Upcoming Mysteries on Turner Classic Movies for January 2025

2025! Can you believe it’s here?!? (I can’t…)

First off, Happy Holidays to everyone!

As usual, I have tried to glean all of the mystery and crime movies that the Turner Classic Movies channel will be showing during the month – in this case, January 2025. There are two things that stand out for me: one is a four movie-run of Alfred Hitchcock mystery movies and the other is a three movie-run of movies based on Stuart Palmer’s Miss Hildegarde Withers books.

On Sunday, January 5, three of Stuart Palmer’s Cozy Mystery novels will be brought to life in the following three movies: “The Penguin Pool Murder”, “Murder on the Blackboard”, and “Murder on a Honeymoon”. All three of these movies star Edna May Oliver (I just love her movies!) and James Gleason. I can’t even remember how many times I have watched these movies — but I do know it’s quite a few times!

The second thing I want to point out is that Alfred Hitchcock’s “The Man Who Knew Too Much” and “The 39 Steps” will air on Wednesday, January 22. They will be immediately followed by Alfred Hitchcock’s “Young and Innocent” and then “The Lady Vanishes”. There are four other Hitchcock movies that will be aired during January: “Spellbound” on the 3rd, and then “Blackmail” and “Murder!” on the 16th. The fourth of his movies is (what I believe) his only comedy: “Mr. and Mrs. Smith” airing on the 2nd. I don’t think I have seen either of the ones that the Turner Classic Movies channel is showing on the 16th – those are from way back in 1929 and 1930.

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TURNER CLASSIC MOVIES CHANNEL MYSTERY MOVIES – January 2025

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Thursday – January 2, 2025

6:15 AM Mr. and Mrs. North (1942)
A happily married couple discover a murder victim in their closet.
Dir: Robert Be Sinclair. Cast: Gracie Allen, William Post Jr., Paul Kelly
67 mins

3:15 PM 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

11:45 PM Gaslight (1940)
A turn-of-the-century bride moves into the house where her aunt was murdered and begins to fear she’s going mad.
Dir: Thorold Dickinson. Cast: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell
84 mins

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

Friday – January 3, 2025

1:30 AM Blow-Up (1966)
A photographer discovers a murder in the background of a candid photo.
Dir: Michelangelo Antonioni. Cast: Vanessa Redgrave, Sarah Miles, David Hemmings
111 mins

8:00 PM Spellbound (1945)
A psychoanalyst falls in love with her new boss, and it is soon discovered that he has difficulty with remembering things as he is a troubled amnesiac, who may also be a killer.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Cast: Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck, Michael Chekhov
111 mins

10:00 PM The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
A Korean War hero doesn’t realize he’s been programmed to kill by the enemy.
Dir: John Frankenheimer. Cast: Frank Sinatra, Laurence Harvey, Janet Leigh
126 mins

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

Saturday – January 4, 2025

12:15 AM Nightmare (1956)
A New Orleans musician experiences a nightmare in which he sees himself killing a man and awakens to find blood on himself and bruises on his neck. Worried that it may have actually happened, he tries to reconstruct his actions to find out the truth.
Dir: Maxwell Shane. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Kevin McCarthy, Connie Russell
89 mins

2:00 AM 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

3:45 AM 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

6:15 PM Sapphire (1959)
A “light-skinned” black co-ed has a penchant for passing as white and hanging at London’s bars at night. When she is found murdered, a number of suspects are considered, including the naive white architectural student who fell in love with her, never suspecting she was black.
Dir: Basil Dearden. Cast: Nigel Patrick, Michael Craig, Yvonne Mitchell
92 mins
*****Remember, this very dated “crime” movie was from the 1950s.*****

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

Sunday – January 5, 2025

12:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

6:00 AM Jack of Diamonds (1967)
A glamorous jewel thief tries to go straight.
Dir: Don Taylor. Cast: George Hamilton, Joseph Cotten, Marie Laforêt
108 mins

10:00 AM Suspense (1946)
The new manager of an ice show plots to steal the owner’s business and his wife.
Dir: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Belita, Barry Sullivan, Bonita Granville
100 mins

8:00 PM 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

9:15 PM 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

10:45 PM 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

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

Monday – January 6, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

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

Tuesday – January 7, 2025

4:30 AM McQ (1974)
A Seattle policeman tries to settle an unjust score.
Dir: John Sturges. Cast: John Wayne, Eddie Albert, Diana Muldaur
116 mins

8:00 AM Seven Keys to Baldpate (1947)
A mystery writer runs into the real thing when he holes up at a deserted inn.
Dir: Lew Landers. Cast: Phillip Terry, Jacqueline White, Eduardo Ciannelli
64 mins

8:00 PM Scarface (1932)
A murderous thug shoots his way to the top of the mobs while trying to protect his sister from the criminal life.
Dir: Howard Hawks. Cast: Paul Muni, Ann Dvorak, Karen Morley
90 mins

11:15 PM You and Me (1938)
An altruistic department-store owner hires ex-convicts in order to give them a second chance at life. Unfortunately, one of the convicts he hires recruits two of his fellow ex-convicts in a plan to rob the store.
Dir: Fritz Lang. Cast: Sylvia Sidney, George Raft, Barton MacLane
94 mins

