Claude Rains, Walter Abel
BW-146 mins, TV-G, CC  *** This is not a mystery, but it is one very good movie.***

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

Tuesday – October 29, 2013

MIAMI EXPOSE (1956) 1:45 PM
A police detective uses the only witness to a gangland murder to smoke out the mobsters.
Dir: Fred F. Sears Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Patricia Medina, Edward Arnold
BW-75 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Wednesday – October 30, 2013

CHINATOWN (1974) 1:00 AM
A Los Angeles private eye unwittingly sets up an innocent man for murder, then joins his seductive widow to unearth the corruption behind the crime.
Dir: Roman Polanski Cast: Jack Nicholson, Faye Dunaway, Perry Lopez
C-130 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

SHADOW OF DOUBT (1935) 6:00 AM
Murder charges threaten an actress’s marriage plans.
Dir: George B. Seitz Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Virginia Bruce, Constance Collier.
BW-74 mins, TV-PG, CC

WHISTLING IN THE DARK (1941) 11:00 AM
A radio detective is kidnapped and forced to plan the perfect murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon Cast: Red Skelton, Conrad Veidt, Ann Rutherford
BW-78 mins, TV-G, CC

UNDERCURRENT (1946) 5:00 PM
A sheltered woman realizes that either her husband or his mysterious brother is a psychopath.
Dir: Vincente Minnelli Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Robert Taylor, Robert Mitchum
BW-116 mins, TV-PG, CC

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

Thursday – October 31, 2013

THE CONVERSATION (1974) 12:15 AM
A surveillance expert uncovers a murder plot within a corrupt corporation.
Dir: Francis Ford Coppola Cast: Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
C-114 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

BLOW-UP (1966) 2:15 AM
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
C-111 mins, TV-MA, CC, Letterbox Format

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

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

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

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