The Cozy Mystery List Blog

Wow-Zee! Spring is a great time to watch mystery and/or crime movies! I’m all in on that sentiment! Here is the list of the mystery/crime movies that I was able to glean from the Turner Classic Movies channel’s April 2025 schedule. I know I shouldn’t have started day one of April with a non-mystery movie, but I think The Catered Affair is such a great movie (with a great cast!) that I just had to tell you about it. It has been aired several times recently, but I “had” to mention it again.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – April 2025

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Tuesday – April 1, 2025

12:30 PM The Catered Affair (1956)
A working-class mother fights to give her daughter a big wedding whether the girl wants it or not.
Dir: Richard Brooks. Cast: Bette Davis, Ernest Borgnine, Debbie Reynolds
93 mins
*****This is not a mystery, however it is a very good movie.*****

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Thursday – April 3, 2025

8:00 PM Klute (1971)
A low-key small town detective journeys to New York City to investigate the murder of a friend and discovers that both the killer and the victim were clients of the same high-class call girl.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi
114 mins

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

Friday – April 4, 2025

12:15 AM Dead End (1937)
A killer returns to his childhood home in a New York City slum to plot his escape from the law.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Joel McCrea, Humphrey Bogart
92 mins

9:00 AM The Women in His Life (1933)
When his ex-wife is murdered, a hard-living lawyer defends the chief suspect.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Otto Kruger, Una Merkel, Ben Lyon
75 mins

5:15 PM 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
68 mins

6:30 PM The Case of the Black Cat (1936)
Perry Mason looks into a trio of murders heralded by the shriek of a cat.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, June Travis, Jane Bryan
62 mins

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

Saturday – April 5, 2025

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond Escapes (1937)
Captain Drummond becomes a prisoner when he tries to protect a beautiful heiress from an espionage organization.
Dir: James Hogan. Cast: Ray Milland, Sir Guy Standing, Heather Angel
67 mins

8:00 PM Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975)
When a group of schoolgirls mysteriously disappear, the survivors find their lives changed forever.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Martin Vaughan, Rachel Roberts, Vivean Gray
120 mins

10:00 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

Sunday – April 6, 2025

12:00 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
71 mins

10:00 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
71 mins

10:00 PM Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid (1982)
A private eye hunts a Nazi for a svelte client and meets rough characters clipped from 1940s films.
Dir: Carl Reiner. Cast: Steve Martin, Rachel Ward, Carl Reiner
88 mins

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

Monday – April 7, 2025

8:00 PM Whistling in the Dark (1933)
A mystery writer’s plan for the perfect murder greatly interests a mobster.
Dir: Elliott Nugent. Cast: Ernest Truex, Una Merkel, Edward Arnold
79 mins

9:30 PM Whistling in Dixie (1942)
A radio detective’s southern honeymoon is cut short by the discovery of a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, George Bancroft
74 mins

11:00 PM Whistling in Brooklyn (1943)
A radio sleuth infiltrates the Brooklyn Dodgers to solve a murder.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Red Skelton, Ann Rutherford, Jean Rogers
87 mins.

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

Tuesday – April 8, 2025

9:45 AM Cat People (1942)
A newlywed fears that an ancient curse will turn her into a bloodthirsty beast.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Simone Simon, Tom Conway, Jane Randolph
71 mins

12:15 PM The Curse of the Cat People (1944)
A child explores her late mother’s life and discovers her maternal bloodline is cursed.
Dir: Gunther V. Fritsch. Cast: Simone Simon, Kent Smith, Jane Randolph
70 mins

8:00 PM The Killing (1956)
A career criminal recruits a sharpshooter, a crooked police officer, a bartender, and a betting teller named George, among others, for one last job before he goes straight and marries his fiancée.
Dir: Stanley Kubrick. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Coleen Gray, Vince Edwards
84 mins

9:45 PM Tension (1949)
A man who had planned to murder his wife’s lover becomes the prime suspect when somebody beats him to it.
Dir: John Berry. Cast: Richard Basehart, Audrey Totter, Cyd Charisse
95 mins

11:30 PM Johnny O’Clock (1947)
Gambling hall owners get mixed up with a cop on the take, leading to murder and mystery.
Dir: Robert Rossen. Cast: Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, Lee J. Cobb
96 mins

