TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2026

Happy (almost) 2026! It always seems like just when I get used to the year’s date, it’s time to learn a new one! Oh well, at least I’m not writing a lot of things (like the “old days” checks) that require actually writing the year…

There are a few things I want to tell you that fall in the category of “Cozy Mystery” movies:

For one, the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing The Thin Man mystery movies on New Year’s Day. They used to show them starting on New Year’s Eve, and I know a lot of you looked forward to watching them then. So, since I think they skipped showing them last year, some of you will be happy to know they will be back — a few hours later.

Another Cozy Mystery movie item is that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing the mystery movies based on Stuart Palmer’s Hildegarde Withers books on Thursday, January 22. I have seen all of the movies (which the channel will be airing in their correct sequence) but will tell you that if you are only going to watch three, make sure they are the first three (Penguin Pool Murder, Murder on the Blackboard, and Murder on a Honeymoon). These three include one of my favorite actresses from the 1930s — Edna May Oliver. She is absolutely terrific to watch, and I think her portrayal of Miss Withers is … (to use the word again!) terrific! James Gleason is really good as the long-suffering detective she teams up with, and he is in all seven of the movies.

The third thing I want to bring to your attention is that all four of the Miss Marple movies that star Margaret Rutherford will be airing right after the Turner Classic Movies channel airs the Hildegarde Withers movies. I know I’ve mentioned several times (possibly several dozen times!) — don’t expect to see the Miss Marple we all know from Agatha Christie’s books!

And the last thing is that there will be four movies based on Leslie Charteri’ The Saint mysteries sprinkled in the airing list of this month. The first will be The Saint in New York with Louis Hayward as Simon Templar. The other three will air on Friday, January 16 and star George Sanders as The Saint.

So, without further ado… Here are the mystery and/or crime movies the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during January 2026:

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – November 2025

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Thursday – January 1, 2026

9:15 AM 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

11:00 AM After the Thin Man (1936)
Married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles try to clear Nora’s cousin of a murder charge.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, James Stewart
112 mins

1:00 PM Another Thin Man (1939)
Not even the joys of parenthood can stop married sleuths Nick and Nora Charles from investigating a murder on a Long Island estate.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Virginia Grey
105 mins

2:45 PM Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
High society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles run into a variety of shady characters while investigating a race-track murder.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Barry Nelson
97 mins

4:30 PM The Thin Man Goes Home (1945)
On a trip to visit his parents, detective Nick Charles gets mixed up in a murder investigation.
Dir: Richard Thorpe. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
100 mins

6:15 PM Song of the Thin Man (1947)
Society sleuths Nick and Nora Charles investigate a murder in a jazz club.
Dir: Edward Buzzell. Cast: William Powell, Myrna Loy, Keenan Wynn
86 mins

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

Friday – January 2, 2026

2:45 AM The Ex-Mrs. Bradford (1936)
A detective teams with his ex-wife to solve a murder.
Dir: Stephen Roberts. Cast: William Powell, Jean Arthur, James Gleason
80 mins

4:15 AM Footsteps in the Dark (1941)
An aspiring mystery writer stumbles on to a real murder.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Ralph Bellamy
96 mins

10:45 AM The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Fed up with her small-town marriage, a woman goes after the big time and gets mixed up with the mob.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran
103 mins

4:15 PM The Letter (1940)
A woman claims to have killed in self-defense, until a blackmailer turns up with incriminating evidence.
Dir: William Wyler. Cast: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson
97 mins

6:00 PM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

10:15 PM Rashomon (1950)
In medieval Japan, four people offer conflicting accounts of a rape and murder.
Dir: Akira Kurosawa. Cast: Toshiro Mifune, Machiko Kyo, Takashi Shimura
88 mins
*****In Japanese*****

