There are quite a few mystery movies that will be playing on television during February 2015, even though it’s such a short month! I have already set up my DVR for as far into the future as it allows me to go. I have many mystery movies already waiting for me on my DVR, and now I’m adding even more during February. How on earth will I ever watch all of these movies? Something’s gotta give!
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February 2015 Turner Classic Movies Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
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Monday – February 2, 2015
7:00 PM
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 Cast: Katharine Hepburn, Joan Bennett, Paul Lukas.BW-116 mins, CC
***I know I shouldn’t start a mystery movie list with this non-mystery movie, but I think this could be the best edition of Little Women. (Not a mystery.)***
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Tuesday – February 3, 2015
10:00 AM
The Fallen Sparrow (1943)
Nazi spies pursue a Spanish Civil War veteran in search of a priceless keepsake.
Dir: Richard Wallace Cast: John Garfield, Maureen O’Hara, Walter Slezak.
BW-94 mins, CC
11:45 AM
Ice Station Zebra (1968)
A sub commander on a perilous mission must ferret out a Soviet agent on his ship.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Rock Hudson, Ernest Borgnine, Patrick McGoohan.
C-152 mins, CC
2:15 PM
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
An American reporter covering the war in Europe gets mixed up in the assassination of a Dutch diplomat.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall.
BW-120 mins, CC
4:30 PM
North By Northwest (1959)
An advertising man is mistaken for a spy, triggering a deadly cross-country chase.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason.
C-136 mins, CC
11:45 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 Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan.
BW-91 mins, CC
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Thursday – February 5, 2015
11:30 AM
‘G’ Men (1935)
A mob protege joins the FBI when a friend is gunned down.
Dir: William Keighley Cast: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak.
BW-86 mins, CC
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Friday – February 6, 2015
7:00 AM
Little Women (1949)
The four daughters of a New England family fight for happiness during and after the Civil War.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy Cast: June Allyson, Peter Lawford, Margaret O’Brien.
C-122 mins, CC
***If you haven’t seen this Little Women edition, I think it’s a close second to the one above. (Not a mystery.)***
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Sunday – February 8
11:00 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, CC
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Tuesday – February 10
12:00 AM
Laura (1944)
A police detective falls in love with the woman whose murder he’s investigating.
Dir: Otto Preminger Cast: Gene Tierney, Dana Andrews, Clifton Webb.
BW-88 mins, CC
6:00 AM
Julie (1956)
A stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
Dir: Andrew L. Stone Cast: Doris Day, Louis Jourdan, Barry Sullivan.
BW-98 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
8:00 AM
Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan.
BW-86 mins, CC
9:30 AM
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, CC
11:30 AM
Mystery Street (1950)
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, CC
1:15 PM
The Fallen Idol (1948)
A neglected child thinks the servant he idolizes has committed murder.
Dir: Carol Reed Cast: Ralph Richardson, Michele Morgan, Bobby Henrey.
BW-95 mins, CC
3:00 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 Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart.
BW-112 mins, CC
5:00 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 Cast: Cary Grant, Audrey Hepburn, Walter Matthau.
C-113 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
9:15 PM
The Killers (1946)
An insurance investigator uncovers a string of crimes when he tries to find a murdered boxer’s beneficiary.
Dir: Robert Siodmak Cast: Burt Lancaster, Ava Gardner, Edmond O’Brien.
BW-102 mins, CC
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Thursday – February 12
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, CC
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Friday – February 13
12:30 AM
Born Yesterday (1950)
A newspaper reporter takes on the task of educating a crooked businessman’s girlfriend.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden.
BW-102 mins, CC
***Judy Holliday! (Not a mystery.)***
4:30 AM
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951)
An overlooked gold transporter with twenty years service plots to steal a million pounds of gold.
Dir: Charles Crichton Cast: Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway, Sidney James.
BW-81 mins, CC
8:00 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, Angela Lansbury.
BW-110 mins, CC
10:00 AM
The Bad Seed (1956)
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, CC
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Saturday – February 14
12:30 PM
Adam’s Rib (1949)
Husband-and-wife lawyers argue opposite sides in a sensational women’s rights case.
Dir: George Cukor Cast: Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Judy Holliday.
