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I am so happy to see that the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel is adding some NEW Cozy Mystery movies! I’ve gone ahead and indicated the PREMIERES. Along with the movies, the channel will be offering a whole lot of re-runs of the Diagnosis Murder, Monk, and Murder, She Wrote television shows.

Hallmark Movies & Mysteries Channel Cozy Mystery Movies – October 2022
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Saturday – October 1, 2022

Monk marathon

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Sunday – October 2, 2022

10:00 AM
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.

12:00 PM
Emma Fielding Mysteries: More Bitter than Death
After a friend and head of the National Archaeological Society meets an untimely death, Emma and Agent Conner find themselves questioning her colleagues’ motives. Stars Courtney Thorne-Smith, James Tupper.

2:00 PM
Francesca Quinn, PI
*****Not technically a PREMIERE, however I didn’t introduce it the month it first aired.*****
Private investigator Francesca “Frankie” Quinn is hired to find her fiancée’s killer. She must work with her detective ex, Wyn, and trust the person who broke them up and ruined their lives. Stars Mallory Jansen, Dylan Bruce.

4:00 PM
Curious Caterer: Dying for Chocolate
Colorado caterer Goldy Berry teams with detective Tom Schultz to identify the ingredients that led to the mysterious death of her friend — and ends up discovering a hidden recipe for murder. Stars Nikki Deloach and Andrew Walker.

6:00 PM
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.

8:00 PM
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths
*****PREMIERE*****
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage. Stars Hunter King, Rhiannon Fish.

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Monday – October 3, 2022

6:00 PM
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths
*****First re-airing of the PREMIERE from yesterday.*****
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage. Stars Hunter King, Rhiannon Fish.

8:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Til Death Do Us Part
Just days before Aurora’s wedding, a body is discovered, and she fears her father may be a suspect. She and Nick race to solve the cold case before they walk down the aisle. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

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Tuesday – October 4, 2022

Romance movies

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Wednesday – October 5, 2022

6:00 PM
Sweet Revenge: A Hannah Swensen Mystery
As Hannah and Mike experience engaged life while balancing their busy careers, a murder at a 24-hour gym complicates their wedding planning. Stars Alison Sweeney, Cameron Mathison, Barbara Niven.

8:00 PM
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage. Stars Hunter King, Rhiannon Fish.

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Thursday – October 6, 2022

Christmas & Romance movies

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Friday – October 7, 2022

6:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Haunted By Murder
A murder investigation is reignited in a house that is considered haunted by the Lawrenceton locals and where years ago Aurora and Sally, as teenagers, discovered a body. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

8:00 PM
Francesca Quinn, PI
Private investigator Francesca “Frankie” Quinn is hired to find her fiancée’s killer. She must work with her detective ex, Wyn, and trust the person who broke them up and ruined their lives. Stars Mallory Jansen, Dylan Bruce.

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Saturday – October 8, 2022

12:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Higher Ground
In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, New Orleans handyman and blues singer-songwriter, Gabe Recolte was left homeless before he had the chance to express his love for club owner Hattie.

2:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: Home Again
When The POstables discover an antique vase with a letter inside, they trace the package to three little girls who attempted to sell the vase 18 years ago in order to save their family farm.

4:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Road Less Traveled
The POstables take a road trip in an old Winnebago in order to track down a small boy who they fear may have been kidnapped. Stars Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Crystal Lowe and Geoff Gustafson.

6:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: To the Altar
The long-awaited wedding of Norman and Rita leads the POstables to letter for a young woman with clues about her missing mother. Stars Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Crystal Lowe and Geoff Gustafson.

8:00 PM
Signed, Sealed, Delivered: The Vows We Have Made
As Shane and Oliver prepare to wed, the team helps an unwell boy reunite with a lost friend. A new employee may deliver the answer for Rita and Norman to start a family.

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Sunday – October 9, 2022

12:00 PM
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage. Stars Hunter King, Rhiannon Fish.

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Monday – October 10, 2022

The first two movies of Good Witch

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Tuesday – October 11, 2022

Romance movies

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Wednesday – October 12, 2022

6:00 PM
Francesca Quinn, PI
Private investigator Francesca “Frankie” Quinn is hired to find her fiancée’s killer. She must work with her detective ex, Wyn, and trust the person who broke them up and ruined their lives. Stars Mallory Jansen, Dylan Bruce.