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

Wednesday – January 8, 2025

2:30 AM Side Street (1929)
Three successful Irish brothers cross paths in a very unexpected way.
Dir: Malcolm St. Clair. Cast: Tom Moore, Owen Moore, Matt Moore
74 mins

4:00 AM The Woman Racket (1930)
A policeman must rescue his wife from gangsters.
Dir: Robert Ober. Cast: Tom Moore, Blanche Sweet
70 mins

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

Friday – January 10, 2025

4:30 PM Backfire (1950)
A veteran tries to clear an old friend of a murder charge.
Dir: Vincent Sherman. Cast: Gordon MacRae, Virginia Mayo, Edmond O’Brien
91 mins

 

6:30 PM Blackout (1954)
An American in London finds himself caught up in a murder plot.
Dir: Terence Fisher. Cast: Dane Clark, Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
87 mins

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

Saturday – January 11, 2025

6:30 AM The Purple Gang (1960)
The story of the infamous gang of bootleggers, hijackers, and killers in 1920’s Detroit.
Dir: Frank McDonald. Cast: Barry Sullivan, Robert Blake, Elaine Edwards
85 mins

2:00 PM 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

3:30 PM 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
148 mins

8:00 PM 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
103 mins
*****Excellent Judy Holliday non-mystery comedy!*****

10:00 PM The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
A small-time investor takes on the management of a major corporation.
Dir: Richard Quine. Cast: Judy Holliday, Paul Douglas, Fred Clark
99 mins
*****Judy Holliday was a comedy gem! Not a mystery.*****

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Sunday – January 12, 2025

12:00 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

1:45 AM 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 AM Deadline at Dawn (1946)
An aspiring actress risks her life to clear a sailor charged with murder.
Dir: Harold Clurman Cast: Susan Hayward, Paul Lukas, Bill Williams
83 mins

4:15 PM Agatha (1979)
Based on the actual 11-day disappearance of famed mystery writer Agatha Christie in 1926, the film fictionalizes her whereabouts during that time.
Dir: Michael Apted. Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Timothy Dalton, Timothy West, Vanessa Redgrave
98 mins

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

Monday – January 13, 2025

9:30 AM Guilty Hands (1931)
A district attorney tries to frame an innocent girl for the murder he committed.
Dir: W. S. Van Dyke. Cast: Lionel Barrymore, Kay Francis
69 mins

3:00 PM Mandalay (1934)
A woman with a past tries to get rid of a former lover.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Kay Francis, Ricardo Cortez, Warner Oland
65 mins

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

Tuesday – January 14, 2025

8:15 AM The Big House (1930)
An attempted prison break leads to a riot.
Dir: George Hill. Cast: Chester Morris, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone
80 mins

8:00 PM Each Dawn I Die (1939)
A crusading reporter becomes a hardened convict when he’s framed.
Dir: William Keighley. Cast: James Cagney, George Raft, Jane Bryan
92 mins

9:45 PM They Drive by Night (1940)
Truck driving brothers are framed for murder by a lady psycho.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino
93 mins

11:30 PM Invisible Stripes (1940)
On his release from prison, a crook tries to stop his brother from following in his footsteps.
Dir: Lloyd Bacon. Cast: George Raft, Jane Bryan, William Holden
82 mins

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

Wednesday – January 15, 2025

3:00 AM Taxi! (1932)
A feisty independent cab driver fights off a crooked syndicate.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth. Cast: James Cagney, Loretta Young, George E. Stone
70 mins

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

Thursday – January 16, 2025

12:15 AM Blackmail (1929)
A shopkeeper’s daughter fights off blackmail after she kills a young artist who had tried to rape her.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Anny Ondra, Sara Allgood, Charles Paton
99 mins

2:00 AM Murder! (1930)
A juror who had voted to convict a murder suspect tries to prove someone else did it before the execution date.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Herbert Marshall, Nora Baring, Miles Mander
92 mins

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

Saturday – January 18, 2025

2:00 PM High Sierra (1941)
An aging ex-con sets out to pull one more big heist.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Alan Curtis
100 mins

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

Sunday – January 19, 2025

3:30 AM The Hunted (1948)
A police detective investigating a jewel robbery discovers evidence that points to his girlfriend as the culprit, although she claims she was framed.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Preston Foster, Belita, Pierre Watkin
67 mins

5:00 AM Decoy (1946)
A woman saves her gangster boyfriend from the gas chamber to get her hands on his hidden money.
Dir: Jack Bernhard. Cast: Jean Gillie, Edward Norris, Herbert Rudley
76 mins

6:00 PM Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
A medium kidnaps a child so she can help the police solve the crime.
Dir: Bryan Forbes. Cast: Kim Stanley, Richard Attenborough, Margaret Lacey
116 mins

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

Monday – January 20, 2025

2:00 PM Intruder in the Dust (1949)
Only a young boy and an old woman stand between an innocent black man and a lynch mob.
Dir: Clarence Brown. Cast: David Brian, Claude Jarman Jr., Juano Hernandez
89 mins