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Wednesday – April 9, 2025

1:30 AM They Won’t Believe Me (1947)
A philandering playboy with a wealthy wife and two girlfriends ends up on trial for murder when two of the ladies turn up dead, and he’s the most likely suspect.
Dir: Irving Pichel. Cast: Susan Hayward, Robert Young, Jane Greer
80 mins

3:15 AM The Outfit (1973)
An ex-con takes on the mob to avenge his brother’s death.
Dir: John Flynn. Cast: Robert Duvall, Karen Black, Roland Lastarza
102 mins

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

Friday – April 11, 2025

12:00 AM Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
A lawyer and a widow encounter murder on a train ride.
Dir: Norman Taurog. Cast: Marjorie Main, James Whitmore, Ann Dvorak
69 mins

6:00 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
73 mins

9:00 AM Fog Over Frisco (1934)
A San Francisco heiress discovers her sister is hanging out with gangsters.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Bette Davis, Donald Woods, Margaret Lindsay
68 mins

10:15 AM The Firebird (1934)
A young girl’s secret romance is exposed when her lover is murdered.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Verree Teasdale, Ricardo Cortez, Lionel Atwill
74 mins

4:15 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. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O’Sullivan
91 mins

6:00 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
110 mins

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. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Gladys George
100 mins

9:45 PM Murder, My Sweet (1944)
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
95 mins

11:45 PM My Gun Is Quick (1957)
Detective Mike Hammer’s investigation of a murder puts him in the middle between warring jewel thieves.
Dir: George A. White. Cast: Robert Bray, Whitney Blake
90 mins

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Saturday – April 12, 2025

1:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellawayf
113 mins

3:30 AM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

5:45 AM The Getaway (1972)
Steve McQueen stars as “Doc” McCoy – a convict who makes a deal to split his hidden loot with a corrupt politician in exchange for early release from prison–in this fast-paced tale of greed and betrayal. Once free, McCoy tries to uphold his part of the agreement, but he quickly learns there is no one he can trust as he …
Dir: Sam Peckinpah. Cast: Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson
122 mins

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond at Bay (1937)
A rock thrown through his window sets a gentleman adventurer on a search for enemy agents.
Dir: Norman Lee. Cast: John Lodge, Dorothy Mackaill, Victor Jory
59 mins

6:15 PM 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
95 mins

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Sunday – April 13, 2025

12:15 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

10:00 AM The Steel Trap (1952)
When he has second thoughts, an embezzler races the clock to return what he stole.
Dir: Andrew Stone. Cast: Joseph Cotten, Teresa Wright, Jonathan Hale
85 mins

10:00 PM In the Heat of the Night (1967)
A black detective teams up with a racist white sheriff to solve a murder in a small town in the South. Over time, they begin to find respect for one another.
Dir: Norman Jeison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins
*****Excellent movie.*****

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Monday – April 14, 2025

8:00 AM The Woman on the Beach (1947)
A coast guardsman begins to think his mistress’s blind husband can really see.
Dir: Jean Renoir. Cast: Joan Bennett, Robert Ryan, Charles Bickford
71 mins

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Tuesday – April 15, 2025

11:00 AM The Secret Six (1931)
A secret society funds the investigation of a bootlegging gang.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, John Mack Brown
83 mins

12:30 PM Special Agent (1935)
A government agent poses as a newspaperman to get the goods on a mobster.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: Bette Davis, George Brent, Ricardo Cortez
78 mins

2:00 PM Alcatraz Island (1937)
A prison inmate is framed for killing a con who once tried to kidnap his daughter.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Ann Sheridan, John Litel, Mary Maguire
61 mins

3:15 PM The Last Gangster (1937)
When a notorious gangster gets out of prison, he vows revenge on the wife who left him.
Dir: Edward Ludwig. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, James Stewart, Rose Stradner
81 mins

4:45 PM The Man Who Talked Too Much (1940)
A defense lawyer sets out to topple a powerful gangster.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: George Brent, Virginia Bruce, Brenda Marshall
75 mins

6:15 PM Out of the Past (1947)
A private eye tries to escape his past by running a gas station in a small town, but it catches up to him.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, Kirk Douglas
97 mins