8:00 PM
Mystery 101: Killer Timing
An escaped serial killer and an attempt on Travis’s life makes this their most dangerous case yet as Amy and Travis team up with his FBI agent ex to find the connection before it’s too late. Stars Jill Wagner & Kristoffer Polaha.

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Thursday – October 13, 2022

Christmas & Romance movies

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Friday – October 14, 2022

6:00 PM
Aurora Teagarden Mysteries: Honeymoon, Honeymurder
While on a “pre-honeymoon” getaway, Aurora and Nick discover a body, and as they get closer to finding out what really happened, danger knocks on their doorstep. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Niall Matter, Marilu Henner.

8:00 PM
Nikki & Nora: Sister Sleuths
Fraternal twins Nikki and Nora are forced back into each other’s lives when they inherit a detective agency. As they solve a murder, they realize their differences may be their greatest advantage. Stars Hunter King, Rhiannon Fish.

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Saturday – October 15, 2022

Christmas movie followed by several Good Witch movies.

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Sunday – October 16, 2022

Romance movies

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Monday – October 17, 2022

Family-themed movies

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Tuesday – October 18, 2022

Romance movies

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Wednesday – October 19, 2022

Family-themed and Romance movies

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Thursday – October 20, 2022

Christmas & Romance movies
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Ho, Ho, Ho., >>> or should I say oh, oh, oh: It looks like it might just be Christmas movies all day (every day) until January 2023! I’m just going to tell you about the Christmas Premieres (not about all of the re-airing of the channels’ Christmas movies from past years.)

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Friday – October 21, 2022

Noel Next Door
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Saturday – October 22, 2022

We Need a Little Christmas
PREMIERE on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel

We Wish You a Married Christmas
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Sunday – October 23, 2022

A Kismet Christmas
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Friday – October 28, 2022

A Cozy Christmas Inn
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Saturday – October 29, 2022

Christmas Bedtime Stories
PREMIERE on the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries channel

Jolly Good Christmas
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Sunday – October 30, 2022

Ghosts of Christmas Always
PREMIERE on the Hallmark channel
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Here is the page on my Cozy Mystery 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.

I’ll update this page when the Hallmark Movies & Mysteries website updates their schedule.

If you like the old black & white Sherlock Holmes movies, then make sure to set your DVRs on Wednesday (October 5). There are a few Basil Rathbone movies airing that day. I was really pleased to see them listed (since I really like Basil Rathbone) in October. Usually Turner Classic Movies features mostly Halloween-type movies during the Halloween month.

And, speaking of “Halloween-type” movies… I know I have mentioned (several times) how much I like watching the old Dracula/Frankenstein/etc movies during October. Well, on Tuesday (October 25) Turner Classic Movies will be airing several Christophen Lee Dracula movies. I usually watch them every October. October is my month for Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, & Peter Cushing movies. (Yes, I know this is a mystery site, but October just brings this love of old light “horror” movies out in me. I especially like the really campy ones. (I don’t like the more recent horror/slasher movies!)

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – October 2022

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Sunday – October 2, 2022

12:30 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon Mccallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins

6:00 AM The Housekeeper’s Daughter (1939)
A gangster’s moll runs home to mother, with reporters and amateur detectives hot on her tail.
Dir: Hal Roach. Cast: Joan Bennett, Adolphe Menjou, John Hubbard
71 mins

10:00 AM The Red House (1947)
An old man and his sister are concealing a terrible secret from their adopted teen daughter, concerning a hidden abandoned farmhouse, located deep in the woods.
Dir: Delmer Daves. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Lon Mccallister, Judith Anderson
100 mins

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Monday – October 3, 2022

2:15 PM 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
110 mins

8:00 PM 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. Cast: Bette Davis, Karl Malden, Peter Lawford
115 mins

10:15 PM Possessed (1947)
A married woman’s passion for a former love drives her mad.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey
108 mins