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Sunday – January 4, 2026

12:15 AM The Second Woman (1950)
An architect is tormented after the death of his wife in a mysterious car accident, and he seems to be followed by bad luck. When he meets another woman and she learns about his past, she begins to suspect that he may be in more danger than he realizes.
Dir: James V. Kern. Cast: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton
91 mins

2:00 AM 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

10:00 AM The Second Woman (1950)
An architect is tormented after the death of his wife in a mysterious car accident, and he seems to be followed by bad luck. When he meets another woman and she learns about his past, she begins to suspect that he may be in more danger than he realizes.
Dir: James V. Kern. Cast: Robert Young, Betsy Drake, John Sutton
91 mins

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

Tuesday – January 6, 2026

4:30 PM Storm Warning (1951)
While visiting relatives in a small town, Marsha Mitchell witnesses the beating death of a man at the hands of the Klan and soon discovers that the whole town is controlled by the group–and that her loutish brother-in-law is a member. District Attorney Burt Rainey finally breaks the stranglehold of the hooded terrorists, …
Dir: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Ginger Rogers, Ronald Reagan, Doris Day
93 mins

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

Wednesday – January 7, 2026

9:15 AM Espionage Agent (1939)
American spies try to steal Nazi secrets from a moving train.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Joel McCrea, Brenda Marshall, Jeffrey Lynn
83 mins

2:30 PM Rendezvous (1935)
A decoding expert tangles with enemy spies.
Dir: William K. Howard. Cast: William Powell, Rosalind Russell, Binnie Barnes
91 mins

4:15 PM The Conspirators (1944)
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
Dir: Jean Negulesc. Cast: Hedy Lamarr, Paul Henreid, Sydney Greenstreet
101 mins

6:00 PM Confidential Agent (1945)
A Spanish spy and an American heiress battle fascists in England.
Dir: Herman Shumlin. Cast: Charles Boyer, Lauren Bacall, Katina Paxinou
118 mins

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Thursday – January 8, 2026

1:15 AM 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

2:45 AM Repeat Performance (1947)
On New Year’s Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.
Dir: Alfred Werker .Cast: Louis Hayward, Joan Leslie, Virginia Field
93 mins

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

Friday – January 9, 2026

4:30 AM Duffy of San Quentin (1954)
A biography of the experiences of San Quentin prison warden Clinton T. Duffy.
Dir: Walter Doniger. Cast: Louis Hayward, Joanne Dru, Paul Kelly
78 mins

3:00 AM Public Hero No. 1 (1935)
An undercover G-man helps with a jailbreak to learn the mob’s secrets.
Dir: J. Walter Ruben. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Jean Arthur, Chester Morris
89 mins

9:00 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

8:00 PM The Locket (1946)
A dark personal secret drives a young woman to use every man she encounters.
Dir: John Brahm. Cast: Laraine Day, Brian Aherne, Robert Mitchum
86 mins

10:00 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
107 mins

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Saturday – January 10, 2026

12:00 AM 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
105 mins

2:00 AM Mildred Pierce (1945)
A woman’s ambitions for her daughter drastically impact her life.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Joan Crawford, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott
113 mins

4:00 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

1:45 PM Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
Lavish remake of the classic tale of the villainous Captain Bligh who drives his crew to revolt during a South Seas expedition.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Marlon Brando, Trevor Howard, Richard Harris
185 mins

6:30 PM Crime Wave (1954)
A reformed parolee is caught in the middle when a wounded former cellmate seeks him out for shelter.
Dir: Andre Detoth. Cast: Sterling Hayden, Gene Nelson, Phyllis Kirk
74 mins

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Sunday – January 11, 2026

12:00 AM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

6:00 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

7:15 AM Detour (1945)
A hitchhiker takes on a dead man’s identity only to face blackmail by an unscrupulous woman.
Dir: Edgar G. Ulmer. Cast: Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake
68 mins

8:30 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

10:00 AM Crime of Passion (1957)
An executive’s wife barters sex for her husband’s business success.
Dir: Gerd Oswald. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Sterling Hayden, Raymond Burr
84 mins