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Wednesday – April 16, 2025

12:15 AM Five Minutes to Live (1961)
A deranged bandit holds a bank president’s wife hostage.
Dir: Bill Karn. Cast: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
80 mins

1:30 AM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

3:30 AM Rage (1972)
When an experimental military gas kills a rancher’s son, he sets out to seek answers and retribution.
Dir: George C Scott. Cast: George C Scott, Richard Basehart, Martin Sheen
104 mins

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Friday – April 18, 2025

8:30 AM Murder on Diamond Row (1937)
An out-of-favor Scotland Yard inspector hunts a diamond fence known as “The Squeaker,” who is also a killer.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Sebastian Shaw, Ann Todd
77 mins

4:00 PM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

6:00 PM Time Without Pity (1957)
A father comes to the aid of his son who is on Death Row.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Ann Todd, Leo McKern, Michael Redgrave
88 mins

9:30 PM The Saint in New York (1938)
The Saint goes undercover to get the goods on New York’s mob kingpins.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: Louis Hayward, Kay Sutton, Sig Rumann
72 mins

11:00 PM The Bat (1959)
A female mystery novelist turns detective to unmask a demented killer.
Dir: Crane Wilbur. Cast: Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon
80 mins

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Saturday – April 19, 2025

12:30 AM The Case of the Howling Dog (1934)
Perry Mason gets caught between feuding neighbors who claim to be married to the same woman.
Dir: Alan Crosland. Cast: Warren William, Mary Astor, Allen Jenkins
74 mins

2:00 AM The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933)
A criminal mastermind uses hypnosis to rule the rackets after death.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Rudolf Klein-Rogge, Otto Wernicke, Oskar Beregi Sr.
122 mins

4:15 AM Judex (1963)
Remake of a silent serial concerning the adventures of a mysterious, pulp avenger.
Dir: Georges Franju. Cast: Channing Pollock, Francine Bergé, Edith Scob
104 mins
*****In French*****

6:00 AM Arsene Lupin Returns (1938)
A reformed jewel thief helps detectives track down a criminal.
Dir: Geo. Fitzmaurice. Cast: Melvyn Douglas, Virginia Bruce, Warren William
82 mins

10:15 AM Bulldog Drummond Comes Back (1937)
An old enemy kidnaps Bulldog Drummond’s fiancée.
Dir: Louis King. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
64 mins

2:00 PM The Prize (1963)
An American Nobel Prize-winner gets mixed up with spies when he travels to Stockholm to collect his award.
Dir: Mark Robson. Cast: Paul Newman, Edward G. Robinson, Elke Sommer
136 mins

6:15 PM Gun Crazy (1950)
Two disturbed young people release their fascination with guns through a crime spree.
Dir: Joseph H. Lewis. Cast: Peggy Cummins, John Dall, Berry Kroeger
87 mins

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Sunday – April 20, 2025

12:00 AM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins

1:45 AM The Mackintosh Man (1973)
A British agent goes undercover as a jewel thief to nab a Communist spy.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Paul Newman, James Mason, Dominique Sanda
98 mins

3:45 AM The Wrong Man (1956)
Based on the true story of a musician wrongly accused of robbing an insurance company and the grave effect his predicament has on his family.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Henry Fonda, Vera Miles, Anthony Quayle
105 mins

10:00 AM The Set-Up (1949)
An aging boxer defies the gangsters who’ve ordered him to throw his last fight.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Robert Ryan, Audrey Totter, George Tobias
72 mins

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Monday – April 21, 2025

6:45 AM Obsession (1949)
A jealous husband plots to dispose of his wife’s lover in an acid bath.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Newton, Phil Brown, Naunton Wayne
96 mins

8:30 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
A frustrated wife seduces a drifter into murdering her husband.
Dir: Tay Garnett. Cast: Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway
113 mins

10:30 AM The Honeymoon Killers (1969)
Two very-much-in-love con artists–a sadistic, corpulent nurse and a conscience-free ex-con–prey on lonely women as they plot to fleece and slaughter a succession of rich spinsters and widows.
Dir: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

12:30 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium and her husband stage a kidnapping in order for her to pretend to solve the crime and achieve fame.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

2:30 PM Night Watch (1973)
An unhappy housewife who settles her fraying nerves with alcohol while staring out her window witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window. She calls the police, who find nothing when they investigate.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