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Tuesday – October 4, 2022

12:15 AM The Devil’s Own (1966)
Following a horrifying experience with the occult in Africa, a schoolteacher moves to a small English village, only to discover that black magic resides there as well.
Dir: Cyril Frankel Cast: Joan Fontaine, Kay Walsh, Alec Mccowen
90 mins
*****OK, I know this looks more like a Halloween type of movie – but it looks interesting to me – but I happen to like those types of movies…*****

2:00 AM The Haunting (1963)
A mysterious house has a reputation for evil. Four people spend the night and find themselves trapped by The Haunting.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Julie Harris, Claire Bloom, Richard Johnson
112 mins
*****Sort of a mystery…*****

4:00 AM Night Watch (1973)
A woman witnesses what she thinks is a murder through a neighbor’s window but nobody believes her – even the police.
Dir: Brian G. Hutton. Cast: Elizabeth Taylor, Laurence Harvey, Billie Whitelaw
105 mins

5:45 AM The Spiral Staircase (1975)
Helen has been incapable of speech since seeing her husband die – will she become the target of a deranged serial killer targeting disabled people?
Dir: Peter Collinson. Cast: Jacqueline Bisset, Christopher Plummer, John Phillip Law
86 mins

8:00 PM Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Brewster sisters are spinster pillars of Brooklyn society, except for their secret penchant for poisoning old male callers with their homemade elderberry wine, to end the men’s loneliness!
Dir: Frank Capra. Cast: Cary Grant, Priscilla Lane, Raymond Massey
118 mins

10:15 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist has terrible luck: his wive’s keeping getting extremely ill…
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

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Wednesday – October 5, 2022

12:15 AM D.O.A. (1950)
The victim of a slow-acting poison tracks down his own killer.
Dir: Rudolph Maté. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Pamela Britton, Luther Adler
83 mins

2:00 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
83 mins
*****Philo Vance is the starring sleuth in 12 mysteries by S. S. Van Dine.*****

3:30 AM The Falcon Out West (1944)
A society sleuth turns cowboy to investigate a Texas murder.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Tom Conway, Carole Gallagher, Barbara Hale (Della Reese from Perry Mason)
64 mins

6:00 AM The Bishop Murder Case (1930)
Philo Vance is in search of a cryptic killer. The body of Joseph Cochrane Robin is discovered pierced by an arrow with a note that contains a snippet of the nursery rhyme “Who Killed Cock Robin”, which is curiously signed the Bishop.
Dir: David Burton. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Leila Hyams, Roland Young
88 mins

12:15 PM Kind Lady (1935)
A con artist and his criminal colleagues move in on a trusting old lady.
Dir: George B. Seitz. Cast: Aline Macmahon, Basil Rathbone, Mary Carlisle
76 mins

5:15 PM The Woman in Green (1945)
Sherlock Holmes investigates a series of seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Hillary Brooke
68 mins

6:30 PM Sherlock Holmes in Dressed to Kill (1946)
Sherlock Holmes sets out to find why people are killing each other over a seemingly inexpensive music box.
Dir: Roy William Neill. Cast: Basil Rathbone, Nigel Bruce, Patricia Morison
72 mins

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Friday – October 7, 2022

10:30 PM The Parallax View (1974)
A reporter uncovers the deadly conspiracy behind a political assassination.
Dir: Alan J. Pakula. Cast: Warren Beatty, Hume Cronyn, Earl Hindman
102 mins

12:30 AM 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

12:00 PM The Long Night (1947)
A veteran tries to free his former love from a sadistic lover.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Henry Fonda, Barbara Bel Geddes, Vincent Price
97 mins

4:15 PM Double Indemnity (1944)
An insurance salesman gets seduced into plotting a client’s death.
Dir: Billy Wilder. Cast: Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, Edward G. Robinson
106 mins

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Sunday – October 9, 2022

12:00 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

10:00 AM The Phenix City Story (1955)
A crusading lawyer takes on the corrupt machine running a Southern town.
Dir: Phil Karlson. Cast: John McIntire, Richard Kiley, Kathryn Grant
100 mins

1:45 PM The Little Foxes (1941)
An ambitious woman takes on her corrupt brothers and honest husband in her drive for wealth.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, Teresa Wright
116 mins