9:45 PM Topkapi (1964)
An international band of thieves plots to steal a priceless treasure from a heavily guarded museum.
Dir: Jules Dassin. Cast: Melina Mercouri, Peter Ustinov, Maximilian Schell
120 mins

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Tuesday – January 13, 2026

6:00 AM Flaxy Martin (1949)
Messing with a mobster’s girlfriend gets a lawyer framed for murder.
Dir: Richard Bare. Cast: Virginia Mayo, Zachary Scott, Dorothy Malone
86 mins

7:30 AM The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
Years after a murder drove them apart, an heiress tries to win back her lost love.
Dir: Lewis Milestone. Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Van Heflin, Lizabeth Scott
116 mins

9:30 AM The People Against O’Hara (1951)
A defense attorney jeopardizes his career to save his client.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Pat O’Brien, Diana Lynn
102 mins

11:30 AM Johnny Angel (1945)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
79 mins

1:00 PM Johnny Eager (1942)
A handsome racketeer seduces the DA’s daughter for revenge, then falls in love.
Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. Cast: Robert Taylor, Lana Turner, Edward Arnold
107

3:00 PM Nora Prentiss (1947)
An ambitious singer ruins a doctor’s life.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Kent Smith, Bruce Bennett
111 mins

5:00 PM My Name Is Julia Ross (1945)
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
65 mins

6:15 PM The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
An artist can only find inspiration in murder – two women he loves inspire him. When artist Geoffrey Carroll meets Sally Morton while on a fishing trip to Scotland, romance sparks between the …
Dir: Peter Godfrey. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith
99 mins

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Wednesday – January 14, 2026

1:45 PM Brother Orchid (1940)
After a failed hit, a mob chief recuperates in a monastery.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart
90 mins

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Thursday – January 15, 2026

4:00 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
108 mins

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Friday – January 16, 2026

7:30 AM They Made Her a Spy (1939)
A woman becomes a secret agent to avenge her brother’s death.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: Sally Eilers, Allan Lane, Fritz Leiber
69 mins

12:30 PM The Spellbinder (1939)
A crooked lawyer’s daughter falls for a gangster that he helped acquit.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: Lee Tracy, Barbara Read, Patric Knowles
69 mins

1:45 PM The Saint’s Double Trouble (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar lands in hot water when a look-alike smuggles stolen goods out of Egypt.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Helene Whitney, Jonathan Hale
68 mins

3:00 PM The Saint Takes Over (1940)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar tries to help a police inspector who’s been framed on bribery charges.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale
69 mins

4:15 PM The Saint in Palm Springs (1941)
Reformed jewel thief Simon Templar’s efforts to deliver a fortune in rare stamps are complicated by murder.
Dir: Jack Hively. Cast: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Paul Guilfoyle
66 mins

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Saturday – January 17, 2026

12:00 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

2:15 AM The Postman Always Rings Twice (1981)
Frank Chambers, a depression-era drifter ends up at a diner owned by Nick Papadakis, who offers Frank a job. Frank accepts the offer, and begins an affair with Nick’s wife Cora. The adulterous lovers soon plot to kill Nick and share in the insurance money.
Dir: Bob Rafelson. Cast: Jack Nicholson, Jessica Lange, John Colicos
123 mins

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Sunday – January 18, 2026

10:00 AM Diabolique (1955)
A cruel man’s wife and lover plot to kill him.
Dir: Henri-Georges Clouzot. Cast: Paul Meurisse, Vera Clouzot, Simone Signoret
107 mins
*****In French*****

8:00 PM The Carey Treatment (1972)
A doctor uncovers a hotbed of corruption when he tries to clear a colleague of a murder charge.
Dir: Blake Edwards. Cast: James Coburn, Jennifer O’Neill, Pat Hingle
101 mins