4:15 PM Deathtrap (1982)
Sidney Bruhl is a formerly successful writer of Broadway thrillers who is trying to recover from the failure of his latest play. When Sidney returns to his wife Myra, a rich woman with a heart problem who is prone to hysterics, he tells her of his jealousy and humiliation upon the receipt of the first play of a former student. …
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Michael Caine, Christopher Reeve, Dyan Cannon
115 mins

6:15 PM Badlands (1973)
A teenager from a dead-end town decides to join a charming older boy on his shooting spree through Montana’s badlands.
Dir: Terrence Malick. Cast: Martin Sheen, Sissy Spacek, Warren Oates
95 mins

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

Tuesday – April 22, 2025

6:15 AM Miss Pinkerton (1932)
A private duty nurse gets herself mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joan Blondell, George Brent, Ruth Hall
66 mins

7:45 AM Blondie Johnson (1933)
A female crook fights her way from poverty to the top of the underworld.
Dir: Ray Enright. Cast: Joan Blondell, Chester Morris, Allen Jenkins
67 mins

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

Wednesday – April 23, 2025

8:15 AM The Strip (1951)
A jazz drummer fights to clear his name when he’s accused of killing a racketeer.
Dir: Leslie Kardos. Cast: Mickey Rooney, Sally Forrest, William Demarest
85 mins

6:15 PM The Late Show (1977)
An aging private eye hooks up with a Hollywood eccentric to investigate his partner’s murder.
Dir: Robert Benton. Cast: Art Carney, Lily Tomlin, Bill Macy
94 mins

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

Saturday – April 26, 2025

10:30 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. Cast: John Barrymore, John Howard, Louise Campbell
57 mins

4:15 PM The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Recently paroled master criminal Erwin “Doc” Riedenschneider gathers several crooks together in Cincinnati for a heist. The robbery is pulled off successfully until an alert night watchman shoots the team’s safe-cracker.
Dir: John Huston. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Louis Calhern, Jean Hagen
112 mins

8:00 PM Harper (1966)
A broken-down private eye sets out to find a rich woman’s missing husband.
Dir: Jack Smight. Cast: Paul Newman, Lauren Bacall, Julie Harris
121 mins

10:15 PM The Drowning Pool (1975)
Harper, the wisecracking private investigator, goes to New Orleans to help out an old flame, Iris Deveraux. After the murder of her mother- in-law, someone implicates Iris.
Dir: Stuart Rosenberg. Cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Tony Franciosa
106 mins

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

Sunday – April 27, 2025

12:15 AM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
92 mins

10:00 AM The Prowler (1951)
A policeman’s obsession with a married woman leads to murder.
Dir: Joseph Losey. Cast: Van Heflin, Evelyn Keyes, John Maxwell
92 mins

2:15 PM The Mad Miss Manton (1938)
A daffy socialite gets her friends mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Leigh Jason. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Sam Levene
65 mins

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

Wednesday – April 30, 2025

7:30 AM Count the Hours! (1953)
A lawyer defends a migrant worker in a sensational murder trial.
Dir: Don Siegel. Cast: Teresa Wright, Macdonald Carey, Dolores Moran
76 mins

8:45 AM Fury (1936)
An innocent man escapes a lynch mob then returns for revenge.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, Spencer Tracy, Walter Abel
94 mins

10:30 AM Madeleine (1950)
A beautiful young woman stands trial for poisoning her lover.
Dir: David Lean. Cast: Ann Todd, Norman Woland, Ivan Desny
101 mins

12:30 PM The Last Wave (1977)
An examination of the relationship between white and Aboriginal Australia through the trial of five Aborigines accused of killing another. Corporate tax lawyer David Burton accepts the case just as torrential rains blanket even the most arid regions of the nation, and is instantly beset with prophetic dreams and apocalyptic …
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

2:30 PM 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
104 mins

4:30 PM I Confess (1953)
Based on a 1902 play, a Jesuit priest is wrongly accused of murder and cannot defend himself because he has vowed to protect the confession of the real criminal.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Montgomery Clift, Anne Baxter, Karl Malden
95 mins

6:30 PM Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
A novelist frames himself for murder to prove the fallibility of circumstantial evidence.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Dana Andrews, Joan Fontaine, Sidney Blackmer
80 mins

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for March 2025 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.