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Monday – October 10, 2022

2:45 AM Village of the Damned (1960)
After a mysterious blackout, the inhabitants of a British village give birth to emotionless, super-powered offspring.
Dir: Wolf Rilla. Cast: George Sanders, Barbara Shelley, Martin Stephens
77 mins
*****I’m not sure if this is a mystery type of movie or just a sci-fi…*****

8:00 PM Rope (1948)
Two wealthy young men try to commit the perfect crime by murdering a friend.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Dick Hogan, John Dall, Farley Granger
80 mins

9:45 PM Obsession (1976)
A businessman falls in love with a double for his murdered wife.
Dir: Brian De Palma. Cast: Don Hood, Sylvia Kuumba Williams, Patrick Mcnamara
98 mins

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Tuesday – October 11, 2022

6:45 AM Black Hand (1950)
In turn-of-the-century New York, an Italian seeks vengeance on the mobsters who killed his father.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: Gene Kelly, J. Carrol Naish, Teresa Celli
93 mins

8:30 AM Criminal Court (1946)
An unorthodox lawyer accidentally kills a crooked nightclub owner, only to discover that his cabaret singer sweetheart has been arrested for the crime.
Dir: Robert Wise. Cast: Tom Conway, Martha O’Driscoll, June Clayworth
63 mins

9:45 AM Girls on Probation (1938)
A dizzy young girl falls into crime but wins her lawyer’s heart.
Dir: William McGann. Cast: Jane Bryan, Ronald Reagan, Anthony Averill
63 mins

11:00 AM The Law in Her Hands (1936)
A lady lawyer for the mob tries to break free of her criminal connections.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Margaret Lindsay, Glenda Farrell, Warren Hull
58 mins

12:00 PM The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Three old friends and World War I veterans become involved in bootlegging in New York during Prohibition. Two of the friends become rival liquor sellers, while the third is a prosecutor determined to wipe out illegal liquor businesses.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: James Cagney, Priscilla Lane, Humphrey Bogart
104 mins

2:00 PM Society Lawyer (1939)
A lawyer plays with fire when he gets mixed up with underworld types.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Walter Pidgeon, Virginia Bruce, Leo Carrillo
77 mins

3:30 PM 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
71 mins

4:45 PM The FBI Story (1959)
A dedicated FBI agent thinks back on the agency’s battles against the Klan, organized crime and Communist spies.
Dir: Mervyn Leroy. Cast: James Stewart, Vera Miles, Murray Hamilton
149 mins

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Wednesday – October 12, 2022

6:45 AM The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
A dangerous madman kidnaps two businessmen on a hunting trip.
Dir: Ida Lupino. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Frank Lovejoy, William Talman
71 mins

9:30 AM Jeopardy (1953)
A woman desperately seeks help to prevent her trapped husband from drowning.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Barry Sullivan, Ralph Meeker
69 mins

11:00 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

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Friday – October 14, 2022

7:45 AM The Man Who Cheated Himself (1950)
A woman in the process of divorce shoots her husband and gets her police lieutenant boyfriend to help hide the body.
Dir: Felix E. Feist. Cast: Lee J. Cobb, Jane Wyatt, John Dall
81 mins

1:15 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
96 mins

3:15 PM Side Street (1950)
A New York City mailman is chased by both cops and crooks when he steals a shipment of dirty money.
Dir: Anthony Mann. Cast: Farley Granger, Cathy O’Donnell, James Craig
83 mins

4:45 PM Behave Yourself! (1951)
A young couple’s dog gets them mixed up in a string of murders.
Dir: George Beck. Cast: Farley Granger, Shelley Winters, William Demarest
81 mins

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Saturday – October 15, 2022

2:00 AM Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (1992)
In the folksy town of Deerfield, Wash., FBI Agent Desmond inexplicably disappears while hunting for the man who murdered a teen girl. The killer is never apprehended, and, after experiencing dark visions and supernatural encounters, Agent Dale Cooper chillingly predicts that the culprit will claim another life.
Dir: David Lynch. Cast: Sheryl Lee, Ray Wise, Kyle Maclachlan
135 mins

6:00 AM The League of Gentlemen (1960)
An ex-colonel blackmails a group of officers into helping him rob a bank.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Jack Hawkins, Nigel Patrick, Roger Livesey
116 mins