BW-101 mins, CC
***Judy Holliday! (Not a mystery.)***
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Sunday – February 15
8:00 AM
T-Men (1948)
U.S. agents infiltrate a deadly counterfeiting ring.
Dir: Anthony Mann Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Mary Meade, Alfred Ryder.
BW-92 mins, CC
9:45 AM
The Naked City (1948)
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, CC
11:30 AM
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
A gang of small time crooks plots an elaborate jewel heist.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen.
BW-112 mins, CC
1:30 PM
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
A veteran fights to prove he didn’t kill his cheating wife.
Dir: George Marshall Cast: Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake, William Bendix.
BW-99 mins, CC
3:15 PM
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Hard-boiled detective Sam Spade gets caught up in the murderous search for a priceless statue.
Dir: John Huston Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George.
BW-100 mins, CC
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Monday – February 16
7:00 PM
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, CC, Letterbox Format
10:00 PM
Pillow Talk (1959)
A man and woman carry their feud over the telephone line they share into their real lives.
Dir: Michael Gordon Cast: Rock Hudson, Doris Day, Tony Randall.
C-102 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***A Doris Day and Rock Hudson movie! (Not a mystery.)***
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Tuesday – February 17
12:45 PM
In Cold Blood (1967)
Two vagrants try to outrun the police after committing a savage crime in this real-life shocker.
Dir: Richard Brooks Cast: Robert Blake, Scott Wilson, John Forsythe.
BW-134 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
5:00 PM
Bullitt (1968)
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, CC, Letterbox Format
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Thursday – February 19
7:15 AM
Twilight of Honor (1963)
A struggling lawyer takes on a controversial murder case that could make or break him.
Dir: Boris Sagal Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Joey Heatherton, Nick Adams.
BW-104 mins, Letterbox Format
11:30 AM
Witness for the Prosecution (1958)
A British lawyer gets caught up in a couple’s tangled marital affairs when he defends the husband for murder.
Dir: Billy Wilder Cast: Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, Charles Laughton.
BW-116 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
4:00 PM
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961)
An aging American judge presides over the trial of Nazi war criminals.
Dir: Stanley Kramer Cast: Spencer Tracy, Burt Lancaster, Richard Widmark.
BW-179 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
***Capt. Kirk before he was Capt. Kirk!***
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Sunday – February 22
3:00 AM
Klute (1971)
A small-town detective searches for a missing man linked to a high-priced prostitute.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi.
C-114 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
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Saturday – February 28
5:00 AM
The Window (1949)
A boy who always lies witnesses a murder but can’t get anyone but the killer to believe him.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff Cast: Barbara Hale, Arthur Kennedy, Paul Stewart.
BW-74 mins, CC
6:15 AM
Night Must Fall (1937)
A charming young man worms his way into a wealthy woman’s household, then reveals a deadly secret.
Dir: Richard Thorpe Cast: Merle Tottenham, Kathleen Harrison, Dame May Whitty.
BW-116 mins, CC
8:15 AM
Kind Lady (1951)
A con artist and his criminal cohorts hold an old lady hostage in her own home.
Dir: John Sturges Cast: Ethel Barrymore, Maurice Evans, Angela Lansbury.
BW-78 mins, CC
9:45 AM
Wait Until Dark (1967)
A blind woman fights against drug smugglers who’ve invaded her home.
Dir: Terence Young Cast: Audrey Hepburn, Alan Arkin, Richard Crenna.
C-108 mins, CC, Letterbox Format
11:45 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, CC
1:00 PM
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A man’s joking suggestion that he and a chance acquaintance trade murders turns deadly.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Robert Walker.
BW-101 mins, CC
2:45 PM
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
A young girl fears her favorite uncle may be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Teresa Wright, Joseph Cotten, MacDonald Carey.
BW-108 mins, CC
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(All of the above TCM descriptions were copied from the TCM site.)