10:00 PM Coma (1978)
After one of her patients goes into a coma after a routine operation, Dr. Susan Wheeler investigates. She learns that several otherwise healthy patients have met the same fate and then been sent away to a mysterious institute. But when she tells her doctor boyfriend about what she has found, he finds the story hard to believe.
Dir: Michael Crichton. Cast: Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Geneviève Bujold
113 mins

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Tuesday – January 20, 2026

3:45 PM The Night Digger (1971)
A drifter with a deadly secret ignites passions in two lonely women.
Dir: Alastair Reid. Cast: Patricia Neal, Pamela Brown, Nicholas Clay
98 mins

12:15 AM Blue Collar (1978)
When three financially-struggling automotive factory workers try to steal from their own labor union, they discover corruption and reluctantly decide to use this information for blackmail.
Dir: Paul Schrader. Cast: Richard Pryor, Harvey Keitel, Yaphet Kotto
114 mins

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Wednesday – January 21, 2026

6:00 AM Black Fury (1935)
A coal worker gets mixed up in the mob’s efforts to infiltrate his union.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Paul Muni, Karen Morley, William Gargan
92 mins

8:30 PM The Taking of Pelham One Two Three (1974)
Four ruthless terrorists take over a New York City subway train and hold the passengers for ransom. They threaten to shoot one each minute until a one million dollar ransom is fully paid.
Dir: Joseph Sargent. Cast: Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam
104 mins

11:00 PM Mean Streets (1973)
A young hood in New York’s Little Italy contends with saving the neck of his hotheaded best friend from the local loan shark and struggles with the religious guilt prompted by his lifestyle.
Dir: Martin Scorsese. Cast: Robert De Niro, Harvey Keitel, David Proval
110 mins

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Thursday – January 22, 2026

1:00 AM Shaft (1971)
A slick black detective enlists gangsters and African nationals to fight the mob.
Dir: Gordon Parks. Cast: Richard Roundtree, Moses Gunn, Charles Cioffi
98 mins

3:00 AM The American Friend (1977)
A dying man reluctantly takes on a job as a hit man in order to have money to leave to his widow.
Dir: Wim Wenders. Cast: Bruno Ganz, Dennis Hopper, Lisa Kreuzer
128 mins

6:00 AM 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
66 mins

7:15 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: Edna May Oliver, James Gleason, Bruce Cabot
71 mins

8:30 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
74 mins

9:45 AM Murder on a Bridle Path (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers matches wits with the police to solve the murder of a society bride in Central Park.
Dir: Edward Killy. Cast: James Gleason, Helen Broderick, Louise Latimer
66 mins

11:00 AM The Plot Thickens (1936)
Schoolteacher Hildegarde Withers suspects a deadly link between two seemingly unrelated murders.
Dir: Ben Holmes. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Owen Davis Jr.
69 mins

12:15 PM Forty Naughty Girls (1938)
A schoolteacher turns detective to solve a theatrical murder.
Dir: Edward Cline. Cast: James Gleason, ZaSu Pitts, Marjorie Lord
63 mins

1:30 PM Murder She Said (1961)
When nobody will believe she witnessed a murder, elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes a job as a maid to ferret out clues.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Arthur Kennedy, Muriel Pavlow
86 mins

3:00 PM Murder at the Gallop (1963)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple suspects foul play when an old friend is supposedly scared to death by a cat.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Robert Morley, Flora Robson
81 mins

4:30 PM Murder Most Foul (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple joins a small-town theatre to investigate a murder.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Ron Moody, Charles Tingwell
90 mins

6:15 PM Murder Ahoy (1964)
Elderly sleuth Miss Marple takes to the seas to investigate murder on a naval training ship.
Dir: George Pollock. Cast: Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles Tingwell
93 mins

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Friday – January 23, 2026

10:00 AM High Wall (1947)
Psychiatry provides the key to proving a veteran flyer innocent of his wife’s murder.
Dir: Curtis Bernhardt. Cast: Robert Taylor, Audrey Totter, Herbert Marshall
99 mins