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

Tuesday – January 21, 2025

12:15 AM 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 Jewison. Cast: Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
109 mins

8:45 AM Black Legion (1937)
During the Great Depression, a man is passed over for a promotion which goes to a hard working Polish immigrant. Feeling cheated, he joins a secret, racist organization and goes on a nighttime raid …
Dir: Archie L. Mayo. Cast: Humphrey Bogart, Dick Foran, Erin O’Brien-Moore
80 mins

10:15 AM Confessions of a Nazi Spy (1939)
An FBI agent risks his life to infiltrate Nazi sympathizers in the U.S.
Dir: Anatole Litvak. Cast: Edward G. Robinson, Francis Lederer, George Sanders
110 mins

8:00 PM Background to Danger (1943)
An American gets caught up in wartime action in Turkey.
Dir: Raoul Walsh. Cast: George Raft, Brenda Marshall, Sydney Greenstreet
80 mins

9:30 PM Johnny Angel (1946)
A sailor sets out to solve his father’s murder.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Claire Trevor, Signe Hasso
79 mins

***** ***** ***** *****A police detective refuses to believe a composer’s death was suicide.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, Lynn Bari, Virginia Huston
87 mins

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

Wednesday – January 22, 2025

12:45 AM Race Street (1948)
A night-club owner takes on the crooks who killed his best friend.
Dir: Edwin L. Marin. Cast: George Raft, William Bendix, Marilyn Maxwell
79 mins

8:00 PM The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
While vacationing in Switzerland, a British couple gets wrapped up in an assassination plot.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Leslie Banks, Edna Best, Nova Pilbeam
84 mins

9:30 PM The 39 Steps (1935)
Richard Hanney has a rude awakening when a glamorous female spy falls into his bed — with a knife in her back. Having a bit of trouble explaining it all to Scotland Yard, he heads for the hills of Scotland to try to clear his name by locating the spy ring known as “The 39 Steps.”
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll, Lucie Mannheim
87 mins

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

Thursday – January 23, 2025

12:30 AM Young and Innocent (1937)
A young girl helps an innocent man escape the law when he’s framed for murder.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Nova Pilbeam, Derrick De Marney, Percy Marmont
70 mins

2:00 AM The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Miss Froy disappears on her return train trip from a vacation in the Balkans. However, Iris Henderson is the only person, on a train filled with suspicious and unsavory characters, who can attest that Miss Froy was ever on that trip.
Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Cast: Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas
97 mins

6:15 PM 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

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

Saturday – January 25, 2025

6:15 PM The Split (1968)
A gang of thieves plots to rob the Los Angeles Coliseum box office during a Rams game.
Dir: Gordon Flemyng. Cast: Jim Brown, Diahann Carroll, Ernest Borgnine
90 mins

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

Sunday – January 26, 2025

12:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

10:00 AM Woman on the Run (1950)
A woman searches for her husband, who ran off after witnessing a mob hit.
Dir: Norman Foster. Cast: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O’Keefe, Robert Keith
77 mins

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

Tuesday – January 28, 2025

3:00 AM Crossfire (1947)
A crusading district attorney investigates the murder of a Jewish man.
Dir: Edward Dmytryk. Cast: Robert Young, Robert Mitchum, Robert Ryan
85 mins

8:00 PM Johnny Allegro (1949)
A reformed hoodlum gets mixed up with counterfeiters and a deadly manhunt.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Nina Foch, George Macready
81 mins

9:30 PM Red Light (1949)
An embezzler’s revenge on the businessman who turned him in leads to a bloody vendetta.
Dir: Roy Del Ruth/ Cast: George Raft, Virginia Mayo, Gene Lockhart
83 mins

11:00 PM A Dangerous Profession (1950)
A bail bondsman is asked to raise money to free his girlfriend’s husband.
Dir: Ted Tetzlaff. Cast: George Raft, Ella Raines, Pat O’Brien
79 mins

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

Wednesday – January 29, 2025

12:15 AM 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

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

Thursday – January 30, 2025

8:00 PM The French Connection (1971)
A tough-talking New York City detective and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring.
Dir: William Friedkin. Cast: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider
104 mins

10:00 PM Night Moves (1975)
An L.A. private detective puts aside his own marital woes while tracing a topless nymphet to the Florida Keys.
Dir: Arthur Penn. Cast: Gene Hackman, Jennifer Warren, Susan Clark
99 mins

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

Friday – January 31, 2025

7:45 AM 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
When his girl commits murder, a hardened criminal takes the rap to protect her honor.
Dir: Michael Curtiz. Cast: Spencer Tracy, Bette Davis, Arthur Byron
81 mins

4:45 PM The Public Enemy (1931)
An Irish-American street punk tries to make it big in the world of organized crime.
Dir: William A. Wellman Cast: James Cagney, Jean Harlow, Edward Woods
83 mins

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

Saturday – February 1, 2025

2:15 AM The Last Wave (1977)
This is an Australian mystery revolving around a trial of five Aborigines accused of murder.
Dir: Peter Weir. Cast: Richard Chamberlain, Olivia Hamnett, David Gulpilil
106 mins

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

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 2024 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.