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Sunday – October 16, 2022

12:00 AM The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Reporter Harry Mitchell tracks down papers that will show that some leading Americans collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Dir: Cyril Endfield. Cast: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd
63 mins

8:00 AM The Conspirators (1944)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Dir: Jean Negulesco. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

10:00 AM The Argyle Secrets (1948)
Reporter Harry Mitchell tracks down papers that will show that some leading Americans collaborated with the Nazis during the war.
Dir: Cyril Endfield. Cast: William Gargan, Marjorie Lord, Ralph Byrd
63 mins

8:00 PM Bullitt (1968)
A detective is sent by a politician to catch a big-time gangster so he can procure him before a Senate crime committee for selfish gain. When the gangster is killed before this can happen, the detective and the politico clash with each other.
Dir: Peter Yates. Cast: Steve McQueen, Robert Vaughn, Jacqueline Bisset
114 mins

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Monday – October 17, 2022

12:30 AM The Lodger (1927)
A family running a boarding house suspects their new tenant is Jack the Ripper.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ivor Novello, Malcolm Keen, Marie Ault
75 mins
*****This is a silent mystery movie.*****

6:15 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

8:00 PM What’s the Matter with Helen? (1971)
After their sons are convicted of murder, two women relocate to Hollywood to start a talent school.
Dir: Curtis Harrington. Cast: Debbie Reynolds, Shelley Winters, Dennis Weaver
101 mins

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

Tuesday – October 18, 2022

2:00 PM The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Feuding co-workers do not realize they are secret romantic pen pals.
Dir: Ernst Lubitsch. Cast: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan
97 mins
*****Early showing of a Christmas non-mystery movie.*****

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Wednesday – October 19, 2022

10:00 PM Friday Foster (1975)
Photographer Friday Foster travels to an airport to capture a few shots of the richest black man in the United States. As she takes pictures, she witnesses an assassination attempt on her subject and becomes a target of the assassins.
Dir: Arthur Marks. Cast: Pam Grier, Yaphet Kotto, Godfrey Cambridge
90 mins

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

Thursday – October 20, 2022

12:00 AM Hit Man (1973)
A racketeer tears up L.A.’s underworld searching for his brother’s killer.
Dir: George Armitage. Cast: Bernie Casey, Pamela Grier, Lisa Moore
90 mins

2:00 AM Cleopatra Jones (1973)
A Turkish poppy field is torched – and a U.S. drug trafficker known as “Mommy” is feeling pretty burned. She phones the local cops she owns and orders a retaliatory strike on an inner-city anti-drug headquarters. Mommy’s next call should be to 911. For now she’ll have to mess with Cleopatra Jones.
Dir: Jack Starrett. Cast: Tamara Dobson, Bernie Casey, Brenda Sykes
89 mins

4:00 AM Cleopatra Jones and the Casino of Gold (1975)
Cleopatra Jones, the sleek superlady of crime fighting, travels to Hong Kong to battle the Dragon Lady, the queen of the international drug trade.
Dir: Chuck Bail. Cast: Tamara Dobson, Stella Stevens, Norman Fell
94 mins

6:00 AM The Thirteenth Chair (1929)
A phony medium tries to prove her protege innocent of murder.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Conrad Nagel, Leila Hyams, Margaret Wycherly
72 mins

11:30 AM Miracles for Sale (1939)
A magician turns detective to investigate murder and a phony seance.
Dir: Tod Browning. Cast: Robert Young, Florence Rice, Frank Craven
71 mins

1:00 PM The Leopard Man (1943)
When a leopard escapes during a publicity stunt, it triggers a series of murders.
Dir: Jacques Tourneur. Cast: Dennis O’Keefe, Margo, Jean Brooks
66 mins

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

Saturday – October 22, 2022

12:00 PM Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
A newspaperman serves as key witness in a circumstantial murder case.
Dir: Boris Ingster. Cast: Peter Lorre, John Mcguire, Margaret Tallichet
64 mins

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

Sunday – October 23, 2022

12:00 AM Cage of Evil (1960)
A cattle driver finds himself stuck working for both sides during the Civil War.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Ronald Foster, Pat Blair, Harp McGuire
70 mins