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February 2015 PBS Masterpiece Mystery! Shows Grantchester (Central time zone):
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Sunday – February 1, 2015
8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 3
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Sunday – February 8, 2015
8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 4
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Sunday – February 15, 2015
8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 5
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Sunday – February 22, 2015
8:00 PM
Grantchester – Part 6
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February 2015 Hallmark Movies & Mystery Channel Mystery Movies (Central time zone):
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Sunday – February 1, 2015
8:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Matlock marathon
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Saturday – February 7, 2015
8:00 AM – 11:59 PM
Mystery Woman marathon
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Monday – February 9, 2015
8:00 AM
Jane Doe: Yes, I Remember It Well
Cathy’s mom, Polly, a former CSA agent, comes for a visit. When a British agent with some top secret information is kidnapped, Cathy and Polly set aside their mother/daughter angst to uncover a plot which has global implications. Stars Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, and Donna Mills.
10:00 AM
McBride: Semper Fi
On a quiet street, in a seemingly ordinary home, a horrific crime has occurred, and a fireman and former marine medic is accused of killing his wife and daughters. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.
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Tuesday – February 10, 2015
8:00 AM
Jane Doe: Ties That Bind
Though CEO Everett Myers is accused of murdering his partner, CSA puzzle solver Cathy Davis is certain he’s innocent, despite witnesses, surveillance cameras, and a surefire motive. Stars Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, and Robert Carradine.
10:00 AM
McBride: The Doctor is Out…Really Out
When therapist George Prescott is murdered, investigator Jim McBride is summoned to questions the doctor’s biggest head cases, including vindictive lovers, jealous colleagues, and vengeful rivals. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois,and Matt Lutz.
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Wednesday – February 11, 2015
8:00 AM
Jane Doe: The Wrong Face
Cathy is brought in to find the U.S. Attorney’s missing wife and to ensure a money laundering investigation does not fall apart at a crucial point. Stars Lea Thompson and Joe Penny.
10:00 AM
McBride: Anybody Here Murder Marty?
When Tracy, an aspiring singer breaks up with her longtime boyfriend Joe on the set of a popular talk show, everyone assumes it’s nothing more than tv tabloid hijinks. But when the talk show host turns up dead, all evidence points to Joe. McBride must take center stage and clear his client of murder. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois, and Matt Lutz.
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Thursday – February 12, 2015
8:00 AM
Jane Doe: How To Fire Your Boss
When a fellow agent kills his mentor in cold blood and can’t remember the crime, puzzle-solver Cathy Davis is enlisted to discover the motive. What she uncovers is a government experiment in mind-control developed to weed out terrorists. But the man behind the brainstorm could have other, more insidious motives. Stars Lea Thompson, Joe Penny and Erin Gray.
10:00 AM
McBride: Fallen Idol
McBride and Phil represent a young man accused of murdering a famous and success lawyer, who is also McBride’s mentor. Stars John Larroquette, Marta DuBois, and Matt Lutz.
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Friday – February 13, 2015
8:00 AM
Jane Doe: The Harder They Fall
Horning Cereal is dumping contaminated food on 3rd World countries. When former CSA agent Jim Monroe is found hovering over the drowned CEO of Horning Cereal, he is immediately the prime suspect. Cathy and Frank try to find out who framed Jim. Stars Lea Thompson, Joe Penny, and Billy Moses.
10:00 AM
McBride: Requiem
In life, Ava Fletcher was a virtuoso classical violinist and a darling of the critics, if not her peers. In death, she’s McBride’s new puzzle, and she’s got a grieving father eager to nail her low-class fiancé. McBride isn’t convinced, especially with an orchestra pit full of suspects all of who have solid motives for snipping Ava’s strings. Stars John Larroquette, Marta Dubois and Matt Lutz
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Sunday – February 22, 2015
8:00 AM –
Hart to Hart marathon begins
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Monday – February 23, 2015
1:59 AM
Hart to Hart marathon ends
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(All of the above Hallmark Movies & Mysteries descriptions were copied from the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries site.)
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If you know of any other mystery themed movies that are going to be aired on television during February 2015, please post a comment.
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Here is the Upcoming Mystery Movies for January 2015 entry, in case you want to see what is playing the rest of this month.
Recently I’ve been re-visiting a lot of the Cozy (and almost-Cozy) series that I’ve enjoyed over the years. I have written previous posts talking about these books: 
I’m not sure whether I’m in a ranting or raving mood right now! (Oh, and I want to warn you, this has absolutely nothing to do with Cozy Mysteries.)