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Saturday – January 24, 2026

1:45 PM The Big Combo (1955)
An honest cop is brutalized by a gangster because they share the same girl.
Dir: Joseph Lewis. Cast: Cornel Wilde, Richard Conte, Brian Donlevy
89 mins

10:15 PM The Great O’Malley (1937)
A ruthless cop gets mixed up with a man who’s only turned to crime to help his crippled daughter.
Dir: William Dieterle. Cast: Pat O’Brien, Sybil Jason, Humphrey Bogart
71 mins

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

Sunday – January 25, 2026

12:00 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Dir: Edmond O’Brien, Howard W. Koch. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English
82 mins

10:00 AM Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
Dir: Edmond O’Brien, Howard W. Koch. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, John Agar, Marla English
82 mins

6:00 PM Manhattan Murder Mystery (1993)
A husband and wife find themselves involved in a murder mystery.
Dir: Woody Allen. Cast: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Jerry Adler
104 mins

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

Monday – January 26, 2026

2:15 AM Pitfall (1962)
A man wanders into a seemingly deserted town with his young son in search of work. But after a bit of bad luck, he joins the town’s population of lost souls.
Dir: Hiroshi Teshigahara Cast: Hisashi Igawa, Sumie Sasaki, Sen Yano
97 mins
*****In Japanese*****

11:00 AM 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

12:00 AM 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

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

Tuesday – January 27, 2026

3:30 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, (& William Shatner before he “became” Capt. Kirk)
190 mins

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

Wednesday – January 28, 2026

8:30 AM Accidents Will Happen (1938)
An insurance man tangles with a fraud ring.
Dir: William Clemens. Cast: Ronald Reagan, Gloria Blondell, Dick Purcell
62 mins

3:00 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

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

Thursday – January 29, 2026

12:30 AM The Offence (1973)
A disturbing psychological drama featuring Sean Connery as an emotionally repressed London detective who beats a suspected child molester to death during interrogation.
Dir: Sidney Lumet. Cast: Sean Connery, Trevor Howard, Ian Bannen
112 mins

7:30 AM The Doorway to Hell (1930)
Despite his efforts to go straight, a young gangster keeps falling back into crime.
Dir: Archie Mayo. Cast: Lew Ayres, Charles Judels, Dorothy Mathews
78 mins

12:00 PM Al Capone (1959)
Chicago’s most notorious gangster rules the city ruthlessly.
Dir: Richard Wilson. Cast: Rod Steiger, Fay Spain, James Gregory
105 mins

2:00 PM Party Girl (1958)
A showgirl and a crooked lawyer try to break with a powerful mob boss.
Dir: Nicholas Ray. Cast: Robert Taylor, Cyd Charisse, Lee J. Cobb
99 mins

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

Saturday – January 31, 2026

3:45 PM Ransom! (1956)
A wealthy couple tries to cope with the press and the police when their son is kidnapped.
Dir: Alex Segal. Cast: Glenn Ford, Donna Reed, Leslie Nielsen
109 mins

12:00 AM Talk About a Stranger (1952)
Small-town gossips rage over the arrival of a mysterious stranger.
Dir: David Bradley. Cast: George Murphy, Nancy Reagan, Billy Gray
65 mins

2:00 AM The Nanny (1965)
A conniving nanny of a well-to-do family “accidentally” drowns the family’s daughter and blames it on their troubled young son, whom she blackmails into taking the rap for the crime.
Dir: Seth Holt. Cast: Bette Davis, Wendy Craig, Jill Bennett
93 mins

4:00 AM Dead Ringer (1964)
One of a pair of twins, jealous that the other became wealthy and took away her husband, kills her sister and takes over the latter’s identity.
Dir: Paul Henreid. Cast: B

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

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

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

Upcoming Television Mystery Movies for December 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.