10:00 AM Cage of Evil (1960)
A cattle driver finds himself stuck working for both sides during the Civil War.
Dir: Edward L. Cahn. Cast: Ronald Foster, Pat Blair, Harp McGuire
70 mins

1:30 PM A Stolen Life (1946)
A twin takes her deceased sister’s place as the wife of the man they both love.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Bette Davis, Glenn Ford, Dane Clark
107 mins

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

Monday – October 24, 2022

7:45 AM Nazi Agent (1942)
An Allied sympathizer discovers his twin brother is a Nazi spy.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Conrad Veidt, Ann Ayars, Frank Reicher
82 mins

2:15 PM All Through the Night (1942)
A criminal gang turns patriotic to track down a Nazi spy ring.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt, Kaaren Verne
107 mins

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

Tuesday – October 25, 2022

10:00 PM Emma Mae (1976)
A young woman turns to crime when she falls in love with a drug dealer.
Dir: Jamaa Fanaka. Cast: Jewell Williams, Leopoldo Mandeville, Charles David Brooks
100 mins

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

Wednesday – October 26, 2022

4:00 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 Lobianco, Mary Jane Higby
106 mins

7:45 AM On Dangerous Ground (1952)
A New York detective falls for the blind sister of a rural killer sought by a victim’s father.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Ida Lupino, Robert Ryan, Ward Bond
82 mins

12:30 PM They Live by Night (1948)
After an unjust prison sentence, a young innocent gets mixed-up with hardened criminals and a violent escape.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Cathy O’Donnell, Farley Granger, Howard Da Silva
95 mins

6:15 PM In a Lonely Place (1950)
An aspiring actress begins to suspect that her temperamental boyfriend is a murderer.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy
91 mins

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

Thursday – October 27, 2022

6:00 AM Murder Is My Beat (1955)
After a businessman is found dead, two detectives scramble to find the killer.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Paul Langton, Barbara Payton, Robert Shayne
77 mins

7:30 AM Murder by an Aristocrat (1936)
A blackmailer’s murder tears apart a well-off family.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Lyle Talbot, Marguerite Churchill, Claire Dodd
59 mins

8:30 AM The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936)
A doctor investigates the murder of a colleague involved in experimental surgery.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Kay Linaker, John Eldredge
66 mins

9:45 AM I Was Framed (1942)
A news man’s political investigations land him in prison.
Dir: D. Ross Lederman. Cast: Michael Ames, Julie Bishop, Regis Toomey
61 mins

11:00 AM The Phantom of Crestwood (1933)
Five men have to prove their innocence when a blackmailer is murdered.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Ricardo Cortez, Karen Morley, Anita Louise
76 mins

12:30 PM Washington Melodrama (1941)
A philanthropic businessman is framed for murder during a lobbying trip to Washington.
Dir: S. Sylvan Simon. Cast: Frank Morgan, Ann Rutherford, Kent Taylor
78 mins

2:00 PM Crossroads (1942)
A French diplomat who’s recovering from amnesia is blackmailed over crimes he can’t remember.
Dir: Jack Conway. Cast: William Powell, Hedy Lamarr, Claire Trevor
84 mins

3:30 PM 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
99 mins

5:00 PM London by Night (1937)
A blackmailer holds the key to several murders.
Dir: William Thiele. Cast: George Murphy, Rita Johnson, Virginia Field
69 mins

6:15 PM The Secret Partner (1961)
A shipping tycoon with a record becomes a suspect when money goes missing from the company vault.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Stewart Granger, Haya Harareet, Bernard Lee
91 mins

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

Friday – October 28, 2022

2:15 PM Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
When a magazine writer invites a rescued sailor to spend Christmas with her, he ends up falling in love with her.
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins
*****An early airing of a terrific non-mystery Christmas movie.*****

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

Saturday – October 29, 2022

1:45 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. Cast: Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings
105 mins

3:45 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
132 mins

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

Sunday – October 30, 2022

12:00 PM 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

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

Monday – October 31, 2022

6:00 AM 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

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

If you’re really looking forward to these or other mystery-themed TV specials coming up in October, 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 September 2022 television mystery movies schedule:

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for September 2022 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.